Anybody else ever have any terrible interactions with people who are supposed to represent us?
This happened a few years ago, during COVID shutdowns, but it’s been bothering me lately to see the guy is still in office. It was the peak of COVID shutdowns really, when stores were actually forcing us to stand 6 feet apart, toilet paper was hard to find, etc. We were doing takeout only, and I was the only takeout hostess because we were extremely short staffed. Many people quit because of COVID or found better jobs. I was working nearly 60 hours a week typically, alone. And business was still booming.
There was a day when the line was out the door onto the sidewalk and I was handling the walk in orders, online orders, doordash/Uber orders, and the phone orders. However, since it was one of me VS. 30 customers, I often had to answer the phone just to ask the caller to hold. With only one phone line, this means any callers trying to get through while the phone was on hold had to keep trying. And many did. But the priority was to clear out the in-person line, because we had a state-mandated occupancy limited due to covid and we generally wanted as few people inside as possible.
For context, this is not a fancy place. It’s a chicken wing shack basically.
In the middle of helping a guest order, a man comes in and bypasses the line, to come to the counter and scream at me (at the time, a small 20 year old girl. him, a meathead thicknecked older man towering over me). Belittling me, our business, etc in a rage because he had been trying to call in an order “for an hour” and “why can’t you do your job” etc etc.
I explain to him we are very busy, as is visible by the line leading outside. And I’m the only person working to take orders. And that he’s welcome to wait in that very long line to place an order like everyone else.
He realizes everyone in the restaurant is looking at him like the jerk he is, and to save face just quiets down and goes outside to the end of the line.
Later, I saw an ad with his face on it. He represents the district the restaurant is in. The ad said he’s fighting for workers rights. What a joke, when he can’t even treat an overextended worker half his age during a global crisis with any semblance of respect.
I told everyone I know in Charles County to never vote for him. ******* is still in his role though.
This happened a few years ago, during COVID shutdowns, but it’s been bothering me lately to see the guy is still in office. It was the peak of COVID shutdowns really, when stores were actually forcing us to stand 6 feet apart, toilet paper was hard to find, etc. We were doing takeout only, and I was the only takeout hostess because we were extremely short staffed. Many people quit because of COVID or found better jobs. I was working nearly 60 hours a week typically, alone. And business was still booming.
There was a day when the line was out the door onto the sidewalk and I was handling the walk in orders, online orders, doordash/Uber orders, and the phone orders. However, since it was one of me VS. 30 customers, I often had to answer the phone just to ask the caller to hold. With only one phone line, this means any callers trying to get through while the phone was on hold had to keep trying. And many did. But the priority was to clear out the in-person line, because we had a state-mandated occupancy limited due to covid and we generally wanted as few people inside as possible.
For context, this is not a fancy place. It’s a chicken wing shack basically.
In the middle of helping a guest order, a man comes in and bypasses the line, to come to the counter and scream at me (at the time, a small 20 year old girl. him, a meathead thicknecked older man towering over me). Belittling me, our business, etc in a rage because he had been trying to call in an order “for an hour” and “why can’t you do your job” etc etc.
I explain to him we are very busy, as is visible by the line leading outside. And I’m the only person working to take orders. And that he’s welcome to wait in that very long line to place an order like everyone else.
He realizes everyone in the restaurant is looking at him like the jerk he is, and to save face just quiets down and goes outside to the end of the line.
Later, I saw an ad with his face on it. He represents the district the restaurant is in. The ad said he’s fighting for workers rights. What a joke, when he can’t even treat an overextended worker half his age during a global crisis with any semblance of respect.
I told everyone I know in Charles County to never vote for him. ******* is still in his role though.
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