Saturday, July 15, 2023

A story of two tables...

 ...at the (Thai) restaurant where I work now:

1) After overhearing a bunch of (white) (STEM) graduate students talk about some PI who seriously "traumatizes" everyone he works with and it's an open secret that the department just lets go on and on and on, I mention later that I overheard them and give them the term "academic bullying" and several easy initial resources, and one (fatter) (woman) writes it down.

(At the end, a[n athletic] guy picks up the bill for everyone and it's like $54, and he leaves a $5 tip.)

2) Some (younger) (South Asian) guy with a (South Asian) girl is in at the very end of the night and even though we say that the kitchen is closing very very shortly, like in 3-4 minutes, he says that he wants more time to look at the menu.

(Tip is $0, to which my one [chubby] [Thai] is like, "Seriously?!", and my one [older] [Thai] coworker who's a whiz at the phones says that with customers like that who want more time when the kitchen is closing, she's always fantasized about saying "Okay," and then when they finally say they're ready to order, to be like, "Sorry, kitchen is closed.")

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