Some commands at work…

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

1) One day this summer, my one (older) (Thai) coworker who’s a whiz at the phones sees out through the front window from way back in the restaurant that some people across the street have parked their car and can’t figure out the meters, since they're just standing around there by the curb looking at them but not otherwise doing much of anything.

So, she tells me to go outside and yell to them that they don’t need to do to use the meters after 5pm on weekdays or all day on weekends.

And, I do that.

“Thank you!”, they yell across the street to me.

“Don’t thank me!”, I yell back, “Thank my co-worker who saw you!”

2) The (Thai) (wife) restaurant owner tells me not to give people the option of having their duck crispy in the duck curry, since it takes a lot of extra time for the staff to go through the extra steps of battering it with eggs and deep frying it before putting it in the curry.

And, I explain to her that I started doing that, because twice in one week people had complained about how the duck skin was cooked in the curry, and one customer said it was the grossest thing they had ever seen.

And, after she inquired, I clarified that that customer who made that complaint was (white), and she was like, “These customers it doesn’t matter, they’re Asian,” and she told me to maybe in the future confirm with people that it’s okay that the duck is cooked with the skin on in the curry, and if they’re not okay with that, *then* offer the crispy duck to them.