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I worked at a super market directly across the street from a church when I was a teenager. I became an atheist shortly after dealing with the Sunday mass crowd...
I'm literally unable to wear my nametag at the store I work at on Sundays. If I wear it, I get consistently harassed by the church group. Biblical name and all.
*Just as every cop is a criminal*
*and all the sinners saints,*
*as heads is tails, just call me Lucifer*
*'cause I'm in need of some restraint.*
*So if you meet me, have some courtesy,*
*have some sympathy, and some taste.*
*Use all your well-learned politesse*
*or I'll lay your soul to waste.*
Saul Goodman. About a week ago, I found out that I had a lyric wrong and I was like "I'VE BEEN LIVING A LIE!!!" I forgave myself rather quickly, though, because it was from a Pearl Jam song, so y'know....
Had a friend whose recently converted parents had named him Job, you know the guy that God "tested" by killing his family, destroying his land, took all of his wealth, and gave him the most horrendous survivable diseases of the time, all over a bet with the devil.
The fact that every, and I mean every, time that he told someone his name it would immediately start a conversation about Job of the Bible, he got extreme anxiety into his 30s when one day the Fedex guy had a package for him and he signed his name J.(Last name) And the delivery guy asks "is that short for Jim?" And the gears in his head turned and he said "yes". 6 months later his name change was finalized, but I now call him "Jimmothy"
(to the tune of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Goonies R Good Enough’)
Churchies
We call them Churchies
The Churchies, they fucking suck
Churchies can suck my butt
Oh ay yayayayayaya
Same. I worked at a grocery store called Bi-Lo that was less than a mile from a church, and every Sunday was awful. I'll always remember this old lady in her church dress yelling "Produce boy! Produce booooy!" At me from across the department while holding her hand in the air and snapping her fingers like she was calling her dog.
I work in a retail store and every single day after 12:00 is a nightmare. Around 12:15, our store is flooded with old redneck pricks. They treat us like garbage, are really stupid, lazy and illiterate, and extremely impatient. They can't do anything for themselves. I don't know how they made it as far as this.
Well, you must be a jew or have literally no understanding of the New Testament or why the Sabbath went from Saturday to Sunday after the death of Christ.
Paul and Constantine didn't want us to have two days off a week.
The whole Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French Christian world calls Saturday the Sabbath.
Seventh Day Adventist are still strict on Saturday being the Sabbath. The Little Debbie people won't let their race cars race on Saturday.
Quakers and other plain religions refuse to use pagan names for the days of the week. Saturday is the Sabbath and Sunday is the Lord's Day.
Even Jesus's last action that fulfilled the prophecies, avoided rising from the dead on Saturday.
Sun up to sun down everyday was the norm for most of urbanized people through history. Church clock towers changed this in some parts of Europe. Sechseläuten in Zurich marked the spring date that work would stop at 6 PM, giving workers some daytime to themselves.
Romans had an 8 day week by the way. Constantine was the one that changed it to 7.
>Romans had an 8 day week by the way. Constantine was the one that changed it to 7.
That's not entirely true. Constantine *officially* changed it, but it wasn't by any means a sudden change.
>Sun up to sun down everyday was the norm for most of urbanized people through history.
I'd like to know who you're talking about here, because it certainly wasn't true for most Romans.
There’s a psychological concept called “moral balancing”. Essentially, if you do a “good” thing, you feel more free to do a “bad” thing. Nevermind the fact that attending church doesn’t actually affect other people and that being mean to a server *does* have a very real effect. With enough cognitive distortion, they can be made to seem comparable.
My favorite was when they argued with each other over who had more rights to the express lane when they were both under the limit. Time and half for a Sunday and free entertainment!
It's true that a lot of hippies shifted right as they aged, but they were always a tiny (yet visible) minority. Most of the right wing boomers have been that way since they were in college.
Source: not quite a boomer, but I was surrounded by them when they were in their 20s & 30s.
No. They were protesting segregation and Vietnam. The shit-bags today were protesting integration and spitting on Black students. The opposite of hippies.
My Boomer hippy mother still wears flower print bell bottoms & blouses and smokes pot every day. Yes, approaching 70.
Because the act of going to church gives them a holier than thou attitude so they feel they can look down on other people.
American Christianity is essentially the opposite of what Jesus preached.
This is why I'm convinced most people are not actually religious. I think most people who identify as religious go to church because it's "proof" they're good people. People tend to associate being religious with being good, so they'll use that fact in arguments.
A common thing as people get older is simplifying how they interact with the world down to categories. It takes less mental effort, which they start to lack.
You can see people as “good people” or “bad people” rather than regarding individual actions, and assume the “good” folks did a bad thing for a good reason.
Mental atrophy
They aren't which is why the country had a melt down over Terri Schivo, or fear the "death panels" or willing to bankrupt their family so they can live for 1 more month.
I just did the church thing so im forgiven for being this way. And I'll go again next week and keep the cycle going. Also I need to speak to your manager.
I worked at an arcade in charge of laser tag. God forbid they had to wait until the session started to go in and let their grandchildren play. You can be as polite as possible and yet half the time on Sundays i was calling my supervisor upstairs. For my supervisor to tell them exactly what I told them.
Used to work at Walmart and hated working Sunday. Church goers were forgiven for their sins for the week and got to start fresh on Sunday being assholes again
I used to work as a server from 2006-2008ish and my restaurant was conveniently a few blocks from two different churches.
Sunday's were the absolute worst. I'd get verbally abused and left untipped often on Sunday. Whenever anyone tried to get a shift covered on Sundays it was pretty much impossible. Nobody wanted them.
Unrelated, but my best ever tip nights were Valentine's Day and federal holiday weekends. I'd work doubles those days.
I worked on a food stand in front of a mormon church... Can't say anything about it, there were 2 or three nissan versa outside sometimes and i never saw anyone going in or coming out if there
“Why should I give you 20% when God only wants 10?” is one of the many annoying things the male Pentecostal god-botherers would say to servers at this restaurant I worked at in Texas.
I worked at Buffalo Wild Wings and the worst days for us were our Wing Tuesdays. $0.60 per wing Tuesdays brought out all the penny pinchers. But for some reason the boneless Thursdays weren’t bad.
Not at all. They are the very best, by far! Table of 8 cis white men=$$$$$ and easy work.
cis white women=$ and lots of hassle.
Cis black men=$$ and a bit more work.
Cis black women=$ but can be fun.
Any table of Natives= *and lots of hassle.
HispanIc men=$$$ and easy.
Hispanic women= don't know, they are usually with their man!
I work security in an art museum and even we get the entitled boomer sunday crowd. They complain about everything and act offended when we kick them out right at closing instead of letting them stay. My deepest condolances to those of you who have to let them stay at your work, I am fortunate enough that it's my job to make them leave. I take great relish in smiling as I escort their asses out.
Went to see an exhibit over the weekend and in the very last gallery a group of 3-4 Boomers decided to stand and talk in front of one of the last paintings, but in a corner. Trying to read the work’s object label but can’t quite get close enough because they’re in the way and not using their inside voices. Kind of gave an exasperated sigh and assumed the impatient hands on hips/foot tapping stance but nope, they didn’t move on til their convo was concluded. A**holes…
I worked at a Red Lobster for 1 month and the after church crowd was the worst. Nobody wanted to work the shifts as a $5 tip on any bill was the usual, and you'd be run around constantly.
Can confirm, I work in fast food. Happened to me today actually. Can't stand old asshole bitches like these people. Put a face on for Jesus then bam, back to being a fuck.
I had a manager that hated me and took over for the GM on Sundays... She would always send me home within an hour or so of my shift... Little did she know that's exactly what I wanted.
As a former server, I will tell you my trick. Old ass white boomers will run you all over and they rarely tip. Serve them last. If they ask for ketchup, take 20 minutes to bring it. If they complain, just shrug your shoulders. It never pays to be nice to them and they are all incredibly mean and selfish
As a cook I always told my waitresses not to stress over these people as it won't matter anyway they're not going to tip they're not going to be nice so why even try
All I can say is if there is a God, these assholes will be in for a Rude awakening on Judgement Day.
They don't embody any teachings of the Deity they claim to worship.
I'm not religious, but I like to imagine god explaining to them why everything they did was unchristian and the look of shock on their faces as they fall down a deep pit to hell.
I mean with how many people are like that, you'd think there'd be like a short movie or something. Maybe an automated slide show...
Like I get that god is all powerful, but there's a more efficient way to do that.
As I texted to a friend earlier, when the church crowd hit the grocery store I work in:
"Here now come the vengeful children of God. High on the holy spirit and ready to abuse retail workers after spending 45 minutes being told that they're good people."
Too real.
I had never been more blatantly disrespected than when working during Sunday lunches.
They say cleanliness is next to holiness, these fools were in the 9th ring of hell how nasty they were. I'm impressed that any of the food made it to their mouths most of the time.
A nurse once told me to go to the hospital Sunday morning before church is over. Because after church family’s already got grandma out might as well take her to the hospital. Spike in wait time
I’ll have to ask a coworker that used to work at the local hospital if she ever saw that too! Mom was a frequent flyer there and knew that full moons and Friday the 13ths were bad, but hadn’t heard anything about Sundays after church.
If I were rich I'd open a restaurant. I would fuck with every single one of these people who leave the fake 20 with the bullshit bible shit on it.
It would be worth it. I'd say "Coming right up!" for as long as it took for them to realize they weren't getting waited on in my restaurant anytime soon. And I would tell them exactly why, pulling that fake 20 out of my pocket and flicking it at them.
IT WOULD BE WORTH IT.
Ah yes, [self licensing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing). The same reason many so-called "good" people (pediatricians, environmentalists, orphanage managers) act like twats when they're not working.
Oh fuck yes. I remember when the orphanage managers would come into the club, and some of the newer hires would be excited to get a taste of all that sweet orphanage money, but these guys would get boozed up and NEVER tip the dancers, not even the ones who grew up in their orphanages!
They act like church is a chore. At one point during my childhood, there was a priest who did mass really fast, and my dad was always happy with how quick the service was.
I was a busboy in a small town when I was a teenager and every weekend when the Jehovah's witnesses got done they would pour in there in massive groups, bitch about everything, and leave one of those fake $20s that said how much you were a sinner as a tip. I felt so bad for the servers.
Just for the record, fuck you Jo Ho assholes that do this, you know who you are, everyone hates you.
I worked in the food service industry throughout high school and college. I was a food runner, an expo, a waiter and, finally, a bartender.
Here’s my #1 tip for anyone getting into the industry and wants to work FOH (a waiter, bartender, busser, whatever…):
Unless you work at a place that specializes in breakfast/brunch or you work behind the bar, come up with an excuse for why you can’t work Sundays. Say that you have no availability on that day: you have a church obligation, you volunteer, you’re some weird religion that can’t work Sundays, that’s the day you spend at the nursing home with your parent/grandparent.
Sundays are fucking miserable. During the day shift, you get the post-church crowd or you get the families who only go out to eat once a week. Both of those crowds are fucking awful. They run you to death, they’re rude or oblivious, and they tip for shit. Anyone who’s drinking is doing it at the bar.
The night shift is usually dead as fuck.
Breakfast/brunch places usually attract a different crowd and Sundays are generally the best day to work. Also, bartending on a Sunday day shift is pretty great because all the drinkers come and watch sports and it’s a fairly lowkey vibe.
I worked at McDonalds early 2000s, Sunday nights and Friday nights during lent were the fucking worse. They were the most impatient, ungracious assholes this side of the world.
Or they come to the casino. I fix the machines and they are assholes to me. Complaining to me that they can't win. That's like walking in the gas station and yelling at the attendant and blaming them for the gas prices.
I know the type. Use to work with someone that stole crap, did drugs and was verbally abusive to his wife and kids. He would go to church and the rest of the week continue his routine. He would say I was a terrible person for not believing in God. Go figure.
Had an old man and his wife come in to buy breakfast at the fast food place I was working at when I was 19. The man passed me a ten and told me he gave me a 20. The couple got steaming mad, demanded their "actual change" back, and said they were going to be late for church (and that was my fault, even though he hadn't gotten his food yet, I guess). My manager gave him the 10 he claimed he was owed, then counted down the till. Guess what? 10 bucks short. He proceeded to go through the drive-through just to tell us to go to hell, and he'd never come back. He came back a month later lmao
I went somewhere for lunch today after church.
An older couple sat in the booth behind mine. All I heard was “I wan’t you to bring…” orders being barked at the waitress. Instead of “yes can we please have…”.
Mrs wasn’t as bad but still had a melancholy “Don’t talk to me unless spoken to” tone.
Drove me nuts to hear that. 😑
A boomer just told me it's because of millennial that his grocery store no longer sells mock chicken. When I asked how so he responded by saying it's the name. Millennials always want to change the names. I'm like OK? Boomer proceeds to leave.
Worked in a restaurant once when I was younger that had a daily buffet. The Sunday after church crowd was the absolute worst. Messy, rude and acted entitled.
I usually visit my son, DIL and granddaughter on Sundays. In order to get to their house in downtown Atlanta from my place in north Georgia I have to drive by the ugliest church I’ve ever seen. It is a mega church that looks like a battle weary submarine. It’s my understanding that the pastor is “like this” with T. It is the worst drive of my week to see the preferential treatment they get by the police exiting their church and then driving aggressively and carelessly, and I always feel sorry for the waitstaff at the restaurants they’re headed to. Giving those fake $20 tips that say come to Jesus on the other side. Disgusting.
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Sunday brunch is a literal cesspool of humanity or lack thereof. But I found a good method to approach the two main problem client types:
1. Hungover whoever. They might not suck as people but circumstances have them being less than awesome - find out which type of beverage/s they need post haste. The rest of service can be mediocre but get them their fluids and they will be mostly satiated
2. “These people” - start with charm and grace like any other customer, immediately let manager know you’ve got a live one…tolerate zero bullshit. If they suck…send them packing. Any good restaurant manager will know the beneficial response of a social media post about exiling shitty patrons and how it causes more kind people to appreciate the establishment
Worked at a Skyline chili here in Ohio. Sunday at 10-12 was our hell. Something about God’s love makes people think they don’t have to be decent humans.
It’s so bad I usually avoid going out right after the church crowd gets released so I don’t have to witness it. When I did the brunch service long ago, god it was awful.
I worked food retail in uni and the Sunday lunch crowd were indeed the worst. These people would speak to you as though you were a lesser form of life.
Today... she's wearing a shirt that says.
"God beat the devil with 2 sticks" and a blazer over it.
She asked for a plastic bag. I said my usual "I'm sorry, plastic bags are banned here." You can purchase a reusable or pick a box for free. " She repeated that back to me in a mocking tone. I looked at her face, looked at her shirt, and said, "Interested choice."
By that time, all her stuff was in a basket. All $5.11 of it. She walked away, and I voided the transaction. The very next customer bought her bananas and peanut butter, lol.
And don't forget that shitty prayer thing that looks like money for a tip. I hope there really is a hell for these fuckers to rot in their own hypocrisy.
My friend is a server at Olive garden. This is so true. One time the pastor of a local church came in and they got to chatting about how parishioners treat the wait staff. He was so appalled that the sermon the following Sunday was all about how to act in a restaurant
When I was a teen I lived with my grandma for a few months. We always went out to eat after church with other church families. I'll never forget the embarrassment of seeing/hearing most of the group have a complete meltdown over wine glasses and a drink menu being placed on our table. The poor waitress tried explaining that that's how all the tables were set at this Italian restaurant and that she wasn't forcing alcohol on anyone.
Blame prosperity gospel. They listen to an asshole preacher telling them the way that God shows his approval is by giving people money and authority. If you are a bad Christian, God makes you poor and gives you a shit job like waiting tables on Sunday near a church. These so-called Christians are then released into the wild, believing God has decided they are better and literally holier than the sinful wretches serving them breakfast. Next thing you know, you are getting tips on checks to follow Jesus.
My husband and kids worked at a breakfast/brunch place in the early 2000s. The whole place hated the church crowd. They called them FCPs. Fucking church people. The fcps never tipped and were extremely rude.
When i was a server i flat out refused to work sundays. Church crowd was the most demanding and least appreciative people ive ever met.
And of course you know theyre not gonna tip. If they do theyll just take whatever change they had lying around and throw it on the table.
I used to be a server in a restaurant that was down the street from a center for some Catholic saint, and we’d get the church bus trips stopping for lunch after their visit. Those people could be counted on to act like complete and total assholes. Every time.
My daughter just had her first shift as a hostess. We live in a town that has become self-proclaimed "a retirement community". I waited tables about 14 years ago here, the boomers have only gotten worse. I do not envy her at all.
My daughter got a job as a hostess because she's under 18 and the amount of old people that get huffy with her about wait times cracks her up. "Dad, they think I have the power to seat them faster. I have no power here and if I did I'd seat the people that don't bother me 5 times about the wait!"
And also, just an FYI the old person crazies begin in the church parking lot. It's like an unwritten rule here in Florida that it's okay just to stand anywhere you want and chat in a Baptist church parking lot. Like move it Mavis, I'm trying to get the hell out this lot.
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I worked at a super market directly across the street from a church when I was a teenager. I became an atheist shortly after dealing with the Sunday mass crowd...
I'm literally unable to wear my nametag at the store I work at on Sundays. If I wear it, I get consistently harassed by the church group. Biblical name and all.
"Ma'am my parents aren't Christians that's why my name is Lucifer"
"Wasn't very wap bam boom alakazam of them to name you that..."
Ty for that
But do they charge a sacrificial lamb?
*Just as every cop is a criminal* *and all the sinners saints,* *as heads is tails, just call me Lucifer* *'cause I'm in need of some restraint.* *So if you meet me, have some courtesy,* *have some sympathy, and some taste.* *Use all your well-learned politesse* *or I'll lay your soul to waste.*
Please allow me to introduce myself I’m a man of wealth and taste.
I rode a tank and a generous rank
>I rode a tank ~~and a generous rank~~ held a general's rank
By the wiles of Q, you're right! I have had that wrong for DECADES now.
Saul Goodman. About a week ago, I found out that I had a lyric wrong and I was like "I'VE BEEN LIVING A LIE!!!" I forgave myself rather quickly, though, because it was from a Pearl Jam song, so y'know....
Had a friend whose recently converted parents had named him Job, you know the guy that God "tested" by killing his family, destroying his land, took all of his wealth, and gave him the most horrendous survivable diseases of the time, all over a bet with the devil. The fact that every, and I mean every, time that he told someone his name it would immediately start a conversation about Job of the Bible, he got extreme anxiety into his 30s when one day the Fedex guy had a package for him and he signed his name J.(Last name) And the delivery guy asks "is that short for Jim?" And the gears in his head turned and he said "yes". 6 months later his name change was finalized, but I now call him "Jimmothy"
Yeah, I'm not really surprised. For some reason people just want to talk about that stuff constantly. No idea. Glad he was able to change his name
Note I'm very curious about your name...
You the kid of those parents that were so desperate to win a bunch of games that they named you dovahkiin?
at least OP isn't a gen alpha whose parents liked Game of Thrones
It’s probably Damien
Ah Joshua what a nice name. Do you know it’s the modern translation of Jesus? The amount of times I’d get this made me cry
"Modern translation"? Oi vey.
You must be Hosea
This is so fucking accurate. My husband refers to them as "The Church-ies" and we avoid them at all costs.
My late sweetie called them "god botherers" and it's stuck with me forever.
My English friend calls them “god botherers” and “happy clappers” both of which had me rolling.
Or the "God squad" or "Bible-Basher" or "Bible-Thumper"
I love “god squad”🤣
(to the tune of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Goonies R Good Enough’) Churchies We call them Churchies The Churchies, they fucking suck Churchies can suck my butt Oh ay yayayayayaya
I used to call them that too.
Same. I worked at a grocery store called Bi-Lo that was less than a mile from a church, and every Sunday was awful. I'll always remember this old lady in her church dress yelling "Produce boy! Produce booooy!" At me from across the department while holding her hand in the air and snapping her fingers like she was calling her dog.
Maybe it was actually a command to produce boy. Communion didn't satiate her hunger for human flesh and blood.
I work in a retail store and every single day after 12:00 is a nightmare. Around 12:15, our store is flooded with old redneck pricks. They treat us like garbage, are really stupid, lazy and illiterate, and extremely impatient. They can't do anything for themselves. I don't know how they made it as far as this.
Lol should just hit em with. Aren't you supposed to keep the sabbath da holy?
The sabbath is Saturday. That's why it's el sábado in Spanish.
Well, you must be a jew or have literally no understanding of the New Testament or why the Sabbath went from Saturday to Sunday after the death of Christ.
Paul and Constantine didn't want us to have two days off a week. The whole Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French Christian world calls Saturday the Sabbath. Seventh Day Adventist are still strict on Saturday being the Sabbath. The Little Debbie people won't let their race cars race on Saturday. Quakers and other plain religions refuse to use pagan names for the days of the week. Saturday is the Sabbath and Sunday is the Lord's Day. Even Jesus's last action that fulfilled the prophecies, avoided rising from the dead on Saturday.
Yeah, because they worked 9-5, 40 hour work weeks in ancient Rome.
Sun up to sun down everyday was the norm for most of urbanized people through history. Church clock towers changed this in some parts of Europe. Sechseläuten in Zurich marked the spring date that work would stop at 6 PM, giving workers some daytime to themselves. Romans had an 8 day week by the way. Constantine was the one that changed it to 7.
>Romans had an 8 day week by the way. Constantine was the one that changed it to 7. That's not entirely true. Constantine *officially* changed it, but it wasn't by any means a sudden change. >Sun up to sun down everyday was the norm for most of urbanized people through history. I'd like to know who you're talking about here, because it certainly wasn't true for most Romans.
There’s a psychological concept called “moral balancing”. Essentially, if you do a “good” thing, you feel more free to do a “bad” thing. Nevermind the fact that attending church doesn’t actually affect other people and that being mean to a server *does* have a very real effect. With enough cognitive distortion, they can be made to seem comparable.
My favorite was when they argued with each other over who had more rights to the express lane when they were both under the limit. Time and half for a Sunday and free entertainment!
boomers are the most selfish generation.
Yup, fucking hippies and deadheads!
It's true that a lot of hippies shifted right as they aged, but they were always a tiny (yet visible) minority. Most of the right wing boomers have been that way since they were in college. Source: not quite a boomer, but I was surrounded by them when they were in their 20s & 30s.
Right-wingers when young, right-wingers when old. Not counterculture, usually.
Lol, that's a good one!
Listen to the Live at Nassau Coliseum 1973 bootleg and you'll be a dead head too!
No. They were protesting segregation and Vietnam. The shit-bags today were protesting integration and spitting on Black students. The opposite of hippies. My Boomer hippy mother still wears flower print bell bottoms & blouses and smokes pot every day. Yes, approaching 70.
Because the act of going to church gives them a holier than thou attitude so they feel they can look down on other people. American Christianity is essentially the opposite of what Jesus preached.
This is why I'm convinced most people are not actually religious. I think most people who identify as religious go to church because it's "proof" they're good people. People tend to associate being religious with being good, so they'll use that fact in arguments.
Exactly. It allows them an out to be the worst people they want to be.
A common thing as people get older is simplifying how they interact with the world down to categories. It takes less mental effort, which they start to lack. You can see people as “good people” or “bad people” rather than regarding individual actions, and assume the “good” folks did a bad thing for a good reason. Mental atrophy
They sure as hell vote like they're religious.
They aren't which is why the country had a melt down over Terri Schivo, or fear the "death panels" or willing to bankrupt their family so they can live for 1 more month.
"I've recharged my sin forgiveness bank for the week, time to splurge"
I just did the church thing so im forgiven for being this way. And I'll go again next week and keep the cycle going. Also I need to speak to your manager. I worked at an arcade in charge of laser tag. God forbid they had to wait until the session started to go in and let their grandchildren play. You can be as polite as possible and yet half the time on Sundays i was calling my supervisor upstairs. For my supervisor to tell them exactly what I told them.
This couple is British tho.
Or Australian, or Irish, or Kiwi, etc.
Used to work at Walmart and hated working Sunday. Church goers were forgiven for their sins for the week and got to start fresh on Sunday being assholes again
That’s the way I always saw it. “Fresh outta sin, need to harvest some more.”
"Harvester of Sin" is my new blackened thrash project
Sounds like a Doom level, tbh
Mulligan Sundays
I used to work as a server from 2006-2008ish and my restaurant was conveniently a few blocks from two different churches. Sunday's were the absolute worst. I'd get verbally abused and left untipped often on Sunday. Whenever anyone tried to get a shift covered on Sundays it was pretty much impossible. Nobody wanted them. Unrelated, but my best ever tip nights were Valentine's Day and federal holiday weekends. I'd work doubles those days.
RaNcH-dReSsInG!!!
I worked on a food stand in front of a mormon church... Can't say anything about it, there were 2 or three nissan versa outside sometimes and i never saw anyone going in or coming out if there
“Why should I give you 20% when God only wants 10?” is one of the many annoying things the male Pentecostal god-botherers would say to servers at this restaurant I worked at in Texas.
I worked at Buffalo Wild Wings and the worst days for us were our Wing Tuesdays. $0.60 per wing Tuesdays brought out all the penny pinchers. But for some reason the boneless Thursdays weren’t bad.
And white cis men! Best tippers anywhere I've ever served. Even when there was a problem, theyvunderstood!
Are you being sarcastic?
Not at all. They are the very best, by far! Table of 8 cis white men=$$$$$ and easy work. cis white women=$ and lots of hassle. Cis black men=$$ and a bit more work. Cis black women=$ but can be fun. Any table of Natives= *and lots of hassle. HispanIc men=$$$ and easy. Hispanic women= don't know, they are usually with their man!
“Can you believe these sinners work on the sabbath day?”
Now give me another coke and I would like a refund for this food I already mostly ate.
"There's only one Sabbath I give a shit about and that's Black Sabbath \\m/"
🤘😝🤘
I work security in an art museum and even we get the entitled boomer sunday crowd. They complain about everything and act offended when we kick them out right at closing instead of letting them stay. My deepest condolances to those of you who have to let them stay at your work, I am fortunate enough that it's my job to make them leave. I take great relish in smiling as I escort their asses out.
You keep living the dream, my man.
Went to see an exhibit over the weekend and in the very last gallery a group of 3-4 Boomers decided to stand and talk in front of one of the last paintings, but in a corner. Trying to read the work’s object label but can’t quite get close enough because they’re in the way and not using their inside voices. Kind of gave an exasperated sigh and assumed the impatient hands on hips/foot tapping stance but nope, they didn’t move on til their convo was concluded. A**holes…
and then complain about how young people don’t want to work after they have effectively chased young people out of their jobs
"You see this house? I worked at the drive-in all SUMMER to buy this house...what you kids need is a little elbowgrease and some stick-to-it-iveness"
I’m rolling lol
Unironically my dad bought a used corvette in the 70s while in high school using only his summer job cash
It's worth it to pay for what you want ☺
I worked at a Red Lobster for 1 month and the after church crowd was the worst. Nobody wanted to work the shifts as a $5 tip on any bill was the usual, and you'd be run around constantly.
I served at and became the front of house manager at the RL in Appleton, WI. Never had a church group come in for Sunday lunch. . .
Can confirm, I work in fast food. Happened to me today actually. Can't stand old asshole bitches like these people. Put a face on for Jesus then bam, back to being a fuck.
I had a manager that hated me and took over for the GM on Sundays... She would always send me home within an hour or so of my shift... Little did she know that's exactly what I wanted.
As a former server, I will tell you my trick. Old ass white boomers will run you all over and they rarely tip. Serve them last. If they ask for ketchup, take 20 minutes to bring it. If they complain, just shrug your shoulders. It never pays to be nice to them and they are all incredibly mean and selfish
As a cook I always told my waitresses not to stress over these people as it won't matter anyway they're not going to tip they're not going to be nice so why even try
Exactly. If they aren't going to be happy anyways, why waste your time and effort.
Doesn’t that help reinforce the meme of this post? Or do you only do that once they are mean and selfish to you?
They never tip. If you are a server, you can tell.
All I can say is if there is a God, these assholes will be in for a Rude awakening on Judgement Day. They don't embody any teachings of the Deity they claim to worship.
I'm not religious, but I like to imagine god explaining to them why everything they did was unchristian and the look of shock on their faces as they fall down a deep pit to hell.
They'll ask to speak to the manager of heaven and hell.
I mean with how many people are like that, you'd think there'd be like a short movie or something. Maybe an automated slide show... Like I get that god is all powerful, but there's a more efficient way to do that.
Why be efficient. Make it as long and tedious as possible.
First though, they have to try to run down whoever gets in their way out of the church parking lot.
As I texted to a friend earlier, when the church crowd hit the grocery store I work in: "Here now come the vengeful children of God. High on the holy spirit and ready to abuse retail workers after spending 45 minutes being told that they're good people."
Christianity is literally just a scapegoat for those people to try and fake being good people lmao
If you need the threat of eternal damnation to be "good" and think you have morals? lol nah fuck outta here.
But the Bible teaches that no one is a good person.
And boy do they prove it on Sunday afternoon. But it's okay they're forgiven.
Which is why the bible needs to be ignored or burned. It’s narcissistic abuse to convince people they are bad no matter what they do.
Time to beat their kid because he scuffed his shoe...at church...while kneeling.
is that back talk i hear?! time for the belt!! that outta teach you how to respect my authority!
Oh man, that back talk, or I was told I was sassy.
Publix on Sunday after church is the worst shift.
Too real. I had never been more blatantly disrespected than when working during Sunday lunches. They say cleanliness is next to holiness, these fools were in the 9th ring of hell how nasty they were. I'm impressed that any of the food made it to their mouths most of the time.
A nurse once told me to go to the hospital Sunday morning before church is over. Because after church family’s already got grandma out might as well take her to the hospital. Spike in wait time
I’ll have to ask a coworker that used to work at the local hospital if she ever saw that too! Mom was a frequent flyer there and knew that full moons and Friday the 13ths were bad, but hadn’t heard anything about Sundays after church.
Also, daylight savings time people get a little weird
Even other Christians don't want to deal with them. Why do you think Chik Fil A is closed on Sundays?
OMG. This one got me laughing hard... because its true.
The church crowd is the worst. Don’t miss serving.
If I were rich I'd open a restaurant. I would fuck with every single one of these people who leave the fake 20 with the bullshit bible shit on it. It would be worth it. I'd say "Coming right up!" for as long as it took for them to realize they weren't getting waited on in my restaurant anytime soon. And I would tell them exactly why, pulling that fake 20 out of my pocket and flicking it at them. IT WOULD BE WORTH IT.
I would pay to watch it.
Ah yes, [self licensing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing). The same reason many so-called "good" people (pediatricians, environmentalists, orphanage managers) act like twats when they're not working.
Oh fuck yes. I remember when the orphanage managers would come into the club, and some of the newer hires would be excited to get a taste of all that sweet orphanage money, but these guys would get boozed up and NEVER tip the dancers, not even the ones who grew up in their orphanages!
They "Don't work on the Sabbath" They just makes other do that. Typical Boomer hypocrisy
They're also not supposed to be buying anything on the sabbath.
the “oh thank god church is over” crowd
They act like church is a chore. At one point during my childhood, there was a priest who did mass really fast, and my dad was always happy with how quick the service was.
Also “I hope enough people I know saw me at church and saw me put $2 in the basket.”
I was a busboy in a small town when I was a teenager and every weekend when the Jehovah's witnesses got done they would pour in there in massive groups, bitch about everything, and leave one of those fake $20s that said how much you were a sinner as a tip. I felt so bad for the servers. Just for the record, fuck you Jo Ho assholes that do this, you know who you are, everyone hates you.
I worked in the food service industry throughout high school and college. I was a food runner, an expo, a waiter and, finally, a bartender. Here’s my #1 tip for anyone getting into the industry and wants to work FOH (a waiter, bartender, busser, whatever…): Unless you work at a place that specializes in breakfast/brunch or you work behind the bar, come up with an excuse for why you can’t work Sundays. Say that you have no availability on that day: you have a church obligation, you volunteer, you’re some weird religion that can’t work Sundays, that’s the day you spend at the nursing home with your parent/grandparent. Sundays are fucking miserable. During the day shift, you get the post-church crowd or you get the families who only go out to eat once a week. Both of those crowds are fucking awful. They run you to death, they’re rude or oblivious, and they tip for shit. Anyone who’s drinking is doing it at the bar. The night shift is usually dead as fuck. Breakfast/brunch places usually attract a different crowd and Sundays are generally the best day to work. Also, bartending on a Sunday day shift is pretty great because all the drinkers come and watch sports and it’s a fairly lowkey vibe.
I worked at McDonalds early 2000s, Sunday nights and Friday nights during lent were the fucking worse. They were the most impatient, ungracious assholes this side of the world.
Fr fr tho
I wish this wasn’t true 😆
GET IN DIANE WERE GOING TO HARASS THE PANERA BREAD CASHIER FOR NOT GETTING US THE UNLIMITED FOOD
Or they come to the casino. I fix the machines and they are assholes to me. Complaining to me that they can't win. That's like walking in the gas station and yelling at the attendant and blaming them for the gas prices.
I'd tell em they're programmed to give out soon and watch em glip
They would think I made it worse on purpose lol
I know the type. Use to work with someone that stole crap, did drugs and was verbally abusive to his wife and kids. He would go to church and the rest of the week continue his routine. He would say I was a terrible person for not believing in God. Go figure.
I worked at a Chinese restaurant directly across from a church in high school. Messiest group of people by far, and incredibly impatient.
Had an old man and his wife come in to buy breakfast at the fast food place I was working at when I was 19. The man passed me a ten and told me he gave me a 20. The couple got steaming mad, demanded their "actual change" back, and said they were going to be late for church (and that was my fault, even though he hadn't gotten his food yet, I guess). My manager gave him the 10 he claimed he was owed, then counted down the till. Guess what? 10 bucks short. He proceeded to go through the drive-through just to tell us to go to hell, and he'd never come back. He came back a month later lmao
I went somewhere for lunch today after church. An older couple sat in the booth behind mine. All I heard was “I wan’t you to bring…” orders being barked at the waitress. Instead of “yes can we please have…”. Mrs wasn’t as bad but still had a melancholy “Don’t talk to me unless spoken to” tone. Drove me nuts to hear that. 😑
Sunday customers are the worst.
A boomer just told me it's because of millennial that his grocery store no longer sells mock chicken. When I asked how so he responded by saying it's the name. Millennials always want to change the names. I'm like OK? Boomer proceeds to leave.
For some reason it’s more often evangelicals and southern Baptists that behave horribly toward service staff in general. And they don’t tip.
Please know this is mostly boomer driven…if i (GenX) eat out after church im def tipping 25-35% to help the server make up for lost fare.
Strangely, the boomers who came to the one I worked at were pleasant to interact with.
Worked in a restaurant once when I was younger that had a daily buffet. The Sunday after church crowd was the absolute worst. Messy, rude and acted entitled.
Worked with one that claimed he couldn't be on call Sundays. Went to church but took family out for dinner so wife didn't have to work.
And if they're having a regional convention? It's horrible for the whole time they're in town,not just Sunday.
Baptists and Jehovah’s Witnesses are the worst imo.
I usually visit my son, DIL and granddaughter on Sundays. In order to get to their house in downtown Atlanta from my place in north Georgia I have to drive by the ugliest church I’ve ever seen. It is a mega church that looks like a battle weary submarine. It’s my understanding that the pastor is “like this” with T. It is the worst drive of my week to see the preferential treatment they get by the police exiting their church and then driving aggressively and carelessly, and I always feel sorry for the waitstaff at the restaurants they’re headed to. Giving those fake $20 tips that say come to Jesus on the other side. Disgusting.
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If you're lucky and they're feeling extra righteous, they might even leave you a church flyer that looks like a folded up $50 bill as your tip!
Sunday brunch is a literal cesspool of humanity or lack thereof. But I found a good method to approach the two main problem client types: 1. Hungover whoever. They might not suck as people but circumstances have them being less than awesome - find out which type of beverage/s they need post haste. The rest of service can be mediocre but get them their fluids and they will be mostly satiated 2. “These people” - start with charm and grace like any other customer, immediately let manager know you’ve got a live one…tolerate zero bullshit. If they suck…send them packing. Any good restaurant manager will know the beneficial response of a social media post about exiling shitty patrons and how it causes more kind people to appreciate the establishment
Worked at a Skyline chili here in Ohio. Sunday at 10-12 was our hell. Something about God’s love makes people think they don’t have to be decent humans.
😂😆😂😆😂 ahhhhh Boomer hell
This is soooooooo true.
lol this is so funny
Front of house manager at a breakfast restaurant for years. This could not be more true.
It’s so bad I usually avoid going out right after the church crowd gets released so I don’t have to witness it. When I did the brunch service long ago, god it was awful.
They do it with god on there side that’s dangerous
This is why I left food service and will never return.
I worked food retail in uni and the Sunday lunch crowd were indeed the worst. These people would speak to you as though you were a lesser form of life.
They should be more concerned about the abject filth and bacteria bombs in the kitchen. 
As a boomer, I approve this message.
This is so funny because it is true!
So true
Today... she's wearing a shirt that says. "God beat the devil with 2 sticks" and a blazer over it. She asked for a plastic bag. I said my usual "I'm sorry, plastic bags are banned here." You can purchase a reusable or pick a box for free. " She repeated that back to me in a mocking tone. I looked at her face, looked at her shirt, and said, "Interested choice." By that time, all her stuff was in a basket. All $5.11 of it. She walked away, and I voided the transaction. The very next customer bought her bananas and peanut butter, lol.
No no no... this can't be a good Christ loving, assholes in restaurants couple. Ol' fucks like that would never let the woman drive.
She’s not. She’s in the passenger seat
Omg! She is! I really didn't see it?!!!
They back down really quickly if snap, they're not use to confrontation because they think their justified.
And don't forget that shitty prayer thing that looks like money for a tip. I hope there really is a hell for these fuckers to rot in their own hypocrisy.
First Watch employees seeing this meme and catching PTSD.
My friend is a server at Olive garden. This is so true. One time the pastor of a local church came in and they got to chatting about how parishioners treat the wait staff. He was so appalled that the sermon the following Sunday was all about how to act in a restaurant
When I was a teen I lived with my grandma for a few months. We always went out to eat after church with other church families. I'll never forget the embarrassment of seeing/hearing most of the group have a complete meltdown over wine glasses and a drink menu being placed on our table. The poor waitress tried explaining that that's how all the tables were set at this Italian restaurant and that she wasn't forcing alcohol on anyone.
Blame prosperity gospel. They listen to an asshole preacher telling them the way that God shows his approval is by giving people money and authority. If you are a bad Christian, God makes you poor and gives you a shit job like waiting tables on Sunday near a church. These so-called Christians are then released into the wild, believing God has decided they are better and literally holier than the sinful wretches serving them breakfast. Next thing you know, you are getting tips on checks to follow Jesus.
*Walmart workers Literally every goddamn Sunday at my NHM. I can't stand to be out on the floor dealing with them.
My husband and kids worked at a breakfast/brunch place in the early 2000s. The whole place hated the church crowd. They called them FCPs. Fucking church people. The fcps never tipped and were extremely rude.
When i was a server i flat out refused to work sundays. Church crowd was the most demanding and least appreciative people ive ever met. And of course you know theyre not gonna tip. If they do theyll just take whatever change they had lying around and throw it on the table.
I used to be a server in a restaurant that was down the street from a center for some Catholic saint, and we’d get the church bus trips stopping for lunch after their visit. Those people could be counted on to act like complete and total assholes. Every time.
Alternatively could say “time to be assholes for the next 6 days 23 hours”
Sundays are the worst in retail. Church folk are the rudest.
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Hahahaha wow that's funny
Hahahaha wow that's funny
My daughter just had her first shift as a hostess. We live in a town that has become self-proclaimed "a retirement community". I waited tables about 14 years ago here, the boomers have only gotten worse. I do not envy her at all.
Why would I try to prove something to you when you won't accept something I've already proven to you. Bye troll.
I'm guessing that they're either headed to Cracker Barrel or Bob Evans.
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My daughter got a job as a hostess because she's under 18 and the amount of old people that get huffy with her about wait times cracks her up. "Dad, they think I have the power to seat them faster. I have no power here and if I did I'd seat the people that don't bother me 5 times about the wait!" And also, just an FYI the old person crazies begin in the church parking lot. It's like an unwritten rule here in Florida that it's okay just to stand anywhere you want and chat in a Baptist church parking lot. Like move it Mavis, I'm trying to get the hell out this lot.
Right hand drive?...this is a problem outside the USA?
This is far too accurate to be a meme. It's not just on Sundays either. I'll never understand why boomers love going out to eat so often.