Over the years I've worked with some pretty spunky guys and girls.....real
"I'm going to take no nonsense!" people. Another incident occurred
at that twenty-four hour place I mentioned before. We had two big dining
rooms. One was for the regular off the street customers....family
types, and the other was for the truck drivers that frequented the truck
stop next door. In order to clean the dining rooms we'd have to shut
one side down, clean that, reopen it and shut the other side.
One night I had just started this process in the trucker's section when
I looked up just in time to see a trucker reach up under one of the waitress'
skirts and feel her butt. I couldn't hear what the trucker said,
but I heard the waitress' answer.
"Here, honey!" she screamed, "This will warm you up!"
She proceeded to pour a fresh pot of hot coffee between the man's legs.
He jumped up screaming obscenities, stripped off his pants and underwear
and went after the waitress. Another truck driver and I had to subdue
him.
The boss came out, heard what happened, and fired the waitress.
"You've got to understand," the boss screamed, "these are real men.
Once and a while they're going to express themselves. It's got to be
expected in a place like this."
The waitress filed for unemployment, and got it under the grounds that
the boss' attitude was totally unacceptable. He could not require
his female employees to put up with such behavior.
She then sued, not only getting a cash settlement, but demanding that
a sign be put up in the truckers' section that those eating in the
dining room act like gentlemen and keep their hands to themselves.
The boss' response was "I'll put the damned thing up, but it's a shame men
can't be men anymore!"
He made the same comments a couple of months later when a waitress snuck
a tape recorder in and recorded the lewd comments the boss made towards
her, and then sued him. Everybody else was saying how sad it was that
the boss was being taken advantage of. I just laughed.
I think both waitresses should have gotten more than what they settled
for.
One night I was working in a real classy place. It was the IN place
to be around town. We got a new cook...I can't even remember his
name. He only lasted about twelve hours. We had this real pretty
waitress from Massachusetts. She had made it very clear to the cook
she wanted nothing to do with him, but the guy had a real problem with
the expression "Get out of my face!" He couldn't seem to understand what
the words meant. I heard them arguing loudly but because of the noise
of the dish machine couldn't make out what they were saying. I saw
the waitress go over to the refrigerator and do something. A moment
later I saw her go back to the cook's station, heard a 'whooshing' noise,
and heard the cook start screaming. When I got there he was standing
by the counter, crying.
The waitress sat the CO2 fire extinguisher on it, turned to me, and remarked,
"There! That will cool him off!"
They rushed the cook to the hospital. That stuff's pretty cold.
You don't want to have it stuck to your skin.
He swore out a criminal complaint against the waitress, but it never
went to trial. A story went around that three men met him coming
out of his home one night, and persuaded him that it was better to go someplace
else, and not appear at the trial. And he disappeared.
Yes, most of the people I've worked with, male and female, you didn't
want to give too much guff. Most were more than capable of explaining
to you they didn't appreciate such behavior. Most of them would make
you aware of it quite quickly!
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