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A Typical Week As A Server

Get ready for this roller coaster of emotions

Sara Croel

Nov 08, 2016

Saginaw Valley State University

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Working as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant is really like no other job. I'm not sure there is another job out there with such a roller coaster of emotions attached to it. So let me take you on a tour.

Monday

Mondays take every ounce of strength you have to get up and get ready for. The restaurant is going to be dead and finding customers would be easier in the desert. You have to literally be dragged into work half asleep, even if you're starting a 4 pm shift. Everyone hates Mondays.

Fast forward a few hours and you still have no customers, but you forget that you're making less than $3 an hour after taxes because you're just hanging out with some of your favorite people. You're making jokes and having a blast until that family of 10 sits down 15 minutes to close.

Screw Mondays, they suck!

Tuesday

Tuesday is Monday's best friend. You just got disappointed on Monday and here you are again same thing, different day.

Wednesday

Finally! You probably have some type of special going on tonight and your dining room will be inhabited for a change! Wednesdays are nice because they start of a little slow so you can wake up as more and more customers drizzle in. You keep checking that clock to see when the special will start and you can start making that real money. There are two ways Wednesdays will go. Special time roles around...dead. It's a Monday all over again and you could cry. Your wallet is crying, why not join it. Or one customer sits down and twenty follow, and then more and more, and next thing you know, you're carrying trays for three hours straight on autopilot hoping they get to the right tables. You almost miss Monday...Not!! Your wallet is going to be so proud!

Thursday

Another special, but usually a more steady kind of day. No big surprise you'll have a few rushes on a Thursday. You're completely prepared this time and you're not even a little scared.

Friday

Morning

It doesn't matter how long you have worked here. It amazes you how fast a Friday will fill up. Before noon, you have already made more than you did on Monday and Tuesday. Here, you are running around and the day has barely started.

Evening

You just keep moving.You can't seem to stop.And even when all of your tables are busy eating and don't really need you, you can't help but feel like you're missing something. Here you are trying to sit for a second before you go check on drinks and it hits you...YOU NEVER BROUGHT OUT TABLE FOUR'S APPETIZER! You rush out to tell them it will be out shortly and they have no idea what you're talking about. Turns out the table four that ordered an appetizer, they left three hours ago and you have just lost your mind.

Night

You count out what you made nine times because math is so hard when you're this tired, but then you realize that you really did make THAT much money. Time to buy all the things I want!

Saturday

Morning

"How are people already sitting in my section!? We don't even open for 10 minutes!!"

Yup, that's Saturday morning for ya. No easy slide into the day. In fact, if you're 10 minutes early, you're already late. You've got -5 seconds to get your life together...ready, set, go!

Afternoon

You're just ready for a nap. You've ran into more people than you can count today and touched an infinite amount of dirty dishes. You've talked to more people than you have Facebook friends and you're just done. "When is my replacement coming?" "If they are even a second late, they're dead!"

Sunday

Morning

"How are people still here?! Did they ever leave??" "How are people even hungry this early?" "Go home, and make your own food!!" That is your mind talking. But what really comes out is, "Hi there folks, how are we doing on this lovely Sunday morning? Have you heard about our awesome drink specials?" Your auto pilot robot is back in action.

Evening

How did the morning start out like a Saturday night and now it looks like a Monday? You've rushed around all morning and now you're so bored you don't know what to do with yourself. You've rolled way more silverware than you need to, everything is stocked and cleaned and oh my god, you still have two more hours!

Every emotion goes through your head as a server. From the excitement of big tips to the boredom of Monday nights. No job will ever be such a roller coaster in your life.

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The struggles of having an RBF are all too real

1. People asking if you're mad at them.

2. Those people who hand out flyers don't always try to stop you.

3. Creepy guys telling you to smile.

4. "I thought you were a bitch when I first met you."

5. People telling you you'd be "so much prettier if you smiled."

6. Doing your makeup and looking great, which somehow intensifies the bitch face.

7. Regularly explaining "it's just my face."

We all go through certain stages when we have a crush, Tina just explains it better.

That moment that someone you never looked twice at suddenly makes you do a double take out of no where.

But you can't have a crush, that's outrageous. It's all in your head.

Because you don't have a crush, there's no reason to tell anyone about anything. Right?

But then they do something irresistible and you start to lose it.

Now accepting the fact you have a crush, you have to keep it under control.

Then there's the part where you tell your friends who will claim they called it.

They'll be excited and cheer you on. That's until they realize that your crush is all you'll be talking about.

Your obsession has become so bad, that your Facebook stalking is getting out of control.

But your friends will try and help move things along any way they can. That doesn't mean it will be any helpful though.

As time goes on, you start having fantasies about the two of you and it's starting to scare you a little.

You can't focus on anything because all your attention is on them and everything they do.

Anybody who comes near your crush is now an enemy, and you are willing to fight for your crush.

When you see them, you act like an idiot. Trying to hide your feelings may not be as discrete as you think.

Keeping your feelings inside will start to be harder and harder until you can't keep it inside anymore.

Who knows, maybe it will work out? Take a chance.

Everybody hurts sometimes.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

What about those of us who don't do it all in four years?

1. You feel like an elder.

2. You may feel lonely.

3. Senioritis is more real than ever.

4. You may feel a little down sometimes.

5. Fear of missing out won't be as real.

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7. You'll have more free time.

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10. You continue to grow.

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