Restaurant Server Shares List of Things that Pissed Her Off

Anyone who has worked in the service industry is keenly aware of just how much more difficult customers can make everything, and how quickly those experiences add up. So it’s no surprise that one server’s account of all the things that made her mad in a single shift is resonating with people on TikTok.

Realizing that her day was not going particularly well, Caitlyn (@caitlynmaez) decided to keep track of all the customer interactions that had her on edge one day last month.

Kicking things off, Caitlyn recounts how she was at the host stand for a minute when a woman and her 4-year-old child came in to ask about the restaurant’s half-price appetizer special. After explaining that during this particular time frame, they were only available to customers seated at the bar, the customer declared that’s where she wanted to sit, Caitlyn says.

“I said, ‘Well ma’am, I’m sorry, I can’t have a 4-year-old sitting at the bar,’” she recalls.

After arguing, Caitlyn says the woman said she would just take it up with her server after being seated at a table—only to discover that her server was, in fact, Caitlyn.