Long night...

Long night at Applebee's.
Sometimes I love my job, sometimes not as much! Work started at 4pm, this is my first day of three. At one point durning the afternoon I had no tables and ended up doing everyone else job. I was getting so fed up with it all, and top of it I had been getting not so great tips. I mean I had a table who had a $72 dollar check and left me $3. This just backing up some advice from one of my managers, "do not expect more from others, because when you do it just lets you down".
That statement can be true at times and at others false. I had many tables that blew me away at the end of the night. I had gotten slammed and was running around like crazy. Personally, I like to take care of all my tables on my own, and at those times they do not get the best service. But I do always make it a point to tell them I am on my way. I had a group of ladies that even though they were loud and at times obnoxious, they still understood and were very patient with me. And I'm not complaining about their tip, it was a big one :)
But thank god for friends, three if my great friends came in and their check wasn't even $30, they left me $20 and made my night by just showing up!

The night didn't go as I would have liked it, but ended up better then I thought, and met some great people all night.