Welcome to server life, where you get paid next to nothing to deal with entitled customers and power-tripping managers while working on your feet for seemingly endless shifts. You can just imagine the cast of characters that everyday servers are forced to encounter, confront, work with, and work for day in and day out. So let the following stories, which were compiled from Reddit's r/TalesFromYourServer subreddit, ~serve~ as yet another reminder to be kind and generous with your servers. Tip them well and recognize that everyone makes the occasional error, especially when you're forced to juggle a million tasks at once.
Some of these stories include insight and advice about how to deal with managers who disregard and disrespect your time and customers who demand way too much. If you yourself have been or currently work as a server, feel free to share your own experiences below. For more stories like this, here is one about someone who got fired over a hash brown order.
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