Ok here's the short version...just wondering what others would do if they were me.

I worked three years overseas as a chef on various cruise lines. I loved it but I decided it was time to be closer to my family and friends for a bit. So I took a waitress job at an uppity restaurant (average bill is $80) so $35-$40 an hour or even more than that is easily doable. I worked six weeks when I called to get my schedule for the upcoming week and was told I'd been removed and to "ask the manager" about it. The manager says there was a complaint filed against me for lousy service, do I remember any problems. I tell him no I don't and he says well I've been removed until I remember what it was. I was shocked as I really thought I was doing a good job... not to brag but I had quite a few that left me more than what I charged on the bill or what should have been expected, so I was really shocked to hear that someone was unhappy and really disturbed that I had no memory of it.

Then I remembered a man had snapped at me because he wanted wine and he looked much younger than most of the customers so I asked for id. I called back to find out if this could be the "problem". He said that he had misled me, the real complaint came from some of the other waitresses who said I was a nightmare to get along with (they're not people I'd associate with normally so I just say hi and go to work)...but he couldn't figure out what I was doing that was so bad because according to the logs I had almost double what they had in tips.

So, now he wants me to come back as the "cashier" and see if everyone is happy that way. I don't think any of this is fair...I worked my butt off to make sure that everyone got everything exactly as they wanted, made sure they drink refills, extra rolls if they wanted, and I even got on a first name basis with customers when I could, did stuff like chat with them if they bought a book etc. I don't think this is fair at all that he has just decided to move me to make "his life easier" and I want to look for a different job. My dad said that it looks bad that I've only been here six weeks though. So, I'd just like a sanity check. If you were me would you put up with this? Or, if you were hiring would it bother you that I had such a short working span? I'm just looking for a few thoughts here if anyone bothers to read this. Thank you very much, I feel better now. =)

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don't put up with this shit. how can you work around all these people who say you are a nightmare to get along with. the boss is a jerkoff as well. he handled the situation wrong and doesn't deserve your hard work.

with all that said:

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I want pics.

She's obviously good looking if...

A) the other girls don't like her.

and

B) she's getting much better tips than they are.

I agree with gosalukis83 by the way...get another job and then quit right in the middle of a chaotic shift.

There has to be more to this.

You need to find out specifically what it is you are doing to upset the other servers. Without this knowledge how can you "improve" yourself. Maybe the other servers just don't like you cause you're making more cabbage than they are. If that's the case then you are being penalized for being a better server and that clearly is not right.

If your boss doesn't have the stones to stand up for a good employee then he is a poor manager. I can see a situation where one server went to your manager and spoke for all the servers that don't like you and said something along the lines of, "We are all going to quit if you don't do something about her"

Now if this is somewhat the case then you need to meet your manager face to face. Talk about what it is the others don't like and how you can improve. I've had plenty of employees that thought they were great and were really not very good at all. I'm not saying that is you because the way you describe yourself being tipped you have to be doing something right.

You can't let the manager just move you to cashier so his life is easier for one reason, and all the tips your going to be losing for another. Stand up and battle for your position if you like it and the money is as good as you say. Good luck.

OK...thanks very much guys, it makes me feel so much better to know that other people out there don't think this is fair either.

To the first poster: I apologize for the paragraph thing,,,evidently one has to hit enter more than once for them to take effect in here. =)

Second: I'm not afraid of my father at all. I just am aware that he has my best interest and still knows more than I do. Therefore what he says should be considered seriously which I feel I have done by not just walking outright.

Third: I don't have any recent photos, that's probably something I should be getting around to anyway....lol

Fourth: I don't know how long everyone has worked here. But the ones I suspect are the "problem people" (from my point of view....) have been there nine months and the other one two years (she's 19 with four kids but he hired her when she was 17 because his son was the father of the second one and so that's why it's like that...). Or that would be what I heard from one of the employees who called to say "they missed me at work and wanted to know if I was ok".

Finally: Thanks nora for the reply. You're right, I think I'm not being told the whole story. It really bothers me the way I got told it was a customer complaint (my first thought was why was I not informed immediately when I still could have made things right....), then only to be told later it was fellow waitresses that complained about me. When I asked the manager on the phone what the exact problem was he said "they didn't really say just said they didn't like you, I don't know why but I can't keep things the way they are". Neither one of these girls has had the guts to tell me to my face what the problem is either (except for when she heard me call a customer by their first name once and told me I wasn't being paid to yap...) . I have overheard them saying stuff to the maitre'd (sorry not sure of the spelling...) such as "Why is Claire waiting on them, she makes more in one hour than I do in most of the day" or "Damn it Claire got $50 from that guy I only got $15 when I waited on him"(that was one particularly generous customer...but I've heard multiple comments along those lines out of these two certain girls). As far as I'm concerned it does no good to get in their face or be catty back, so I just act like I never heard it and go back to work. My father went there to eat once, but it happened to be my day off and he had a horror story about how one of these "catty girls" served him his food cold and when he told her the food was cold, she told him "I didn't make the food I got nothing to do with that".

In my heart, I believe that I am doing a much better job than them, and the manager is just being spineless in how he's handling this. If this is the thanks I get, I think I ought to go work somewhere else....I think when I report for work on Thursday, I'm just going to tell him, if I'm not back to serving by the end of next week consider this, my two weeks notice.

Thanks again guys for listening it really helped me out a lot. =)

Claire

tell them to f off. if you havent been somewhere for more than 3 months you dont even need to put it on your resume. if someone at a new job asks about it tell them you tried out a place but didnt find it a good fit for you and kept looking.

gl!