Anyone done waitressing?

[Pica Pica]

Hello...

I am paying off my student debts before doing an MA, and I am doing it as a waitress. I have not been tested for dyspraxia, but have ticked so many of the boxes when reading about it that I reckon I must be doing a good impression of it otherwise.

The bad thing is self esteem, people look at you as if your dumb, and then I invariably do something stupid...

The good thing is friendliness and sociability, you really learn to fake it when you just thrown gravy on someone.

[robyn]

I did loads of waitressing and bar work when I was a student. surprisingly I was good at it, by the end of my several years of waitressing in various jobs I was often left to supervise and allways ran things smoothly. I wasnt even that clumsy and could carry several plates at once perfectly. however I found that once I finished my shift I would get doubley clumsy all over again!

[Pooky]

THey would be buying new crockery every week if I did it

[Pica Pica]

THey would be buying new crockery every week if I did it

I once broke 300 plates in one go. I know this because I'd counted them onto a trolley, flipped the trolley and not one survived.

I reckon my breakages are in the thousands now, just lucky i'm such a socialable person.

[Liz944]

years ago I went to the home of Swarovski and was sitting in there club bar and the girl behind the bar managed to knock the shelf and all the glasses came down.... the problem being these where special crystal stemmed glasses from Swarovki which were £100 per pair and she broke 250-300 of them....

[Shadwell]

nope soz. welcome to the forum by the way

about the scariest thing I have had to do as a mechanic is drive onto a pit with trucks worth £20,000 - £65,000, only downside is 1 slip, the roof has to be taken off, and a helicopter flown in, to lift the truck back out again.

I had to have 100% trust in my work collegue to watch, and direct me on, and with no room for error, as the rear tyres were about a centremeter away from the pit on both sides,

and with a fear of heights as well, so a 5 foot deep pit, is scary.

I found that I was a lot better directing him onto the pit!! at least my neck would only be hung for giving the wrong hand signal! instead of being the one that had the accident!!!

but 6 months of working there, and we didn't have 1 accident, so we worked as a great team!!

[gherkin001]

I was waitressing for 5 years from the age of 13. And as long as I wasnt dealing with the HOT PLATES I was fine.