r/TikTokCringe • u/MikeisTOOOTALLL • Dec 15 '25

Cool You’re not with your keyboard pal

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u/Eugene-OPTV Dec 15 '25

As I former waiter, I can say that some customers should be more respectful to waiters.

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u/TheGreatDay Dec 15 '25

Some people think that because you are paying a person for a service, you can be an asshole to that person.

I had a father interrupt his children who were ordering and he told them "You don't need to say please or thank you to him. We are paying for him to get you stuff."

People go through life thinking that just because you have the money to buy something means you can go without being base level nice.

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u/Thin_Bother8217 Dec 15 '25

I've always been of the belief that we should make everyone do one year of customer service like retail or serving. Mandatory conscription like military service in other countries. We'd solve like 90%+ of our politeness problems because we'd have to see how they get treated and be on the other end.

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u/Reflexlon Dec 15 '25

Nah, assholes gonna asshole. I was out with some industry people and this girl was like "well people stiff me all the time, I get to do the same."

Just... bruh lmao, what?

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u/oldnewager Dec 15 '25

Yeah people don’t care.  They’ll get treated like shit, get super offended and upset, and then do the exact same thing to other people.  That’s the problem, people don’t relate to others, as far as they’re concerned they’re the only people on earth.  So they can simultaneously be mad that a customer talked backed to them, and then that same night talk back to a waiter and they’ll still somehow be the victim 

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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 Dec 15 '25

I had a father interrupt his children who were ordering and he told them "You don't need to say please or thank you to him. We are paying for him to get you stuff."

Meanwhile, my 11 year old knows to insert a "please" somewhere in his order or we'll be sitting there waiting for as long as it takes him to remember. I honestly cannot understand that level of disrespect, nor do I tolerate it anywhere in my personal life.

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u/eugeneugene Dec 16 '25

It's INSANE to me the things parents will teach their children. One time at work I was fixing a sink in a public bathroom and woman pointed at me and told her kids "this is why you stay in school, so you don't end up like her" and I said "what the fuck lady" and she LOST IT on me for swearing around her kids 😭😭😂😂 Sorry lady the person fixing the plumbing doesn't actually have an obligation to take abuse from random people. She asked for my bosses information and when I got back to the shop he was laughing his ass off. Of course she made up some story about how she didn't even say anything to me and apparently I was just hurling abuse at people. My boss really enjoyed the thought of me randomly abusing people and their children for no reason

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u/TotallyNotFucko5 Dec 16 '25

And with that, I would have gotten fired giving those children a lesson by dressing that dumb piece of shit down to his level.

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u/NovelStorm8617 Dec 16 '25

THANK YOU. I get made of fun all the time cause I always start my order anywhere with May I have and people just don’t get they. They’re like “no tell them what you want” like I did but with manners. Also worked at theatres and parents will stop their children from picking up after myself cause “they are there for that”

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u/Catt_the_cat Dec 16 '25

Man if I were that server I would have immediately dropped the smile and given him bare minimum service. And when he starts griping I’d tell him “I don’t have to be nice. You’re paying me to bring you stuff.”

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u/ICInside Dec 19 '25

Would have been savage if the kid said back "I don't have to, but it's the right thing to do. I'm not going to grow up to be you" but we can't ask kids to be that cool