Thoughts on difficult coworker
So this past weekend was one of our busiest of the year bc my restaurant is in a college town and it was homecoming. We were fully booked with a waitlist. My restaurant has a downstairs, upstairs, and patio dining(but we don’t take resys on the patio bc of weather), with two bars up and downstairs.
So friday is the first night of the big weekend. This one server, let’s call her <PERSON>, starts yelling at the hosts bc her section is outside and empty while the other guy outside had a full section do to chance. This didn’t have anything to do w me but I feel like it’s important to the story.
Saturday comes an I’m splitting the upstairs with <PERSON>. She was there all day while I was just night so she had some of my tables during the morning. Bc she had some of tables during the morning, she still felt entitled to them and tried to take them even though they were my section. Needless to say I was annoyed. She also ended up taking my largest table bc she kept complaining about how I was getting more (even tho her section was fuller than mine, my parties were just slightly larger). I kept having to go downstairs and people kept asking me what I was doing and I told them I was taking a “<PERSON> break”. She was also continuously complaining that the servers downstairs were getting more tables.
Flash forward to today. 329
Brunch is very busy and we are all scheduled when we come in-cut (so we don’t know if we are doubles or not ). I get there first and <PERSON> comes in like an hour later. Brunch goes smoothly and some cuts were made. I was not one of them but they kept 5 severs even though we didn’t have many covers for the evening. I went up to the manager to ask if I could be cut bc I had a lot of things to catch up on plus I was here the earliest. <PERSON>, overhearing my conversation, decides that she also wants to be cut and starts talking over me to the manager claiming she was there first and deserves to be cut more than me. I immediately snap (bc I was already so frustrated w her)and tell her to stop interrupting me and if she would like to speak to the manager she can do it when I’m done since my conversation with him has nothing to do with her. She of course disagrees and goes off on how I made more than her this weekend so I should stop complaining.
I get so frustrated I leave the room and go tell the host. She and another server see that I’m getting very frustrated and am on the verge of tears . I know the situation really was not a big deal but the way she was treating me and acting all weekend really just made me so frustrated. I go in the employee bathroom to collect myself and another server says they’ll stay for me (which I appreciated love him )
Thoughts? 329