Sunday, Sunday

A lot of servers hate working Sundays, but it's honestly my favorite shift!

Yes, I know it's amateur hour, I know the tips in general are usually lower, and the customers are a bit more uptight, but I usually enjoy myself more on these shifts than all the others.

Would you like to know the secret? It's because all the pain in the ass whiners on staff always refuse to work Sundays so you're usually left with all of the best people on staff.

The excuses vary with "family", "football", and of course the very lame "I like to go out Saturdays so I'm always hungover Sundays! I can't work!"... guess what? us too, we just suck it up :)

USUALLY any pain in the ass GM likes to spend Sundays with family so right there you lose about 70% of the stress that comes from working with them. Also, everyone is tired, hungover, or a blend of the two and somehow that makes the staff band together and help each other out a lot more... we're all in the same boat.

As I said before, the customers are notoriously bad on Sundays, that's true everywhere. It doesn't matter if your place serves a brunch menu or just the norm, the people are all the same for the most part (brunch people act slightly more entitled, it might have something to do with the mimosas--give cheap people ANYTHING with champagne in it and watch their attitude change). Sometimes it seems as if it's their first time out... ever. This just makes it all that much more fun, what's better than live comedy?

What server doesn't love to send another server over to their biggest pain in the ass table to drop something off so they can experience the hate themselves? Few things are more rewarding in the restaurant business than when the other server comes back to the wait station exclaiming, "Wow, you're right... she IS a bitch!!" Then you all have a good laugh at her expense and discuss it over drinks later on. So even the bad isn't all that bad when you're surrounded by the right people.

The best part of course is that Sunday crowds die early to get ready for the work week ahead so very rarely is it a late night, in fact most restaurants close an hour or two earlier Sunday nights.

In one place I worked Sundays were like the best kept secret around there. Everyone refused to work them, those of us who did had fun and banked. Then we all got to sleep in the next morning while everyone else worked the VERY slow Monday lunch shift, and they all thought they got the hook up!