Awful Customers Make My Job Hell... so I TOSS HIS KEYS into the Ocean
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | A group of entitled jerks make my life a living nightmare as they constantly complain about everything |
| 0:05.0 | about our restaurant, despite the fact that we were doing the best we could understaffed. |
| 0:09.0 | So I decided to get some revenge by throwing one of their wireless keys into the Baltimore Harbor that they left behind. |
| 0:15.0 | And sure, it's not my proudest moment, but honestly, it was incredibly satisfying. |
| 0:19.0 | Here's how it went down. |
| 0:20.0 | So 10 years ago, I worked |
| 0:21.8 | at a now defunct restaurant in the Baltimore Harbor. We were a fairly busy restaurant, especially for brunch, |
| 0:27.2 | but unfortunately, most of our front of house staff was incredibly unreliable. The day was June 5th, |
| 0:32.1 | which was a Sunday, and we expected to be incredibly busy because it was a holiday weekend. |
| 0:36.5 | When I showed up, only three of our |
| 0:38.1 | seven servers, one of our two bartenders, and half the expected amount of back of house had come |
| 0:42.8 | into shift. So, as you can expect, I was swamped with tables. What was supposed to be just the patio |
| 0:48.2 | section of six tables, I now had the patio and part of the inside a combined 12 table section. |
| 0:53.8 | Honestly, it was a nightmare, but I was somehow keeping up with everything. My guests could tell we were understaffed, and most of them were pretty understanding that I wasn't as attentive as I'd like to be, and I think that's because they saw me running around so much. Anyways, it's towards the end of the shift, and I get a table of three gentlemen who from the very start seemed like they were going to be a pretty needy table. I go over, I greet them, and I ask if they wanted to start with some drinks. They said they would need a minute and maybe three minutes pass and I come back. And before I can even ask about drinks, they tell me that I took too long. They then asked for my name and tell me that I was rude that I didn't introduce myself by name. They then said that if I wanted better tips, I should start doing so right away. Now for context, for whatever reason, our owner didn't want us to introduce ourselves by name, only as their server, but I could tell them if they asked. Now, I told them this policy, but I happily provided my name. I then asked that they wanted to put in some drinks and they |
| 1:44.2 | obliged. I ring in the drinks and about five minutes later, they waved me down and before the |
| 1:48.6 | drinks are even delivered, they tell me they all decided they changed their minds and they |
| 1:52.6 | wanted completely different drinks. So I had to run over to the one bartender for the entire |
| 1:57.2 | restaurant and tell her not to make the drinks even though she was literally halfway done and she was understandably pissed off. I put in the new drinks and then I go back |
| 2:05.7 | to see if they're ready for appetizers and entrees. They say yes and then they order. Five minutes later, |
| 2:10.8 | a man from the table comes to talk to me while I'm at another table and they again decide they |
| 2:15.5 | changed their minds on the orders, saying that they wanted |
| 2:17.9 | to change the appetizers. I then had to excuse myself from the other table, flanked down the chef, |
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