[AC Slater]

If anybody thinks putting pubes in a customer's food is a good idea, check this out:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...081steak1.html

[girl/fightfan]

Methadone causes massive sugar cravings so a lot of people blow up and gain a lot of weight when they get on the program. I keep a bowl of chocolates and candies at my desk, so everyone loves me.

[lawngnome8273]

Someone said earlier about resturants watering down or mixing liquors. Well, I can say that in the places I've worked, I've never seen that.

Also, nobody spits in your food. If I were to catch someone doing that, they'd be fired on the spot. Sure, you get retards in every line of work, but the spitting and placing of foreign objects rarely happens. Although it's still not a good idea to piss the server off before getting your food just in case you do have one of those retards.

[lawngnome8273]

Originally Posted by AC Slater

STORY TIME: So I'm waiting on a young couple, probably 19 or 20, and I handle them like everyone else. I obviously don't flirt with the girl if homeboy is there, so I treat them with respect. I get them refills, check on their food quality, and pre-bus appropriately. But I couldn't help but notice how the guy was acting, kinda subtle but being a douschebag. The girl was very nice, but the guy acted like I was messing with his girl or something. So, it's the end of the night and I hand them their bill (about $40), he pays with a credit card and I hand it back to them, pen and all, and give them the usual "have a good night." Well they leave and I check the book and what do I see? Nothing on the credit card slips. The tip slot was blank, so I totally got stiffed on a Saturday night.

But the douschebag made a mistake. See, he left EVERYTHING empty. Including the total and the signature, AND he left his customer copy. Needless to say, I left myself a hefty 25% tip for my excellent services, "signed" it with his signature (his name was on top of the credit card bill), and got myself some nice spending money. And there is NO way he can do anything about it, as I had all the evidence and nothing could be proven. Changed about a $1.50 loss from tipshare in being stiffed to about an $8-9 profit.

Don't stiff a waiter and leave him the tools for a perfect crime.

As long as you had that customer copy, he had no way to dispute it.

If one of my servers gets screwed on a cash tip and they're not someone who pisses me off regularly, I'll usually help them out and comp something off the check to give them at least a 20% tip. I don't understand how people can still come in and leave nothing or close to nothing.

[onime]

If you ever bad mouth or abuse a telemarketter, chances are you will end up getting 10-20 calls per day from that same call centre again and again... most of these guys take 600-900 calls a day and have to deal with unbelievable verbal assualt continously... so at times they will just loop your number around to make sure you get a call from someone else at that centre by setting up a callback(the dialer throws the call to someone other rep in a while)

If you have time/and are interested in the product/service, listen to it, since the company outsources its service and gets cheap labour, it's possible for them to charge you low, real low at times.

If not interested, simply say so, quote that you're on a nationwide do-not call list, say you already own the product/service(or dont own the service, for eg, mortgages) , or ask them to put you on their company's do not call list...all of these brings them to a dead end, and believe it or not, they appreciate this.

As already said above, dont abuse them and say shit, especially if you're already a customer...they have all your info...

[Mojorisin99]

Originally Posted by gattaca

I make over $100/hr and I was a C Student in High School and a university dropout. Being self emplyed is not as hard as it seems. There are just so many dumbass people who start businesses it drives up failure rates.

For about $50 worth of books I got started and now I'm kicking ass.

If you have a job, you're making someone else rich. Remember that. If you own the job or business, you can make yourself rich.

Watch that Gordon Ramsey show "Kitchen Nightmares" to see how dumb some entreprenuers are. It's not really that hard. You just have to read some good books and then follow the advice in them.

What kind of company do you run and how long did it take to get it going?

[pelinkovac]

The books about succes are shit ! In real world they rearly can be used

[icepick]

Earlier this week, my company pussed out pretty bad.

Some lady had an old printer that died, so she went and bought the EXACT same printer that died on her. WE thought it was kind of weird. Then, two days later, she brings the "new" printer back saying she doesn't like it. Sure enough, the serial numbers didn't match, and she was trying to screw us by bringing back the one that shat out on her. I knew this, but my manager pussed out and returned it for her knowing what she was doing.

We practically let her get away with fraud.

[AC Slater]

Originally Posted by lawngnome8273

As long as you had that customer copy, he had no way to dispute it.

If one of my servers gets screwed on a cash tip and they're not someone who pisses me off regularly, I'll usually help them out and comp something off the check to give them at least a 20% tip. I don't understand how people can still come in and leave nothing or close to nothing.

Exactly. I definitely don't feel bad for it, how could you not leave a dime? On a busy saturday night, when you are taking up my four-top that four RESPECTABLE customers could sit at?

My managers used to do that in certain cases if the bill was extremely high. I saw a girl get stiffed on a $160 check. Unbelievable, luckily the manager comped a good percentage of it.

[gattaca]

Originally Posted by Mojorisin99

What kind of company do you run and how long did it take to get it going?

I started a Sewer and Drain Cleaning Company in January of 2006 . We had a very rocky start because my partner was stealing from the company and I didn't know about it, and he also was not answering the phone when he was on call.

I bought him out in August of 07 when we had about 4 weeks left before we were going to be shut down for not paying our Phone Book Ad bill . It only took 2 weeks to get things rolling along well. I mended some relationships, secured some contracts, worked WAY fucking harder and smarter, slashed costs, and raised prices. Our first winter (Nov 06-March 07) we averaged only 1/2 job per day. This last winter, my company averaged 2.5 jobs per day. Also, we went from 6 total sewer replacements in year one to averaging one every 3 weeks ($1800 profit in 1.3 days)
I got into sewer work in a weird way. I owned 20 rental properties and had to have the sewer line cleaned in one one day. The guy came and had this cool machine and after 20 minutes, he was done and I paid him $75. When he left I did some math and thought "that's a sweet gig". This was Feb 2004. The next year in the summer (2005) I had a guy working for me and one day he mentioned that he used to clean sewers. So I pitched the idea to him that we start a company since he knew the technical stuff and I knew business stuff. So we did. But he turned out to be a real retard. So now he's bought out and I work and average of 4 hours per day and average over $100 an hour.

I actually make $85/hr most of the time, but when we get big replacement jobs, you make about $130/hr so it averages out to over 100.

Anyway, it's tough to say how long it took to get rolling along good. On one hand, if it were not for my partner and his contacts, the company would have had a slower start. On the other hand, if he had not been such a goof, we would have been profitable after 8 months instead of 20 months (with him gone).

Every year though, new companies start up and they don't last long at all. they just don't get it.

You know why lawyers are rich? They don't undercut the other lawyers. There's an unwritten price and they all use it as a minimum. When new sewer guys come in, they slash their price to get market share. But that's based on the assumption that the customer places price as a priority. My own research shows that customers, when their sewer is backing up, don't care about price. They care about how fast you can get there. So I kick ass because I'll be there
fast and charge you a high rate. These other losers book jobs around their schedules and then charge cheap rates and if they do not have a good financial setup, they wil be out of cash in no time.

Anyway. This is too long already. Drop out of business school, but some good business books, read them and read them again and then read them again and grow some balls and start a company.