Miscellaneous: Today, I arrived at work at 8, and business was abnormally slow,...

By Charlotte - 28/09/2009 04:03 - United States

Today, I arrived at work at 8, and business was abnormally slow, but we assumed it would pick up. Few hours later, we had not had a single customer. As I walk out of the restaurant, I realize the open sign has been off all day. FML

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Today, 30 minutes before I was supposed to quit work at 6pm, my boss showed up. After telling him how the day went, he asked why I was still there. Apparently, for the holiday, we close early. 4 hours earlier. FML

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Today, I showed up to work at 6am, only to find out the schedule was changed. I wasn't actually supposed to be there until 9:15. My boss never told me this. I didn't get to go home either, he just said "Oh well. Get to work." FML

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Quinnjamin 0

Monday 28 September 2009 23:08

Was the cashier out running "those errands"?

WonderBlunder 0

Monday 28 September 2009 13:44

Not a single customer?? I bet your restaurant sucks. Usually people will try their luck even if the "open" sign is not on during normal business hour.. And don't you have regular customers??

Comments

t0phurius 0

Monday 28 September 2009 15:49

How's this an FML???? You got a free day at work....stop your whining, do something worse with your life, then come back, and make me laugh.

leilaostara 1

Tuesday 20 March 2012 19:57

My thoughts exactly.

wafflemonger 0

Monday 28 September 2009 17:07

Your customers actually pay attention to whether the sign says Open or Closed? You have no idea how lucky you are.

Tabby0511 0

Monday 28 September 2009 17:43

We usually get more customers when we forget to turn the open sign on. I don't even know why we have one actually.

besad_fml 0

Monday 28 September 2009 17:44

I remember watching an episode of Spongebob just like this. Spongebob annoyed the hell out of Squidward and near the end of the day they forgot to change the sign to Open.

Christina21 2

Monday 28 September 2009 17:44

Lol,genius

PoeticPixie 0

Monday 28 September 2009 17:58

How is this bad? You got a free day at work where you still got paid but didn't have to do anything. When I was a waitress, the best times at work were the graveyard shift when no one would come in and we'd just have fun. Stop whining

__no_one__ 0

Monday 28 September 2009 18:59

They may still get bitched out/written up by their boss/the owner of the restaurant, because the owner would indeed lose a remarkable amount of money by the restaurant being closed for an entire day, plus maybe a few customers are going to be pissed off. Oh, and in case OP's employer pays them next to nothing and the tips are supposed to be their salary, it probably *would* hurt her to lose a shift's worth of tips. So I do see the FML here.

night__shade 0

Monday 28 September 2009 18:07

why does this constitute an FML? you got paid to do not a damn thing! didn't have to deal with douchebag customers, or serving them, or getting angry when they don't tip you. this is a win.

colonel_crunk 0

Monday 28 September 2009 18:55

hahahhaha :)

phoenix03 0

Monday 28 September 2009 19:18

this is probably fake, people would still come in, they'd probably see lights on inside and stuff. i don't believe that not ONE person would come in. and how is this an FML? you didn't have to do anything !