tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025896.post1744327674488288643..comments2023-12-25T18:26:54.150-06:00Comments on <center>Red Lobster Blog</center>: The Good, the Mediocre, and the which management monkey hired you?Lobster Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915814696810767679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025896.post-89620701047881261912007-10-22T04:56:00.000-05:002007-10-22T04:56:00.000-05:00Our management hired a young guy... maybe 17 or 18...Our management hired a young guy... maybe 17 or 18 at the time, who had a terrible stutter. He hosted for 1 1/2 years or so and eventually kept insisting to be moved up to a serving position but they always avoided it- even sometimes moving other people up who had been hired after him! After a while the GM finally just told the guy he can't be a server because of his stutter and the guy hired a lawyer... what a mess all that was! He worked on his stuttering problem and improved quite a bit. He's been serving for some time now and makes great tips, i think people feel sorry for him b/c he stutters. Heh... Just a funny thing i thought i'd share.TheLobstahWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08835537773210578854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025896.post-7514994099194745332007-10-18T17:30:00.000-05:002007-10-18T17:30:00.000-05:00RLServer, The random word verification text for me...RLServer, The random word verification text for me is "redsex"<BR/><BR/>I put my applicants through a short oral and visual pop quiz before I even think of throwing them on the floor.<BR/><BR/>1.) I look at their teeth and make sure there's no crack pipe stains or moss growing.<BR/><BR/>2.) I ask "What is the sum of 1+1+1?"<BR/><BR/>3.) I ask the potential hire "What do plants need to survive, oxygen or water?".<BR/><BR/>4.) I ask "If you drop a piece of toast, do you serve it? or charge them extra for the flavor?"<BR/><BR/>5.) I ask them to say their ABC's in English.<BR/><BR/>6.) I ask "Do you smoke?". Usually they return my answer with a question "Do I smoke what?". <BR/> <BR/><BR/>=)Upset Waitresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389216893210851274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025896.post-82724144929174299712007-10-16T04:19:00.000-05:002007-10-16T04:19:00.000-05:00I know you're probably not the right person to add...I know you're probably not the right person to address this, but let me lay it on you, and maybe you can take it to headquarters or whatever.<BR/><BR/>I have never eaten at Red Lobster. I don't really have any interest in the place. It just seems kind of bland, you know? BUT... I would go probably run to eat a restaurant called RAD LOBSTER. Something to think about.Jeffrey Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14252601039993042135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025896.post-56307374700270227352007-10-15T21:24:00.000-05:002007-10-15T21:24:00.000-05:00"They have no clue they are the problem, or that t..."They have no clue they are the problem, or that they need to move on because they have no future here."<BR/><BR/>Wow, no future at Red Lobster. I really pity them.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08558507155277345923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025896.post-25481316422625822302007-10-15T01:33:00.000-05:002007-10-15T01:33:00.000-05:00Very well said. I have started training as well, a...Very well said. I have started training as well, and am developing the same intuition for my trainees. However, due to the recent utter lack of success, my boss, the owner, is now letting me on the hiring process (I am the only trainer). <BR/><BR/>Out of curiosity, what do you think the best background is for a waiter who has never worked in the industry before, or who has not been in it very long?<BR/><BR/>www.willworkfortips.wordpress.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03370540052909039040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025896.post-39119354874335969362007-10-14T16:00:00.000-05:002007-10-14T16:00:00.000-05:00seriously. i've hired people who required almost n...seriously. i've hired people who required almost no training at all and are my best crew members, and then there are people my boss has hired that after 4 months of work still cant pull their weight or do anything more than spill shit and get in the way, all the while throwing tantrums, sidestepping actual work, and sexually harassing me/every customer that comes into the store. the only good thing about this is that i know i'll get to fire them eventually... that brings some small comfort.staticwarphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17108810336106451761noreply@blogger.com