'[I'm] being accused of stealing tables': Server nicknames her coworkers Barbie and Ken after her shifts are jeopardized

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    Product - JLS "[My] Barbie and Ken [coworkers] always have drama when I show up to work"
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    Font - Posted by u/ThrowAwayPrincess14 17 hours ago n Advice for being accused of stealing tables and avoiding work drama Advice
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    Font - Okay, so there's some drama going on at my job and normally I just do my best to stay out of it but Im hearing that they want to cut my hours and I need some help.
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    Font - I work saturdays and sundays and usually make good money, I do my job, I do my sidework, I laugh with the girls I leave. I dont mess up on tickets, I make extra prep. Ive had my job for two years and I dont want to lose it over people fighting.
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    Font - Anyway I heard from my coworker that the other girls were s talking me to the manager and asking her to take my weekend shifts because they wanted me off of morning shifts.
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    Font - She asked why and I guess they told her that they thought I was stealing tables. She said she would think about it but them immediately texted me that the manager was probably gonna want to talk to me about the situation.
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    Font - Appearatly Im being accused of stealing tables. This in my eyes makes no sense. We have a hostess, on busy days and on slow days, its you go right, you go left, you go center, so it's just rotation.
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    Font - The only thing I can think of is last Sunday when my coworker and I were in our section, She was running behind, so I asked if she wanted me to grab her table's drinks. She didnt answer But I grabbed them some water to have while they waited so they wouldnt get butt hurt and said "Here's some water your waitress will be with you soon." She said
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    Font - "thank you" I ran some food for her and we went about our day. I dont really think this is even about me "stealing tables" I think its because my two coworkers have just decided for some rando reason that they dont like me and they cant stand to not have drama in their lives,
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    Font - I have two coworkers and for the sake of it I'll call them Barbie and Ken. Ken is a flirty guy, sometimes he pisses me off/ I'll piss him off he yells at me and I yell back at him in my native tongue Vise versa. He gets mad and yells at me to speak English, I really dont think its fair because Ken speaks Swahili and if I yell at him to speak in English I'd
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    Font - probably get in WAY more trouble. Anyway I dont like Ken because when I first started working there he was groping the girls and saying it was okay because he was gay. (Ive met his boyfriend who is really nice). I usually just ignore Ken and dont say anything to him unless it's "hey pass me that" or "Hey Table 47 asked for two more mimosas, put that on their check okay?", It's also
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    Font - worth noting that Ken got in trouble for calling a girl who had seizures "Tweek" (Like south park). It was disgusting to hear him make fun of her. Anyway I thought we were fine up until last week when he started giving me the cold shoulder but if he has beef I promise it's one sided because I dont care.
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    Font - Barbie is stereotypical peaked in Highschool blonde girl, She always posts about her cats, says she wants to be an influencer and brags about her Hottie French boyfriend. Barbie always complains about everything literally everything. One day I just sort of stopped replying to her complaints and just kind of ignored her because I felt like she
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    Font - just wanted to complain about everything and every time I tried to offer a solution she would just ignore me or counter with "OH WELL I CANT DO THAT" once I asked if we could swap shifts, she got mad and said she couldnt even though I hadnt even told her what day. I left her on read and she got really mad about that. But I didnt see the point in replying to her. I
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    Font - think its worth mentioning that Barbie is not happy in her homelife, If she has beef as I said its one sided because I do not care. I feel like Barbie and Ken always have Drama when I show up to work. Whether it's Ken with his latest boyfriend, Or Barbie with "OMFG MY PEOPLE ARE SO RUDEEEEEE" and I guess now Im
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    Font - the drama??? I dont want to lose my morning brunch shifts. The only reason Im making this post is because I need advice on what to do. I really try to stay away from Drama, does anybody have any advice?
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    Font - aparisoriginal. 17 hr. ago One of two things will happen: your manager will ignore Barbie and Ken, whether because they know Barbie and Ken are dramatic, they don't want to deal, or in the last two years they haven't had issues with you; or your manager will call
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    Font - you in for a chat. If the former, you're doing just fine. If the latter, you have a chance to defend yourself. In that case, I would encourage you to keep your opinions on Barbie and Ken and their drama to yourself and just focus on the facts: you don't steal tables, you simply
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    Font - follow the rotation, you don't have issues with your coworkers because you don't want to participate in drama, and you have been there for 2 years as a good employee. As a manager, if an employee brings an issue to me (real or
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    Font - imagined), having a rational conversation with the person is a lot more convincing than bringing up all the things other people have done that are worse. Hopefully your manager is also a rational person and it won't be an issue. Good luck!
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    Font - Siruss 15 hr. ago The manager can easily pull up how many tables a server waited on at any time, so the claims can be verified or not. Verifiable facts are not the issue, and would be dumb to go to a manager about if not true.
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    Font - So it must be something else, or else you have nothing to worry about. Who knows how true that story was you even heard? Was the manager really spilling gossip to a third party? Was one of those people involved planting a story? Is a manager really going to have a chat with
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    Font - you about something they can verify? No. No manager worth their salt is going to care if that's the only issue. Karma will find them. 1 Reply Share

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