Your pushiness wil be trumped by a totally professional attitude........

So you’re throwing a baby shower…you get to the restaurant early to decorate the room….there is one thing you must remember, you’re not in charge. Do not order me about. Do not give me attitude. The cake is in the cooler, so I bring it out, only to find you have crap all over the cake table, and you look at me, like I’m a nuisance and tell me, “It’ll be cleared when we’re done, besides that, there is a mousse filling, so it could stay in the fridge.” Okay, I can’t see through the frosting, I don’t know that, although I could certainly poke my finger in it, if necessary.


(Okay, time to go into totally professional mode, not bitchy, just professional, you can't argue with that.)

Had you made your comments in a nice manner, I probably would not have been irritated. Now, you send a 13 year old kid to ask if you can tape a sign up right outside the door, so people will know there’s a baby shower in there. “No, I’m afraid the tape will damage the paint, besides there is a hostess at the door directing everyone to where they should be. (This was not the only event going on)

So then Grandma (of the mousse attitude) approaches me and says, “It’s not wallpaper.”

“Yes, I can see that. But we don’t want tape marks all over the wall, the hostess will direct everyone here.”

No sign was taped to the wall. (Pulled the whole tape marks on the wall thing out of my ass)

Twenty minutes after their start time, everyone is still milling about the room. Time to get this show in the road. I ask Grandma if they will be playing any games. “Maybe one.” Maybe one? Don’t you know? So I tell her, “We need to get everyone seated, tell them to look over their menu (There was choice of 3 items) I’m going to take the order, then you play your game while I am getting the salads ready.”

See, most people have an idea of what they want to do, but when it comes down to actually figuring out the timing on everything, they are clueless, so I’m going to tell you how it works. We work these events all the time, if we left it up to Grandma, an hour later people would still be milling about. I got there and hour and half early to set up the room, and it will take me an hour to reset it, after you’ve gone. I’m not getting paid enough to stand around and watch everyone talk.

I was warned from the start that Grandma might be difficult to deal with. One of my fellow severs commented, “Maybe that’s why they assigned you to this party.” Thanks.