Reply #13: Bus boy [View All]

[zipplewrath]

A place called "Sweden Haus" for anyone that may remember it. Smorgas board place. "All you can eat" schtick. $2.15 per hour (Minimum at the time). When they liked you, they didn't give you a raise, they "let" you work more hours. I don't think anyone over 20 worked there except the managers. I learned probably one of the worst lessons I could, and it has served me well.

If you are good enough, you can get away with anything.

They had rules out the wazzoo. But since when I was working, they could frequently not have another bus boy (because I was so fast) they ignored basically every single rule. It pissed off one of the other bus boys who was forever skipping out on work to flirt with the waitresses. He got busted for every rule they had, before they finally fired him. When I left to go off to college the manager said something about "probably nothing I can do to keep you around", I almost laughed. Like I was going to skip college to pursue a career at the Sweden Haus.