Everybody Wins! Our Italian, corporate restaurant, who could give a rat's ass (literally) about the well being or welfare of we pee-ons (everyone but management), was holding a contest..."win a trip to Italy." The customers would fill out an entry form at the front by the host stand and leave the cards in a big box, accessible to all, especially employees!!!! So, having been dating a host at the time, I had him grab 25 or so of the cards and a bunch of us servers called these random people on the cards from pay phones and told them that they had won the contest and to come in for a FREE lobster dinner, open bar, bring a guest to the restaurant on a particularly busy Saturday night at 7pm!! And if there was a wait at the door, to march on up and ask for the (asshole) general manager to take you to your seat in the back....of course no such seat would be prepared for them, but the GM at the time, deserved a little chaos to say the least! So, what happens? HEAVEN! People were ecstatic on the phone, excited they would be presented with their winning plane ticket to Italy in the form of a LOBSTER DINNER! (we didn't even serve lobster!) and even more so, was seeing these people show up on a sat night looking for their winning!!!! The GM was a mess and the cops even had to come to break up the madness! Needless to say, the company gave away many a gift certificates and canceled the contest! A small price to pay for the unjust treatment we all received working there! No one ever knew WHO was behind the scheme, and I would like to keep it that way!!!
—Tortured Terminal Server, but rest at night with the memory of this sweet revenge!!!