** .. wings etc ..**

I used to work at a little place called Wings ETC ... last year for like 6 - 8 months.  It (to me) is a less slutty form of HOOTERS and similar to Buffalo Wild Wings.  I am not a huge wing eater, I like them and I think that they are good, but I don't really care whose are best.  I enjoyed my job there for the most part, but the drama got to be a little too much for me and the money wasn't coming in like it needed to be.  I got burnt out from being there all of the time and I quit.  I left on good terms and haven't thought of going back, not even to eat, until tonight.

They give out a military discount which is 50% off the service members meal (awesome!).  So we used to go quite often and had just quit.  We went tonight and the service was horrible.  There were a few new girls and some girls I had worked with.  They were pretty busy when we got there but it's no excuse to leave a table sitting without being addressed for 10 -15 minutes.  Finally a waitress came over and didn't even recognize me at first (my hair is quite a bit darker now) but we had talked a lot when I worked there and I loved her!

Finally our actual waitress (another girl I had worked with before) came over and said that she had just gotten a second DUI (she got the first one in June or July).  So 2 in less than 8 months, I was dying.  If she gets charged with it she will lose her job at Wings ETC ... If you can't be a waitress what kind of job can you get with a felony?!

All in all we had a good night, we went with another couple and got to chat quite a bit.  We were there for nearly 3 hours all because they couldn't figure out who was supposed to wait on us, our food took forever and from the time we got done eating to when we got our bill was at least 45 minutes.  Not exaggerating a bit.

Needless to say I am glad I don't work there anymore but i will probably go back and *hope* for better service!

.. job A or job B ..

I have worked at a restaurant (A) for 5 and 1/2 years, I have never called in sick or not shown up.  While I was in high school I worked all the time, during the summers they would offer to put in a bed upstairs, because I was working doubles or triples almost everyday.  I am a rather good employee if I do say so myself.  Now, I just got a job at another restaurant (B) about 2 months ago, towards the end of school and I had needed off a couple of times to study for exams or to catch up on homework.  If I couldn't find someone to cover my shift I was always there.  When I work I do more than my fair share of side work and what not.
So, I go into work last Saturday and the schedule was up for this week.  I am on for Friday night, well I have never worked a Friday night there. And I already picked up bartending that night at restaurant A.
I went to one of my managers right away and told them my situation and he said, "Find someone or you have to work."  I have asked everyone that I could, no one can or will.  I even asked that same manager because he picks up serving shifts every now and then for other waitresses, never for me though. I texted him again today and said, "I don't know what to do, can you please help me?"  He said, "Find someone or you will be written up."
Here's the deal though, if I really wanted to I could call my manager at restaurant A and he would find someone to cover me, because that's how this place works.  Everyone helps each other out and we are all money hungry!  However restaurant B is not that way, even a little bit.  When I needed off for my exams I texted my scheduling manager because that's how everyone rolls now, two weeks early and she didn't even say thanks for the heads up or anything.  
Now I am thinking that because he is being such an asshole, that I should just say that I can't work.  I mean, my goodness, here I am, a part-time employee and I am already scheduled at my other job. I am not just wanting to go out with my girl friends.  I will be WORKING at the place that scheduled me first and asked me BEFOREHAND because that's not a night I normally work.
What do you think I should do?  Work for the place that will most likely just fire me?  Or work for the place that could easily replace me, but I have been at for longer?  AND that I want to work at because they treat me with respect, most of the time :)