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Sardines said:
I've worked in restaurants so I used the verbiage typically used by restaurant workers.

For example it would be common for one server to say to another "How many tables do you have sat?" or "How many people are sat at the 8 top?"
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Yep, still incorrect. And I too have worked at restaurants, the illustrious Friendly’s and The Olive Garden.
 
Miggs said:
Yep, still incorrect. And I too have worked at restaurants, the illustrious Friendly’s and The Olive Garden.
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Yeah... It's faster than saying seated which is why it is used the way it is. Shouldn't have used it that way in my post but every job I've worked in had shorthand ways of communicating things that get talked about constantly.
 
Sardines said:
I've worked in restaurants so I used the verbiage typically used by restaurant workers.

For example it would be common for one server to say to another "How many tables do you have sat?" or "How many people are sat at the 8 top?"
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Fetch me a pint and stop whinging.
 
Sardines said:
Yeah... It's faster than saying seated which is why it is used the way it is. Shouldn't have used it that way in my post but every job I've worked in had shorthand ways of communicating things that get talked about constantly.
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Question, did you work in restaurants in Utah or at least in the "mountain west" region of the united states, including the pacific NW? If so then that is a regional dialect thing. Utahns tend to use past tense wrong in, what is it, transitive verbs or intransitive, or maybe just all of them? I can't remember the technicalities, but it is common in the north west down into the Wasatch front to say things like "sat" instead of "seated" or "was" instead of "were", like "we was going to the store". Another you hear often is "seen" instead of "saw", such as "I already seen that movie" or "I seen the dog running down the street". @Miggs can fill in the technicalities where I butchered it. Anyway, this is far less common in the east, specifically the northeast. And this is one of the Utahn speech idiosyncrasies that I particularly loathe. Fitting in the pet peeve thread.
 
The Midnight said:
Playing at home on a Nationally televised game, a player hits a HUGE shot that extends your lead to about 20 points, the opponent’s coach immediately calls the timeout.

Crowd’s going wild.

The player’s elated running, hopping to the bench.

The assistant coach runs to him and saying something in his ear, the player stops to listen, trying hard as the crowd is LOUD.

Couldn't the assistant have waited til he’s sitting down???????? Did he need to stop his elation right there???

What was so important about the message that he had to tell him right then?????
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"You have a huge brown stain on your ***!"
 
Sardines said:
The way some people review stuff.

I was on Yelp! and a review for a park caught my eye. It was for Lodestone Park in Kearns. Most reviews were very positive and from a diverse set of perspectives, young, old, people with kids, people with dogs, gatherings, all that. One guy gave the park a 1-star review due to his visit on EASTER weekend because the park was crowded and the garbages were full. He very importantly announced that he would not be coming back and he was going to tell all his friends to not go to that park! Like, oh no! I hope that park doesn't go out of business because of all the customers this review is going to turn away. It's like this guy doesn't understand how parks work.

That got me curious so I looked at his profile to see his other reviews. He is a typical 1 or 5 star reviewer. Never a three or four star review, either it is a perfect score or a worst score from him. I hate that kind of reviewer and it almost always indicates that their reviews are about them and not about the thing they are going to review, especially true if almost half their reviews are 1 star. If the place made them feel special 5 stars. If they feel like they were not treated like a VIP 1 star.

He gave a restaurant 1 star because he had to wait for a table even though there were open tables. So the guy doesn't know how parks work and doesn't know how restaurants work either. There are many factors that determine how many customers a restaurant can accomodate, and number of tables they have is NOT the biggest one. They need servers to serve those tables, bussers to clean those tables, dishwashers to provide clean dishes, cooks to make the food, etc.. To make it worse he gave a different restaurant 1 star because even though he was sat at a table it took a long time for him to get drinks. That's why you might not get sat even if there are open tables.

The cherry on top was the score keeping. In more than one review he expressed displeasure because tables that were sat after him got their food before he did. Again, this guy just doesn't know how things work.

The only thing keeping me from giving him 1-star is that he never used the stupidest phrase in all of reviewing, which is: "I would give them zero stars if I could." So because he avoided saying the dumbest thing that can ever be said in a review I give him 2-stars.
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Agreed wholeheartedly. Another tangent to this is the ones who downgrade the product review because of something completely unrelated. See this CONSTANTLY on amazon, from their so-called "top raters" more often than not. Things like 1-star rating with comments like "they said it would arrive in 2 days then I got an email from amazon saying they had a problem with shipping so it didn't come for a week!", or "product arrived and I didn't like the packaging, had too much bubble wrap inside, what I am supposed to do with all that bubble wrap!". I have seen literal versions of both of those on multiple occasions and I guess that means those charging cables are only worth 1 star. Morons.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Question, did you work in restaurants in Utah or at least in the "mountain west" region of the united states, including the pacific NW? If so then that is a regional dialect thing. Utahns tend to use past tense wrong in, what is it, transitive verbs or intransitive, or maybe just all of them? I can't remember the technicalities, but it is common in the north west down into the Wasatch front to say things like "sat" instead of "seated" or "was" instead of "were", like "we was going to the store". Another you hear often is "seen" instead of "saw", such as "I already seen that movie" or "I seen the dog running down the street". @Miggs can fill in the technicalities where I butchered it. Anyway, this is far less common in the east, specifically the northeast. And this is one of the Utahn speech idiosyncrasies that I particularly loathe. Fitting in the pet peeve thread.
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Yeah it was in the Salt Lake Valley, but this is not how most of us would have spoken outside of worker to worker communication. When speaking to customers we would typically say "seated." It's literally like being in a factory and someone saying "bom" as a word when talking about scanning items even though we are not specifically talking about the actual Build Of Materials. In every way we are using the acronym incorrectly, but it's fast and everyone knows what we're talking about.

Talking about what tables are occupied, how many people are at the big table, if there is a party waiting for a table, what server sections are full and which have open tables, this is a constant topic of discussion and we were not going to use proper english at the cost of speed when everyone knows what we're talking about.

This has been true in every workplace I've been in. There are quick ways of conveying repetitive information using jargon, or initialisms, or shortened versions of words, or in-house made contractions.
 
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