A video of HBCU students calling a Waffle House employee a “bum” for working at Waffle House started a thread of conversations about how poorly service workers are treated.
One of the students posted the videos where they berated the Waffle House employee, who appears to be a cook. The argument between the employee and the students began when the employee made a joke all of the college students who had patronized the restaurant were “indecisive”. The students, who attend Delaware State University, responded by telling the employee that he was a 30 year old bum who was too old to be working at Waffle House.
Watch the videos posted by one of the students:
This Is What I Gotta Deal With At Waffle House #DSU #Delaware #WTF #Part1 pic.twitter.com/zdloUdNQF9
— #AndOkay? (@TheRealNettNett) January 10, 2018
@WaffleHouse #Part2 He Needs Help Fr ‼️‼️‼️??#2018 #DSU #Delaware #AndOkay pic.twitter.com/N8NL3laQdG
— #AndOkay? (@TheRealNettNett) January 10, 2018
he said they was indecisive….okay sooooooo ion know what i want…but all he had to do was make the food ion care how many times i change my order if i’m paying just make my food.. https://t.co/gUVGIlZW8h
— PRINCE$$ (@graceleeann__) January 14, 2018
From the looks of that exchange (notice they start recording AFTER he reacted), they were being assholes to begin with. You can’t order ppl around just because you’re “paying”. Fuck that. Dude ain’t their servant. https://t.co/dehDBRPc8A
— Child Support Enthusiast (@BtSquared2) January 14, 2018
The Waffle House employee responded to the tweet, saying the HBCU’s students are usually the restaurant’s rudest customers:
@TheRealNettNett @WaffleHouse been with the company for almost 4 years and have dealt a lot with this HBCU of a college & half of y’all are not even from Delaware pic.twitter.com/aOa5suEtOM
— dreskiee P. (@Watch_mytweets_) January 13, 2018
Then they said I was 30 that’s what pissed me off I’m 25 tried to tax ya boy ♉️ I’ll be 26 in May though.
— dreskiee P. (@Watch_mytweets_) January 14, 2018
I came so far from being that type of guy really wasn’t my intentions but they came off aggressive.
— dreskiee P. (@Watch_mytweets_) January 13, 2018
Most likely management knows the things I go through and even though it got verbal did the right things afterwards.
— dreskiee P. (@Watch_mytweets_) January 14, 2018
Two of the rude students from the video:
They LOOK annoying as fuck so whatever the dude at Waffle House say they did, they did that shit. pic.twitter.com/hFmFyO2c1C
— Child Support Enthusiast (@BtSquared2) January 14, 2018
This sparked a thread of conversations of how poorly service workers are treated by customers, with some workers revealing the times they felt humiliated by a customer:
I had a PT retail job and this chick kept standing in line just to ask us to tell her the price of something. I got annoyed and said out loud, “ummm…$34 x .30….”
She said, “I KNOW how to do math. I want YOU to tell me how much it costs.”
— Child Support Enthusiast (@BtSquared2) January 14, 2018
Honestly, a lot of the people who are rude to service workers don’t work jobs good enough to afford them to act that high and mighty https://t.co/xhVUJnjqci
— XXXTensions (@eleven8) January 14, 2018
Because they are broke, unemployed/underemployed college students who can only afford Waffle House so they gotta punch down.
— theVille (@Shelby_ville) January 14, 2018
A customer just told me to stop talking and give them customer service and so I asked them how am I going to give them customer service if I don’t talk.
My supervisor said I can’t say stuff like that because that’s “arguing.” pic.twitter.com/gRoYTNafUa
— linebacker lookin ass (@BasicBitching) January 13, 2018
I had a customer throw a wallet in my face once because my store didn’t do returns, just exchanges.
— theVille (@Shelby_ville) January 14, 2018
Yesterday I had a customer yell at me and my manager because he picked up a shoe that another customer put in the wrong place and wanted a 80% discount because of “false advertising “ ?
— EAGLES 14-3 (@AyeeeLoPo) January 14, 2018
Had a lady cuss out all our sales associates when our entire system was down cause she couldnt do a return/exchange and refused to go to a store 20 minutes away to do it she then came back when the system was back up acting like the sweetest person ever after yelling at my dm too
— trophy wife (@itsNENEduh) January 14, 2018
Girl, this woman walked up to me in the junior department and asked where the “real” sizes were. I told her I didn’t know what she meant. She huffed off and said “THAT BITCH KNEW WHAT I MEANT!”
No. I didn’t.— Ghost Pepper Teacher (@JayMFKay) January 14, 2018
He was pissed because our store didn’t validate parking. ???
— Khadijah Flames ✨ (@CheweyPNewton) January 14, 2018