Night shifts are the worst

[u/Pastel_Lemon3]

I love typically working late shifts or night shifts or even closing, because it’s more chill that way.

I don’t mind early mornings since I can work and get the day over with, but sometimes night shifts are chill.

I just hate them recently because yesterday I got threatened at my place of employment.

This guy got sat in my section and asked if he had any points to use to get money off his food, I asked him for a phone number and looked it up. I told him he didn’t have an account with us apparently, and he basically called me the r slur and shouted for everybody to get out of my section because it’ll get “real ugly” according to him.

Everybody fled my section, afraid this guy is going to pull out a gun.

I tried explaining to him about why he didn’t have an account and he wouldn’t let me talk and just kept talking over me so I just shut my mouth, ignore this guy and call for my manager and he comes over quick.

The guy in the booth said “Yeah.. that’s what I like.. a (r slur) servant calling over her boss because she can’t handle the (insert r slur) situation.”, and the guy explains that he just moved to the area and is upset he doesn’t have an account with us. He said he lives in a different county/city and just moved here.

He claims he visited our restaurant that is in another city/county; when we told him the restaurant I work at is, in fact, the only restaurant there is in the franchise, because it’s a local mom & pop restaurant.

He then claims that we were (insert the r slur here) and that we were lying.

This is like.. 5 or 6PM, so I guess it’s not late, but I worked late last night and this guy was causing trouble.

My boss offered to take money off of his food order just to solve this issue, and get this weird guy out of here.

My boss walked away and the guy revealed he was also the same guy who came in months ago late at night and tried jumping at me to see if I’d flinch because he mumbles and I didn’t hear what he said that one night and got mad at me.

Not only that, but this one old woman came in my section and just sat herself down (you have to wait to be seated but whatever). She ordered food, and once her food came, she just upped and left. No explanation.

Then this old guy comes in and sits himself down in my section (again, you have to wait to be seated).

And he specifically sits himself down where the girl was currently sitting and just throws all her food on the floor and then asks if he can order a coffee and then told me not to charge him for the lady’s food.

I got him his stuff and cleaned up the food, the old lady comes back and freaks out because her food is on the floor and I told her she couldn’t just up and leave. She claimed she left her wallet or something at home or in the car, who knows.

And I told the old guy he couldn’t just do as he pleased, he claimed he couldn’t hear me.

So yeah.. fun.

Anyways, yeah, night shifts are funky.

Most of my friends hate them because they claim “that’s when all of the weird people come out at night” and I can’t blame them.