I gotta vent... read it how you want

[yagoof]

There's this girl that I work with who seems to get phone numbers left on her tables on a regular basis. She has worked at Chili's almost as long as I have... we're talking that I've been on the floor maybe three days more than her. At any rate, I have been waiting tables for nearly four or five years now and have never had one left on a receipt or

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wait..we SHOULD leave phone numbers???

[theanonymousx]

Really? This works? One of my friends is a server and she always found it sort of demeaning when men left her phone numbers. I always thought it was sort of insulting as well, so no matter how much I liked a server I'd never leave a number. I've only seem a guy do this once and he did so because the woman made it painfully obvious she was interested.
Are good guys too 'scared' to leave a number? Probably not, but I don't think any guy really expects a call-back when he leaves his number on the table. Maybe the girl you work with is getting numbers left by a select group of people? I mean, maybe the guys that are leaving numbers for her know one another and they know she may respond positively if they leave their number?

Re: wait..we SHOULD leave phone numbers???

[yagoof]

I've meant to respond to this for what feels like a long time...

I'm not saying that it "works"... in fact, if someone were to leave me a phone number I don't think I would call it unless we'd had a decent conversation while they were at my table. I just think that it's odd that I've worked in restaurants as long as I have and have not received a phone number, but she has gotten three in the amount of time we've both been working at Chili's. I wouldn't find it demeaning, but I suppose it depends on the woman and how the man was acting at the time... if he were acting arrogant or I thought it was a joke then it would maybe upset me.

In her defense, she does have a boyfriend and is very petite, but she does bleach her hair (to the point that it looks GREY) and seems nice at the same time kind of punk-ish and a little clueless, if that helps at all.