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Fear and loathing in Le Frog Bistro

So I've discovered a reason for Coastalblog in this, only it's second day of existence. As an outlet for PURE CATHARTIC RAGE.
God worked sucked today. It was one of those situations wherein you stand back and realise. It doesn't matter what I do here, it doesn't matter how hard I work or what I do, we're going down in flames regardless. Hoist that flag to half-mast boys, we're all dead.
So a perennial problem at work is being understaffed, normally you you can stretch to accomodate, and we do. But combine being understaffed with a bunch of inexperienced staff and what follows is five hours of utter trauma.
Hell hath no fury like a restaurant goer after a cheap meal and maybe a free drink. If I had a fiver for every time someone's said to me "You see we eat here all the time" with that peculiar half-apologetic, half-belligerent tone in their voice which tells you THEY WANT SOMETHING, I would have in the region of four hundred quid from tonight alone.
Have I mentioned how much it sucked?
Sociology corner: we get more complaints on the nights special offers are on than we do on the out and out expensive nights. Why should this be?
In other news I have started prepping for this year's National Poetry Day reading at Edge Hill's glamorous Rose Theatre. Should you find yourself in west lancs drop in and I'll scream abuse at you. All in the name of art.
Furthermore, enormous love and hugs for Celeste for explaining how much of this works to me. I may buy her several pints of nice things.

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