Imagine having a 1 star review you left online go viral

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This. I actually think the waitress is at fault here and that she is ridiculous and embarrassing herself by getting the t shirt printed. Babies cry not too much you can do about it, if you go to a family friendly restaurant families will be present!! If she felt unwell she should've gone home.

Anyone is allowed to go anywhere (assuming it’s legal), but a some point people need to take responsibility for their DC and remove them. Common courtesy, thinking of others surely? Or do basic manners and thinking of other no longer exist?

I don’t think it’s funny/ironic though to be put on a tshirt. I actually think the waitress was rude to ask them to sit outside because their baby was crying. If I was her boss I wouldn’t be impressed either.

I think it is a perfectly reasonable review and the only one who looks like an idiot here is the waitress, assuming any of it is real (which it might be because if someone were making it up they would surely write a funnier complaint).

Honestly if you have an ocular migraine and you work serving customers in a busy cafe, go home. You will not be able to do that job to an acceptable level.

Sounds like the waitress could have handled it better tbh

Why good on her? She says she was openly uncomfortable and handled it wrong. It sounds like she was talking with the manager about the table within their earshot.

Waiting staff make mistakes, and shouldn't be vilified for life but leaving a bad review because wait staff handled a situation wrong is perfectly fine.

Absolutely. Nothing worse than people thinking we should all tolerate their little darling, who’s ruining an experience we’ve paid hard earned cash for 😡

I'd give her a massive tip for trying to get rid of them 😅 Nobody wants to listen to your baby screaming, especially in a restaurant.

A lot of parents don't know how to parent because they've never been parented properly themselves.

It's not a particularly funny review is it?

Without knowing how much the baby was crying or what restaurant it was it's difficult to know what was appropriate but she admits she openly made the family feel uncomfortable

Unfortunately bad reviews are sometimes left because the people leaving them are not brave enough to have a polite chat with the business in question and because maybe they are just a little bit in the wrong themselves (parents should have taken the child outside to calm it down). It is hard when people get personal and start naming individuals in a review when they are applying a policy they didn't decide on or are just having a bad day as this waitress was (they are human too). I hate this horrible bullying of businesses and staff that seems to have become a bit a trend over the last few years.

A stroppy teenager isn't the same as a baby.

And people take their kids to cafes because they're allowed to exist in public even though their presence may slightly inconvenience or irritate other people. How will they learn how to behave in a cafe if they never go to a cafe?

Society is getting too intolerant and it's worth remembering children are allowed to go to places even if they then act as children often do.

Good on her. I’ve worked in retail and some customers are just massive arseholes. I think people who treat service staff like this are just thick. I’d never talk down to restaurant or retail staff because I know what they do in revenge. I’ve seen it, and I’ve done it myself. I’ve been told to fuck off because I was busy and didn’t immediately serve someone, been threatened I’d lose my job then what am I going to do ( nothing because this is my social hit, I don’t need the money, so jokes on you!) and more. Some people are horrible.

The parents should’ve quietened the baby. When mine cried I took them outside till they calmed down. I don’t want to listen to a screaming baby when I’m out eating as a treat.

It’s the fault of the parent.

A bit odd to print it out on a t shirt - and that would make me wonder if the waitress is empathetic at all? And implies she was rude and didn’t handle the situation well at all.

and the reviewer was right to complain.

An ocular migraine would affect her balance, cause light sensitivity and affect her actual eyesight so since she was working - I doubt she actually had one.

So all in all - not a good look for the waitress. She seems to love a bit of pisstakey drama and then a sob story to get out of it.

I agree, this just makes the waitress look like a twat. I’d fire for this.

im assuming she’s young and clueless.

I can't imagine being proud of this review if i was named in it. Telling a family to sit outside in November because i had a migraine?

If she was too ill to cope with noise, she should have called in sick. Presume there were lots of other things causing noise as well as the child. But she looks very pleased with herself and she's got plenty of attention from it so i guess she's got what she wanted.

People always seem to be oddly proud of being intolerant of children. I don't like other people's children, so i don't work in restaurants where i will encounter them frequently.

If she had a migraine she should have been sent home.
If she wore the tshirt to work she should have been sent home.
Says more about the running of the cafe than the customers.

I was eating in a restaurant yesterday where a teenage boy was remonstrating with his parents as they had taken his phone off him. 20 min he went on, they just ignored him whilst quietly finishing off their food.

When they were done, they paid the bill and left, with the still angry teenage (phoneless) in tow. They also paid for the tables around them to have a drink prior to leaving.

Would be nice if people picked up their toddlers and walk outside with them so other can get some peace - the constant noise is very grating. I still can’t understand why people think taking young kids to a cafe, without thinking about what they can do there.

If the waitress felt ill with a bad migraine, she should have gone home. She sounds like a bit of an attention seeker to me and her T. Shirt makes her look like a twat.

It would only be funny if the review was wrong. It wasn’t - the waitress said so herself. Rude waitress does another rude thing.

It's not like the amazon review of sugar free gummi bears or the veg hair remover review "warning do not use on cocktail and balls"! Now that was funny.

This isn't funny and makes the waitress not the customer look bad for printing it. I think she should have asked the crying baby people to leave as sitting outside in November is not feasible in the UK.

Can’t see what’s embarrassing about this. Seems a valid review, and they aren’t identifiable. Are you the waitress, or know her? The family are justified in their feelings.

The couple leaving the review are obviously twats. I never stayed inside for more than a minute of one of mine kicked off.
But the viral bit is a bit of a non story as noone knows who they are.

Not sure I'd be boasting about suggesting customers with a baby eat outside in November.