u/GlasswaterBotanica

I have been employed with Chilis for 2yrs. In that time I have called out twice. A tree fell in my yard and I lost power, had to cut tree out of street. Second time I was hit by a car while cycling

This morning I woke up with a fever of 100f, chills, muscle soreness. It's been going around, my GM took a day off and has been back coughing since. I released my shift when I woke up at 5am, and contacted other employees to hopefully cover it. Morning manager asked me to call PM manager, PM manager is insisting I need a doctor's note.

"A doctor's note is required if you are missing consecutive days or if your call-out falls on a major weekend or holiday shift" is in the policy I signed. I lost my health insurance coverage two months ago and cannot afford to be seen for a cold. I explained this to my manager and she insists I need to speak with the GM. To my knowledge, none of my coworkers have had this issue calling out, and we are never short staffed (servers).

I'm worried I will lose shifts, and i'm not sure if this is worth contacting TMR over. Any advice or points I should make to him, would be appreciated.

Hey ya'll, i'm (41/m) looking for some local friends to just talk shop with, trade plants (terrestrial and aquatic), fish, etc with. I've abandoned personal social media like Facebook/Insta and would love a group to just talk shop with, go to events, or just someone that can appreciate a photo of a new leaf. Any local club recommendations are appreciated as well!

I have at least 100 fish, including discus, pea pufferfish, rainbowfish, outdoor medaka pond, corys, snails, etc and my plants are tropicals (monstera, alocasia, anthurium, phildendrons, banana, etc)

After the recent Ziosk update, I have had an issue where a customer's check will reappear, with a balance. To my managers it looks like a walk out. It's fortunately happened to me multiple times on 1 table (different parties) and to a few coworkers, so it's not isolated and I don't have to sweat a write up.

Tonight two customers made two separate payments. Both initially cleared, but one man's payment didn't show on the Ziosk. He showed me his online bank statement, where the payment came out, but I also noticed the reverse payment from Chilis (amt he paid) back on his card.

Is anyone else dealing with something similar. This manager threatened to write me up the first time, but today he saw the issue firsthand. He is stressed because the comps look back on him, and technically he should be reprimanding me for a walk-out.

I'm worried about my job, Chilis is losing money on a glitchy POS. What can be done here?

So a large branch fell from an oak in my yard. It cooked the lines on my street, causing fires, and electrified the ground awhile.

I have a 75gal planted Discus community tank running 2x 300w Fluval heaters on Inkbird controller. My FX6 and heaters/Inkbird are running on my generator right now. My 9gal Fluval Flex (pea puffers) and 5gal critter tank (blackworms, snails, neocaridina) is being aerated by a Hygger portable pump (HG-199 4W) and I have my other portable pump in my blackworm and daphnia culture.

I have an outdoor pond, and I am curious how I should handle it. It is a planted 30gal pond with external canister. It's home to 20 or so Platinum Medaka. I want to run a plug to it, but power company is in my yard and I don't want to be under my trees right now.

What I need is advice for keeping my fish and cultures alive, and other options out there for if my generator or rechargable pumps die/fail. Should I remove portable pump from my critter tank, so the Discus have a back up portable charger when I need to cool/refuel the generator? How do I prioritize this?

If I lose heat for discus, will they be ok? When I got home two were on their sides looking stressed, put perked up once I got their filter up and running on the generator. Any advice is welcome!

Tonight (July 4th) a fellow server sat at one of 8 booths/tables I had in the lounge, with three friends. We were absolutely slammed, I did $2.2k in 6hrs.

They all had 3+ drinks, and ran the hell out of me. One girl tells me it's her friend's birthday in a tone that suggested it was absolutely not. Then asked for a military discount on drinks with the same "finger quotes" tone (and has the nerve to laugh about it). I interrupt other busy people, that are just trying to make a living, to entertain her tipsy friend with a half-melted cup of icecream, and birthday song from sweaty miserable people (80f in the packed lounge during a drought and heatwave)

Splitting their check was a nightmare, they conveniently forgot about the drinks they consumed when they saw them on their bill, and almost acted indignant when I had to inform them I can't apply a 'military' discount to drinks. So maybe $120 over three checks, and the only tip was her friend, a gracious $2.10 on the drinks she 'forgot' on her initial check. In her defense, she tipped %20 on $12. More than my fellow server who stiffed me on $54. I gave them great service, helped with drink recommendations, and had no issues.

I'm not even tripping over $10, it's the DISRESPECT of running me with all of that nonsense. My question is, how should I handle this? I spoke to my GM and he said he'd talk to her, but seemed really apathetic about the whole situation. Previously, I have always liked this server, she's at least always pleasant and easy to work with. The person I am, I am just going to ask her if anything was wrong with my service, and ask why they stiffed me, but I'm curious how you feel, and how your Chilis has responded to servers not tipping when they dine in/drink off shift.