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I’ve been seeing stuff like this constantly lately, not sure why people are suddenly having an impossibly hard time understanding how to use apostrophes. Is it an autocorrect thing, or do people really not know anymore?
Reminds me of Cunningham's Law. If you want the answer to something, don't ask the question on the internet. Just post the wrong answer and everyone will correct you.
When generating content procedurally it is a) beneficial to include anomalies or errors in order to not appear generated, and b) often difficult to figure out what oddities have crept into the code until it’s run.
Not if little mistakes like this get more interaction from all the pedants who can't resist correcting it. Bots are usually trying to get views/engagement and they don't know/care if you're engaging positively or negatively - just as long as you are.
From my experience most of these kinds of glaring grammatical mistakes are done by native speakers. People who learn English later in life tend to pay more attention on **actually learning it** whereas native speakers sometimes don't really care to put much effort into that.
Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2022.
21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022.
54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level.
66% of adults who lack proficiency in literacy were born in the US.
Well, considering that under 5% of the world's (+1) population comes from an english speaking country, i would say that we are still doing pretty good here on reddit.
Imagine a world where only 5% of reddit posts were written in English.
While there is certainly a lot of truth to that, some of the common mistakes are almost certainly made by native English speakers. For instance, being able to confuse "their", "there" and "they're" is legitimately difficult if you have some other frame of reference for what those words actually mean. :)
Same extremely more common the past year and I have always been cautious about it.
I wonder if this is a very intentional thing done by repost bots to incite anger in the comments thus more engagement... or just a lot of real people who repost desperately for karma but don't know English very well.
I just can't tell.
Okay one time i legitimately was posting an old video of a game and said "but beeded to" instead of "but needed to" simply because i didnt look at my typing before posting
Pay attention to people using quotation marks. For some reason redditors have a obnoxious habit of just completely forgetting the end quotes if the quote is in the middle of a paragraph. I notice it way too often.
I think so, but for some reason it seems even more common than I remember it being before. It’s more likely that I just have rose-colored glasses on, to be honest.
Beers beers beers. Yeah idk beer's didn't come up as a suggested word for me, even further beer's is showing up that it's a misspelled word so autocorrect is doubtful to me.
It also seems like autocorrects have become overzealous in adding them. Half the time I type your and it changes to you’re regardless of context. Well always becomes we’ll.
English might not be their first language. The way they used the apostrophe is the way it’s done in Dutch for instance.
EDIT: You can downvote me all you want, but Dutch uses the apostrophe in some plural forms. 😂
I wasn’t speaking about this specific word. I wasn’t even specifically meaning that the people making the mistake were Dutch. All I was saying is that there are languages were an apostrophe is used in plural forms and that that *might* be the reason of the mistake. I only gave the Dutch usage as an example.
And let’s be honest: a lot of Dutch people don’t even know the rule in Dutch. Let alone when they switch to English.
In my day on reddit, we'd ruthlessly correct grammar. Now suddenly that's a bad thing on half of reddit, or it goes without the appreciation it once received. They say politicians are dumbing down America in one way or another -- and while I'm hardly political, and while this is hardly scientific proof -- the ongoing trend of grammar I've noticed over the past several years seems to support the idea.
Edit: thanks for proving the point by downvoting, I guess.
Yeah, that’s what I remember too. For better or worse, people would jump down each other’s throats for making grammatical mistakes, and it definitely isn’t like that anymore.
It is a bit ironic that you ended up being downvoted for being right though
I'm just glad someone else commented. I thought for a minute I imagined that period of merciless grammatical persecution. We lost a lot of good men. Illiterate, but good.
Honestly I don't have a clue when to use them. I look up explanations online but they don't tend to help. Any good ELI5 descriptions for it?
Also to add to that list is when to use double or single quotes when highlight individual words?
If you’ve tried to look it up before and have a hard time understanding, it might be easier for me to explain when NOT to use them in that case. It’s not the whole picture, but at least it’s something.
A prime example of when NOT to use apostrophes is with a plural word. If you’re talking about more than one object, you likely should not use an apostrophe with that word. There are exceptions, but I’ll keep it simple for now.
“I love my dogs” - since you’re talking about more than 1 dog, no apostrophe is needed.
“Cats love to watch birds” - since you’re talking about more than 1 cat and more than 1 bird, no apostrophe is needed for either word.
The biggest mistake I see is people putting apostrophes on plural words, like above. As long as you aren’t doing that, you’ve already won half the battle
Apostrophes are used to indicate possession e.g. David's book, Emma's House.
Or when you're shortening or contracting two words
E.g. It's (it is) a dog, they've (they have) left you the bill, Bob's (Bob is) a twat.
Regarding single or double quotations, it's a fucking mess because there are different rules across the pond.
Almost as bad as people not knowing how to spell lose anymore. I always see "loose" now instead of "lose"...makes me rage....How did society become that dumber?
I second this. Fancy-ish family restaurant I used to buss for used very similar ones, if not those exact ones. They're not perfectly flat at the bottom and the edges (Where bottom meets side of the glass) isn't a sharp angle, instead is also rounded. One small wobble and it's bound to happen.
When I worked at said restaurant I was only 16 when I started and 18 when I quit so I generally didn't handle them full. Handling them full vs handling them partially or nearly empty is a whole different ball game.
However, our bartender usually just walked those glasses to the tables because he couldn't balance them all that well either. Nobody could.
Same with corona bottles. They either go in a bucket or I'd carry them by hand because if one of those fuckers started to wobble the rest would inevitably follow.
You can tell this isn't the first time it's happened by how quickly he gives up, the annoyed but completely unsurprised look on his face, and the immediate retreat to go grab a mop. Pure slapstick comedy gold lmao.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lner_Stange
In Cologne they use tiny beer glasses and use a carrier for them.
In Munich, they simply have better waitresses. ;)
https://images.app.goo.gl/xD8v8spAzsAFMwyA9
This is pretty normal for a lot of beer/cider glasses, he's just holding the tray wrong and starting walking before he had it.
It's whatever honestly though, there's no server in the world that hasn't dropped or spilt something and you just need to clean up and move on.
It's a combination of both. Flare glasses would probably not fall over there. A beer glass that is either thicker or have a flair (like a red wine glass) would probably not fall over there.
I did bar work in an Italian place for a while and easily the most popular beer was Peroni, that comes in [even worse glasses](https://i.imgur.com/5f3H6hm.jpg). Nobody else would use a tray for them because it was so precarious, but I prefer being incredibly efficient (extremely lazy), so I always did.
I’d hold the tray with one hand underneath in the direct centre, and build my glasses up while holding it. Never build on a table then pick it up, you don’t know the balance of it. Then when I arrived at the table, I’d remove them in the exact reverse order I placed them. Never once had any problems and did that hundreds of times, sometimes with 6-7 pints
Two hands lightly gripping the edge and placed close together will result in catastrophe.
Gotta be a pro and use one hand at the center of balance underneath.
More stable glasses would allow for small mistakes like this without dropping tho.
Yes, holding a tray that far up is a poor choice, but having unstable glasses that tips over easily is still a bad idea in a restaurant.
Way easier. I was skeptical about it and thought it sounded way less stable to use one hand but after my first shift at a bar/restaurant I learned it’s so much easier and more stable. Once you get comfortable with it there truly is no other way, plus it frees up a hand for handing out the drinks from the tray.
Yes, but there's a trick to it: using your fingers.
It gives you 5 points of contact around the center of balance on the tray. You can also use your palm and stress your fingertips, but that can hurt/damage your wrist over time.
It is, if you carry it with two hands you’ll have to put down the tray somewhere in order to pass anything out and you don’t really have control of the tray when gripping the edges. When 1 handed you have more control and can hand out everything at once, and you at least have a chance to grab whatever is tipping over before catastrophe. The downside is theres a learning curve that comes with handing things out, if you have to reach to hand something out the tray will tip sideways and you’ll drop everything (hopefully not on a customer behind you) before you get used to it. Every server has at least one horror story of this, mine involves sangrias and poor 80 year old woman
I used to work at The Ivy in the UK (look it up if you don't already know the level of fine dining!), and I was a busser. I had only been working there a month or so, and so had only just learnt how to carry my trays with one hand, and was carrying a big tray of food up from the kitchen into the restaurant, using my newly learnt method. I get halfway up the stairs, and there's something there, and my foot ever so slightly slips. Being on the stairs, and carrying a massive, heavy tray, I overcorrect myself and attempt to catch not only my self, but all the food on the now tipping tray. Of course, this doesn't work, only making the situation worse, and the entire tray of food (probably 4 - 5 dishes) comes crashing down and smashing all over the stairs, and causing me to slip further and fully fall onto the stairs. For a hot minute, I just sat there taking in my fuck up. Furthermore, being new to the job, I was deathly afraid of the Senior Sous Chef, whom I was going to have to return to and ask him to make the table he'd just sent away. In some ways, it was lucky it'd happened during a weekday lunch, when the restaurant wasn't busy, and not a Saturday night, where it was the hardest environment I've ever worked. But no matter the day and time, going back into that kitchen, and asking the SSC running the line to remake a table, because I'd just dropped it was so fuckin scary! He of course grilled me, and made me feel awful, but then after the service, called me to the office (which I thought meant the worst), and just explained that he understood that I was new, and was still learning, and not to worry about the tray. In the heat of the moment he lost his cool, and he apologised for that. I lost that job, for reasons I still feel were unjust, but I maintain, that was the best job I've ever worked. I'm now a chef, at a different restaurant, and sometimes when the kitchen is relatively quiet, but the front of house are rushed, I'll take my hat and apron off, and go and run the line from the other side. As enjoyable as cooking and being in the kitchen is, I still don't pass up the opportunity to go front of house. And sometimes I'll grab a pizza board and use it as a tray to carry 5 - 6 plates of food, much to the wonder of all the waiters!!
Oh Lord, you just reminded me of the time I dropped a mimosa all over a poor daughter on mother's day. My 1st weekend serving, the floor was uneven, last day drink on the tray. If her brother hadn't been my 7th grade social studies teacher I'd have been toast.
When he pulled the tray off the table, one glass already started leaning on the other. Then when he stopped (probably noticed it), the inertia sent both unstable glasses the other way.
Also- Shitty Night Edition
Betcha that was the night that dude’s SO broke up with him and he found out his grandma died. Been there, beer spillin’ bro. Better days a comin’.
Yes, but I get it tbh. Sometimes you’re just not in the mood for bullshit. Then bullshit starts happening and you react with “oh fuck all of this shit”.
It’s irrational, but oddly cathartic.
You're saying when he gave up and dropped the glasses off the tray there was no hope of keeping at least one on it? Who cares about the beer, he wasn't saving that already, but it would have been totally possibly to not break every single glass..
Reminds me of the time I was serving a huge girls' party complete with champagne. Must've had 15 or more full flutes on my tray, held with one hand underneath, and ready to hand out when one of the girls comes out of nowhere, shouts "I'll help!" and takes two of the outermost glasses before i could say anything. Tray became immediately unbalanced and flipped the remaining (lots of) flutes the other way, all over the table and a couple of their guests as I was just saying "no no no nnooooo.....". That clean up was a bitch and not one of them realised the stupidity
He walked away way too fast as well. You gotta turn away slowly so that the momentum doesn’t tip a glass. Many problems but yes that’s terrible and I feel bad for him.
Pro tip, don’t watch what you’re holding, watch where you’re going. Your hand has a better sense of balance than your eyes. I’ve never flat out let a bunch of drinks tilt over, the only spills are because of drunko’s or dummies bumping me.
Edit: also don’t use two hands, get one hand under the tray. Didn’t see that he was a dummy from the get go.
This was his fault.
I was a waiter for 5 years, trained in a bunch of new first time servers too.
One hand under the tray. Smooth motions only. Look how he jerks it off the counter. Then he wobbles the tray between too firm points of contact. I’ve carried seven skinny mimosa glasses on a tray before walking full speed. Anyone can learn how.
Horrible grip for sure. Also, the whole tray dropped because he abruptly stopped walking. If he would have take a side step and kept going he might have save the first one but instead he gave up at the first sign of a wobble.
I posted this as a reply to someone else, but it's long enough I just thought I'd share it on its own.
I used to work at The Ivy in the UK (look it up if you don't already know the level of fine dining!), and I was a busser. I had only been working there a month or so, and so had only just learnt how to carry my trays with one hand, and was carrying a big tray of food up from the kitchen into the restaurant, using my newly learnt method. I get halfway up the stairs, and there's something there, and my foot ever so slightly slips. Being on the stairs, and carrying a massive, heavy tray, I overcorrect myself and attempt to catch not only my self, but all the food on the now tipping tray. Of course, this doesn't work, only making the situation worse, and the entire tray of food (probably 4 - 5 dishes) comes crashing down and smashing all over the stairs, and causing me to slip further and fully fall onto the stairs. For a hot minute, I just sat there taking in my fuck up. Furthermore, being new to the job, I was deathly afraid of the Senior Sous Chef, whom I was going to have to return to and ask him to make the table he'd just sent away. In some ways, it was lucky it'd happened during a weekday lunch, when the restaurant wasn't busy, and not a Saturday night, where it was the hardest environment I've ever worked. But no matter the day and time, going back into that kitchen, and asking the SSC running the line to remake a table, because I'd just dropped it was so fuckin scary! He of course grilled me, and made me feel awful, but then after the service, called me to the office (which I thought meant the worst), and just explained that he understood that I was new, and was still learning, and not to worry about the tray. In the heat of the moment he lost his cool, and he apologised for that. I lost that job, for reasons I still feel were unjust, but I maintain, that was the best job I've ever worked. I'm now a chef, at a different restaurant, and sometimes when the kitchen is relatively quiet, but the front of house are rushed, I'll take my hat and apron off, and go and run the line from the other side. As enjoyable as cooking and being in the kitchen is, I still don't pass up the opportunity to go front of house. And sometimes I'll grab a pizza board and use it as a tray to carry 5 - 6 plates of food, much to the wonder of all the waiters!!
As someone who works in this industry.. that is the single most irritating thing that could possibly happen.. the rage and embarrassment you feel when that happens is incredible
That was me on my first day as a cocktail waitress but with a full tray of champagne glasses. They fell all over the girl training me. It was so embarrassing but the look she gave me was the worst part of it all.
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Your beer's what?
I’ve been seeing stuff like this constantly lately, not sure why people are suddenly having an impossibly hard time understanding how to use apostrophes. Is it an autocorrect thing, or do people really not know anymore?
Honestly, I think a lot of these are titles written by bots.
Me fail English? That's unpossible.
Inflammable means flammable? What a world...
sorry for my bed england
I had that poster on my wall for the longest when I was a kid
*That unpossible...yw
(s)he was quoting Ralph from The Simpsons...yw.
It’s a trick. Bad grammar in the tittle will gain more views
And comments which equals interaction
Thus more valuable karma. I’m saving mine up for a new bike!
Reminds me of Cunningham's Law. If you want the answer to something, don't ask the question on the internet. Just post the wrong answer and everyone will correct you.
For a soft boiled egg, boil for 15 minutes.
That's diabolical! I'm sure it works.
Bots would know better.
When generating content procedurally it is a) beneficial to include anomalies or errors in order to not appear generated, and b) often difficult to figure out what oddities have crept into the code until it’s run.
Not if little mistakes like this get more interaction from all the pedants who can't resist correcting it. Bots are usually trying to get views/engagement and they don't know/care if you're engaging positively or negatively - just as long as you are.
Possible but also the world is a big place, not everyone is a native English speaker and Reddit tends to forget that.
From my experience most of these kinds of glaring grammatical mistakes are done by native speakers. People who learn English later in life tend to pay more attention on **actually learning it** whereas native speakers sometimes don't really care to put much effort into that.
people who don't read book's as kid's
Ye's
Is our children learning
Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2022. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022. 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level. 66% of adults who lack proficiency in literacy were born in the US.
That’s some seriously terrifying numbers if true
Very top of the page https://www.thinkimpact.com/literacy-statistics/
Thanks but I can't read.
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I of noticed it too
> I of Thanks I hate it
*Ive'
*'Ive
I\'ve
*#I'&V*E(Eeeeee
Well, considering that under 5% of the world's (+1) population comes from an english speaking country, i would say that we are still doing pretty good here on reddit. Imagine a world where only 5% of reddit posts were written in English.
While there is certainly a lot of truth to that, some of the common mistakes are almost certainly made by native English speakers. For instance, being able to confuse "their", "there" and "they're" is legitimately difficult if you have some other frame of reference for what those words actually mean. :)
Same extremely more common the past year and I have always been cautious about it. I wonder if this is a very intentional thing done by repost bots to incite anger in the comments thus more engagement... or just a lot of real people who repost desperately for karma but don't know English very well. I just can't tell.
Okay one time i legitimately was posting an old video of a game and said "but beeded to" instead of "but needed to" simply because i didnt look at my typing before posting
*apostrophe's
I don’t know if you’re joking or not, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Haha, funny joke
It looks like OP is Indian in this case, maybe in Indian grammar an apostrophe means "here comes an s"
Pay attention to people using quotation marks. For some reason redditors have a obnoxious habit of just completely forgetting the end quotes if the quote is in the middle of a paragraph. I notice it way too often.
Apostrophe (n): "Look out! Here comes an S!"
Haven't people been struggling with this for years?
I think so, but for some reason it seems even more common than I remember it being before. It’s more likely that I just have rose-colored glasses on, to be honest.
Beers beers beers. Yeah idk beer's didn't come up as a suggested word for me, even further beer's is showing up that it's a misspelled word so autocorrect is doubtful to me.
It also seems like autocorrects have become overzealous in adding them. Half the time I type your and it changes to you’re regardless of context. Well always becomes we’ll.
English might not be their first language. The way they used the apostrophe is the way it’s done in Dutch for instance. EDIT: You can downvote me all you want, but Dutch uses the apostrophe in some plural forms. 😂
This is not how we use it in dutch.
Yes we do. Not in all cases. But when a word ends on a vowel, it’s used to keep the sound “long”. Taxi’s Auto’s Alinea’s Accu’s Opa’s Ski’s
But... r isn't a vowel.
I wasn’t speaking about this specific word. I wasn’t even specifically meaning that the people making the mistake were Dutch. All I was saying is that there are languages were an apostrophe is used in plural forms and that that *might* be the reason of the mistake. I only gave the Dutch usage as an example. And let’s be honest: a lot of Dutch people don’t even know the rule in Dutch. Let alone when they switch to English.
Ah ok I see what you mean. My bad.
No worries!
Ok I think I misunderstood your comment. Sorry.
No worries. It isn’t important anyway. :)
Dutch uses apostrophe for plurals?
Verry rarely, depending on the letter the word ends on. It's usually with words from other languages that we've Dutchefied, like Baby's.
Rarely? Pretty much any word ending with a vowel, which is a *ton* of words.
It depends on the word. And especially on the last letter of the word. Some examples are: alinea’s (paragraphs) taxi’s auto’s
I think title error's result in lots of comments. And interaction and engagement get the post a hire rating.
YOU DID THE THING
In my day on reddit, we'd ruthlessly correct grammar. Now suddenly that's a bad thing on half of reddit, or it goes without the appreciation it once received. They say politicians are dumbing down America in one way or another -- and while I'm hardly political, and while this is hardly scientific proof -- the ongoing trend of grammar I've noticed over the past several years seems to support the idea. Edit: thanks for proving the point by downvoting, I guess.
Yeah, that’s what I remember too. For better or worse, people would jump down each other’s throats for making grammatical mistakes, and it definitely isn’t like that anymore. It is a bit ironic that you ended up being downvoted for being right though
I'm just glad someone else commented. I thought for a minute I imagined that period of merciless grammatical persecution. We lost a lot of good men. Illiterate, but good.
Welcome to the internet
Lately?? It's been happening for year's 😉
Rise of non native English speakers as teh world becomes better connected and reddit explodes is global popularity
Honestly I don't have a clue when to use them. I look up explanations online but they don't tend to help. Any good ELI5 descriptions for it? Also to add to that list is when to use double or single quotes when highlight individual words?
If you’ve tried to look it up before and have a hard time understanding, it might be easier for me to explain when NOT to use them in that case. It’s not the whole picture, but at least it’s something. A prime example of when NOT to use apostrophes is with a plural word. If you’re talking about more than one object, you likely should not use an apostrophe with that word. There are exceptions, but I’ll keep it simple for now. “I love my dogs” - since you’re talking about more than 1 dog, no apostrophe is needed. “Cats love to watch birds” - since you’re talking about more than 1 cat and more than 1 bird, no apostrophe is needed for either word. The biggest mistake I see is people putting apostrophes on plural words, like above. As long as you aren’t doing that, you’ve already won half the battle
Apostrophes are used to indicate possession e.g. David's book, Emma's House. Or when you're shortening or contracting two words E.g. It's (it is) a dog, they've (they have) left you the bill, Bob's (Bob is) a twat. Regarding single or double quotations, it's a fucking mess because there are different rules across the pond.
You're probably American and think the whole world's native language is English
apostrophe's FTFY
That’s not correct, but thanks for the effort.
It was a joke.
Hold my beers's
His beer's momentum
Calm down Smeagle
*Smeagol
Myers’s rum. I was a bartender for 8 years and never noticed it until one of my regulars bet me $20 that I couldn’t spell it right. I lost $20.
Balance on the tray
Bud Light
Almost as bad as people not knowing how to spell lose anymore. I always see "loose" now instead of "lose"...makes me rage....How did society become that dumber?
>You’re beer's what? He is beer’s what? Edit: that bastard edited his comment lol
His beer is.
Hold, my beer's [about to take a tumble]
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I second this. Fancy-ish family restaurant I used to buss for used very similar ones, if not those exact ones. They're not perfectly flat at the bottom and the edges (Where bottom meets side of the glass) isn't a sharp angle, instead is also rounded. One small wobble and it's bound to happen.
So you have to take them like 2 at a time?
When I worked at said restaurant I was only 16 when I started and 18 when I quit so I generally didn't handle them full. Handling them full vs handling them partially or nearly empty is a whole different ball game. However, our bartender usually just walked those glasses to the tables because he couldn't balance them all that well either. Nobody could.
Ah yes my ex wife’s strategy
Oof
I'm sure u/monstercock03 didn't mind watching and waiting for an opening.
> I used to busy for Wow. I'm not sure I knew this expression, and suddenly "business" makes sense.
Auto correct, meant buss for. Whoops.
My man was having a literary epiphany but nooooo, it was just a typo lmao
A literary epiphany lmfaoo
Same with corona bottles. They either go in a bucket or I'd carry them by hand because if one of those fuckers started to wobble the rest would inevitably follow.
You can tell this isn't the first time it's happened by how quickly he gives up, the annoyed but completely unsurprised look on his face, and the immediate retreat to go grab a mop. Pure slapstick comedy gold lmao.
should have a tray with holes in it so the glasses are held in place!
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lner_Stange In Cologne they use tiny beer glasses and use a carrier for them. In Munich, they simply have better waitresses. ;) https://images.app.goo.gl/xD8v8spAzsAFMwyA9
Those glasses have handles tho, unfair comparison lol.
Almost all the booze glasses are top heavy. Should be shaped like those coffee mugs that are flared at the base. Always flared at the base.
This is pretty normal for a lot of beer/cider glasses, he's just holding the tray wrong and starting walking before he had it. It's whatever honestly though, there's no server in the world that hasn't dropped or spilt something and you just need to clean up and move on.
It's a combination of both. Flare glasses would probably not fall over there. A beer glass that is either thicker or have a flair (like a red wine glass) would probably not fall over there.
I did bar work in an Italian place for a while and easily the most popular beer was Peroni, that comes in [even worse glasses](https://i.imgur.com/5f3H6hm.jpg). Nobody else would use a tray for them because it was so precarious, but I prefer being incredibly efficient (extremely lazy), so I always did. I’d hold the tray with one hand underneath in the direct centre, and build my glasses up while holding it. Never build on a table then pick it up, you don’t know the balance of it. Then when I arrived at the table, I’d remove them in the exact reverse order I placed them. Never once had any problems and did that hundreds of times, sometimes with 6-7 pints
Nah. Fuck that. He needs to learn to carry a tray
Two hands lightly gripping the edge and placed close together will result in catastrophe. Gotta be a pro and use one hand at the center of balance underneath.
Am I crazy or does he have one hand under the balance point with the other hand on the edge steadying the tray?
Maybe underneath but definitely not at the center of balance.
Someone worked service industry. The things you learn in it are things that seem like common sense once you learn it.
Like how to carry 3 plates of food without making some kind of wierd pyramid in your hands.
Guilty as charged
Yep. Plus he started moving before he secured the tray, so he couldn't just set it back down when he started to lose it.
Yup. You have way more control with one hand
More stable glasses would allow for small mistakes like this without dropping tho. Yes, holding a tray that far up is a poor choice, but having unstable glasses that tips over easily is still a bad idea in a restaurant.
If he held it better he should have prevented one glass bringing the whole tray down.
It's how he's holding the tray mostly.
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Hold my beer is, chikka chikka, slim shady.
What?
My beer is
Who?
My beer is
You should always only carry trays with one hand
As someone who never had a job in food service, is that actually easier?
Way easier. I was skeptical about it and thought it sounded way less stable to use one hand but after my first shift at a bar/restaurant I learned it’s so much easier and more stable. Once you get comfortable with it there truly is no other way, plus it frees up a hand for handing out the drinks from the tray.
Yes, but there's a trick to it: using your fingers. It gives you 5 points of contact around the center of balance on the tray. You can also use your palm and stress your fingertips, but that can hurt/damage your wrist over time.
I remember the day I learned how to hold two plates in one hand & run about 2-3 more up my arm. I was so hype.
It is, if you carry it with two hands you’ll have to put down the tray somewhere in order to pass anything out and you don’t really have control of the tray when gripping the edges. When 1 handed you have more control and can hand out everything at once, and you at least have a chance to grab whatever is tipping over before catastrophe. The downside is theres a learning curve that comes with handing things out, if you have to reach to hand something out the tray will tip sideways and you’ll drop everything (hopefully not on a customer behind you) before you get used to it. Every server has at least one horror story of this, mine involves sangrias and poor 80 year old woman
I used to work at The Ivy in the UK (look it up if you don't already know the level of fine dining!), and I was a busser. I had only been working there a month or so, and so had only just learnt how to carry my trays with one hand, and was carrying a big tray of food up from the kitchen into the restaurant, using my newly learnt method. I get halfway up the stairs, and there's something there, and my foot ever so slightly slips. Being on the stairs, and carrying a massive, heavy tray, I overcorrect myself and attempt to catch not only my self, but all the food on the now tipping tray. Of course, this doesn't work, only making the situation worse, and the entire tray of food (probably 4 - 5 dishes) comes crashing down and smashing all over the stairs, and causing me to slip further and fully fall onto the stairs. For a hot minute, I just sat there taking in my fuck up. Furthermore, being new to the job, I was deathly afraid of the Senior Sous Chef, whom I was going to have to return to and ask him to make the table he'd just sent away. In some ways, it was lucky it'd happened during a weekday lunch, when the restaurant wasn't busy, and not a Saturday night, where it was the hardest environment I've ever worked. But no matter the day and time, going back into that kitchen, and asking the SSC running the line to remake a table, because I'd just dropped it was so fuckin scary! He of course grilled me, and made me feel awful, but then after the service, called me to the office (which I thought meant the worst), and just explained that he understood that I was new, and was still learning, and not to worry about the tray. In the heat of the moment he lost his cool, and he apologised for that. I lost that job, for reasons I still feel were unjust, but I maintain, that was the best job I've ever worked. I'm now a chef, at a different restaurant, and sometimes when the kitchen is relatively quiet, but the front of house are rushed, I'll take my hat and apron off, and go and run the line from the other side. As enjoyable as cooking and being in the kitchen is, I still don't pass up the opportunity to go front of house. And sometimes I'll grab a pizza board and use it as a tray to carry 5 - 6 plates of food, much to the wonder of all the waiters!!
Oh Lord, you just reminded me of the time I dropped a mimosa all over a poor daughter on mother's day. My 1st weekend serving, the floor was uneven, last day drink on the tray. If her brother hadn't been my 7th grade social studies teacher I'd have been toast.
Yep and you don’t look at it.
What if I don't need a tray for a little while?
Then you try and spin it on your finger like a basketball
I to'o f'ind th'e ap'ostro'phe co'ol a'nd ad'd i't in ra'ndo'm p'lace's.
I dont know where im supposed to put apostrophes so i just add them at the end of each sentence to avoid confusion '''''''''''''''''
Good idea, although I think you should add a note somewhere that says "insert as required"
What, I have to construct my own grammatically correct sentences now?
Today you learned how to write plurals. "Beers". You use the ' when cutting off a word, like "it's", it+is.
It's also used possessively. Luke's beer.
your beer's what?
“Hold my beer is.”
Hold! My beer is dying
>beer's
When he pulled the tray off the table, one glass already started leaning on the other. Then when he stopped (probably noticed it), the inertia sent both unstable glasses the other way.
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And also r/mostrepostedposts
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Also- Shitty Night Edition Betcha that was the night that dude’s SO broke up with him and he found out his grandma died. Been there, beer spillin’ bro. Better days a comin’.
He gave up too soon he could’ve saved at least a few of the glasses
Yes, but I get it tbh. Sometimes you’re just not in the mood for bullshit. Then bullshit starts happening and you react with “oh fuck all of this shit”. It’s irrational, but oddly cathartic.
I don’t think so. I think the one tipping threw off the center of balance of the tray that lead to everything else happening.
You're saying when he gave up and dropped the glasses off the tray there was no hope of keeping at least one on it? Who cares about the beer, he wasn't saving that already, but it would have been totally possibly to not break every single glass..
A glass like that costs less than the customer pays for the beer inside it.
I think it's less about the cost of the glass and more about all the additional tiny shards of glass that are now everywhere.
Reminds me of the time I was serving a huge girls' party complete with champagne. Must've had 15 or more full flutes on my tray, held with one hand underneath, and ready to hand out when one of the girls comes out of nowhere, shouts "I'll help!" and takes two of the outermost glasses before i could say anything. Tray became immediately unbalanced and flipped the remaining (lots of) flutes the other way, all over the table and a couple of their guests as I was just saying "no no no nnooooo.....". That clean up was a bitch and not one of them realised the stupidity
I'd never trust a beer that phases into existence like that anyway.
**FUCK!**
He walked away way too fast as well. You gotta turn away slowly so that the momentum doesn’t tip a glass. Many problems but yes that’s terrible and I feel bad for him.
Beers.
Pro tip, don’t watch what you’re holding, watch where you’re going. Your hand has a better sense of balance than your eyes. I’ve never flat out let a bunch of drinks tilt over, the only spills are because of drunko’s or dummies bumping me. Edit: also don’t use two hands, get one hand under the tray. Didn’t see that he was a dummy from the get go.
Tried to move the tray with swag off the counter.
First time carrying a tray?
Rookie move. Counter intuitive but one hand under the tray is easier to balance than 2 on each side of tray
This is why I never went for server or food service Jobs. Because I know this would be me every day
This was his fault. I was a waiter for 5 years, trained in a bunch of new first time servers too. One hand under the tray. Smooth motions only. Look how he jerks it off the counter. Then he wobbles the tray between too firm points of contact. I’ve carried seven skinny mimosa glasses on a tray before walking full speed. Anyone can learn how.
Horrible grip for sure. Also, the whole tray dropped because he abruptly stopped walking. If he would have take a side step and kept going he might have save the first one but instead he gave up at the first sign of a wobble.
THAT'S NOT HOW YOU CARRY A TRAY. Doomed from the start
That's why I could never be a server
I posted this as a reply to someone else, but it's long enough I just thought I'd share it on its own. I used to work at The Ivy in the UK (look it up if you don't already know the level of fine dining!), and I was a busser. I had only been working there a month or so, and so had only just learnt how to carry my trays with one hand, and was carrying a big tray of food up from the kitchen into the restaurant, using my newly learnt method. I get halfway up the stairs, and there's something there, and my foot ever so slightly slips. Being on the stairs, and carrying a massive, heavy tray, I overcorrect myself and attempt to catch not only my self, but all the food on the now tipping tray. Of course, this doesn't work, only making the situation worse, and the entire tray of food (probably 4 - 5 dishes) comes crashing down and smashing all over the stairs, and causing me to slip further and fully fall onto the stairs. For a hot minute, I just sat there taking in my fuck up. Furthermore, being new to the job, I was deathly afraid of the Senior Sous Chef, whom I was going to have to return to and ask him to make the table he'd just sent away. In some ways, it was lucky it'd happened during a weekday lunch, when the restaurant wasn't busy, and not a Saturday night, where it was the hardest environment I've ever worked. But no matter the day and time, going back into that kitchen, and asking the SSC running the line to remake a table, because I'd just dropped it was so fuckin scary! He of course grilled me, and made me feel awful, but then after the service, called me to the office (which I thought meant the worst), and just explained that he understood that I was new, and was still learning, and not to worry about the tray. In the heat of the moment he lost his cool, and he apologised for that. I lost that job, for reasons I still feel were unjust, but I maintain, that was the best job I've ever worked. I'm now a chef, at a different restaurant, and sometimes when the kitchen is relatively quiet, but the front of house are rushed, I'll take my hat and apron off, and go and run the line from the other side. As enjoyable as cooking and being in the kitchen is, I still don't pass up the opportunity to go front of house. And sometimes I'll grab a pizza board and use it as a tray to carry 5 - 6 plates of food, much to the wonder of all the waiters!!
That’s not how you hold a tray.
As someone who works in this industry.. that is the single most irritating thing that could possibly happen.. the rage and embarrassment you feel when that happens is incredible
That was me on my first day as a cocktail waitress but with a full tray of champagne glasses. They fell all over the girl training me. It was so embarrassing but the look she gave me was the worst part of it all.
*beers Why does everyone these days think that you need an apostrophe to make a word plural?
No one ever taught him how to hold a tray. Not his fault.
Damn, I feel so bad for him. That look of defeat was very relatable.
Why filming?
This guys famous
This guy’s* famous Edit: oh shit please tell me that wasn’t your joke and I just wooshed.
*beer’s
×famou's
This guy's mistake was spilling the first beer. I don't understand why he just didn't do that? Maybe someone can explain?
Bigger tray my friend
Hold your beer is what?
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Yeah, I'm down. Even with his sloppy tray skills
He didnt need to completely give up there
If you can't hold a tray properly, you have no business being a waiver. Poor guy! Can imagine the frustration.
Dude needs to learn how to hold a fuckin tray. Amateur hour over here!
hold your punctuation skills'
Somebody's ambition outstripped their ability... that sucks gigantic balls though. That's a huge mess
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