Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Twitter Thread: Olive Garden Manager's Wild Work Stories


If you ever find yourself on a date with someone who has worked as a manager at an Olive Garden you're probably, naturally going to proceed to drill them with all kinds of questions about their craziest days on the job. There's just something about those dang limitless breadsticks that can end up bringing out people's demons like none other. All in all, this story has a little bit of something for everyone. It's got the drama, the romance, and the action. 

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Text - Joe Wadlington + Follow @JoeWadlington I went on a date last night and the guy meekly shared that he used to be THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE TIMES SQUARE OLIVE GARDEN. RETWEETS LIKES 1,001 4,723 9:08 AM - 19 Apr 2017 101 t7 1.0K 4.7K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Replying to @JoeWadlington Clearly, he'd seen some shit. So the next hour and a half was me asking questions. I tried to do y'all right. 17 71 806

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Text - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q Did y'all ever run out of breadsticks? If so what happened? A Yes. Twice. Worst shifts of my life. People were angry, kept telling us "no" t7 109 1.1K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 "They kept saying, 'OLIVE GARDEN DOESNT DO THAT, Oour Olive Garden, in Ohio, doesn't do that." t7 86 935 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington - Apr 19 Q: Was everyone from Ohio? A: Brazil, Puerto Rico, & Ohio. The foreigners I understood. They'd grown up watching

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Text - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q: National pricing or city pricing? A: City pricing. It made no sense why the Americans were there. They were paying 3x for the same food. 17 44 745 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 A: How big is it? Q: Three floors. It may be the biggest Olive Garden in the world. The wait was always 2 hours. Our last seating was at 2AM 6 10 17 50 797

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Text - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q Did anyone order the unlimited soup/salad/breadsticks and stay for 8 hours? A Why would someone do that? Q You said they were Americans. t3 175 1.1K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 A: Not on my shifts. But if someone wanted to, Olive Garden would not let us remove them. They are "family" and would be allowed to eat. 44 490 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q: That's really good to know. A: People can't eat that much bread. (I starte

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Text - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q: What's the weirdest thing that ever happened? A: Oh, there was a knife fight. Q: Tell me everything. A: Two women. They came together. t3 59 595 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Q: Steak knives? Like the knives from the table or BYOK? A: From the table. So, it started out as a fist fight and the other manger pulled 13 34 425 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 them apart and put one in the elevator going down to the 1st floor. They we

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Text - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Stairs. She stopped the elevator on the 2nd floor and grabbed a knife off someone's table. A: someone else's knife?! Q: yes 17 33 474 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q: So only one woman had a knife. A: The other woman picked up a knife off a different table. So the other manager, he was a huge guy, 6'6" t7 26 312 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 ran down there and pulled them apart again. They were on the first floor at this point. An

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Text - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 deal with it out there. Q: Did they still have the knives? A: No, he took them. Q: Did he give them breadsticks? A: What? No. Q: Sorry. 23 67 958 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 A: What happened after that? Q: I don't know. They were outside, so they weren't our problem anymore A: Would you say they're still "family" t3 28 585

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Text - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 A: No. Q: Wait. You said the shifts where you ran out of breadsticks were the worst. Worse than the shift with a knife fight? t3 40 385 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 A: You may be surprised, but yes, Olive Garden running out of breadsticks is worse than a knife fight. Q: No, I totally get it. 6 14 t3 415 1.4K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Reader, I married him. 61 t3 88 3.4K

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