When you're going through a break-up, it's never fun to bump into your ex. But it's even worse if you're at work and can't avoid your former partner.
Unfortunately, one woman ended up in this very situation after her ex visited the restaurant where she works with his family, and they specifically requested her as their server.
To add to what must have already been an incredibly awkward encounter, her ex-boyfriend didn't understand her negative reaction, and he insisted she serves their table.
Thankfully, she did not have to, and she was able to continue with her shift as normal. But the incident led many to slam the man's behaviour after the server took to the internet, keen for reassurance.
Explaining what happened in a post to Reddit, the 23-year-old woman wrote: "He and his parents were going out for dinner, and I mentioned the idea of them going to the restaurant I work at. It's a nicer place, sort of expensive, and I like his parents so I'd have the chance to come say hi.
"However, I absolutely hate serving people I know, especially when they use it as an excuse to 'see me'. If you wanted to see me so bad why not plan a dinner for a time I'm off work? It's kinda demeaning and just awkward."
So she told her ex his family should not specifically request her.
"If I'm up in the rotation, great. But if not, I'll come say hi during the night," she said. Unfortunately, they did not listen.
When the woman arrived at work, she found they'd requested her in their reservation.
"I ask the host to just put them anywhere else, and was a little annoyed that they ended up blatantly going against what I was pretty much begging them to not do," she recalled.
As such, they were allocated to another section before they arrived, but her ex and his family didn't take the news very well, and they weren't happy they didn't get to see her as much as they wanted to.
"I finally get a minute after 4 hours of complete chaos to check my phone, and see texts from him saying that his parents hate me now cause I didn’t say hi, I wasn't their server," her post outlined.
However, she explained that she wouldn't have felt comfortable serving them.
"I just couldn't handle serving his family and pretending like everything is fine and perfect from my perspective." As such, she asked Reddit users whether she'd been reasonable or she should have 'sucked it up and served them'.
Fortunately, people were quick to reassure her and slam the customers' sense of entitlement.
One person replied: "Let me get this straight. So he goes for a fancy dinner with his parents where you work. You set a clear boundary that you don't want to serve his table because you don't like serving people you know (fair enough, don't mix business and personal life).
"Then he books, specifically asking for you, and when he doesn't get his way he starts calling you a bad person because he ignored your boundaries.
"You're not the red flag here, he is."
A second wrote: "His reaction to you working while at work, rather than catering to his demands, tells you everything you need to know."
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