I have a few friends who never text unless I text them first. When we hang out we have a good time, but I keep wondering if we’d even talk if I stopped reaching out. I need some advice, would you bring it up with them or just leave it?

I know it's in a while but Halloween is really important to me. My friends aren't going to the Kaliko event nor the Axis lounge event, so I'm still debating on what to do. I was told that last Halloween there was an event in Mar Mikhael, but I missed it. Are you dressing up/partying, staying in to watch scary movies...?

(And yes I also celebrate St. Barbara's.)

** edit: got a few messages... I didn't use the "dating" flair, thank you so much for understanding 🤍

I am an 18yo male and have been working in hospitality for about 4 to 5 years and I have never seen so much disrespect, hatefulness, and lack of empathy in an industry.

I worked my first job at a family friend's cafeteria (not saying the name) when I was 13yo for about 2 years, my boss was 65yo male I saw him as a father figure to me and I was really sad when I quit but the pay was really low and I was getting older I was like 15 to 16 at the time and needed more money for my new responsibility's.

So I found a new job as a runner for an Arabic restaurant and there I found out how fucked up the outside world really is, the waitress that was working with me thought of me as her errand boy making me go to the market for only her and making me do her job while she was sitting around.

I was seating guests and taking food orders instead of her and she took the credit.

About a month later she left and I got promoted to a waiter, the problem was the owners are putting all the inventory costs, employee wages and advertising pressure on the day to day sales, they didn't invest money into advertising nor inventory so we were really slow to the point that we got 2 to 4 tables a day, so no money means no wages and no inventory making half of the kitchen leave the bartender and runners and shisha workers leave too, so the only people working on the floor were me for day shift a waitress for night shift and an irresponsible manager that didn't do much, I was left alone to do everything I was ordering inventory I was bartending and making shisha with no experience and even If I had only one table it would be hell for me cause I had to do everything, I developed a lot of anxiety and Paranoia of customers making me have so much self-doubt and literally tremble from stress when I had tables. Long story short the place got bankrupt and I was let go in may of 2026.

I needed a new job after a long search it was June and the irresponsible manager contacted me, he told me he was working a summer job at a pool resto/bar (not saying the name) as waiter and he wanted me to work with him 9am to 6pm shifts, I said sure cuz I needed money and I didn't find anything else.

I started there and I got overwhelmed my first day, it was hot as hell and the sun was making me really dizzy. I was the only floor member that day and it's been a long time since I worked so I was a little bit rusty and it's not a typical restaurant so a lot of things are different but got the job done anyways, after the shift ended I was waiting for the manager to finish closing sales so he could distribute tips at the end of the day(we would distribute tips every day), he handed me the tips and sat me down he told me the he didn't really like my job because of how I walk and I looked really irritated by the sun so I couldn't give the perfect smile at customers, but he will get in contact with me if he had something else, I said I was a bit rusty and pleaded to give me a chance to get used to the job, he agreed and told me to come for the week to see, so I did and I was coming from 9am till 7pm so I could have time to close and get my tips every day so almost 10h shifts!!

At the end I stayed with the job but the manager hated me so much, because I took customer matters and complaints onto my hands because that was what I was taught at the old place I used to work at, and he hated that I had no experience in serving or upselling alcohol.

One time cuz I didn't know that we didn't take reservations and I let a family put their rags on 3 benches and they told me they will come in 2 hours I got yelled at and hateful comments by the manager about that, one time I've put an umbrella at the first row of benches next to the pool for some customers and again yelling and hateful comments, I didn't get trained nor told about policies how is that my fault?

At the pool every Friday we did party night from 7pm til 2am and only one of the waiters will be working a night, so I was there and the music was so loud that I couldn't hear the customers requests and orders.

and that day I did a double 9am till 2am,

So what happened was a table of nine ordered a ksara sunset rosé wine bottle, as I said before I didn't have experience in serving alcohol so when I tried to open the bottle I broke the tip of it after I got a handful from the manager (he was also drunk)

I told him to get it off my salary so I wouldn't hear about it later, the next day he told me that "if you didn't know how to open it just tell me" even though I told him that I have no experience in alcohol at the interview.

the reason I didn't say anything about not knowing how to open it was because I didn't want to see myself as a failure.

everyday from that night they always mentioned and bullied me about that fucking bottle, one time he told "where you lying about working as a waiter?" And then proceeded to laugh with the bartender.

I can't tell you how many times I cried in the bathroom there.

The manager never saw how much food I upselled how much customers loved me and respected me, how many long orders i just memorized because he didn't provide pen and paper.

One time I finished wiping the tables with a rag and needed to polish utensils and plates after but there weren't any clean rags to polish with so I cleaned my rag really good and was Polishing with it and he saw me do it, when I finished he yelled at me like " would you eat with those utensils? Are you dirty and disgusting? Where is the hygiene?"

I told him " a real manager would buy clean rags every time rags were unusable, a real manager would have green rags for tables red rags for the kitchen blue ones for the bar but all we had was 4 green rags and almost all of them are turning black, you're right wHeRe iS tHe HyGiEnE? From the first day I worked here I was learning by myself what's wrong and what's right by fucking up every decision I make and getting yelled at, that's how I learned how to work here you never gave me training and you expect me to be perfect? lower your standards" he shuted up and didn't say anything about it.

And then it was September and they were about to close because winter is coming and I quit.

So from September 15th till October 15th (now) I have been looking for a job, but I'm so tired and disgusted by hospitality and lost hope for a life and future, I literally talked and gave CV's to almost 200+ restaurant/cafes but no response.

I don't want to work in hospitality anymore but that's all I have experience in, and I have no education because I dropped out of school when I was in 4th grade elementary school.

Is it over for me?

What should I do?

More of a husband-and-wife kind of date. We’d prefer to stay in Beirut and not go too far, since our little one will be at daycare. We’re literally taking a day off work just to spend some quality time together (We absolutely adore him, though. He’s a gem.)
Oh, and one more thing: we don’t drink, so we’re not looking for anything centered around alcohol (you know, especially in the morning lol)

Hi, my name is Fadi. I'm from Lebanon. I'm into spirituality, consciousness, and non-duality. I'm at peace with myself and everything else around me. I would like to get to know new open minded people that we can share ideas and discuss together. Please feel free to send me a message and we will see where it will lead us 🙏

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If this resonates with you, feel free to reach out. I'd love to connect and see where the journey takes us! 🌿✨

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