Overrated: Waiters Who Complain About Customers
(Back from out of town; sorry about the light posting.)
Another rant from a disgruntled waiter, this time with a book deal in the works. What is it about food service jobs that provokes such vociferous tirades on hipster blogs, all the sanctimonious posturing about how the way one treats waitresses is an infallible guide to one’s character, how customers who send food back deserve to get their entree with a healthy side of saliva? Sure, waitstaff are overworked and underpaid, but that hardly makes them unique, especially in an era where worker protections are being eroded across the board, and somehow I have yet to be warned that I’d better tip hotel cleaning staff or they’ll spit in my bed. All I can think is that a lot of upper-middle-class hipsters worked some kind of food service job at some point in their college careers and see their fellow servers as more worthy of consideration than those far less cool minimum-wage workers.