Reply #52: What YOU don't seem to get - [View All]

[Madrone]

is that it is also the job of management to staff their fucking restaurant instead of sticking one poor sod to do the work of 5 people.

It was not my job to serve "the public" in a "welcoming, professional manner" while being call a "white bitch" a "fucking whore", being tripped while walking with a tray, having food thrown at me, having fights break out in front of me, ducking flying silverware and glassware, or whatever other abuse the "wonderful public so deserving of my charm" decided to dish out. But I did it. For $2.52 per freaking hour.

The POINT of my story wasn't to "cry you a river" - but to explain the things that people doing those jobs go through while TRYING to do a good job and keep a smile on their face - and then try to figure out how to pay the bills at the end of the day when there wasn't ever enough money to do so. I don't still work at that job, I live in another state, and I am doing well for myself. We all have to start somewhere. If everyone with a shitty job could "choose", at that moment to walk out and not return and could find work somewhere else making great money in a good environment, who would be left to put together your Big Mac while you wait in the drive-thru?

It's not always possible to choose to do something else right away - and some people just can't - for whatever reason. Transportation, education, itelligence - not everyone has the opportunity or resources to better themselves. What about those people?