17th March 2005, 5:24 PM
Seems like an easy enough gig with no real complaints, but I just couldn't stand doing something so mindless as a job. I get bored easily. There's also the cripplingly poor situation of getting minimum wage as I'm sure they do, depending on tips as they must. I'm talking like the low end restaurants here, as there just aren't any high class restaurants, nor have I ever felt compelled to spend the money needed to eat at one anyway. Then again, it's hard to really have much sympathy for their kind considering how completely irate and uncooperational they almost WANT to be. It's like they can't make a decision on their own at all at the simplest requests. I mean, can you REALLY not decide on your own if it's alright to get some extra french toast instead of sausage? Is that REALLY something that needs the combined brainpower of you and 2 higher ups?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)