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NuevaVida -> RE: How much do you tip your waitress? (6/13/2010 10:32:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: barelynangel
You may think that is appropriate conduct of wait staff, i mean this whole thread seems to advocate wait staff is given a whole slew of excuses because "they have a hard job," yeah they do, but so do many people in the world who deal with clients and customers and most other jobs don't allow or excuse the behavior of their staff because they have a hard job and yeah, accosting a customer tends to be a firing offense. And that isn't ill will, its called expectations of treating a client appropriately.
angel
Ah. I missed the last part of the story about the waitress running up to them. I don't see that as accosting, though. Accosting is more threatening and challenging than running to approach someone, but you might define it differently.
In any case, I'm not really sure where you get that I think it's appropriate behavior, when I said it was behavior that represented a bad attitude. I've made it pretty clear (or so I thought, but maybe not) that I tend to like to behave towards others in a way that feels right to me. I do not like to treat people poorly, even if they have treated me poorly. I do not like to wish ill intentions on others. I've been a food server and I've been stiffed for delivering poor service that was out of my control. I expected to be stiffed, and I accepted it. I personally would not be so insulting as to leave pennies or make rude comments, because it just isn't my style. I've received pennies before, in my day, and I thought "Wow, what an unhappy asshole" and went on my way.
I don't think rudeness is acceptable in either direction.
For those who say they should just get another job, if food service is too hard, many can not. When I was waiting tables, most of the servers were putting themselves through school, and an evening/weekend restaurant job afforded them the hours to be able to go to school, while making enough money to scrape rent together.
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