If a server at a restaurant or bar is making minimum wage after tips, they need to find a better way to spend their time. They are either in a crummy establishment for tips or they arent very good at their job.
Having been an individual contributor and a manager in both retail and food service, I have never seen that happen.
I hope you take this in the constructive nature it is intended, but I have gathered that you have a very difficult time seeing anything positive about anything. My wife would be the first to say I am not what most would consider an optimist but not everything is negative or stacked against you, or unfair, or designed to exclude you, or unjust. Most of the time we create our own opportunities for life to be fair, just, or rewarding and that cannot happen if we only focus on every little **** hair of negative we can dredge up.
You have brought some valuable perspectives to many of the discussions around here and I definitely am not trying to put you down or in a box, but man just lighten up a little bit from time to time. I have found that when life is getting really heavy and I cannot seem to catch a break, it is because I am not leaving any room for positive things to happen.
Just my .02.
In the Louis L'Amour western books, he would occasionally have his main character make a reference to "working for the brand." Basically, that meant that if he took the rancher's money, he was to give the rancher a good day's work. If it ever got to where one wasn't happy with his job or his boss, then he could just quit and go elsewhere rather than take the money and not give their best.
Loyalty to the brand was important.
A pessimist is an optimist with experience.
I was a people person.I used to be a nice person…not so much anymore.
Then people ruined it.
EDIT -- I was too slow.
When I was about to graduate from high school, 1965, my grandfather told me to try to learn something from everyone I met. And that with some folks what you learn is that you don’t want to be like them.
Sure enough, that advice has served me well, and I have found some of those that he mentioned…
Sure enough, that advice has served me well, and I have found some of those that he mentioned…
On my way to work one morning I 40 stopped for doing 90. Officer got a big smile and jolly good morning. Quick conversation and he told me to keep it under 85. You know I was nice and also received nice.
L'Amour wrote fiction, no?
Not that it's a bad ideal, but loyalty works both ways.
One of the earliest life lessons I was taught/told "Throughout life, you will find many things that you can't receive from others unless you first demonstrate that you possess and will offer to give....loyalty, respect, honor, honesty, friendship and love. Nobody likes a one way street."
Of course he wrote fiction, however, he put a lot more than just words into his stories. He had done extensive travel, hiking, and interviewing prior to doing his stories.
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