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Tipping, a retarded idea or a great business practice?
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What a fucking prick.
If you think your job sucks, then find another line of work. I tip well (typically 20%), but if you hate your job enough to write a book about it, quit fucking whining about it and give your notice like a goddamn adult.
Is that where it came from? Damn, how have I not seen this episode?
Given how he apparently treats the people who work for him I'm not sure I'd find the job to be all that great.
People do that in real life? Holy shit.
Tips make it worth it. No joke.
Then you are paid to take the abuse and shouldn't complain. Either way, the dude is a whiny bitch.
Free market FTW!
I don't directly work for him, he just sends patients my way and I return test results.
When will people learn that the people on Seinfeld aren't role models?
Still, I think taking off for problems is better, as it allows me to reward for stuff done so well I don't notice.
No, see, that's the thing. A whole lot of people don't pay you to take their abusiveness. In fact, the abusive ones are the ones not paying you, generally.
A large portion of his complaints are about other employees at the restaurant.
I like this idea. Pay the waiter to abuse a bad customer.
So you can't complain about coworkers now? Really?
Maybe more people need to write books.
You totally can, and I won't fault you for it. But if the complaints are varied and constant enough to keep a regular blog going for four years, then you should probably man up and quit your horrible job, or realize that horrible coworkers and customers are precisely what you are paid to deal with.
Horrible customers do not pay you to deal with them. They sure as hell don't pay you to deal with your colleagues. You are paid according to the quality of the service you provide.
It was entertaining but I didn't like how 1/3 of the posts were like 'man people are awful these days' and how he blamed everything on karma.
And I'm saying that if the overall money isn't good enough to keep you happy, then you should quit and find a job that you will be satisfied with.
And I'm saying that maybe he had an insightful idea and decided to capitalize on this misery his job caused him.
I think the appeal is that dining is a universal element, whether you have worked in waitering or are interested in hearing the other side. I don't think there be much of a market for DATA MINING ANALYSIS RANTS
I applaud him for making money on his whining, actually. But it's just that: whining. Nobody is holding a gun to his head to force him to stay a waiter, and I think that point is largely lost upon his audience.
That shit's fucking gold.
So if you enjoy something overall, you're not allowed to complain about the unnecessary shit jackasses subject you to?
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I think that the food service industry has this argument applied to it more than any other. It's weird. It's often hard to get a job that makes a comparable amount of money with just as little education/training required. His bills may, indeed, be forcing him to stay there.
You're likely right though, nobody is forcing him to but that doesn't really have an impact on the entertainment value. I think his message resonates with enough people who have had shitty jobs that they had to keep for some reason or another that he doesn't need to address the issue you bring up.
The pictures on that are priceless.
When did I try to stop him from complaining? I just called him a whiner, because he clearly likes the money enough to stick around, but doesn't seem to understand that the reason that being a waiter is a skilled profession (and their income reflects it) is the ability to deal with exactly the shit he is posting about. If waiters didn't have to deal with horrible situations, anyone could do it and the pay would be significantly worse than it is now.
He's chronicling his life as a waiter. He's not asking for anyone to give him anything, he's not begging for sympathy, he's not crusading for change in the industry. He's just blogging about it.
Yeah, but...
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I know he is. The blog's purpose is more or less "oh look how horrible my job is," while largely ignoring that in the face of bad tippers and assholes, he is the one putting himself in the position, because clearly it's worth it.
So if you have a good job, but the guy nearby keeps smoking indoors, complaining about the jackass is whining?