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Waitressing, tips & service - how important is it, really?
What do you do if you’ve had lousy service at a restaurant or cafe? More importantly perhaps, what to do if you’ve had excellent service? Is the level of tips your duty as a guest, or does the tipping system have to transform after you as a customer? Is there an option to show appreciation except cash?
I don’t regard tips as my duty, even though I to a certain part been dependent by it in my past jobs when waitressing. What I do consider my duty as a customer, is to make the waitress feel as comfortable as they make me feel. Usually I show appreciation by folding my napkin into a rose, which always (with few exceptions) puts a smile on the waitors’/waitresses’ face. It’s not difficult but appreciated as not many other guests bother to do it. With knowledge that I may have done their day better, I hope they’ll appreciate this as much as a generous tipper. I know I would.
Pyrrhic victory of raging vegetarianism.
To explain why I’m not a vegetarian. The other day at work one of my vegetarian colleagues tilted on me when we were discussing different Swedish export goods with a co-worker. I mentioned that I wouldn’t ever buy a Volvo because I’d appreciate to have an Eco-friendlier car, if having a car at all. I didn’t get the chance to mention any other reason not to buy a Volvo, before the vegetarian coworker (a woman I formerly have seen as a nice and respectful person looking up to) in anger interrupted to say:
“Stop eating meat then. You cannot be an environmentalist and eat meat.”
This while I’m actually eating meat during my lunch break. (Who said I was an environmentalist in the first place anyway?) I was clearly offended by her act, but then tried to clarify that I wasn’t after discussing diet, by saying that if I’d choose between skipping a car or meat I would easily choose to skip using a car. The vegetarian kept on arguing diet, claiming that the meat industry is much worse (which is true) supposedly meaning that if you don’t like hair, then shave your head bald. Nothing less counts.
I think she is wrong and that it all counts.
Conclusion is that despite all my fantastic vegetarian friends and other coworkers, and the fact that what my angry colleague argued surely is true, it’s this rude kind of behavior that my entire life have convinced me not to become vegetarian. It seriously scares me to become a person waiting to explode in someones face with rage to make my point. Pointing fingers is not the way to convince anyone to change their way of living.
We need to start thinking about who we pay as consumers and what behavior we find acceptable. Do you think what these companies are doing is acceptable?
We got our first engagement gift yesterday, cat took care of leftovers.
Watched Sex and the city, when Carrie got a pair of shoes as a present for “getting married to herself”. Why do we never celebrate singlehood?
This list is depressing and disappointing. Or what do you think? Did you know that The Body Shop is a part of Loreal by the way and partly owned by Nestle?
I never studied journalism, computer science or law. I find that to be true of most good journalists and computer programmers.
Dreams back in Barcelona. This was in the centre, between Arc de triumph and la rambla. Me and Tiina spent a day in the centre, after the siesta. We walked for a good while and eventually ended up in the harbor with shopping centre Maremagnum. It’s only 3 years since I left Ireland, or is it 4? Feels like a lot more time has passed, but I still remember my former colleagues and hope to see them all again some day.
