So Your Parents Raised You Better Than That, Huh?

A friend of mine who is a restaurant manager overheard this and posted it on Facebook...

P.S. heard this statement at work tonight . "I wasn't raised to work in a restaurant, I was raised by good parents". Mcscuse me?

Yeah... MCSCUSE ME?!

Whatever...

I want to know what self-entitled brat said that. I found out later that it was an employee of the restaurant.

GO AHEAD, PACK UP YOUR STUFF, TURN IN YOUR APRON, QUIT AND GO HOME!!! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY STUFF LIKE THAT ESPECIALL WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE AROUND WHO ARE WILLING TO WORK AND DEPEND ON THAT WORK TO KEEP THEM AFLOAT!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE THERE!!!

By the way, restaurant work is how my dear sweet friend puts food on the table for her family.

So how were you raised though? Did your parents tell you that fast food and food service jobs were uncivilized, dirty, demeaning, or demoralizing? Did they impart their negative experiences upon you by telling you how horrible it was to be seen waiting tables or donning an apron to cook?  Do you view it as the high school dropouts' preferred method of career choice and you are going to college? Are you embarrassed to be there or be in uniform? Or are you just a jerk who can't see anything positive in the service part of food service?

BY THE WAY, I THINK YOUR PARENTAL UNITS ARE SELF-ENTITLED BRATS, TOO!!!

And just in case you need a reminder, it is a service, whether you believe it or not, and paying patrons have the right to excellent service. That is your obligation of you work there if you value your job at all.

I hope you get a very serious lesson in Karma after all this. I hope your attitude reflects the amount of hours and tips you get.  I hope you get serious complaints about your lousy service.  I hope an online survey gets into the hands of your managers and you're dealt with accordingly.  I hope you move on in life and learn that your attitude can open or close doors depending on how you present yourself.  I hope you are actually stuck in the restaurant for a while until you learn the value of respect for other human beings around you.

But when you said that about restaurant work you probably didn't consider the people who you work around; the single mom who needs flexibility, the part-timer holding two jobs, the parolee who can no longer work in his/her original chosen field, the artist or musician who needs to pay rent between gigs, the recently downsized skilled worker who was replaced by automation, or the student who is paying for books.

Don't judge others on their place in life, you do not know the struggles someone else has.