A Working Stiff's Manifesto (2002) - Plot & Excerpts
The irony of the restaurant industry is that no restaurants ever open up in areas of high unemployment, the logic being that these areas are economically depressed and the local populace doesn’t have the disposable income to spend on luxuries like eating out. This means that anywhere there are people who really need restaurant jobs, the restaurants are fleeing like crazy, only to open in areas where nobody wants to work in them. The result is that every successful restaurant is staffed solely with employees who would rather be somewhere else. While this might be true of most businesses, restaurant people don’t make any bones about it. “I’m getting a real job next week,” one of the waitresses tells me on my first day. “As soon as I graduate, I’m getting a real job,” the cook who trains me says. There’s an unspoken understanding among the employees that their jobs are not real, partly because they were so easy to get and partly because restaurant work doesn’t command respect.
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