pavlovscat on 10/5/2013 at 17:38
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job? I know I get excited to go to work.
I loved my job before I got MS and had to quit. Before MS, the plan was to have a couple kids while hubby stayed home with them and I kept working. I had greater earning potential & liked working. He doesn't like working. He loves cooking & is much more domestic than I am. That would have been ideal. Alas, life had other plans.
faetal on 13/5/2013 at 12:56
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job?
It varies wildly. Sometimes I'll be working 90 hour weeks and the whole thing feels like I'm being paid for an obsessive hobby. Other times I'm clock watching and thinking about changing career. I think that's me though and not the job.
theBlackman on 14/5/2013 at 03:25
Quote Posted by Brethren
Even the most god awful waiter will get 10% from me. 20% means they rocked the house. Are the standards different in the U.K. or something?
Being a GOOD waiter or waitress is a really difficult job, profession, I should say. To do the job properly means eyes in the back of your head, good memory, attention to the slightest detail and unending patience. If the service is up to par, I tip about 15%, if it sucks, as many times it does, because the wait person is yakking with others in a corner, or constantly on a Cell to BS, I may not tip at all. If the service is sterling and 5 star, I may tip an amount equal to the bill.
My mother was a waitress, as I have been (a waiter), and a true wait person is a jewel to have and to see in operation. Too many in the profession are only there as a stop gap and don't truly understand what the position actually requires, which is full consciousness of the customers needs and providing that before they realize they need, or want it.
People in that job deserve praise for their efforts, but only if they, in fact, do do the job.
HelloHello on 14/5/2013 at 07:06
Fuck all that. ... I mean I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips. That's fucked up. That ain't my fault. I mean it would appear that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. I mean show a piece of paper that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fucking type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big fucking surprise.
theBlackman on 14/5/2013 at 08:13
Quote Posted by HelloHello
Fuck all that. … I mean I’m very sorry the government taxes their tips. That’s fucked up. That ain’t my fault. I mean it would appear that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. I mean show a piece of paper that says the government shouldn’t do that, I’ll sign it, put it to a vote, I’ll vote for it, but what I won’t do is play ball. And this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fucking type, ’cause if you’re expecting me to help out with the rent you’re in for a big fucking surprise.
I don't know about the other readers, but that made no sense to me at all. Other than the part about tips being taxed, that is!
heywood on 14/5/2013 at 08:22
It's all non-college bullshit, man.
faetal on 14/5/2013 at 08:24
What I took from that is that HelloHello will not be playing ball. No sir.
theBlackman on 14/5/2013 at 08:24
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job? I know I get excited to go to work.[....]
When I was working both as a Salvage diver and as a Firefighter, I loved both jobs with a passion. Not likely the same passion a good chef takes to work with him, or her, but I loved waking up knowing that one or both of the jobs were waiting for me!
Hewer on 14/5/2013 at 16:12
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job?
I'm on salary, so I can come and go as I need to (as long as I work at least 40 hours a week), I'm close enough to ride my bike, the boss has set up a free pop machine (which I unsuccessfully try to avoid :( ), one of the other employees wife works at a meat packing place, so the boss bought, like a years supply of steak, and we have cookouts every other week or so, and I get to sit and draw silly animals that go on pajamas, and fart jokes for boxer shorts and the like. There are definitely drawbacks- quite a bit of paper work explaining every little obvious thing for the factory, and I sleep under my desk for about a month when I'm designing the yearly catalog, but all in all I've got it pretty dang sweet.
Yakoob on 14/5/2013 at 17:45
Quote Posted by theBlackman
Being a GOOD waiter or waitress is a really difficult job, profession, I should say. To do the job properly means eyes in the back of your head, good memory, attention to the slightest detail and unending patience.
I ALWAYS hear this as the argument from my waiter friends why I should tip better. But you know what? Other jobs are difficult too. Other jobs make you deal with annoying people as well. And this whole "special" set of skills you/they list... it's actually pretty generic and applies to 95% of jobs.
Don't you think I need good memory, attention to detail and unending patience working across multiple web sites, platforms, APIs, toolkits, languages, all the WHILE dealing with BS clients who always try to milk you for more features that never were in the original spec?
I don't mean to personally aim this at you, theBlackman, like I said it's the argument I hear a lot from many people.
