Bruh, if your waiter looks like this, that means you need to take your bourgeoisie ass home and learn to cook until this thing is over
Today from Salon Magazine comes an interesting read that is going on in the service industry.
Back to work? Well not so fast.
I’m not going back to work in restaurants — but only because I have a choice
The coronavirus has made me reconsider service, and a career in hospitality
by Nikki Ervice
Maybe you've seen this photo floating around social media: A woman is seated with her friends at a restaurant. She looks over her shoulder into the foreground, open-mouthed, hand raised as if just having brushed her highlighted locks behind her ear. It could be a photo of any ordinary brunch, except the server wears a face shield, a mask and protective latex gloves. The contrast between the diners and the server is ludicrous, obscene, nearly impossible for our brains to synthesize for its dissonance. And it ignites real fear in my heart.
Part of what kept me in the bartending and hospitality world until now was the idea of family. When I was hired at my first cocktail bar, I had previously only bartended in divey places. The idea of craftsmanship and care threaded throughout our training lured me in. We were fed the binding ethos that we were the heirs to years of tradition, taught the properties and mythology of each obscure liquor we would be selling. (If you've ever wondered why people who have just gotten into cocktail culture are obsessed with Chartreuse, look it up.) And through that notion of family ran the notion of service.
Read the entire article here:
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/25/im-not ... -a-choice/
Americans forced to chose, Back to school or COVID? Back to work or COVID? As government tightens the purse strings on the pandemic they helped to foster it getting real out there.
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