Coworker just wondered aloud why she “gets stuck with all the coffee orders just because she works mornings.”

I think you answered your own question there, ma’am.

#bartender #casino #serviceindustry #бармен

Yo, bartenders and servers out there: Are y'all noticing a downtick of folks tipping?

Ridiculous that we even have to ask, but here we are.

#serviceindustry #hardoutthere #tipping #SanFrancisco

Just got done work and after tip out I’m walking with ~$130. My first thought was “oh man killer night!, best I’ve had in a while!” And then my second thought was how sad that < $150 is my current definition of a “killer night.” Oh well. It’s only for the summer and then we rebid our shifts

#bartender #RestaurantLife #ServiceIndustry #OrganizeTheServiceIndustry :commie_peek:

Every time a cocktail waitress takes the Manhattan I just made and condescendingly pours it over ice, a part of me dies inside

#bartender #ServiceIndustry #RestaurantWorkers

Are there #studies or #papers or #communities relating to service industry employees who are unable to return to former jobs due to #longcovid symptoms? I'm wondering how those of us who were living paycheck to paycheck on our feet full time in busy kitchens (for example, bc that was me) are faring having to navigate job boards and benefits labyrinths through brain fog, fatigue, migraines and other symptoms while fielding unhelpful advice from people who think we are faking it.

#serviceindustry

So when I got a job in (read: near) the town I just moved to, that’s when I gave myself permission to quit my old shitty job and actually move. Which is good! And I’ve got another job lined up, which I’m very grateful for. So I’m just at this (first) job till I get started at the second one. I’m very lucky!

BUT

This “bridge” job is turning out to be utter bullshit. There are just so many things that suck, I’m texting my gf and she’s like “just walk out!” and I’m very tempted to take her advice

#bartending #bartenders #RestaurantWorkers #ServiceIndustry #OrganizeTheServiceIndustry

Service industry glassdoor type site - allows employees to tell what a job is like

https://kitchenconfidentials.com

#serviceindustry #employeerights #restaurants

#partydown #tvseries #sitcoms #celebritynews #tvshows #iconiccharacters #popculture #starz #foodporn #foodblogger #actorslife #comedyseries #whattowatch #hollywood #tvshownews #mastodontv #serviceindustry #monday

STARZ Offers First-Look Images OF The Highly Anticipated comedy Party Down, which follows a hilariously dysfunctional and poorly organized group of aspiring actors and writers working for a small catering company while trying desperately to launch their careers. https://www.talkteav.com/post/starzpartydownfirstlook

Good news!: The Eagles are playing in the playoffs tonight! 😀
Bad news: I’ll be working 😢
Good news!: I work in a bar/restaurant/bowling alley that will have the game playing on like 20 TVs 🤩
Bad news: football fans are a goddamn nightmare 🥲
#NFLplayoffs #NFL #Eagles #PhiladelphiaEagles #Giants #NewYorkGiants #bartender #serviceindustry #OrganizeTheServiceIndustry

Hot Dog (menu price) $1

acquisition fee $0.21
storage fee $0.22
cooking fee $1.23
transportation fee $0.94
packaging fee $1.92
tax $0.39
employee benefits $0.20

actual hot dog price = $6.11 (plus tip LOL)

#fleecing #benefits #restaurant #serviceindustry #fee #Dallas

https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2023/01/10/rye-restaurants-new-3-charge-for-employee-benefits-has-diners-divided/

Watched "The Menu" tonight completely blind, and the next time someone asks me why I didn't go to culinary school, why I didn't try to pursue a kitchen career, I'm just going to point at this movie. The fourth course (The Mess) had me in tears even before it's gristly resolution. No job has ever taken so much from me for so little than food service. I don't know if folks who haven't done time in the culinary trenches will see this movie as anything other than ghoulish, but as a burnt-out service worker who only ever wanted to have their work appreciated, I've never felt so seen by a movie.

#ServiceIndustry #FoodService #TheMenu

Perhaps Congress should work for tips...
#Labor #ServiceIndustry #WorkForTips

#anarchism #marxism #workingclass #serviceindustry #restaurants #OrganizeTheServiceIndustry #socialism

#merrychristmas to all who celebrate it, whether sacred or secular.

#merrywhatever to everyone else!

And a big THANK YOU to everyone out there working over the holidays & in this awful weather!

#EssentialWorkers #retailhell #serviceindustry

Tonight I’m thinking of everyone working in the service industry. This is such a frantically busy time. May it pass by quickly for you and may you get to rest soon. #Retail #ServiceIndustry #Holiday #HolidaySeason #Restaurant

Tonight I’m thinking of everyone working in the service industry. This is such a frantically busy time. May it pass by quickly for you and may you get to rest soon. #Retail #ServiceIndustry #Holiday #HolidaySeason #Restaurant

I lose a bit of respect for people when they say they care if the server sees them put the tip in the jar.
Just tip, be a person who tips, and servers will appreciate you. They know who the non l-tippers are. Also you don’t ask the capitalist to acknowledge you every time u pay
Our society encourages you to see as much as possible in a transactional way. In my experience people who buy into this too much are less satisfying to deal with.

#tipping #leftist #serviceindustry

I have a 14 year old nephew I spend Christmas with every year, and I have always been terrible at getting him gifts, not least of which is because I've never really had money, but also because he usually gets so much plasticky stuff that he's developed into quite a little consumer, and I just... Don't want to add to that. But I want to give him *something.* Especially if it's something that somehow opens the doors to some of the issues his neo-liberal parents don't like me talking about around the kid: labor, climate change, anti-consumption...

#solarpunk #AntiConsumption #christmas #IWW #ServiceIndustry #labor #TrashMammal #TrashMammalHoliday

I have a 14 year old nephew I spend Christmas with every year, and I have always been terrible at getting him gifts, not least of which is because I've never really had money, but also because he usually gets so much plasticky stuff that he's developed into quite a little consumer, and I just... Don't want to add to that. But I want to give him *something.* Especially if it's something that somehow opens the doors to some of the issues his neo-liberal parents don't like me talking about around the kid: labor, climate change, anti-consumption...

#solarpunk #AntiConsumption #christmas #IWW #ServiceIndustry #labor #TrashMammal #TrashMammalHoliday

Your very good and close personal buddy Poor 'Possum is recovering from his first full-time week of work in... Fuck, pal, I don't know... 7 months? I don't know whether to feel proud or ashamed of that. Anyway, point is I'm tired, I'm working a job that is "good" but also "bad" and now I'm gonna write about something because I need to do *something* that feels like it's mine...

After work I got home and meant to hop on chat and toke up with a friend who seems to deeply need some support. They didn't make it, but I'm deeply hoping they will if they need to, and I don't want them to feel pressured. I got high on my own and threw on "Dear Wormwood" by The Oh Hellos, and I just realized how lacking my existence is in poetry. Like, sure, I don't expect life to read how authors and content creators of every stripe create experiences... but I don't live a life where I even *think* such things. I just... keep plodding through the same day over and over again, cast in different shades, with minimal flourishes. There is no arc to my life, no rising action, no rhyme, no reason. I see no archetypes in my day to day, no soldiers, poets, kings. I just see people fucking struggling. I see people getting through their day-to-day slog swiping for any scrap of dopamine their meager paychecks can provide. Just slapping the shit out of the button in the Skinner box of their capitalist lives.

I grew up listening to folk, reading fantasy and adventure and watching Star Trek. All things that highlight how poetic life is, and the joy associated with that, and it just feels such a part of humanity, and so dreadfully inaccessible to me. A life without poetry is, perhaps, in my experience, a joyless one. Sure, I've had moments where I've whooped with elation, joyful in a moment... usually an isolated instance of speed (like barreling just ever-so-slightly too fast down a hill on my bike perhaps), unsustainable and so very brief that it isn't an emotion that I'm able to carry the memory of in my heart. I don't have time to make it rhyme with some other memory or event to make it feel tangible after the event. It becomes lost as ephemera, and I quickly return to my low base mood, and feel very little hope for any further joy in the future.

This makes it very hard to try to plan for a future. It's part of the reason I need community to do ANYTHING. I need to see that other people are able to feel joy, and are willing to plan and work for a future that includes more of it. And helping others brings me joy as well, especially when I can see and talk with them about what we can do for each other. My nuclear circle right now is very small, and we are very lonely, and we've been that way for a long time, isolated before the pandemic by our inability to figure out how to effectively sell ourselves to the market.

This is getting away from me. I'm tired, my attention span is shot, and I don't think I'm capable of putting a bow on this thing. I just... the finer things in life are in such short supply for so many of us right now that it's hard to imagine that life will ever feel capable of transcending subsistence into... poetry. I want more poetry for all of us.

#antiwork #Anthropocene #trashmammal #serviceindustry #solarpunk #depression #adhd #latestagecapitalism