Excellent points, the same point is why spend all day in a restaurant with a mask on , being barked at by the prols for $2.15 he plus tips when the same person can make $15 answering call center calls from home. I know of two of my friends daughter’s who used to wait tables both are now happy taking calls in their pajamas from home. If you have the.English skills to wait tables you have the skills to tell someone on the phone sorry spectrum cable has raised your bill again. I also know a number of former bartenders that now day trade they took the .gov stay at home money and smartly invested it. Not lazy nor dumb.
Not the case anymore. Everything is corporate. Small stations, little cash transactions and those corporate places often stick their hands in your pockets making you tip out to everyone in the place (not just the bussers as was always customary)
It's a crap job but it was once made tolerable by sometimes very good $.