Posted on 07/06/2024 10:00:58 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
This month marks 11 years of working in New York's service industry. It's changed a lot.
As an Irish lad, I grew up on Cheers and in my first gig in New York, I found my solace at Molly Pitcher's Ale House—a popular joint where the regulars could have been characters on that show.
Now, Molly Pitcher's is no more, Cheers is no more, and the characters are no more.
In my first gig, a month in, I had learned that the bar corner seat was Rosie's, an 80-something iconic regular.
When Rosie entered, she imperiously claimed her throne and those already occupying it immediately yielded. No questions asked. I have no doubt that this unwritten rule wouldn't be respected today.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar, as George Ball once said, and hands up, it is customary for thirty-somethings to point out that their heyday was much better (it was). But I can't help but feel, having by now served thousands, that the public house is different, not for the better, and you, the customer, are in fact ruining the sacred space of the bar.
I simply wish to tell you, the patron, on behalf of all New York service industry employees: You. Look. Ridiculous.
Off the back of the pandemic dining protocols, change occurred. Everything has been done or is expected to be done for the patron.
This, coupled with mass phone addiction and its anti-social ramifications, has created a sick baby of over-reliance on the worker and over-convenience for the patron.
But we, the service industry employees, are not an app, a button you press, and shazam, it's done. We're people, treat us as such. The public house is just that: Public.
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Now I literally live crawling distance from a redneck bar in a blue collar neighborhood, usually go there once a week for taco Tuesday. Great place, often some customers bring their pet dogs (not service animals). As Toby Keith would say, My Kind of Bar.
If they went to a bar out in the boonies they’d probably be more comfortable. The urban clientele is spoiled and needy, and as someone in service, I get it. I serve a LOT of needy, rude people.
Our society does not do community. That is what is killing pubs. In Jolly Olde England, the whole town went to the pub in the evening. Now, it’s just for a quick drink.
>> I simply wish to tell you, the patron, on behalf of all New York service industry employees: You. Look. Ridiculous.
It’s New York. NYC is a hellhole from hell. Bartender from Hell, You. Are. Atypical.
The rest of America doesn’t work like NYC. Thank GOD!
Yep, a foreign country.
As soon as they sat down, they were all on their phones. Not a word of conversation with each other. They ordered & the whole meal was silent. Then they paid and left.
It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
“Community” seems to have been redefined as a group of like-minded people with a grievance or agenda rather than as a group of people who merely live in one’s neighborhood or town.
My niece uses her devices all the time, but she has the uncanny ability to do whatever on her pad or phone, and carry on a conversation at the same time.
That service employees are lazy, unhelpful, passive aggressive, resentful, and appear to hate their employers and customers.
You didn’t order a mocha coffee martini? You’re so square dude.
It’s also due to drinking and driving laws - because while the nearest beer joint is about 1.2 miles from my house, if I went to meet any friends at a bar, it’s a 30 mile drive back from said bar. I’d rather just drink at home, save the money and the cop car ride.
They didn't even make a Spreadsheet to figure out EXACTLY what each of them must contribute to the total Bill ?!
There’s an app for that.
Who cares about Communist NY? They can all rot in hell.
And that, if you think about it, is somewhat disturbing.
I am not a "bar person," but unless it's a question of your chute not open properly while skydiving, basing your judgement on a mere two data-points gathered within 100 yards of each other in a one-month span is a little hasty, in my book.
Regards,
betting many people stop in for a quick drink and leave so the won’t have to associate with loudmouth angry people pushing their political or social grievances on anyone who half listens. I remember Cheers! as a place where everybody knows your name and your politics but one can drink with people you may disagree with and still be friends AND friendly. the world of today is not the same one I grew up in. everybody screams while nobody listens. I drink at home now where only my wife can scream at me.
But for the folks on the left, you have to agree with what they're preaching. All other points of view are wrong.
All other points of view are wrong.
Yeah...well, thats how I think of the left’s POV’s. So I am very guilty of that.
But i won’t be tolerant of their intolerance.
Besides, their opines are just wrong.
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