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sandyf Wrote:
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> squireparty Wrote:
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> > I had an interesting experience yesterday
> related
> > to being served in a restaurant I thought I
> would
> > share. I am here in Mexico with my 71 year old
> > mother - both of us are gettting dental work
> done
> > at much much much lower prices than we would in
> > the US. Yesterday we were at a restaurant and
> I
> > told the waiter we were ready to order and he
> just
> > stood there for five minutes before arriving at
> > the table to take the order. Instead of
> getting
> > annoyed, I was so jealous of the basic human
> > rights this waiter has that I did not have
> while
> > serving in the United States. I will grant
> that
> > five minutes is excessive but to me it seems no
> > more extreme than some of the nastiness I had
> to
> > deal with about time issues that I had no
> control
> > at all over.
> >
> > I add this here as obviously this waiter is not
> > getting shopped lol. I only wonder how that
> shop
> > would go if he were lol.
>
> Hi Squire party...(by the way I clicked on like
> instead of quote the first time) I was just
> curious about your statement about basic human
> rights above. I am scratching my head and not
> understanding what you meant by that. Is this
> "the basic human right not to do work" when you
> are hired to do so? I guess I never heard of that
> right. I can understand not being rushed and
> having to do three things at once or not being
> able to take a break or have a trip to the
> restroom but I am not understanding the server
> getting to just ignore you when you are there as a
> human right. Yes, granted some of the pressure in
> our country to get work done NOW might be a bit
> much but this seems to be the oposite end of that
> spectrum. Capitals intended.
To me after too many years of serving (and I admit this) and dealing with complaints and crankiness over the years due to time issues over which I had no control, such as the speed of the kitchen, it seems like a huge boost in human rights to take your own sweet time to get on over to a table. Now I get this is not going to play well in the United States or any other developed country really, and I get the reasons behind this. But to have to wait five minutes for a waiter to come over and take my order when he knew I was ready - this is any waiter's dream - to not move at that crazy fear based pace and not be continually vulnerable to complaints or consequences. I really felt this waiter had more basic rights than me in this one area - if none other, and I salute the Mexican flag for letting this person have that. (I also noticed the other waiters were quite slow, too, and at another restaurant in town ran across the same). I see Mexico in a more positive light now due to this and I already held it in high regard due to the access Americans have there to much more affordable medical and dental. Did this long windedness answer your question?
Feeling as I do, I think it is quite wise and fair that I never take restaurant shops as there is no way I am not going to side with the server except in cases of obvious rudeness or hostility on the server's part.