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'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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Re: 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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The Mask policy exacerbate it. It dehumanize person when you can't see their face.

Indoor dining in the Bay Area has been mask free for months (the SF Gate is a San Francisco publication).

Well, the picture in article showing the staff with mask and face shield!. In texas sadly most of the restaurant wait staff still wear mask.

Re: 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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Thing about an article like this, it might be completely fake. Made up for clicks. Nothing to it at all, just selling a narrative.

I'm fresh back in SF and have been indulging in a lot of restaurant dining. Luxuriating, even, the food here is really good.

I haven't seen any of this crap. Is it happening? Yes of course any journalist worth their mountain of student debt can call enough restaurants to put together a few anecdotes about bad behavior.

Doesn't mean we have to fall for it.

Re: 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indoor dining in the Bay Area has been mask free for months (the SF Gate is a San Francisco publication).

Well, the picture in article showing the staff with mask and face shield!. In texas sadly most of the restaurant wait staff still wear mask.

I was in Texas a couple of months ago, and at least in that part of the state, that wasn’t my experience at all.

Re: 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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It's quite shocking the first time you take a job in anything customer service and realize what a lot of people out there are really like.

Absolutely. In most other areas of life, you only ever get to meet people who've passed the filter of your friends, families, acquaintances or even employer. Working in customer service basically means one gets a ~perfectly random sample of the population which is really not a great experience. It certainly builds character, though, and makes you forever appreciate other people working in customer service.

Re: 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indoor dining in the Bay Area has been mask free for months (the SF Gate is a San Francisco publication).

Well, the picture in article showing the staff with mask and face shield!. In texas sadly most of the restaurant wait staff still wear mask.

So what? The staff wearing masks are somehow Untermenschen? You get to be a dick to them with impunity? You see them wearing a mask and just can’t help it?

Re: 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, the picture in article showing the staff with mask and face shield!. In texas sadly most of the restaurant wait staff still wear mask.

So what? The staff wearing masks are somehow Untermenschen? You get to be a dick to them with impunity? You see them wearing a mask and just can’t help it?

I'm not but many people will interact with people wearing mask differently (knowingly or unknowingly).

Besides, the staff hate the mask but they have to wear because of the policy.

It also contribute to shortage of worker: its already a hard job and now with added mask!

Re: 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

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Abolish tipping so people can be treated as they deserve. Put the cost of labor into the price of goods sold like every other industry.

I tend to over tip and be ignored by wait staff so that sounds great to me.

What’s your point? Some an anecdote means that people working in the service industry shouldn’t earn a viable minimum wage? That they have to resort to essentially begging to earn a living? Tip culture is dumb, they provide a service. If they did an amazing job maybe add it on top. If they did it awfully, well complain, and it can work like any other business where someone is not up to standard.

What is your job? Software engineer? Do you want to be tipped for lines committed to git? Alleged higher skilled jobs you aren’t treated like this. Good human interaction does actually require skill. It’s not like some glue programming job that can probably be replaced by a neural net.

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