Waitress Day

Today is waitress day. Two stories about waitress kind of stood out in my research. The first is about a waitress that was fired for a Facebook posting. Here is the article:

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/05/19/facebook-post-leads-to-waitress-firing/?icid=main|htmlws-sb-n|dl4|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fjobs.aol.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F05%2F19%2Ffacebook-post-leads-to-waitress-firing%2F

I don't think this waitress should have been fired at all. I'm one of those that thinks that food servers have one tremendously hard job. I also know from my occupation that waitress pay tax on eight per-cent of the total amount of business that they bill. That eight per cent is added right to their W-2 form. I also know the more people that they turnover per table the more tips they make. I would never in this lifetime sit at a table for three hours. And if I did the tip would definitely allow for that. In addition I just seem to be one of those guys that waitresses and waiters play to. I either look like an easy mark or a nice guy. "This table is just fun to serve." "Please come back, it was so enjoyable to see you." and so on. I know it is a bunch of crap but it makes me feel good so I tip well. The only time I drawback on tips is when the food server is rude or if they give me something that I didn't order and argue about it. I definitely think this waitress had the right to vent on Facebook and unless she mentioned the customers names, which I don't think she did, she never should she have been fired.

Now on to the next story. The closest Hooters here closed due to lack of business. Says a lot for the community, doesn't it? The only reason I ever went there was for business lunches and only because the married men clients wanted to go there. The single men clients wanted to go elsewhere, to where the food was better. Single men wanted food, married wanted? No more words, tell me what you think of the following story:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offbeat/130-lb-hooters-waitress-told-to-lose-weight-to-keep-job-051810

That woman is beautiful, she certainly doesn't need to lose weight in my opinion. I'm also guessing that the manager, if it is man, needs to lose a hell of lot more weight than she does.

Should have the waitress been fired for her Facebook posting? Should the waitress at Hooters be fired if she doesn't loss weight?


Yesterday's Who Am I was Calamity Jane whose real name was Martha Jane Cannary Burke

I was born in 1904 in The Bronx and died in Connecticut in 1971. My father was an inventor and engineer that believed in equality in education and opportunity for all of his children. My mom died while attending college. I was married twice, the first when I was eighteen. The next marriage was in 1939 to a writer but we divorced in 1942. I pursued a degree in Herpetology at several colleges including Columbia, Michigan, Purdue, Indiana, and Western Reserve University. I received my degree in 1927 from Cornell. I studied photography as a hobby while a very young woman. I developed the styles and techniques that I needed for various formats on my own. My father was also somewhat of a camera enthusiast and he exposed me to the wonders of the photographic lens as a youngster. I was a woman of many firsts. I was a forerunner in the newly emerging field of photojournalism, and was the first female to be hired as such. I was the first photographer for a well known financial magazine. I was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. I was the first female photojournalist for Life magazine. I was the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II, and one of the first photographers to enter and document the death camps. I made history with the publication my her haunting photos of the Depression. I wrote six books about my international travels. I was the premiere female industrial photographer, getting her at a Steel Company around 1927. Who Am I?