Originally Posted by PaulRivers

haha, I've always found this kind of comparison amusing, as the biggest duechebags I've met are nearly always waiters/waitresses. No other group spends so much time going on, and on, and on about how they *deserve* your money, time, and respect for the simple act of transporting your food - because "they're waitstaff".

Last year my cousin (who works bussing tables, but probably picked it up from the waitstaff) gave me this whole impassioned speech about treating your waitstaff with respect and courtesy. How - these people spend all day dealing with orders and people, and - if you just took an extra 2 minutes to drop what you're doing and help them have a good day, wow - you'd be a really good person. Yes, 2 minutes out of your day to help a total stranger feel good (and likely make you feel like leaving a bigger tip).

This guy also hadn't been able to find the time to return my last 2 phone calls or 1 email. Assumably, it's important to treat totally strangers with respect and courtesy. Friends and family though, lol, well to heck with it!

Waitstaff are the *most* passive aggressive, self-aggrandizing group of people I know on the planet. They always have an enormously disproportional sense of deserved entitlement. You know know, I treat them nicely just like I treat anyone else, but every time someone talks about "treating your waitstaff nicely" I imagine the biggest duechebags waiter I've met complaining about how I didn't say thank you this one time and how I totally didn't leave the 30% tip he totally thinks he deserves, and I think it kinda ruins the point, lol.