Service Industry Worker Gifts

"This robot barista is so authentic it even got my name wrong."

'Not for what I'm getting paid!'

Fall of trade due to Coronavirus

'OK, I'm dying here, but you'll pay for it when I'm serving you in my crummy dead-end job.'

'Good evening. I'm disenfranchised, and I'll be your waiter tonight.'

"Can this wait? I'll never live it down if my staff sees you henpecking me."

Great customer care is not optional.

"Hey, I get paid minimum wage...so I work as minimally as I can."

"I work twelve hours a day to make ends meat...but then I'm way too knackered to cook it!"

Minimum Wage Swamp

'And how do you want me to screw that up for you?'

End Tipping Now!: 'I can't find a hotel that will host our convention!

'Having a family life and juggling two jobs? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?'

'No, I'm not wearing high heels. I look taller because the minimum wage will increase and now I can stand taller.'

'Please don't tell me you work in a gas station.'

"If you can read this, tell me if I need to hike up my pants."

Too rare perhaps?

'Would you like a balloon with that?'

"I read that 40% of us have to take a second job just to make ends meet...It's a disgrace!"

'Will that be for here or to go - and if it's to go, can you take me with you?'

Cabby and Passenger

So what should I do? What? I'm stuck in the service industry. What should I do? I don't have a graduate degree or a ton of marketable skills. You're asking my opinion? I've had no advance warning, no indication that you – my arch-nemesis – would be coming to me, hat-in-hand, genuinely seeking my counsel. Where do you get off? Sorry I asked. Don't you dare back out now, not after imposing on me like this!

Something's wrong with the economy. What tipped you off, Hoss? There's no route to the middle class. I'm stuck in the service industry. My upward mobility ends at cafe manager. Whoa. I don't have a lot of time for you to be waking up to your circumstances. Is there a better time for me to have a whole life's reckoning? I'm free most of June.

"The UWS association for the advancement of A.I."

"I don’t remember there being a tip jar the last time we were here."

"You folks drunk enough yet?"

"Yes, I've lost weight. I don't have time to eat because I have to work three jobs to buy food."

"This is our soft opening."

"So, you want me to go all the way back to the kitchen just to get you a menu...? Couldn't I just give you a link to our, online menu?!"

"I'm just the bus boy but I'll be ignoring you also."

"This controls the speed, this opens the door and if you press the red button a maintenance man appears and gives you a very large bill"

'Your fingers are in the soup?' - 'Of course they are. It's freezing in that kitchen.'

"Here's something extra to cover his lousy tip. Blame his fifth grade math teacher."

"I'm working part time, but I'm hoping that once I finish my master's they'll up my hours to full time."

'Why, yes, I remember you. May I suggest an undrinkable pinot grigio that goes well with a bad tip?'