I work in a lovely little cafe bar in West Didsbury called Folk. It serves beautiful food, a good variety of drinks and amazing cakes. I went to work today, very happy because I was working with my two beautiful ladies, Gillian and Natalie. My mood turned sour very quickly because seriously, the some of the people in West Didsbury are so miserable! I'm a waitress, and I know that it's not the most high profile job but some customers look at me, judge me and decide that I am illiterate and stupid. I'm not. My days constantly involve being talked down to, talked rudely to and some people just generally acting in a passively aggressive way towards me. I work incredibly hard, and what really gets to me, is when people act like I don't work hard. So, for example, I'm serving a table when a middle-aged, menopausal woman constantly interrupts me from another table when I'm talking to other people. Even if I was stupid and illiterate, I'd know the rules of cafe etiquette and just general politeness. She really pissed me off.
This has just ended up in me not saying anything in particular, apart from telling whoever's reading this, that I'm treated like shit by middle class and miserable people on a daily basis. Thanks for reading.
P.S It's people like this; "Reviewer cocobean 17/12/2009
waited about half an hour for a cup of tea in here. staff are SOOO rude/too cool to speak. Also don't try so hard to be 'quirky'. How did they win cafe of the year again??" "; that really piss me off. Seriously, get over yourself. You're probably some sad lonely person that has absolutely nothing to do apart from criticise things that aren't right for you. Also, check your grammar. Starting a sentence without a full stop; how blasphemous! (And I know for a fact that this was the day after our Christmas party!)
Ok, rant over. I love my job, I just dislike some people!
I hear you Laura! Don't even get me started. I don't like it when I see reviews where people say things like 'they try too hard' or it's 'styled too much', because the reality is that the whole place has been built over years by Justin. And I'm pretty sure that none of us think we are too cool. Especially when we like things like Harry Potter and arranging napkins in straight lines. Woo.
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