Originally Posted by Master_Shake

Right, right, right. Those life skills like being exploited, taking shit from people and hocking french fries and sneakers with lights in them. Dude, I worked at a fast food joint back in high school and the only thing I got out of the experience was that I never wanted to work in fast food again.

I now work for a monolithic insurance company. This company's goal is preventing people from using their insurance that they have purchased. I am a cog in the great machine that is designed to prevent people from understanding their policies.

My job exists, not to provide a better product or contribute to society, but rather to hurt people and cause pain so that the rich fucks at the top of the heap can have a few more quarters in their bucket at the end of the night. What is honourable about this? I do it because I get paid, not because it is fufilling. That I approach my job with some disdain should not be surprising. That I manage to do it at all should.

I am not a good person, and I don't expect anyone to have pity on me. But in what fucked up world is it right that I earn more money than some illegal immigrant working in the much more difficult food service industry trying to support his family?

And the logic of the prostitute goes like this:

For $20, you can probably get a blow job. But the hooker is only interested in finishing you off as quickly as possible. She has to blow a lot of guys to earn enough to keep her pimp off her back, so she doesn't have a lot of time or patience to deal with your specific issues.

For $500, you can get a blow job and the hooker can take her time with you, providing the full service you want, and doing those little extras like talking dirty to you, or finishing with a Cleveland Steamer.

It's the same with retail or fast food. At McDonald's, where the employees earn shit, you are a number in line. They have to move you through the door so more people can come through. They have to sell a lot of $1.00 hamburgers to make the rent. They are trained not to deal with specifics or details. Every burger is made the same. When you hold up their line they are unhappy, because they get shit from their manager for taking so long later on. That this attitude spills over to times when they aren't so busy should not come as a surprise.

Accordingly, at a more expensive fine dining place (Not Denny's!) you should expect a little more service. The waiter should come by to refill your glass more often, and the food should be of superior quality. But you have to pay for it accordingly (in both cost and tips).



I don't know, maybe you are right. Maybe I should just do my best for the company. Yeah, it really is important that I find a way to deny that Allentown couple benefits. I mean, they'd be receiving medical treatment for the rest of his life! What's inoperable brain cancer weighed against the interests of the company. I mean shit, he's going to die anyway. Should my employers suffer some economic losses just so his family can hang on to his nearly vegetative carcass a little longer?

No, you've convinced me. I'm going to approach my job with much more vigor in the future. I'll make sure those bastards don't get one over on the system.