Lamentice
Schizoid
- Mar 27, 2023
- 150
Currently I have worked in the hospitality industry for 6 years: serving, barbacking, bartending, whatever. This industry is extremely exploititive and people take weird pride in being overworked, underpaid, having no benefits, and having no life outside of their job. Like, "I just worked a 16 hour shift for the 8th day in a row with no breaks, haha!" and then drink themselves into oblivion with their coworkers after. Their backs hurt, their feet hurt, their shoulder hurt, but no health insurance so what're you gonna do, right? And this industry is very anti-union.
I hate this industry and am only in it because it was most accessible to me (no higher education, yet, but I'll be going to school soon to begin a career I actually care about and get out of this goddamn hell).
I used to be absolutely baffled by the people in this industry, because why are you so proud to be destroying your body like this? How are you so content selling your every waking hour to some meaningless customer service bullshit and not having a life? How are you genuinely convinced this is important work and managing to have so much energy and bubbliness every goddamn day? And some of these people really treat/talk about customer service like a life changing artform, their personality is literally sucking the very life out of me. Seriously, the amount of wired energy these people can have vacuum sucks the energy out of me, maybe that's how they have so much lol--vampires.
But no, I found out how people are managing this: they're all on drugs. And if you're not on drugs, good luck for real. Whether it be prescribed anxiety or adhd or pain meds that keep them functioning for inhuman lengths of time, or illegal usage, or alcoholism to cope, or all of it (common). The kitchen's doing lines and the FOH is popping pills, whatever. Addiction is disturbingly common in this industry, these people (specifically the life-timers or ones who have chosen this as their forever job) are deluded. Their stress and fatigue levels are maxxed and they just choose to say fuck all, take a hit, and keep going.
Honestly, was pretty helpful to discover, cause now I know I am honestly just normal and everyone is wired on some shit so I just ignore it and roll my eyes at this point (also the signs of certain drugs are behaviorally very obvious to me at this point). But sheesh.. what a mind fuck; here I've been comparing myself to others for so long, wondering how they do it, and then only to find they're addicts and much more importantly: they're chock-full of goddamn shit.
I hate this industry and am only in it because it was most accessible to me (no higher education, yet, but I'll be going to school soon to begin a career I actually care about and get out of this goddamn hell).
I used to be absolutely baffled by the people in this industry, because why are you so proud to be destroying your body like this? How are you so content selling your every waking hour to some meaningless customer service bullshit and not having a life? How are you genuinely convinced this is important work and managing to have so much energy and bubbliness every goddamn day? And some of these people really treat/talk about customer service like a life changing artform, their personality is literally sucking the very life out of me. Seriously, the amount of wired energy these people can have vacuum sucks the energy out of me, maybe that's how they have so much lol--vampires.
But no, I found out how people are managing this: they're all on drugs. And if you're not on drugs, good luck for real. Whether it be prescribed anxiety or adhd or pain meds that keep them functioning for inhuman lengths of time, or illegal usage, or alcoholism to cope, or all of it (common). The kitchen's doing lines and the FOH is popping pills, whatever. Addiction is disturbingly common in this industry, these people (specifically the life-timers or ones who have chosen this as their forever job) are deluded. Their stress and fatigue levels are maxxed and they just choose to say fuck all, take a hit, and keep going.
Honestly, was pretty helpful to discover, cause now I know I am honestly just normal and everyone is wired on some shit so I just ignore it and roll my eyes at this point (also the signs of certain drugs are behaviorally very obvious to me at this point). But sheesh.. what a mind fuck; here I've been comparing myself to others for so long, wondering how they do it, and then only to find they're addicts and much more importantly: they're chock-full of goddamn shit.
