Eek. To be blunt, what an ass! Personally, I'm of the mindset that people like that treat students the way that they do because (as Jörg said), they have hit the wall and you are still going. I remember when I was still a trainer in the restaurant, a coworker of mine who was waiting tables that day came back nearly in tears.
"What is wrong?" I asked.
"I'm waiting on the Hecht's ladies," she said, "and they are treating me like crap because they work in a nice department store and make more than I do."
(Our restaurant was in a mall, and the "Hecht's ladies" were notorious pains as well as pompous idiots who worked down the hall from us.)
"But Jamie," I said, "you are working your way through school. You could get a job paying more than theirs if you wanted to probably, but you are getting your education, so you have to work here."
But it was amazing the number of people who would look down on us--students--because "we still waited tables in a restaurant." Argh.
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Date: 2006-08-29 11:17 pm (UTC)"What is wrong?" I asked.
"I'm waiting on the Hecht's ladies," she said, "and they are treating me like crap because they work in a nice department store and make more than I do."
(Our restaurant was in a mall, and the "Hecht's ladies" were notorious pains as well as pompous idiots who worked down the hall from us.)
"But Jamie," I said, "you are working your way through school. You could get a job paying more than theirs if you wanted to probably, but you are getting your education, so you have to work here."
But it was amazing the number of people who would look down on us--students--because "we still waited tables in a restaurant." Argh.