Cop asked to leave cafe because he made a customer "uncomfortable"

[gimmethesimplelife]

Ya, I'd never understand anything about stress, as I have a nice relaxing job running into burning buildings.

You have a lot of waiters dropping from cardiac arrest while bringing out the cheese plate do you? Need medical exams every 40 minutes during your shift to make sure the flash on your uniform isn't causing issues?

Odd though, the lists of stressful occupations I usually come across have firefighters, police, enlisted military, air traffic controllers, emergency dispatchers, surgeons, and people like that on the top of the list, and seem to omit waiters.



http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/2015...3aL/story.html

Got ahead and google then. Waiting tables is on many lists ranked as one of the most stressful jobs, up there with being an air traffic controller. Though I will say I'd agree that over the past few years, jobs in general have become more stressful and more jobs are resembling waiting tables now in terms of utter insanity and powerlessness/lack of control of variables you are vulnerable to. It's become so crazy that any day I walk into a job now I expect to be my last working at that job - that doesn't mean that I don't work my butt off - that means that I expect nothing from a job/employer any more, have no loyalty whatsoever, and handle my cash flow accordingly. Rob

[bae]

Got ahead and google then.

I did. I failed to find the data you suggested, merely article after article with approximately the same results as I suggested. Including the link I posted, which points to some of the most recent data.

My respect to the sacrifices you and your brothers and sisters in arms put in to make sure warm tasty food is delivered with care. We all owe you! I'll go do another 15 miles today with a 90 pound pack in your honor.

[Packy]

^I don't see their guns....where are their guns?^ Kids, I HAVE seen articles, a number of times, that said waiting on tables is a stressful job. Maybe not PHYSICALLY, but mentally. I believe it, because people can be very, very annoying. Especially in restaurants. And, it's one of those jobs where--one minute, there's nothing going on; the next minute, it's an avalanche. Chalk up yet another reason I rarely ever go into a restaurant. Y'know--maybe I'd be okay with the idea of waiters n' waitresses carrying a sidearm, and even a taser and a baton.

[Packy]

just yesterday I heard a news report from my city about guns being stolen from cars.


Guns are more popular than cash as targets of theft.

I just got to thinkin', Faux; In that case, you better bring your Merc-O-ree steering column in, at nite. You don't wanna see it get stole, agin, by some rippoff thug. Cost too dang much to replace it!

[bae]

[bae]

[Float On]

I've never had a bad experience with a police officer and I've had one pull a gun on me.
Totally my fault.
I was living in NM and my boyfriend and I and a bunch of friends went tubing on the Pecos river. Stupid boyfriend went over a falls and hit his head. Later that night he was sick and coming up with really weird stories so we piled in a car to take him to the ER in Santa Fe. We got pulled over for speeding and I jumped out to run back and tell the officer we were headed to the ER. He pulled a gun and I realized you never jump out and run towards an officer. When he checked me over and heard my story and checked on my boyfriend who proceeded to throw up one more time the officer then gave us a fast escort to the ER.

I've bought meals for officers and I have some great conversations with officers I see doing security (extra hours) at my 2nd job.

[flowerseverywhere]

Thank you Bae and all the military, firefighters, police, medical personnel, airline pilots who came up over and over for performing the most stressful jobs in the Google searching I did. The United states is a better place thanks to all of you.

on spitting into food, or doing disgusting things imagine this scenario. Very nice gay young man stops in a cafe. He is feeling low because he is HIV positive from an encounter with someone infected who he trusted. His health is poor, and he is impatient with the waiter. Said waiter has a cold and spits in his food. Customer gets very ill due to his compromised immune system. Or a person on chemo might be tired and not as patient as they could be when their order comes. Justified to contaminate their food or to turn a blind eye when someone else does?

[gimmethesimplelife]

Thank you Bae and all the military, firefighters, police, medical personnel, airline pilots who came up over and over for performing the most stressful jobs in the Google searching I did. The United states is a better place thanks to all of you.

on spitting into food, or doing disgusting things imagine this scenario. Very nice gay young man stops in a cafe. He is feeling low because he is HIV positive from an encounter with someone infected who he trusted. His health is poor, and he is impatient with the waiter. Said waiter has a cold and spits in his food. Customer gets very ill due to his compromised immune system. Or a person on chemo might be tired and not as patient as they could be when their order comes. Justified to contaminate their food or to turn a blind eye when someone else does?

You have a point here, I'm not going to argue otherwise. And I will admit I have looked the other way when others have done this. Typically when this happens a server will make a big deal of it in the back where the other servers are to get support going - only the strongest of the strong is going to do this without some support from the other waitstaff. I have felt so sorry for other servers as I know what it is like to be a victim of the general public with no recourse but to smile and tolerate abuse if I want to keep my job - so I have looked the other way as have all the other servers I have worked a shift with then this has happened. So ummm.....I'm condoning it by looking the other way. I don't like admitting this but it is true nonetheless. I'm wrong to look the other way, I'll admit that.....but the cost of saying something is intense politics and probable job loss if I do the right thing. The only way I can see winning when dealing with horrific customers is milking the situation to get something I want out of management - if I believe I can get whatever it is. Retaliation via messing with a guests food - once again I can understand it but it seems much more practical to use the situation to get something you want from management. And much more ethical to handle it my way, too. And I still get to wish the horrific table death out loud in the back and under my breath on the floor.

Flowerseverywhere, your post puts a new twist on this that I had not thought of before and I'm going to agree with you here. You have the high road here. Rob

[bae]

And I will admit I have looked the other way when others have done this.

Geeze, you couldn't have at least pulled out a cell phone and documented it, so the poor customer could receive a multi-million-dollar settlement?