Female GOP lawmaker credits Hooters for success
Female GOP lawmaker credits Hooters for success
She learned "networking skills."
I imagine she is correct, but I am assuming that "networking skills" means "fucking and sucking (and/or sucking up to) important people," which is the most important prerequisite for success in any enterprise.
In my 25 years in the service industry, from entry level at minimum wage all the way up to senior management, I found that the only real value of any customer contact position is the list of names you add to your rolodex.
Dude, you watch too much TV, or listen to people who watch too much TV. Hooters is just a restaurant, it's not a whorehouse. For one thing, the chicks wear a one-piece thing that looks like a t-shirt and shorts combo. It's sporty, not whore-y. For another, if you've ever worked in a restaurant, you'd know that nobody has time to dispense BJs. At least not during business hours. After hours, restaurant employees all fuck each other, not outsiders. You'd know that if you spent an hour in the service industry. Give the chick some credit and stop talking shit about things you know nothing about.
ReplyDeleteI, of course, worked in the restaurant and c-store industries all my working life. I started in the service industry working for minimum wage at both 7-Eleven and McDonald's. (And I watch no TV at all. Who has time?)
ReplyDeleteTo your point: "Restaurant employees all fuck each other, not outsiders." Nah. That's true for 80% of them, but those are the restaurant employees who are likely to remain restaurant employees. When I worked in direct customer contact, I took any chance I could get to move into a different social circle. That is what social networking is all about. It does no good to develop a social network within the restaurant. Being a male, I didn't usually get laid by networking with customers, but I did to meet plenty of rich and famous people, and many of them proved useful sooner or later. Same thing happened to this woman, whoever she is. "Former regular customers made campaign contribution without question or hesitation."
Since I became a semi-distinguished and single old fart, I have regularly and happily enjoyed the company of the waitresses and store clerks who flirt with me, and I'm happy to do what I can for them, or to steer them to people who can help them. Again, that's the very core of social networking. (On their part, at least. I don't care any more about upward mobility. I'm just happy to keep my feet warm and the kids off my lawn).
It's astounding that you would write what you wrote, which seems to be so completely out of touch with the reality I experience. I eat out all the time, and stop at c-stores at least once per day. My experience is that just about every ambitious waitress and female clerk tries to get to know me better once I become a regular. I've met a lot of really nice women this way. How could you not have experienced the exact same thing? Surely it can't be that this only happens to me. Far as I can see, social networking IS the name of the game for ambitious young women stuck in that kind of job.
In all fairness, I've only been in Hooters once, and that must have been 20 years ago, so I have no direct experience with the waitresses there, or the procedures. But I have read that they make their waitresses sign this: "I acknowledge and affirm that the Hooters concept is based on female sex appeal and the work environment is one in which joking and entertaining conversations are commonplace." So it's not exactly the same as working at Denny's. I reckon a lot of flirting goes on, and a smart woman could really advance herself if she played her cards correctly.
As to this specific woman, whoever the hell she is, who knows what precisely she did? And why would you object if you are reading this site? Politically incorrect remarks are the very raison d'etre of Other Crap.