An Introduction

Working in food service when you are too good for the job (as is the case for most workers) is unfortunate; Working in food service after having achieved a college degree is a pain: at this point, you are making way less money than you paid toward a college degree that renders you overqualified for the job in the first place. However, that is not the part about this scenario that irks me, because a lot of people with bachelors go into the service industry post grad as an intermediary stage -a place to take it easy, such as the landing that connects two very long flights of stairs- to get a feel for life's benefits without the restraints that go along with any real responsibilities. I am quite comfortable as being the lowest-of-the-low employees in my corporate coffee-chain job because I can get insurance and pay rent on relatively few hours of labor, and I am left with enough cash flow to pursue my own interests, such as traveling -which, because I am but a mere star in the corporate galaxy, is easy to do given that many can pick up my workload while I am gone. My minimum wage job would have a failsafe system if it weren't for the customers. These are the people who in myriad ways take it upon themselves to impress upon me and my service-world peers of the minor contribution we are making to ourselves and the world. It is this population of people who find it clever to remind me that their coffee habit pays my bills; the people who think it's cute to tell me that they "really admire my work" while I am changing the garbage on the cafe floor. To get right into it, I have been roughing the service industry since I was sixteen years-old (I am now 23) and while I credit this line of work with many benefits, such as getting me to come out of my social shell, the positive aspects have come hand-in-hand with many teeth-grinding elements which I would like to present, through a sardonic humor filter, to anyone who may come across this "CLog" (Comic Log). This is mostly for my venting, for other service workers' relating, and for current or future patrons to recognize these representations of bad behavior in themselves -to be ashamed by them and to model their subsequent actions against. take care,
J