lousy jobs are abundant

lousy jobs are abundant

fiction
edward w pritchard

Why don't waitresses flip out at work. They have no prospects, no benefits and no security. Somehow they never go on a shooting spree. Do all of them have rich husbands these days?

Fast food workers are always busy. Making someone else money. If they look sideways they get a warning and if they ever say anything they are not scheduled anymore. Maybe they need a union. Maybe they are all in college, piling up and leveraging student loans to pursue a better life.

How many fast food workers and waitresses are there? Everyone else in our Country goes either to fast food or is served food by a waitress. If everyone who sympathizes with their plight would help them just once or twice they would be treated more fairly. Maybe everyone else is too busy to notice.

Rubber workers got shot and killed when striking in our town in the 1930's when demanding better pay and benefits. When they were initially assessing their situation I bet they were a lot better off than waitresses and fast food workers.

Most of us are just getting by. Here's how we could help waitresses and fast food workers:

Gwen worked part time at the national chain bookstore. She worried because she had no benefits, no health insurance or retirement. She hoped someday to get into the library system but they only hired part time any more. No benefits and it was hard to get scheduled, because of declining tax revenues locally. Gwen liked to go out on Saturday night and go to a nice rival bookstore and then have a nice dinner. It was her splurge for the week. She always tipped the waitress because they didn't even get paid minimum wage. Gwen didn't tip at the the rival bookstore because they did brain work, and that was compensation in itself.

Gwen should talk to others and they should skip the bookstore and the restaurant and tell everyone exactly why and things might get better for waitresses, fast food workers and customer service people, and people who work at bookstores and people who work at drug stores and people who are cashiers and people who do telemarketing, cut hair and all people in those kind of jobs.

How can everyone be doing well if so many people aren't? Surely that many people can't be happy in those kind of jobs working temporary and part time. Maybe that's has something to do with all the declining tax revenues. I wonder if eventually everyone else who has planned wisely and made the grade will be effected?

If so many people aren't making a full time wage how can everybody be good, just peachy, living the good life, planning that big vacation, looking at the new car. Prosperity is just round the old corner.

Once I built a railroad [ strike railroad] [use] network now it's done; Brother can you spare me a dime.

Once I built a high speed network now it's done, brother can you spare me a dime-[$1.50].