Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sandwich Artists in the 21st Century

I went to Subway recently and saw that they started serving soups.  There was a little plastic pot case with small cups so you can sample what they got.  The sign said something like "Try our new soups!  Please take a cup and ask your sandwich artist for a sample."

No, you're not a sandwich artist.  You're a waitress/waiter at Subway.  When I had a min wage job at an ice cream place, I didn't call myself an ice cream artist or anything stupid like that; I was called a waitress.  And yes, I know, sometimes when you have these booth type positions you also have to clean, stock, and all that jazz, but that still doesn't mean that you have to have a "flight attendant" claim where you are entitled to have a better title for what you do while you go to school.  And most of these people are young kids who still don't have their foot in the real world door to get a career, and they will someday.  Don't let the economy get you down, guys.  Unless if you have been there for 14 years, then I will still not recognize this as a "sandwich artist" case. 

Flight attendants and custodians are the only ones who should have this privilege of having a better title because they actually have a better paid job doing this and they usually stick to it for many years.  I still think that stewardess and janitors are still acceptable job titles, but at least these people travel and deal with jobs that asshole people born with a spoon in their mouth don't want to deal with.  They aren't poor; they get money for good work. 

So to hell with these titles.  Baristas also piss me off.  I don't care if you have to acquire a skill to brew coffee; you get that through a month's worth of training and so forth then you end up quitting two years later anyway.  At least flight attendants have to deal with working while being thousands of miles into the air and possible turbulence.  If they even spill a coffee, it could end up in someone's face. 

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