Shipping Up to Boston
Submitted by The Boys and Schools Blog
I used to be a waitress. I think there’s some kind of law about having to be a waiter/waitress at some time in your life in order to balance your cosmic karma. Anyway, one of the things that you notice when waiting tables is how much people seem to prefer complaining to praising. In general, people are much more likely to ask to see your manager to complain about how you forgot to bring them extra ice than they are to praise what a great job you did. This is not meant to open a discussion on how huge a crime it is to forgot one’s extra ice or how many jobs there are that are worse than waiting tables, or even how some days the world seems to be full of complaining jerks. My only point is that sometimes we (and I do mean all of us–or at least myself) are too apt to criticize and too slow to praise.
