Stop Ordering Me Around from Short Takes

Stop Ordering Me Around from Short Takes

In the essay "Stop Ordering me Around" the author talks about her own

experience as a waiter and how customers treat waitresses like her. In the beginning of

the essay, the author talks about the time when she stayed for an hour in the restaurant

waiting for country club tennis customers to be serve after the restaurant was closed. She

had to cook them what they wanted because the cook had clocked out when the restaurant

was closed. While she serves the customers, she feels that she is being harassed and

violated. The author's three dollar tip was like the payment for the emotional rape. Her

ten years of experience as a waitress, she feels that she has been abused and now she cant

take being the public's punching bag. She thinks that waitresses are peasants and that the

customers are the kings. The customers demand highly that sometimes waiters cant take

it. To the author, people not just go to restaurant to eat but to harass waitresses toward

their anger and frustration. And those people think that there is nothing wrong with

rudeness or sexual harassment as if it is to the waiters. But the author, she just do her job

and doesn't cross customers job because she cares for her job and she need the job. Most

likely if a customer harass a waiter, the waiter is not going to do anything because the

waiter is scared to loss the job. And that's what the author feels. The author believes that

customers doesn't have the right to torment the waiter because the waiter is what gives

the customers their food and the waiter makes every customers dining experience a

satisfying one. By that, every waitresses should get the respect they deserved because

they are just doing their jobs and they are not people to put the rudeness toward to.

Waiters like the author doesn't talk back to the customers because of the fear of losing

their job. To the author, she needs that job so she can earn enough to pay her graduate

school debt. Like every waiters, they also have a dream and even a small amount of tip

would help