Thanks to a CP reader who noted the "Survey" sent to all employees of the CMPD today by Romo and Ray Ray.
According to the CP reader the survey is a trap if you answer honestly because it is anything but anonymous.
Further the survey is worded with pretty leading questions in order to prompt the answers they are looking for, since much of the survey has to do with racial bias.
Here are two of the "Questions":
Section 3:
Hiring, Promotion and Reward Practices:
9. Employees are hired based on their skills and abilities, regardless of their gender, age, ethnicity or other differences.
{} Strongly Agree
{} Agree
{} Neutral
{} Disagree
{} Strongly Disagree
10. All employees are encouraged to apply for job opportunities that fit their experience, skills and career goals.
{} Strongly Agree
{} Agree
{} Neutral
{} Disagree
{} Strongly Disagree
Again major props to the CP reader who let us know about this garbage.
Friday, November 6, 2009
"National Stiff Your Waiter Day" Declared for December 1, 2009
The New York Times ran a piece by Bruce Buschel titled “100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do”
Never one for originality, The Charlotte Observer then weighed in with What Should DINERS Never Do? A hastily put together blog post by food writer Helen Schwab, on her self titled blog.
Helen claims that her post is “The obvious needed accompaniment to the New York Times' story on "100 Things Servers Should Never Do"
It is unfortunate that her post only counters 5 items that diners should never do but on the bright side she does point readers to Waiter Rant. (So save yourself the disappointment and skip Helen's blog)
Then she suggests that they she and her readers could do better.
Well She and They Didn’t, as Helen’s number 1 Never Do was, “Never complain about anything more subtle than a wrong order unless and until you have waited on tables for a minimum 30 days yourself”.
Her post dies shortly there after, where she requests that readers to submit their own “Never Do” items.
My experience with Helen is that she refuses to post anything that she doesn’t agree with so the comments are pretty much one sided.
However, the comments do point out something that has become H1N1 in its spread across the country, wait staff are so unknowledgeable about their craft that it is comical.
The truth is management has failed to train their wait staff even the most basic of service etiquette.
Basics like; women should be served first, not telling guests they need to keep their forks, interrupting, taking a seat or squatting down to take an order, serve form the left, remove from the right seems to be a lost art.
I’ve taken to answering the annoying “Are you still working on that?” wait staff question with, “No, I’m just trying to figure out if I should call the health department or my lawyer.”
I’m tired of hearing “no problem” for every request, perhaps I should ask if they mind that I'm not going to pay my bill? “No Problem?”
After reading all the rants that Helen Schwab has posted on her blog I can only suggest one thing.
A “National Stiff Your Wait Staff Day”, a day where the customers take back their role as the customer, and remind service staff that tipping is optional.
We can make it up to them on "National Waiters Day" on May 21st.
Never one for originality, The Charlotte Observer then weighed in with What Should DINERS Never Do? A hastily put together blog post by food writer Helen Schwab, on her self titled blog.
Helen claims that her post is “The obvious needed accompaniment to the New York Times' story on "100 Things Servers Should Never Do"
It is unfortunate that her post only counters 5 items that diners should never do but on the bright side she does point readers to Waiter Rant. (So save yourself the disappointment and skip Helen's blog)
Then she suggests that they she and her readers could do better.
Well She and They Didn’t, as Helen’s number 1 Never Do was, “Never complain about anything more subtle than a wrong order unless and until you have waited on tables for a minimum 30 days yourself”.
Her post dies shortly there after, where she requests that readers to submit their own “Never Do” items.
My experience with Helen is that she refuses to post anything that she doesn’t agree with so the comments are pretty much one sided.
However, the comments do point out something that has become H1N1 in its spread across the country, wait staff are so unknowledgeable about their craft that it is comical.
The truth is management has failed to train their wait staff even the most basic of service etiquette.
Basics like; women should be served first, not telling guests they need to keep their forks, interrupting, taking a seat or squatting down to take an order, serve form the left, remove from the right seems to be a lost art.
I’ve taken to answering the annoying “Are you still working on that?” wait staff question with, “No, I’m just trying to figure out if I should call the health department or my lawyer.”
I’m tired of hearing “no problem” for every request, perhaps I should ask if they mind that I'm not going to pay my bill? “No Problem?”
After reading all the rants that Helen Schwab has posted on her blog I can only suggest one thing.
A “National Stiff Your Wait Staff Day”, a day where the customers take back their role as the customer, and remind service staff that tipping is optional.
We can make it up to them on "National Waiters Day" on May 21st.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Boeing Moves to South Carolina and Seattle is Not Happy
Cartoonist David Horsey takes a cheap shoot at South Carolina. I for a fact know our dogs are smarter than that.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Burger vs Keillor
I guess I should be shocked or surprised but I'm not. But reading Ken Burger's column today, I was struck by how smilier the story was to one I highlighted back in June. A story titled "Take In State Fair". Keillor's story was top shelf, Burger's was lame at best and took several points from Keillor's.
Keillor writes: "You hike toward where you recollect you parked your car this morning, and by a stroke of God's grace you actually find it, and your child does not have to watch a father roaming around pitifully, moaning to himself".
Burger writes: "Which is a skill you wish you had when you're walking around the parking lot, lost, trying to remember where you parked your car, with a sleepy little girl on your shoulders".
Keillor writes: "You've spent hours gratifying yourself on deep-fried cheese curds, deep-fried ice cream, testing one sausage against another, washing them down with authentic American sarsaparilla, sampling your child's onion rings, postponing the honey sundae for later, and now it is later, and the horticulture building and the honey-sundae booth are four blocks and a river of humanity away.
Burger writes: "And there's food, lots of food. Walking down the midway, you're immersed in the best and worst culinary concoctions known to man. Cotton candy, cheese fries, chili fries, fried bologna, deep-fried MoonPies, BBQ, sausages, hot dogs, elephant ears, fried turkey legs, deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, funnel cakes, candy apples, roasted corn, egg rolls, calzones, pizzas, blooming onions, cheese sticks, peanuts, corn dogs and candy by the pound. "
But you be the judge:
Ken Burger's Story
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/nov/03/theres-no-place-like-the-fair/
Garrison Keillor's Story
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/state-fairs/keillor-text/1
Read them both and tell us what you think.
Keillor writes: "You hike toward where you recollect you parked your car this morning, and by a stroke of God's grace you actually find it, and your child does not have to watch a father roaming around pitifully, moaning to himself".
Burger writes: "Which is a skill you wish you had when you're walking around the parking lot, lost, trying to remember where you parked your car, with a sleepy little girl on your shoulders".
Keillor writes: "You've spent hours gratifying yourself on deep-fried cheese curds, deep-fried ice cream, testing one sausage against another, washing them down with authentic American sarsaparilla, sampling your child's onion rings, postponing the honey sundae for later, and now it is later, and the horticulture building and the honey-sundae booth are four blocks and a river of humanity away.
Burger writes: "And there's food, lots of food. Walking down the midway, you're immersed in the best and worst culinary concoctions known to man. Cotton candy, cheese fries, chili fries, fried bologna, deep-fried MoonPies, BBQ, sausages, hot dogs, elephant ears, fried turkey legs, deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, funnel cakes, candy apples, roasted corn, egg rolls, calzones, pizzas, blooming onions, cheese sticks, peanuts, corn dogs and candy by the pound. "
But you be the judge:
Ken Burger's Story
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/nov/03/theres-no-place-like-the-fair/
Garrison Keillor's Story
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/state-fairs/keillor-text/1
Read them both and tell us what you think.
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