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Originally Posted by octothorp
Occasionally there are things I get annoyed about, but in the end the impact on my day is negligible, and I know nothing about the personal circumstances of the person who causes me annoyance. I get that venting on the internet is a valid way of venting such frustrations (and I've done this too... see my posts on Tim Hortons employees making my drink in a disposable cup before pouring it into my travel mug).
It's honestly never occurred to me, in fast food restaurants or otherwise, that someone serving me may be a TFW, but more power to them; keeping that in mind I'll try to practice even more patience and kindness with fastfood workers, as I can't imagine what a difficult journey and circumstances that would be.
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Good post and it pretty much reflects my feelings too. I eat out all the time and the number of times where I've had what I would consider to be poor service I can count on one hand. I worked in fast food when I was young and I know what goes on behind the scenes.
It's easy for people to label places like McD's or Timmy's as being slow service and whatnot. But those are human beings behind the tills. I love hearing people complain about their order taking 20 minutes in drive thru, yet there are only 3 people working. Blame the corporation, not the workers.
And for what it's worth I find TFW to be much more efficient food workers then Canadian born teens who don't give a crap about what they do and are simply there for drinking/weed money. TFW come to this country to provide a better life for their families back home and it reflects in their work. They actually give a crap.
North Americans have such a sense of entitlement when it comes to how they expect service to be, it's insane. And it's those unrealistic expectations that set the bar to high that is the problem. Not the service itself.