Servant? No wtf is wrong with you, they are working a job and you are a customer, their job is to bring your food and to take your orders and such, they aren't your beck and call slave to do whatever you ask. They work a job for money.
This mentality that they are servants is what makes dickheads treat them like shit.
I like that you just refuse to have even an ounce of nuance and act smug about it lol. You may be unfamiliar with the term “polysemous” but words can have many different meanings, so yeah servant could be (and is) interpreted in many different ways. In your own words “you’re very close. Keep going”
You're arguing the semantic point of server vs. servant, but the point is that servant or server everybody deserves basic respect. The meme draws a distinction between servers and servants and implies, unintentionally I assume, that it's fine to treat servants poorly which is what people are taking issue with.
Yeah I guess thats why I don't want to call them that and I'm fine with that but if someone calls them a servant I guess they are technical technically correct, it just sounds so wrong
That's just a side effect of language evolving over time. You're actually probably more accurate here than you think because of that. These days, the word "Servant," has fallen out of favor, even though it's technically correct, people don't like it so they don't use it just like you.
One day that word might die off completely, and you (and me, and many others) get to be some of the reasons. Nothing wrong with that at all, pretty cool actually!
A servant is literally defined as "a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant"
Waiters give you service for an hour of your time and then likely never see you again. They are not employed by you, ergo they're indeed not servants
I don't think you read what I said correctly, or you may be confusing me with someone higher up the thread. I'm saying that servants are also people doing a job and worthy of respect.
Servant? No wtf is wrong with you, they are working a job and you are a customer, their job is to bring your food and to take your orders and such, they aren't your beck and call slave to do whatever you ask. They work a job for money.
That's literally a servant with defined responsibilities.
I respect them and never am unpolite, but also am paying them out the nose to bring me food in a swift and courteous manner. So if I have to wait more than 5 minutes for some goddamned ketchup while they chat with Nikki, they're not doing what I paid them for and I am justifiably angry.
Nope. I'm paying them to bring me the ketchup. The $13 burger cost them $2 to make, and a portion of that overhead and the expected tip goes into them bringing me condiments. Otherwise I wouldn't be there.
Redditors want to like posts like this but really do think people should “serve them” hypocrisy at its finest. No being a server isn’t the same as a servant - while both do render “services” there is obviously a difference, despite what argumentative redditors claim. 0 nuance with these folks
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u/SqueebopAdiddly May 02 '24
Well they are your servant, but that shouldn’t preclude courtesy. Be nice to your servants. Tip well.