Things that Fly!

Injustice

I was searching my photo library for a good picture to portray injustice, but having a small stock of photos this was the best picture I could think find. This is a statue of Kouros taken on the island of Naxos in Greece. At the bottom of the photo I'm doing my best to mimic his robotic like stance and give an idea of the statue's huge size. You'll obviously note that this statue looks unfinished and indeed is still in the quarry. Three-thousand years ago when this statue was being chieseled away they found a vien in the marble and abandoned the statue.

At work they raised the tip pool from 2.5% to 3.5%. When I first started working there it was only 2%. Consider this; an average bill comes to about $35. If you tip 10% on your bill and leave me $3.50, I have to give $1.22 of that $3.50 to the kitchen and hostess. Now I believe in tipping out the kitchen and hostesses, but within reason. Of all the Boston Pizzas in Edmonton we have the highest tip percentage at 3.5%, the average being 2.2% and the second highest being West Edmonton Mall at 3%. I would think that with above average tipout we would have above average service from kitchen and hostess's but the truth is that we have unimaginable turnover rate with out hostesses and the kitchen isn't much better. They said the increase in tip pool percentage was to create more incentive for people to stay in the kitchen. But I don't understand why this needs to come from the servers. Why can't a raise come from the pockets of the owners?

I guess when I look at the picture of the statue, I think about what it must feel like to be used. How the marble showed a bit of weakness and was left for dead. Sometimes thats how I feel where I work. That I point out inequity of something and just be given the door. Why try and fix a problem when sometimes it's easier to just walk away from it.

Maybe this was a bad example. I don't think that they could fix the marble and it was just a statue not a person. But sometimes I feel like just a dollar sign and not a person and wish that I could break out of this horrible mold.

posted by Rob and Lauren @ 1:54 AM