Does anyone else feel awkward around servers/staff?

[thirteenpiglets]

Not sure why but I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed around serving staff/workers such as cleaners, gardeners, painters, and the like.

I think it’s because when I was young I was poor. I was the waitress and the cleaner. Now that I have a professional job and a lot more money, I am the employer. I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed or that the people think I’m posh… but I’m just like them.

It's social condition OP. So many articles, stories and social media stuff on the "poor exploited workers".

People complain about doing those jobs, they complain about the customers, they complain about the wages, they complain about the conditions, they complain about the tips. They just complain.

So you feel uncomfortable about being involved in the transition because you've read or watched so many negative stories about the dynamics of the people involved.

Yet if you weren't a paying customer people would then be complaining about the lack of jobs, the down turn in the hospitality industry, the effect on tourism.

Think of it like this. Those "poor exploited people" are just as necessary to society as a rich professional in a "real" job. If EVERYONE was say a rich influencer, driving supercars and living in mansions; who would make the cars for them to buy, or build the mansions for them to live in?

Their money would be worthless because nobody would be doing the work to make the things the rich people wanted to buy.

It's the reason society would collapse if we all became rich overnight.

My Dad has always hated being waited on except my my mum/his mother

Something to do with his working class background and not considering himself better than anyone else.

I don’t think this way, and I have done waitressing and other service jobs. When I did those jobs I didn’t give a second thought to the people I was serving and I certainly didn’t judge them. People doing these jobs just want the customer/ employer to be polite to them, not a bully, not condescending and not weird.