(1/2) Concerning your post about the attitude of employees having a huge impact on the atmosphere, I have found exactly the same thing. If people are invested, want a company to do well, and are generally positive it can make working a lot of fun because the team is great. It's that type of feeling that can bolster you through the bad customers and the long shifts. It's a shame that that is the attitude at your restaurant, particularly in contrast to the cafe.
(2/2) The really sad thing is that that attitude of, it doesn't matter anyway because people don't expect much, has the ability to be a self fulfilling prophecy. People always look at me strangely when I say I have a degree but work as a customer advisor for barely minimum wage, and that I enjoy it. I can't afford to stay, and I want to do something helpful with my job, but there is a part of me that does really like this industry, and I honestly think it's people's attitude.
Is it okay if I publish this? Let me know if it's not and I'll take it down!
But yes, I completely understand what you're talking about- that's something at the core of my "therapy vs food industry" debate. Because when I'm working at good restaurants (waaaaah I miss Red Lobster so much!) or at CBTL, the atmosphere is fun and I can be my typical weird self and everyone else is weird, too, and it's just- fantastic~
And then...at every therapy job/internship I've ever had (and I've had about 7), the work atmosphere has been oppressive and uncomfortable. I've only found two co-workers I've gotten along with and both of them were judged harshly by the other therapists (and one was unjustly fired because of co-worker drama). I love *therapy* and I love *helping people* but I do noooot typically get along with other therapists and I have issues with the mental health system as a whole.
