Summer Job Nightmare

To support themselves as they struggle through college, many students not blessed with wealthy parents or substantial grants turn to the field of waitressing. Requiring few special job qualifications and having flexible hours, waitressing can be an easy solution to those lack-of-money blues. Like any job, however, all it takes is one mean , small-minded, ignorant person--your boss--to turn an ideal place of employment into a working hell. Often, I have heard people complain about how …

…have decided that there must be some perverted, masochistic streak hidden within me. As horrible, abusive, and low-paying as this job was, I suffered there for almost three months. Waitresses quickly came and went, often storming out the door within hours after starting their first shift. My true regret that summer wasn't that I had the misfortune to apply at Giovanni's restaurant, but that I didn't follow that well-beaten path to the door much sooner.