Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHEN YOU WAITRESS, you work for the tips, not the wage, because a dollar an hour is nothing to speak of. Very soon you learn to tell the tippers apart and you find out that there are only two types you can rely on: paunchy businessmen who tip because of your legs and former waitresses...
First of all, waitressing is conceived as a temporary occupation. Most women who waitress do so for short periods of time, generally six months or less. Restaurant owners expect this and want this. They know that there will always be another girl willing to work for the low wage to replace the girl who has just left...
...might fare better than the majority of the press. On hand, for example, was Public Broadcasting's Theodore H. White (The Making of the President), who covered China for six years as a TIME-LIFE correspondent and impressed his colleagues at the first press luncheon by asking a waitress in Mandarin to bring him green tea. But the Chinese proved courteously unenlightening to everyone. "A question about what happened to Deputy Premier Lin Piao," wrote Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, "produces a polite reminder to eat your spinach...
...lucky Snoopy button and a large supply of peanut butter, does not miss the social life that is ruled out by her training regimen. Says she: "There are lots of boys in the training group too, you know." Dianne Holum, a fiercely dedicated competitor who worked as a waitress last year to help finance a three-month training stint in The Netherlands, adds: "I don't mind the sacrifices. An Olympic gold medal is a life's ambition come true." Even so, the demands are such that many young skaters have to drop out of school and study...
HSWOC sees the fight at Cronin's as a first step in a projected drive to organize waitresses at other Square restaurants. Waiting on tables is all too often considered as a demeaning job reserved for women. The low salaries ensure that waitresses must--in the words of waitress organizer Patricia Welch--"bow, scrape and kiss...