Posted by Meri-Tuuli on April 16, 2006, at 13:51:56
In reply to Re: I'm apathetic, but I don't care » Meri-Tuuli, posted by Sarah T. on April 16, 2006, at 12:44:32
Hi, Sarah T. Yeah, maybe! Well, I think an awful lot of people are on SSRIs. The government found traces of prozac in the drinking water, thats how many people must be on them. i don't know about the whole service issue. I live in the UK, and well, I think service is worse here than in the US. Certainly when I have visited the US it was alot better than here in the UK. Thing is, here waitresses/bar tenders etc don't actually work for tips. Tipping isn't done here to the same extent as in the US, so waitresses etc don't have to work as hard being nice to the customer. Is that the sort of thing you mean by service? But yeah, even in broad terms, service is probably getting worse. Or just 'indifferent' like you say. You never seem to get shop/bar/cafe assistants who are really nice and cheery.
> Hi Meri. I agree. That has been my experience as well. You know, a few years ago, one of the weekly news magazines (I can't remember whether it was TIME or NEWSWEEK or BUSINESS WEEK or another one) did a cover story on "Why Does Service Stink?" It was about the decline in quality of services of all kinds. I was tempted to write a letter to the editor suggesting that service stinks because so many people are on ssri's, and the ssri's cause them not to care about the quality of the work they do. So many people just aren't conscientious about their work. The lack of care and concern have become so pervasive, at least in the U.S. Would you say this problem is increasing where you live?
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