the box

Stories from the depths of the high end service industry, from the perspective of a fly on the wall.  They forget we're there, because they see us as Servants rather than Servers. Story of Senator Mark Warner and wife in intimate conversation with A Family (the Murrays).  Mark's wife's comment being the final punchline.  Story from days catering as captain at V House and beyond.

Old white privileged baby-boomer syndrome of empowering themselves over others by asking/demanding their name. They pass it off as being personal, but it's only for their benefit, to empower themselves over you, in their "rightful" place, in their thinking.  What they are actually saying is, "What's your name, son?"  They are giving you no option, as if they are entitled to my name, and no other demographic does this. The stories of the old factory owners that knew every workers name but never once gave a raise, thinking that was some gift.  Nope.