An order of attitude for you anytime

Arthur Allen couldn’t be more right when he said in last week’s commentary that the attitudes from cafeteria staff should be the “kind of thing I’d expect to read in the Times New Roman, not write about for the Northeastern News.” While at Northeastern, either living on or off campus, I have learned that the cafeteria managers and supervisors are the rudest and most annoying individuals that, along with the Registrar’s office work-studies, make the university’s atmosphere hostile. First of all, the thing that bothers me the most is their air of superiority. They treat cooks and servers with stiffness and rudeness without caring if they are tired, have worked for three days straight, or have to deal with students who have the same dysfunctional belief that they are almighty. Maybe I feel for them the most because being fluent in Spanish, and having the majority of workers be Hispanic, I can talk to them and learn how they dislike being disregarded, working in an environment of fear about doing something wrong and other hardships. Thank goodness not all of us at Northeastern are stock up; and in case you didn’t know, just last week the Latin American Student Organization organized an Appreciation Banquet to thank all of those workers who have to put up with these people. As far as I am concerned I will continue in helping organize this event for future years because it the least students can do to thank unappreciated workers. Furthermore, why should WE get attitudes, like Arthur said, since last time I checked my tuition bill showed a student paying for her food? Yes, there are a lot of ingrates that serve themselves more than they can eat and sometimes waste an entire plate of food because they couldn’t finish it or didn’t like the taste of the dish. I have advice for these people: only serve yourselves what you will eat, try the dishes before ordering a massive portion, and think of those who have no food for days and about how many mouths could be filled with the amounts of food you throw away in a week. Now, Back to the point of paying for our meals. We have pretty expensive meal plans and if we follow the advice that I just gave, which many of us do, we pretty much know how much of something we want. Therefore, the supervisor man had no right to make a face, or-and this really gets me mad-tell Arthur that he “could come back after… eating.” Thanks mister but who the hell died and made you my daddy? Cafeteria managers should really put attention to these attitudes from supervisors because they are not rightful, or needed. Therefore, Arthur I do have a suggestion, but first I want to thank you for your comments because I am sure we have all experienced this treatment at least once but never took the time to talk about it. My suggestion is to be a tattletale. You heard it, if a supervisor or-unfortunately for me who defends them-a service worker act up on you go directly to the Student Life office and file a complaint, send an email to VP Klotzbier and complain, or keep writing letter of complaint to the News. Get it? Complain in a constructive way so that the university gets so annoyed with our pleads to make things better that they actually will. Bessie King-sophomore-journalism and marketing major