Actual Conversation while at work.
"Hey, How's it going?"
"I'll take a (food item)"
(Thinking wow do you greet everyone that way or just me the dude making your food.)
Cue evil thought of grinding food on the floor before cooking it is playing in my mind while I say....
"Alright, can I get anything else for you?"
"No"
"Thanks and have a nice day." (Hope you enjoy spit in you food)
Silence....
This scenario happens everyday to me at my part time job. Where I work to help pay bills and most importantly, get health insurance for the family. But this sort of behavior seems to get worse around Christmas. I got a complaint about a shift I was managing the other day and my boss was fairly upset. It WAS noted that this was not the "norm" when I am at the restaurant. But it still bugs me. I do my best to make eye contact, greet customers, and make sure they have a good experience. But this time of year brings out the worst in people. I feel like saying, "Hi, My name is Cory and I am a real boy....or Man with a savage beard." The pressures and stress associated with Christmas and the whole gift giving routine turns people into monsters (cue shameless Skillet plug here). I have noticed that people are more joyful around Halloween, which is an evil holiday. This is exactly how Satan wants it. For us to be so stressed out about getting the perfect gift or getting the last "Monster High Doll" in the entire DFW Metroplex. That we forget the reason we celebrate. We forge the reason we give gifts to each other in the first place. To represent the gift God gave us through Jesus. Nothing we can buy at a retail store will ever be an adequate representation of this love that God has for us.
So don't stress out. Treat people like they are human, like they are our brothers and sisters. Or better yet like they are Jesus! Look at the clerk and remember Jesus was born for them too. In a effort to be fair, I will try to look at the people who are treating me like a robot and remember that they are loved by God too. Let's work together to change the behavior that is infecting the most amazing event in history the birth of our King Jesus.
Merry Christmas Ya'll
CD
