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Agree that discrination is too difficult to prove. I remember years ago my boss asked me why I passed over an applicant’s resume and I told her honestly, “the woman has a hyphenated last name. If she cannot decide whether to keep her maiden name or take her husband’s name I don’t want her reporting to me.” Make a decision that doesn’t include hyphenation. That was 20 years ago. There are all sorts of ways we discriminate.
Hopefully your boss was well informed and not at all impressed by this ridiculous expression of bigotry on your part and you, too, were soon being passed over for promotion. Or fired. I'd at least have sent you to HR for some serious retraining, not that it would do any good.
Wow. Sure glad I never had to work for anyone like you.
We ate at Seasons 52 on Mothers day and had the worse experience there ever. If it had been our first time we would never go back. The waitress was very apologetic and gave me my steak dinner free and the deserts for six were also free. She was very apologetic and hoped we could come back and we assured her we would as every other experience was great. She was very generously rewarded with a larger than normal tip and a smiley face from me with a TY on the bill.
I'm an old white guy and I wouldn't want the job because I KNOW I couldn't physically do it.
There have been many good comments since the one I just quoted, but this one really sums up my attitude. Even when I was 17, having a job the kept me standing all day just about killed me (bad feet). But ... despite that, I can sympathize with older people who have a tough time finding work -- even service jobs in restaurants.
OTOH, I occasionally go to restaurants that have older waitstaff. One is a Mexican restaurant with an older, effeminate waiter who at some point looked like he had a serious illness. However, he later reappeared at work looking healthy again. I give that restaurant points for being loyal to an employee.
Olive Garden is crap. They serve glorified TV dinners. No one with any self respect would want to work there. If this "Seasons" place is owned by the same company, chances are they are no better.
I went there once. That was quite some time ago; it must have been new. If I'd known that it belonged to Darden, I wouldn't have bothered.
Is price the deciding factor? Because the food is revolting.
Your opinion; but it seems that not everyone agrees as there are over 800 Olive Gardens in the country.
I tend to pretty much agree with Serous Conversation. We go to Olive Garden now and then for a lunch and while I do not walk out feeling that it was my best meal ever, it is far from revolting to us.
I was thinking of this thread as I read an article about a class action lawsuit being brought against multiple companies (big employers like Amazon, T-Mobile, etc) who are using Facebook age filters so only young people see their employment ads. Even Facebook was included as a company employing the practice.
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I give hiring preferences to US veterans -- which in New Hampshire means all my employees are old white dudes
