If you think a famous person ever receives poor service, i doubt you know any famous people

[La Lioness Priyanka]

the level of service they get varies from amazing to obsequious.

thats my PSA for today.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Well, amazing and obsequious are only 2 possibilities

You seem to be short 44.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. amazing TO obsequious. not amazing and obsequious only.

[pinboy3niner]

4. LAZY, LAZY, LAZY

It's just LAZY to omit everything in between without specific mention of each one.

[cali]

9. damned LAZY

[Live and Learn]

3. Are famous people always recognized as such?

I know I wouldn't recognize the majority of them.

Nor, am I much impressed with someone just for being famous. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that I had to serve Dick Cheney, his service wouldn't be exemplary.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. those in sports/tv/movies are. those in politics/academia not so much.

if you wanted to keep your job, your service to cheney would be exemplary.

[Live and Learn]

6. No job could be worth that. nt

[Louisiana1976]

7. Well said.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. i think that is a very elitist thing to say. if the job paid my rent, and i didnt have many

alternatives, i would just suck it up. i am not saying that would make me happy, but i would fulfill my obligations to my employers and my family.

a job may not be worth much, but a place to live + my family are.

[Live and Learn]

14. Those are a lot of unlikely ifs for a service job.

How much would you be willing to take for a place to live and feeding your family? Slavery, working 14 hours a day, 7 days a week or a job that will kill you in a few years? Lines have to be drawn sometimes.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. but lines are not normally drawn about servicing a famous person

i wont do my job vs being enslaves are not in any way the same thing

[Live and Learn]

20. I guess we each draw our own lines.

Serving Cheney crosses mine.

[SidDithers]

8. Except when they get mistaken for a prostitute...

then handcuffed and thrown into a police car for exercising their right to not be forced to provide ID to the police.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025533138

Sid

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. the LAPD is not part of the service industry.

[pinboy3niner]

12. But it says right on their cruisers: "To protect and to SERVE"

Are you too LAZY to READ, too?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. LOL.

[Live and Learn]

15. Really? They don't seem to thinks so either

but they most certainly are supposed to be.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. you think a police job and a service industry job are in the same ballpark?

i think police provide us a service, but its not part of the service industry.

[Live and Learn]

19. Sure it is. It is a public service which is a sub-category

of the service industry.

You are probably thinking in terms of low paying service jobs but many service industry jobs pay pretty well like accounting and law. In fact, any industry that doesn't produce or manufacture goods is a service industry.

[dsc]

18. tell that to Oprah who rather famously on two occassions couldn't get served at high end stores

[Blue_Tires]

21. +1

I had a classmate in college working as a valet who got stiffed by Tiger Woods once...FWIW this was when Woods was just starting to make a name for himself... (that's my only confirm-able "bad celebrity tipper" story)