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

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Reply #17)

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 08:55 PM

Sep 2014

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.

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If you think a famous person ever receives poor service, i doubt you know any famous people [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 OP

Well, amazing and obsequious are only 2 possibilities pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #1

amazing TO obsequious. not amazing and obsequious only. La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #2

LAZY, LAZY, LAZY pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #4

damned LAZY cali Sep 2014 #9

Are famous people always recognized as such? Live and Learn Sep 2014 #3

those in sports/tv/movies are. those in politics/academia not so much. La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #5

No job could be worth that. nt Live and Learn Sep 2014 #6

Well said. Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #7

i think that is a very elitist thing to say. if the job paid my rent, and i didnt have many La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #11

Those are a lot of unlikely ifs for a service job. Live and Learn Sep 2014 #14

but lines are not normally drawn about servicing a famous person La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #16

I guess we each draw our own lines. Live and Learn Sep 2014 #20

Except when they get mistaken for a prostitute... SidDithers Sep 2014 #8

the LAPD is not part of the service industry. La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #10

But it says right on their cruisers: "To protect and to SERVE" pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #12

LOL. La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #13

Really? They don't seem to thinks so either Live and Learn Sep 2014 #15

you think a police job and a service industry job are in the same ballpark? La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #17

Sure it is. It is a public service which is a sub-category Live and Learn Sep 2014 #19

tell that to Oprah who rather famously on two occassions couldn't get served at high end stores dsc Sep 2014 #18

+1 Blue_Tires Sep 2014 #21