Most service workers we talked to really, truly loved the social aspect of their job. Still, there are some things they’d rather not talk about—and here are 10 questions they’d rather not answer.“I get asked if I’m going to school all the time.
“People would always ask 'What are you studying?' long after I graduated college. It was always so awkward, and they would try to play it off like, 'Oh you look so young!' but usually followed up by asking why I didn't get a ‘real job.’ Then I'd have to nicely explain that I did have another job, but sadly student loans exist.
“It’s sometimes hard to give recommendations to people if you don’t know what they like, so I always prefer if somebody tells me the things they are deciding between so I can help guide them. But not a huge deal.”“If I politely declined because I didn’t feel like drinking, I would get a barrage of questions about why I didn’t want to drink. If I made up an excuse, like I was on antibiotics, they would insist that one shot wouldn’t hurt me.
“I had just started bartending and a man in his late 50s was at dinner with his wife and another couple. I was a very young bartender at the time. In AZ you can be 19 and after I served them dinner, his wife went to the bathroom and he came up to me telling me I needed to go to dinner with him, blah blah blah. Ew.
“I think the one thing I notice most about bartending when I did was how much more brazen people are with you. Their questions, manners, attitude. Verrrrry interesting.”“Your local coffee shop is not your personal Tinder, please leave employees alone. Don't lurk and don't ask for our numbers and don't ask for our social media.”“I’d be four deep at the bar, completely in the weeds, and people would ask about my tats, the significance, how many I have, etc.
'are you a student?' refers to, if he was a student then I get less tip...oh shit.