{"id":505,"date":"2007-08-05T17:54:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T22:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2007-08-05T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T22:54:28","slug":"what-ever-happened-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/what-ever-happened-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What ever happened to&#8230;..?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Service and taking pride in doing a good job in this country. We went out to eat last night the restaurant did not have certain items ready that should have been, the cooks were playing grab A*@ in the back and the wait staff was having to make up excuses for them. They were apologising like crazy and I kept telling them &#8220;You don&#8217;t owe me an apology, the cooks that are not doing their jobs do&#8221; Which never came nor did any concern from the Manager either. I like most of you in my job if I do not do it right I get called on the carpet, wrote up, and get my birthday taken away, But it seems like in these other industries screwing up is not punished but the norm. Even in my industry, the other day I was chewed out because the shop did not do my Oil Change when it was due, but the mechanic who&#8217;s job it is skirted with no scars. I guess I just expect to much when I am paying my hard earned money for something, I expect it to be done right the first time. Maybe I was born 40 years too late Back in the day people took pride in treating customers with dignity and respect, back then &#8220;The customer was right&#8221; now we are &#8220;out of line&#8221; when we ask for our steak to be cooked correctly and our car to be fixed correctly the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service and taking pride in doing a good job in this country. We went out to eat last night the restaurant did not have certain items ready that should have been, the cooks were playing grab A*@ in the back and the wait staff was having to make up excuses for them. They were apologising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}