Anonymous wrote:Yes, dulled by drugs and social media.

In the 80s and 90s we were just dulled by drugs and alcohol.

Customer service and food service are jobs that really mess with your mental health.

Out in upper nw last week. Good restaurant, enveloped in a cloud of weed as we walked in and continued off and on thru the meal. Kind of disrespectful. Get a grip people. At least go in the damn walk-in like we did back in the dark ages to kill the smell. We did it only during " closing" back then. I don't want to smell skunk when paying 35$ per entree

Anonymous wrote:Days before covid closures, I was out for dinner and our waitress disappeared. I went to the ladies room and found her passed out on the floor with a syringe still in her arm. Had the hostess call an ambulance. This was at an expensive NOVA restaurant.

hope they gave you a free meal and some giftcards

Hope someone at Wapo sees this thread. Would love to read an article on this topic.

It's possible all of the above are right.

But there's no denying you see and smell zonked out on weed people far more now than you did 10 years ago and especially among a certain demographic. Smoking cigarettes 10 years ago = toking weed on vape pens today.

Some of them might be college kids working a lot and not sleeping much. I had to work a zillion hours to put myself through college and got maybe 4 hours of sleep a night. Plus sometimes I was hungover. It's also possible some of these kids aren't really the right personality type for a customer facing position but it was the job that was available.

Yes, dulled by drugs and social media.

Oh, please. We were stoned when I worked at Burger King back in the 80s. They put me on cash register because I was often the only coherent one there. You don't like it, stay home. Working food service sucks. You have to do something to blunt the pain (pun intended).