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Thing is, when you are employed at these places, these glorified fast food sit-down restaurants, in most cases you must work alongside co-workers that have a "jailhouse" mentality. In most of the restaurants I have worked in, most of the employees are on pre-trial release, probation, parole or are in a halfway house. Therefore, sadly, you must be on guard at all times not to let them know much about yourself & not to give them any ammo to use against you, just as if you were locked up in jail with these people.
If one makes a habit of just treating them with trust, venting around them & really telling them what is on your mind then they will use it against you after finding out what pushes your buttons or they will invariably use the information as leverage to make their sorry asses look good to the management or ownership.
I have found this especially to be true if one does a good job. People that really depend on these types of low-paying service industry jobs are, for the most part, sorry slack asses & they really do not like it when someone shows them up by doing exemplary work.
Waiters & waitresses are a bit less likely than the kitchen staff to be in some sort of legal trouble, but ultimately, they are probably even more likely to be back-stabbers. The scheduling & section assignments for wait staff is always done through favortism with the management & this leads to the ridiculous requirement that one engage in workplace politics. Food & sex just sort of go together or something, because restaurants are one type of work environment where usually everyone is fucking each other & most of the time, the managers are perverts who like to abuse their rinky-dink power.
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