Andrew Zimmern, "What's Eating America"..

[arewethereyet]

Okay Brian.  The owners were adults.  They tended bar, hosted/hostessed and the man also butchered the meat.

Talking about kitchen work included the cooks, the waitresses, and we dishwashers/food preppers.

The place was only open at night - did you get that part?  It was a fancy sit down dining establishment.

The waitresses bussed the tables.  We teens weren't allowed in the dining area because of the presence of liquor and the way the laws were then.  So no, there weren't teens taking pizza coupons at any counter and there weren't any adults doing what we teens did.

Your mileage may vary.

WAKE UP....

I don't care what you claimed what happened at one job you had. IN THE REAL WORLD, people who are in the their late 20s/30s/40s/50s work the jobs media stupidly sells as "starter jobs". 

Of course teens aren't allowed in the bar area. NO SHIT. But what does that have to do with a busser or dishwasher being my age or older? You think I have only had one job in my life?

I have seen bussers and dishwashers older than me. I have worked with hostesses who were almost as old as my mother. 

I am sick of this age role bullshit. A job is a job. If you are not robbing a bank, I don't give a fuck what your age is, or what the position is, if you can do it, and you do it well, you deserve it.

What I was doing was in the real world.   It just so happens it doesn't fit your narrow narrative.

There is nothing wrong with doing that type of work.  People often want to do more if they are able to do more.  Some people get stuck in that sort of job for one reason or another and it's difficult to understand for some of us.  I didn't like the mindlessness of working in a die cast toy factory but some people worked there their entire working lives.  I made it two months  at the Ertl farm toy factory one summer during high school.  My dad got me that job so I would know it wasn't what I wanted.  I can't just shut my brain off and work like a robot...some can.

There's nothing wrong with performing a menial job if that's what you want to do.  And it appears that's what you wanted to do.

Your issue seems to be that you managed to write your own working rules under an owner that gave up and let you do so.  You are pissed that your way didn't fly with the new owner.  No matter how much you don't like it, the new owner was the new boss and it was play by his/her/corporate rules or move on.  It's often not in the best interest to let one person buck the rules as then you end up with others who think they can make their own rules...then no rules are followed.

No matter how good you were at what you were doing things were different when you, along with the business, were basically sold to new owners.