Serving Florida by Barbara Enrenreich was a vey indifferent piece of work to me. It pulled me in then dragged me out. This particular piece I did not enjoy. I could relate to the narrator but then towards the end it became very irrelevant to me.

I completely understand where the writer is coming from when she is speaking about her job as a waitress. I found the first half of the writing humorous because it is exactly what I go through on a daily basis. As far as dealing with the customers, managers, and coworkers theres a strong correlation between our lives. The author explains those things very well. When she speaks about the customers leaving bad tips I had a moment of dejavu. The most disrespectful thing you can do to a server is leave them a bad tip.  A server works on a small hourly wage and depends on their daily tips for pay, so to give exceptional service then receive less than a ten percent tip is very irritating. The management that the narrator describes looked similar to the staff I am currently employed under. Where I work, there is a high achy that stands at the food window and barks orders to everyone, not to mention criticizing everything we do. I also have a manager that is cool, relaxed, more understanding of his position, and who is better to work with just like the writer. The way I view my co-workers is different from the way the narrator viewed hers however. My co-workers are more like family rather than strangers. I look forward to seeing my co-workers and catching up with them when I have not seen them in a long time. We do talk about some of the same things the writer spoke about, but for us it is on a more personal level. We really know about each other’s lives. Although we had much in common job related it did not change the way I felt about how the writer portrayed the short story.

I hated how the author wrote this story. She was very descriptive but at one point it was just an overload of detail. There was quite a bit of unnecessary information such as describing what was happening on the television while she cleaned hotel rooms. I understood that she wanted to describe a form of escape from her jobs but it became something that bored me to death. The author would begin describing something and I became a little bit overwhelmed. Every time she went into detail I would lose my train of thought or even forget what I was reading. I had no knowledge of where the story was going. Halfway through the story I was exhausted of reading,  the story really dragged on and made it very difficult to stay interested.

Serving Florida would have been very interesting if it did not lag on and on. The story was very relatable. I understand what it feels like to have two jobs. I also know what it feels like to serve in Florida but the way she described everything kept me very uninterested to find out where the story was leading. While reading one can tell the story was going no where, as a reader that is no fun.