a lose-lose situation for the people trying to work through all of this. The cook is mad at the server for not being able to write the order in plain English. The server is mad at the cook for always being so critical and not worrying about themselves. Eventually the person who is effected most by all of this is the customer. What happens is the cook finally just doesn't care about the order anymore and doesn't prepare a good meal, or the server gets ticked off at the cook and ends up taking out their frustration on the customer who doesn't get the quality of service that they deserve. That is a whole bunch of problems that came out of just one tiny little detail, that being not writing the order clearly enough. At my current job, when a food order is taken, the same process is followed by simply pushing the right series of buttons for what the customer ordered. After this, a copy of the order is printed out in the kitchen and is very easy to read. This makes it hard for the cook to blame anybody else other than themselves for any problems that occur. There never has to be any guessing games as to what the server was trying to write down. But there are a few drawbacks to this system, it seems that every computer is a little bit different and you can't expect everybody in the workplace to become an expert on that particular computer that is there. Henry David Thoreau's statement saying "men have become tools of their tools" can definitely true in this case. I have had it happen to me where I accidentally hit the wrong button at the wrong time and the computer froze up. One time it took me almost ten minutes to figure out what I had done wrong and fix it. I had truly ...
