Stop Ordering Me Around

Organization and Ideas

1. The writer set the scene of the opening narrative by giving her personal experience to the readers. By describing it so detailed, the readers can understand the working condition of the waiters or the waitresses, just as we can find in paragraph 1 and 2. In the rest paragraphs, Wilkins gave more examples about what harassment do the waiters/waitresses face. By doing so, I think it can unify the essay and give the readers a clear sketch.

2. The author move from the particular to the general in paragraph 7. The paragraph 1 to 6 are more particular; however, the rest part of paragraphs are more general. I think the general part gets the most emphisis because Wilkins used more length of the article to write it and give more examples about it.

3. I think the problem is the harassment that the waiters/waitresses face when they're working. And this harassment is caused by disrespect by the customers. Nevertheless, the author still gave us the solution in paragraph 14. She mentioned that "If people stepped down from their spurious pedestals, they might see how wrong they are."

4. My friend worked in the restaurant, too. He once told me that sometimes, when the restaurant was full of the customers, the speed of offering the meal would be more slowly. As a result, some customers would yell at him and be very rude without wearing his shoe. But after being used to the customer's malicious comments, he became more optimistic and not took these malicious comments too seriously.

5. I think the thesis statement is in the last paragraph --- "I deserve respect whether I remain a waitress or move on to a different career." This sentence states the root of the treatments of the waiters/waitresses in this whole essay. The waiters/waitresses encountered so many vexations and all of these were caused by the lack of respect.