Tough time to be in the Restaurant Biz

It’s no secret that I love music videos. No secret at all. It’s also no secret that as a young Buck I spent considerable time working in restaurants. Dishwasher. Bus boy. Waiter. Bartender. The whole deal. I’ve found lately, however, that when a music video wants to show true pain and exasperation, they just make their story about a kid in a restaurant.

Let me be clear. While the jobs suck, they’re not THAT bad. Its sweaty and full of weird hours, but its easy. Like REALLY easy. It’s the anti-thinking job. You know exactly what you have to do in every situation.

Yet, in these videos, these people are all just worn down and exasperated and miserable. Until life changes for the better by the end. Listen, there are a lot worse jobs out there that would really show life sucking. For instance, show an Untouchable in India. Those poor bastards have it really bad. Or show someone who has to clean septic tanks or something sick.

That’s rough. A restaurant job just means they’re either

• Lazy
• Really lazy
• Completely Apathetic and could care less
• Just turned 16
• Just needed “a job”

You can make good money as a server, but you have to have some ambition. You know, apply at a better restaurant. But no. Just be lazy and work at the local diner. Don’t get pissed whenever everyone treats you like shit then, ok? You kind of asked for it working there. Diners aren’t known for their high end and polite clientele. What they are known for is getting shitfaced and eating hash browns and biscuits with gravy then semi-passing out.

Below is the tri-fecta of current miserable-restaurant-worker-finds-redemption videos. These are all I could think of off the top of my head. If you find more, tell me in comments and I’ll add it in later.

Chris Daughtry – No Surprises. This bastard disabled embedding. Its about some hot girl who works at a restaurant who spills a coke on some lady and gets yelled at. I know, real intense right?

Shinedown – Second Chance. This is the only one I could embed and its probably the least restaurant-centric. However, please note how sucky this video is. Shinedown, you’re a god damn rock band and now you’re making a video about some girl who wants to be a dancer? Disgusting.

David Cook – Light On. This takes place at the same diner that’s in the Daughtry video I think. This bus boy ends up with some babe after her boyfriend (who doesn’t work in a restaurant) kicks her out of his car. Here’s what they don’t mention, I guarantee this kid smells like shit. Grease. Garbage. He’d be better served just going home.

**UPDATE**

So, in my research for this I just came across a music video for Hinder – Without You. Make sure you watch the David Cook video. Then watch the Hinder video. Tell me if you notice any similarities. I wonder if they just gave up trying to think of new ideas. Sorry, all these boners disabled embedding.