I'm cautious about over sentimentalizing Loggan, or on the other side getting angry about his situation. He seems like a person who could be a pretty good manager, but just never wanted to take that step up. It's easy to pillory the restaurant, it's managers, or even the entire premise of the service industry itself based on this story, but I would err on the side of it being an anecdote than something to rally upon.
If he were manager for 54 years at the same restaurant, would the sentiment be much different?<p>Just thinking out loud, it seems like a lot of the 'point' of this article is that he intentionally stopped progressing in his work, but it seems to me like a lot of people do that in a lot of ways, just not usually as a busser.
You can tell that he's come to terms with his situation in life and lost any ambition. How hard did he have to work mentally to reach contentment? It's admirable but incredibly sad that him and many others like him didn't have much opportunity to explore their talents. It makes me think our goal as collective human society should be not to automate way people like this, but to let them live out their lives, ensure they will have what they need until they die, and look towards not repeating the mistakes of the past to have our upcoming generations have the opportunity to figure out what they are good at.
If the guy loved what he was doing, then that's more than the majority of people can say about their jobs. Money definitely does not make people any happier.
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