Here's what I learned while working at a corporate restaurant.....

Corporate restaurants are a very interesting study in human puppetry. I view it as a multi-tiered marionette show. But not everybody has strings to pull....now the guys at the top....they have the most strings...you can see their arms and legs constantly dangling.....they even have strings on their feet and hands, they flop around all day......it doesn't mean they get anything done....(so would that be wasted motion?).... some days they just like to pull on the strings...ya know why?....because they can. Simple as that. They are standing on the top tier....they have the most elaborate costumes. There are only a few of these top-tiered marionettes. They have brightly painted smiles on their over-sized porcelain marionette faces.



On the next tier down, you will find a larger group of smaller statured less elborately costumed marionettes....They too have many strings that they may pull...ah...but if you wanna pull some strings....ya gotta pay the price....and every now and then they feel the jerk of the strings....so you can imagine that their painted porcelain smiles aren't quite as vivid as the more elaborately dressed ones....but nonetheless....they are smiling. Because when they are jerked....it jerks the strings of all the marionettes below them.



Now we go down another tier....these marionetess are plainly dressed....they have many layers of strings pulling on them....(and a whole lotta those strings are tangled)...(bummer)....their mouths are just fainly curved black lines....



Now at the bottom tier of this marionette show....there are no strings....they have no costume at all....much less elaborate....they have no arms....they have no legs....no porcealin face to paint a straight black line on....there is little they can do....they are just oven mitt puppets with a hand shoved up their ass.