I work at Google. One of the top things people ask me about working there is the lunches. There is a glowing video on youtube about the cafeteria staff and the process of serving healthy, tasty, and varied food to thousand and thousands of people every day. These jobs are recognized as skilled and valuable.
Nothing about this job changes when the patrons are children rather than adults. But our society turns around and treats school cafeteria staff with derision.
For what it is worth, the hardest I ever worked in my entire life was as a busboy at Chili's. As a software engineer I make something resembling 50x the wage of what I made as a busboy.
I do not work at Google. The cantina workers at my company are lazy, provide poor food and try to gouge me on price, by debating how many scoops of some particular food I have put on my plate and whether the scoop was a "normal" scoop or too much.
If school cafeteria workers are as bad the cafeteria at my work place, then I have actually more scorn for them.
Nothing about this job changes when the patrons are children rather than adults. But our society turns around and treats school cafeteria staff with derision.
For what it is worth, the hardest I ever worked in my entire life was as a busboy at Chili's. As a software engineer I make something resembling 50x the wage of what I made as a busboy.