Why was Sarah Michelle Gellar known as the 'Duchess'?

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JASONZZZ

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:24 AM

I don't think I would call someone who does not make an effort to team with the rest of the workmates 'professional'. The cast is an ensemble, much like everywhere else where people work - it takes a team. There are no individual efforts. People, like smg, who think and feel otherwise ultimately do not succeed b/c the rest of team will feel that they are dragging around a dead weight. It doesn't matter how talented you are either (which, there isn't in this case). The hero/prima-donna complex wears on the group, creates discord and eventually destroys the group. Teaming is about making something greater than the sum of the parts. Clock punchers just don't cut it in most businesses. Only place clock punchers are welcomed are workshifts filled with replaceable cogs.

Take it from another angle, studies have shown (not just anecdotal evidence) that waitrons can increase their tips by simply doing several things:
smile, introduce yourself, kneel and bring yourself to eyelevel with the customer, be prompt, recommend items, write your name on the check.

There is a positive correlation with each one of these items to increase in tips regardless of other factors. (exception: Chinese people still tip $1/ppl regardless amount on the bill)

Signs that show that you are friendly make work easier and brings higher productivity. Being stand-offish does not help. Being put-offish will only bring about your own downfall.

No, you don't have to like the people you work with. If you hate them, you should get another job. If you don't feel two-ways about it, just keep smiling, you will keep your job longer that way; and just maybe, you will like your work better.

You choose how you feel. You always have a choice.

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JUSTDAVID

Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:43 AM

SpikeSpiegel, don't ever worry about me taking something personally. I'm pretty hard to offend unless someone is doing it deliberately.

As for your comments about SMG, I do agree that she has the right to make her own career choices. But I still contend that if she feels she doesn't owe anything to Buffy fans, then I have the right to think less of her for that.

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SPIKESPIEGEL

Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:28 PM

Justdavid,

That's a new contention, the your right to think less of her. I'm all for that.
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Jasonzzz,

Since we weren't on set, we don't know how diva-ish SMG was, what prompted her, or what the agenda of the complainers are. Was she a diva because other people were not responding to her before she became more insistent about something? Was she unfairly labeled a diva because she was collegial but not chummy? Is she being slandered by members of some on-set clique (groups of friends, and snarky cross-clique behaviors, are common in many large workplaces, after all). I still say, her alleged sins seem small and open to nuances that we can't know, and who the hell cares?

And, "waitron"? Seriously?
Sounds like what you'd call a waitress once she's lost her youth ...
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Phlebotinin,

Muchas gracias.

"Bang."

SUCCATASH

Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:36 PM

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Originally posted by SpikeSpiegel:
And, "waitron"? Seriously?
Sounds like what you'd call a waitress once she's lost her youth ...

I was a waiter for ten years and "waitron" was a term that briefly appeared in the '90's. Waiter/waitress, it's a sign of trying too hard to be P.C. Eventually, "waitron" was dropped and we all became "servers."

And I would never get on my knees for a customer, as was suggested above.

SPIKESPIEGEL

Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by Succatash:
And I would never get on my knees for a customer, as was suggested above.

Yeah, at that point, your job description is no longer "waiter," though "server" might still be valid as a euphemism ...

"Bang."

DRAKON

Friday, January 16, 2004 11:23 AM

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Originally posted by Nevetextor:
I imagine that she is justly afraid of being typecast.

I would be if I played the same role for 7 years on a popular cult show with a dedicated fandom.

Also, what is her scedule like around that the time frame they would be shooting? Does she have another movie or tv show in the works? I know they are doing a Scooby Doo 2. But when I have no idea.

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

DRAKON

Friday, January 16, 2004 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by Succatash:

Well, we can all agree she's being selfish. SpikeSpiegel's point is that people have a right to be selfish.

Not so much a right, as that is the way it is. Folks are selfish, everyone is. Those who say she has a duty to reprise her role are being just as selfish as her not doing it.

Besides which, lets face it. Would she do as good a job reprising her role if she felt it were a duty, obligation, or forced to? Or could she simply use it to muck it up badly?

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

ANGELDOVE

Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:44 AM

I was going to bow out of this conversation as I felt it was becoming repetitive and tired but I just had to respond to the following, because I was amused, and yes it is just my opinion.

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She may think that it's time to devote herself to her movie career, considering that other than Buffy, her work to date has been slight.

Seriously, a movie career? O.K.

ANGELDOVE

Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:58 AM

Ok, I'm sorry, I'm being really hard on SMG. I just miss Buffy.

JASONZZZ

Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:26 PM

"servers" all have their own way on doing
it, in order to bring themselves to eye level.
Some kneel, some squat, I haven't seen anyone
actually "get on their knees" as you've suggested.
Check out restaurants like OutBack, Applebees,
their staff is taught to do all of these things.
OutBack has even raised their booths about 8 inches the ground to make it easier to achieve
eye contact.

Quote:
Originally posted by Succatash:
Quote:
Originally posted by SpikeSpiegel:
And, "waitron"? Seriously?
Sounds like what you'd call a waitress once she's lost her youth ...
I was a waiter for ten years and "waitron" was a term that briefly appeared in the '90's. Waiter/waitress, it's a sign of trying too hard to be P.C. Eventually, "waitron" was dropped and we all became "servers."

And I would never get on my knees for a customer, as was suggested above.

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