Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There are many things that food service workers have in common, and things that every restaurant will have in common, whether it’s fast food or a more upscale, dine-in type of place. Managers, for example, seem to be similar everywhere, and if you’ve worked in food, you’ve definitely heard someone say “if you’ve got time...

Every job has secrets, it’s just that not all of them are required to be kept once you’re no longer employed. If you work for the CIA, you’ve probably got to take those to your grave, but otherwise…go ahead and spill. And if you’re someone who goes through that McDonald’s drive thru on a regular...

We’re all about facts here, and let me tell you, one of the best things about them is that there are always ones you haven’t heard coming down the pike. New ones, funny ones, shocking ones, and yes – weird ones – are just out there, waiting to come up in your presence for the...

When you ask someone for their favorite fact, you never know what you’re going to get in return. Most people probably have more like a handful of favorites, each to be deployed in the perfect situation, all designed to wow and excite people every single time. These 17 people are hitting us with their favorite...

Facts are something that almost everyone loves, and also, we all have our favorites. The ones we can’t wait to drop anytime we get the chance, the ones that never fail to get us the reaction we want – and yes, the weirdest things we’ve heard that are just impossible to forget. Those are the...

When you think about fun, niche hobbies like knitting, or stamp collecting, or maybe bird watching, you probably don’t imagine there’s a dark side, but listen – literally everything imagined and carried out by humans has an underbelly. That said, what goes on at say, backstage at a Yu-Gi-Oh convention might truly surprise you –...

If you look back at photos of yourself as a toddler, or even as a kid heading off to fourth or fifth grade, you might always be a little surprised to see how white-blond your hair used to be. It’s not true for everyone, of course, but there are a good number of people who...

There are all kinds of art in the world, like there are all kinds of artists and all manner of people looking to see something, learn something, or know something from the art they take in. If sweet, heartwarming, small-but-perfect moments are your thing, then Ann Arbor, MI chalk street artist David Zinn should be...

I mean, if you live in America and walk among Americans on a daily basis (or just interact with them on Facebook), there’s a good chance you’re already questioning the American education system – just saying – but if there was any doubt in your mind that we’re failing a good portion of the public,...

I think that if there’s one thing that’s true about almost every parent out there, it’s that we’re doing our best. We might not have all of the tools, we might be overworked, emotional, struggling with our own mental health, or stretched too thin, but we’re not ever intending for those things to wreak havoc...

If you’re a fan of science fiction, then you’re probably thinking that you’ve seen this movie before (and you definitely have). People imagining the future, or ways human beings might be able to live forever, have long turned their eyes toward possibly “uploading our consciousness” into a machine as a way to make that happen,...

Mars has gotten the nickname “the red planet” because of the way the surface shows up a rusty color in the images we get from the many NASA probes and expeditions we’ve been lucky to successfully launch. What if I told you, though, that’s it’s really just the dirt – that the redness of the...

If there’s one thing I would like to change about the human race with the snap of my fingers, it would be to let people say the don’t understand something and to ask for clarification without judgement or embarrassment. Ok, fine, there are other things I would change first, but this would would literally impact...

In an ideal situation, our employers treat us as well as we treat them. The relationship is symbiotic, at its best, and all parties benefit when everyone is happy. That seems like an easy concept to grasp, and the one that works the best for everyone involved should be what people choose, but for some...

On most days, servers are able to keep their cool. Working with the public, serving food and drinks, it can always get a little hairy, and on the worst of days, people get under your skin – you learn to get used to it, both for the sake of our jobs and our sanity (plus...