Students should be more courteous to employees
I am writing in regard to a letter to the editor about TCU Dining Services personnel printed Tuesday. I couldn’t help but notice that the letter’s author was a freshman. He speaks of “countless students and Student Government Association officers” trying to reform the Sodexho dining plan. Obviously, Mr. Wooddell has learned that through hearsay and not through much, if any, actual experience. I formerly worked as an SGA representative and can attest to the use of SGA as a mediator between the students and Sodexho, but the food was not on trial in Mr. Wooddell’s editorial. He speaks of TCU Dining Services personnel as people he wipes his feet on so as not to soil the floor mats in his car. In my almost eight full semesters here I have never been treated, as Mr. Wooddell states, “with disrespect” or “had workers scowl at and use unnecessarily harsh tones with me.” I am not sure what Wooddell is doing or saying to evoke such a response from the same people who have served me graciously and with respect over the last four years, but I don’t think I would be presumptuous in saying that perhaps it is not Dining Services employees that need a change in attitude. If Mr. Wooddell has a problem with one worker in particular I would advise him to go to an appropriate supervisor and lodge a complaint. Until then, I urge our young Horned Frog to sample Deco Deli at lunchtime and meet some of my absolute favorite employees at this university.

— Joshua Doss, senior theater and political science major