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I have had just about enough of being treated like a second class citizen,
I have had just about enough of being treated like a second class citizen,
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2023-11-14
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I have had just about enough of being treated like a second class citizen, simply because I happen to be that put upon member of a society -- a customer. The more I go into shops and hotels, banks and post offices, railway stations, airports and the like, the more I’m convinced that things are being run solely to suit the firm, the system, or the union. There seems to be an insidious motto for so called "Service" organizations -- Staff before Service. How often, for example, have you queued for what seems like hours at the Post Office or the supermarket because there was not enough staff on duty to man all the service grilles or checkout counters? Surely in these days of high unemployment it must be possible to recruit cashiers and counter staff. Yet supermarkets, hinting darkly at higher prices, claim that bringing all their cash registers at any one time would increase expenses. And the Post Office says we cannot expect all their service grilles to be occupied "at times when demand is low". It’s the same with hotels. Because waiters and kitchen staff must finish when it suits them, dining rooms close earlier or menu choice is curtailed. As for us guests (and how the meaning of that word has been whittled away), we just have to put up with it. There’s also the nonsense of so many friendly hotel night porters having been phased out in the interests of "efficiency" (i. e. profits) and replaced by coin guzzling machines which dispense everything from lager to laxatives. Not to mention the creeping menace of the tea making kit in your room: a kettle with an assortment of teabags, plastic milk cartons and lump sugar. Who wants to wake up to a raw teabag? I don’t, especially when I am paying for "service".
Can it be halted, this erosion of service, this growing attitude that the customer is always a nuisance? I fervently hope so because it’s happening, sadly, in all walks of life. Our only hope is to hammer home our indignation whenever and wherever we can and, if all else fails, bring back into use that other, older slogan, and Take Our Custom Elsewhere. [br] The disappearance of old style hotel porters can be attributed to the fact that ______.
选项
A、few people are willing to do this type of work
B、machines are more reliable than human beings
C、the personal touch is appreciated less nowadays
D、automation has provided cheaper alternatives
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。在文中的这样一句:还有这样的废话,出于“效率”(实质上就是利润)考虑,很多友好的夜间行李搬运工逐渐被淘汰了,取而代之的是吞噬硬币的机器,它们分发从啤酒到泻药的所有物件。这说明,其原因是为了增加利润,采用自动化降低了成本。选项A文中未提及;选项B机器取代人是因为可以使商家获利更多;选项C与事实不符,正相反,作者极力呼唤富有人情味的服务;因此本题要选D 。
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