Nickel and Dimed/The Cocktail Waitress

I'll start off by saying I liked both of these essays. I liked "Nickel and Dimed" the most because I like how the author put herself into the low-wage workforce and had the experience rather than reporting on it like she knew everything. Because I am a business major these stories appealed to me more than the others we read this year. The way the economy is going with outsourcing and globalization, I believe we are heading in a direction where the rich will become richer and the poor poorer and Ehrenreich pointed this out nicely. "The Cocktail Waitress" described what it is like starting off as a waitress in a bar where the regular customers are very "close" to the workers. It described that it is important for the waitress to pin-point what social class the customers are from, so she can talk to them and then get better tips. It was an interesting story but I enjoyed "Nickel and Dimed" more because the author put you in the situation.