This is symbolic of post-1980 Thatcherism-Reaganism: the idea that those who are in economic power, even such a minor, pathetic level of power as a “man” who manages a cleavage-based bar food joint-are assumed to have the right to treat everyone who has less economic power as if those people have no right to expect to be treated with any level of human respect; as if human beings have no value, no worth, and are simply expendable.