Hoping for Promotion to Short Order Cook

Steve Vento is only 4'-4" tall, and he enjoys his job. He walks around Nacho Mama’s, a Mexican restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisc., serving customers chips and salsa out of his hat. But a spokesman for Little People of America calls Vento’s job humiliating. “It’s horrifying to realize that people are still being exploited for their size,” says LPA vice president Anthony Soares. “You couldn’t do that with, say, an Asian pulling a rickshaw.” Vento shrugs it off. “We’ve had only one person saying that it was degrading.” (AP) ...It doesn’t sound as degrading as strangers telling him what he should and shouldn’t do for a living.