Too bad that's not what they tell the politicians
Is income inequality unjust, and if so, where is the injustice?
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Robotization? Outsourcing? Using prison labor? I'm sorry, you lost me.
I read an article a few weeks ago about how Chilis was giving interviewees free appetizers for coming in an submitting an application, and I seriously was like "All these guys will literally do anything but raise the hourly wage."
Those “free x just for interviewing” jobs usually require you to give them all of your information. Then they offer you a job at minimum wage and if you say no, they tell you they’re reporting that you turned down a job so you lose your unemployment.
So it's even worst! haha
I kinda wanna go get some free appetizers, and turn down the job, and then laugh and laugh if they threaten to report me for turning it down.
I have never been offered an appetizer at an interview. Nachos would make the accounting talk so much better!
I tip. I tip more to reward excellent service. I would prefer to pay a higher price to avoid any confusion over how much is expected/required as this can change by area.
I also cannot fathom how executives can consider bonuses when paying below minimum wage means that they can't keep the staff they need to stay in business. That is basic math, right?
I also cannot fathom how executives can consider bonuses when paying below minimum wage means that they can't keep the staff they need to stay in business. That is basic math, right?
Only when actually considering the long-term effect(s) of their actions.
I’m willing to bet most of these people are still assuming any people who quit can be immediately filled from the huge pool of unemployed that’s always milling about outside.
Except when it’s suddenly not there any more, of course.
—Patrick
Senior management thinking ahead? Come now...
Nobody tips in Australia...because the minimum wage is reasonable and service workers do not rely on tips to survive. And prices are fine here. They might be slightly more expensive at a fast-food joint (where nobody tips anyways). I have zero complaints about this system. It is how things should work everywhere.
I worked at Tim's after university when I was trying to find a job in my field. I needed a firm to take me on as a student and I went to school in a smaller city where the firms took one person each. Of course they took the A+ dudes. I get that.
I got a crazy amount of tips. Who knew? I never had to pay for my cabs or beer that summer. I had no idea that tips were a thing at a fast food place until I worked there.
I got a crazy amount of tips. Who knew? I never had to pay for my cabs or beer that summer. I had no idea that tips were a thing at a fast food place until I worked there.
It's been a looooong time from my service in Germany, but from what I remember, in a general restaurant, unless there was some circumstance that pushed the dining experience outside the normal into exceptional,
Tipping, in the US tradition, was actually rude. Waiters, Waitresses, etc all got paid living wages.
Tipping, in the US tradition, was actually rude. Waiters, Waitresses, etc all got paid living wages.
Yes, exaggerated tipping is considered poor form. Round upwards for normal service, maybe 5% or so for really good service, maybe 10% for exceptional things (you changed tables twice and they were accommodating, they took care of a dozen different allergies and sensitivities without any errors, whatever). Tipping much more is boorish, boastful, arrogant, showing off riches.
Mind you, those numbers depend on the country. In France 5%or so is regular, especially in tourist regions because of the damn Yankees
Front desk *NEVER* gets tips, which makes my blood boil when I read crap like this.
Customer leaves $16,000 tip at New Hampshire restaurant
The patron tacked the tip to his $37.93 tab for two chili dogs, pickle chips and some drinks at a restaurant in Londonderry, about 30 miles south of Concord.
The thing I hate most about tipping is just that the etiquette isn't really standard. My family always made it out that if someone serves you for an extended period, they should get a tip, so a waiter watching your table, a man delivering your food a good distance, a private chef being hired for a party, etc. Where it always gets muddy is what do you do when you don't have someone specifically serve you? Sometimes I order food for pickup, so the restaurant just has to make the food and bag it while I do the 20 minute drive to get there and grab it. When I don't put a tip in the tip area of the check or put in a small one, some of them give me the side eye like I was destroying their lives.
Tips need to be either a bonus you give, like a tip jar at a smoothie shop, or they just need to be baked into the prices and the servers given a living wage, because I am just so tired of not knowing that I am walking into a landmine because a tip is expected even when I didn't think it was needed.
Tips need to be either a bonus you give, like a tip jar at a smoothie shop, or they just need to be baked into the prices and the servers given a living wage, because I am just so tired of not knowing that I am walking into a landmine because a tip is expected even when I didn't think it was needed.
Let's just be 100% honest here: Tipping in the US exists entirely because Southerner's needed a way to retain social power in business relationships with recently freed slaves, especially in hospitality and service industries. By forcing recently freed Black Americans to be subservient to racist Southerners in these industries, Southerners were able to "preserve the atmosphere" of the Antebellum South and pretend they were kindly lords employing and educating the poor.
It's time to do away with it.
It's time to do away with it.
I don't know, that sounds kinda like critical race theory to me. And Tucker Carlson says that makes you racist.
Okay as a funny aside, when critical race theory became the new super hot button for the month, I kept seeing people all over being like "What the hell is wrong with CRT? CRT is what makes you racist!" and I kind of stood there like, "Why are all these people so mad at old monitors!?"
Of course then someone actually said critical race theory and it clicked.
Of course then someone actually said critical race theory and it clicked.
Something else from the brilliant minds over there: Amazon to Some Vendors: If You Want to Work With Us, We Demand A Piece of Your Company
And they haven't been penalized yet nor forced to divest/disgorge...why, exactly?
--Patrick
because Amazon has a lot of Free Speech to move around.
Patriotism ends where greed starts.
The point is getting a message to the mouth breathers, like "Freedom Fries", that they can latch onto.