That’s why I like point #2. My husband works at a grocery store, and he’s more successful if he sells product that the store has too much of. I was always more successful being honest about the shady shit that happens at every restaurant. The restaurants are skimping on pay, but because of that, server loyalty lies more with the customer.
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I’m a big supporter of tipping, which is incredibly unpopular, IME. I was a server for several years at all kinds of restaurants, which could explain why my perspective is different. The main benefits I see are these:
Working as a server is one of the few potentially well paid jobs that you can get without education or a lot of physical strength (some strength is still required, as well as a lot of endurance, but it’s not common to lift more than 50 lbs/~22,5 kilos). I knew diner waitresses in their early sixties without high school diplomas who were entirely fit for the job and made enough over their career to retire at 65, but if they had to get a different career, they would likely not have made above minimum wage.
Because the majority of their pay comes directly from the customer, tipped servers are more incentivized to tell customers the truth about things like specials offered to move bad product. One restaurant I worked at didn’t sell many martinis and kept the vermouth unrefrigerated. I used to tell customers, even though martinis have a great profit margin for the restaurant, because it made customers more likely to enjoy their experience, and therefore tip me better.
Servers have the potential to make much more than minimum wage under a tipped system, and cannot legally earn less (on a pay period to pay period or monthly basis). When I served at a fine dining restaurant, I made $30k working part time as a student. If the US were to eliminate tipping (I can’t speak to other countries), I think it’s unlikely that restaurants would pay servers much more than minimum wage or a couple bucks over that, given the reprehensible pay kitchen staff generally receive.
I do think it’s reasonable (and morally required) to tip kitchen/bar/expo staff out at the end of the night, but some restaurants will then try to pay them the tipped minimum wage, which is fucked.
I wish this comment was posted every time that happens. I can’t even access the imgur link without opening in browser, which I only realized recently- before that, I thought posts were just getting removed/deleted regularly and I missed them all.
Imgur is just shitty; try reopening it. I get that message when I make the cookie selection, but once my preferences are saved, a reopen works.
I hope so, otherwise we’ll have little racist futons in a few months.
transvestigation
I love the idea of a portmanteau here (and respect the additional pun of “transvest” being in the word itself), but I’d still put forth “transquisition,” as it IMO references its absolute nothing-burger-ness better.
I disagree to a point (only with the first panel): I don’t think patriotism requires that one think their country is the best (and thinking that your country is generally/objectively the best is a little sketch). Liking your country best is another story.
As a parallel, I like imperial units best. I find them more intuitive and I’m used to estimating them. I think metric units are more suited to scientific work and, if I really had to choose, I’d probably consider them the objectively better system. I think I’m the equivalent of patriotic about imperial units, whereas someone who thinks they’re inherently better would be nationalistic.
They should get a curling league together, I just want to see it.
It’s based on the US’s Overton window and is generally pro-Israel, plus some people think it’s generally annoying for various reasons.
My fingers are too fat to minimize the comment on the first try because of the spoilers, so I just blocked it. I suspect others who find it only annoying would do the same.
I also love that the weirdest thing about him (word choice intentional) is his preferred beverage of diet Mountain Dew, which Vance also drinks instead of coffee.
I’d be interested in pressing that a little with people who consider them opposites. Do they think a plain T-shirt and jeans are undignified or formal? What about think fixing yourself a quick cup of tea or coffee?
There will always be people who think differently, but if they view the above as undignified or formal, we probably have very disparate ideas of those concepts that we’d need to agree on before we could actually discuss the dignity of casual sex.
falsely claims that abortion increases risk of breast cancer
Ironically, they were close to a point that might actually support their views. Birth control does increase the risk of breast and cervical cancer. It also lowers ovarian, endometrial, and colon cancer risk, but they’re not presenting complete information either way, so they could just ignore those parts.
That’s fair, it’s to USA Today’s White House correspondent, but I don’t know why it’s coming from him.
Honestly, they’ve been doing good IJ for their niche for almost a decade
They included a nitter link, it’s not their fault this is the campaign’s chosen medium.
Yeah, but an incel can be a rapist, just look at Andrew Tate
It’s a good thing to be honest about that, tbh
That picture isn’t unconvincing