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I had an argument with my wife, who couldn't believe I was planning on leaving 10%. I mean, the waitress got our orders wrong and then charged us incorrectly, I though 10% was generous.
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I expect the $2.13 wage hasn't gone up so the expected tipping percentage has.
When my daughter worked for Noodles they paid them $8.50 an hour to start and didn't have customers tip. Though she caught the CEO lying in an article saying if a customer wanted to tip the staff member could keep it. That was not the case, the company kept the tips.
When my daughter worked for Noodles they paid them $8.50 an hour to start and didn't have customers tip. Though she caught the CEO lying in an article saying if a customer wanted to tip the staff member could keep it. That was not the case, the company kept the tips.
Last edited by Mrs Danvers; Jun 15th 2015 at 5:25 am. Reason: Didn't realize how lousy the minimum tipped wage was
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We generally tip pretty well, though I do find the whole thing annoying.
Over all, we are lucky with our wait staff... The local diner has some good ones.
I guess this works for the bad ones...
Over all, we are lucky with our wait staff... The local diner has some good ones.
I guess this works for the bad ones...
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Little League umpire calling strikes when they clearly were not, and out when they clearly were not. Who come over and berates our teams parents for heckling him about his bad calls and gets quite nasty. Then admits to our teams coaches after the game he was in fact doing just that because he felt sorry for the other team as they were not as good as us.
Not only is he a jerk normally but he has now demonstrated to our kids that cheating is acceptable.
Not only is he a jerk normally but he has now demonstrated to our kids that cheating is acceptable.
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The peevishness of it was having to run the heaters to clear the windows, which made it unbearably hot, but if I ran the AC the windows steamed up, thus requiring use of the heaters again. Of course, if I'd opened the windows I'd have been drowned.
Where is that First World Problems thread ... ?
...and you have demonstrated that it is acceptable to heckle the umpire - well done you.
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Refs are hard enough to come by for youth sports as it is, because of shit like this, encouraging that behaviour just makes it worse.
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I know, but there is a thread with that name that knocking about the lounge.
Anyway, the weather is standard late spring fare for around here. Mid 70s, pissing rain, thunderstorms on the horizon and humidity through the roof.
Anyway, the weather is standard late spring fare for around here. Mid 70s, pissing rain, thunderstorms on the horizon and humidity through the roof.
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If I may divert us back to that, it's shit here right now.
The peevishness of it was having to run the heaters to clear the windows, which made it unbearably hot, but if I ran the AC the windows steamed up, thus requiring use of the heaters again. Of course, if I'd opened the windows I'd have been drowned.
Where is that First World Problems thread? ...
The peevishness of it was having to run the heaters to clear the windows, which made it unbearably hot, but if I ran the AC the windows steamed up, thus requiring use of the heaters again. Of course, if I'd opened the windows I'd have been drowned.
Where is that First World Problems thread? ...
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Yeah, probably. It's only a handful of days a year where it affects me, of course. A lot of the time I'll have the air/temperature effects but it has stopped raining, at which point I can just open the windows.
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My Pet Peeve right now is the dam fly or 2 who saunter into the house and refuse to leave.
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Back to the weather, this is a map of the 8pm (as in eight at night after the sun has set) temperatures in the Phoenix metro.
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My eyeballs almost melted while walking the dog.
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My eyeballs almost melted while walking the dog.
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Yet to the northeast of Sir Eccles in Colorado, I doubt if we even hit 70 degrees today to the north of the Denver metro area. It's June 15th and I have yet to put my sprinklers on for the lawn.
Sorry, Sir Eccles.
Sorry, Sir Eccles.
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