@Sp Americans when you don't pay the waiters for the restaurant owners.
@SexyThings @Sp and for some strange reason, this past year people have suddenly decided "customary tip" is 20%
which is horseshit.
it's always been between 5 and 15 percent. 15 is polite, 5 is bare minimum to not walk out looking like a scumbag. anything more than that is being overly generous.
but yeah, it's a huge fucking problem that restaurants expect tips to account for more than half of the legal minimum wage that waitstaff are supposed to get... from the employer.
which is horseshit.
it's always been between 5 and 15 percent. 15 is polite, 5 is bare minimum to not walk out looking like a scumbag. anything more than that is being overly generous.
but yeah, it's a huge fucking problem that restaurants expect tips to account for more than half of the legal minimum wage that waitstaff are supposed to get... from the employer.
@bitterblossom @Sp I have had arguments with people on Twatter about this.
As a person from a country that never picked up a tipping culture, it looks fucked to me.
As a person from a country that never picked up a tipping culture, it looks fucked to me.
@SexyThings @Sp it's been corrupted by the industry.
if minimum wage is 12/hr, restaurants will only pay 6/hr; then, AFTER recording tips collections, and splitting them up (different restaurants do this slightly differently), only IF your wages + tips total out to less than minimum wage, the restaurant will pay "extra" so you get your minimum wages.
so the only way you do well as waitstaff is if your tips are so astronomically good that they make up for the wages your employer is supposed to be responsible for, and still comes out with enough extra to make it worth all the ass-kissing service.
...and that only happens if you're a hot girl in a fancy restaurant or a busy bar. or a bartender, they tend to get good money like an extra bucks with every beer sold.
if minimum wage is 12/hr, restaurants will only pay 6/hr; then, AFTER recording tips collections, and splitting them up (different restaurants do this slightly differently), only IF your wages + tips total out to less than minimum wage, the restaurant will pay "extra" so you get your minimum wages.
so the only way you do well as waitstaff is if your tips are so astronomically good that they make up for the wages your employer is supposed to be responsible for, and still comes out with enough extra to make it worth all the ass-kissing service.
...and that only happens if you're a hot girl in a fancy restaurant or a busy bar. or a bartender, they tend to get good money like an extra bucks with every beer sold.
@bitterblossom @SexyThings
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@Sp @bitterblossom The United States is fucked in so many ways that the few freedoms they have don't even seem worth it now.
@SexyThings @bitterblossom The freedom to starve in the streets
The freedom to not grow gardens in your suburban lawns
The freedom to kill immigrants at the border
And so on
The freedom to not grow gardens in your suburban lawns
The freedom to kill immigrants at the border
And so on
@Sp @bitterblossom I was talking about constitutionally protected freedom of speech and firearms but sure.
@SexyThings @bitterblossom Oh the freedom that gives the rich the possibility to buy missiles and tanks while the poor can, if much, buy a revolver
@Sp @bitterblossom yes.
I mean... The whole point if the second amendment is to be able to oppose the government if need be.
I thought that was your thing though?
I mean... The whole point if the second amendment is to be able to oppose the government if need be.
I thought that was your thing though?
@SexyThings @bitterblossom It is my thing, but, but following blindly what sounds cool isn't
In the US, the right to bear arms is not a right to go against the government. Let's take a famous example, the Black Panthers.
They used that right to protect black communities
Did the state cower in fear? No
The governor just made bearing such weapons illegal. As he said, "There is no reason why, on the street today, a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon" and "Guns are a ridiculous way to solve problem that have to be resolved among people of good will"
The governor was Ronald Reagan, who when president made guns easier to access...... for whites and the rich, who supported his government
The "freedom to bear arms" in the US is not a right to act against the government if it turn bad, it is a government tool to put in the hands of the people the act of killing, literally, any signs of insurgency that might arive
A rich guy with a missile that is aligned with the government can do much more damage than the poor household that has a revolver with 6 bullets to protect their family
Something can only be a right if it is free for everyone. If it has impediments such as money, it becomes a privilege, and the working class never benefits from privileges
In the US, the right to bear arms is not a right to go against the government. Let's take a famous example, the Black Panthers.
They used that right to protect black communities
Did the state cower in fear? No
The governor just made bearing such weapons illegal. As he said, "There is no reason why, on the street today, a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon" and "Guns are a ridiculous way to solve problem that have to be resolved among people of good will"
The governor was Ronald Reagan, who when president made guns easier to access...... for whites and the rich, who supported his government
The "freedom to bear arms" in the US is not a right to act against the government if it turn bad, it is a government tool to put in the hands of the people the act of killing, literally, any signs of insurgency that might arive
A rich guy with a missile that is aligned with the government can do much more damage than the poor household that has a revolver with 6 bullets to protect their family
Something can only be a right if it is free for everyone. If it has impediments such as money, it becomes a privilege, and the working class never benefits from privileges
The good ones do tend to be assassinated, it's unfortunate