Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[hobbsyoyo]

I don't feel tips are optional when the minimum wage is $2.13 because in the end, a lot of times they will do good work and be under-tipped by cheapskate customers. Really the problem is tipping in general, it needs to go. It's not really optional when they make that little money, it's supposed to bring their wage up to at least minimum. There are regulations that say businesses are supposed to give money to their servers when they fail to make minimum on tips but in reality that never ever happens.

And nope, the building does not have signs telling you how to get around. The do have signs that show where the fire escapes are but only for the building you are in - they don't show the whole complex. They also don't show you where you currently are when you get to one of these signs. So they are mostly useless for navigation. And there are no signs in the garage whatsoever.

 

[Takhisis]

I don't feel tips are optional when the minimum wage is $2.13 because in the end, a lot of times they will do good work and be under-tipped by cheapskate customers. Really the problem is tipping in general, it needs to go.

Then how about having a minimum wage, as if you were a first-world country? Just sayin'

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I don't feel tips are optional when the minimum wage is $2.13 because in the end, a lot of times they will do good work and be under-tipped by cheapskate customers. Really the problem is tipping in general, it needs to go. It's not really optional when they make that little money, it's supposed to bring their wage up to at least minimum. There are regulations that say businesses are supposed to give money to their servers when they fail to make minimum on tips but in reality that never ever happens.

Cripes, I remember back in the '80s when I was watching the Fame TV show; one of the main characters had to drop out of school and get a job. The wage he was offered at that time was less than $2/hour, plus tips. It's mind-croggling how your country's defense budget has gone up and up and up and up over the last 35 years, but service industry wages have barely increased.

There's a fight going on now in Ontario. That province's minimum wage increased to $14.00/hour and some Tim Hortons franchise owners have decided that to retaliate against this, they're not going to pay the workers for their breaks, they're clawing back some of the benefits, and to top it off, there's one franchise where the owners posted a notice saying they had to do it because it's the provincial government's fault. Then they basically told the workers that "an election is coming. Don't vote Liberal."

Just one of the many news stories about this issue.

Some customers have reacted by organizing a boycott of Tim Hortons. Others are making sure to give extra tips to the servers. I haven't heard of this happening in Alberta, but then my local Tim Hortons is just a kiosk at the mall that mostly sells doughnuts, coffee, cocoa, and Timbits, not a full standalone restaurant.

And nope, the building does not have signs telling you how to get around. The do have signs that show where the fire escapes are but only for the building you are in - they don't show the whole complex. They also don't show you where you currently are when you get to one of these signs. So they are mostly useless for navigation. And there are no signs in the garage whatsoever.

That sounds extremely unsafe. How do emergency services deal with this?

Then how about having a minimum wage, as if you were a first-world country? Just sayin'

It's a problem in both Canada and the U.S. Because of the ingrained tipping culture, minimum wage laws don't apply to restaurants and takeout places.

 

[Takhisis]

It's a problem in both Canada and the U.S. Because of the ingrained tipping culture, minimum wage laws don't apply to restaurants and takeout places.

*gestures helplessly*

 

[Goliht]

Problem with National Minimum Wages under Law is that many companies will go bust.. because they just don't make enough income to supply the sudden and massive increase necessary. But that said, once the avg majority, gained employment, with a NMW and so only as they don't try to save their money, the countries economy explodes. Which is good. Until the new wage becomes avg. Then it bombshells.. which is bad. Because the prices are pushed up on everything to make the increase in wages + profit workable.

Essentially, the problem is money. Remove money, goto a like for like Communist approach (which also doesn't work btw) then you can at least lock everyone up you don't like and noone will complain. Win - Win.

In order for NMW to work, the company needs to increase profits continually. Which just isn't possible in the cases of massive companies.. which is why Carillion in the UK just went bankrupt.. the sheer cost of the weight of the company + nmw + manager+ wages was vastly higher than the companies income. Which pushed it into bankruptsy. Now over 100k jobs will be lost world wide + all the supporting industry that worked alongside Carillion, all the sub contractors etc.

In essence, tipping is probably the best form of income, so long as the tippee receives all the tips, that way hard work is rewarded.. lazy workers eat less, no managers are even required to be paid for work they never actually do.

My Opinion.

 

[Goliht]

On a new note:

I have just discovered, after nearly 40 years of making toast. That in order to not get that little white band of untoasted bread along the top of the slice.

Spoiler :

You put the slice into the toaster - Sideways

 

[Snerk]

You should publish your findings.

edit: well I guess you just did!

 

[Arakhor]

We've had a national minimum wage in the UK for years now. If Carilon still wasn't profitable all this time later, it deserved to fail. The answer is definitely not "oh, who will think of those poor companies' profits".

 

[Perfection]

I was saying boo-urns

 

[Borachio]

We've had a national minimum wage in the UK for years now. If Carilon still wasn't profitable all this time later, it deserved to fail. The answer is definitely not "oh, who will think of those poor companies' profits".

The trouble is that it's not Carillion which will suffer (especially not the chief executives), but the thousands of smaller subcontractors who are being left high and dry.

And a large part of the blame, I think, rests with the government procurers who just went with the lowest bids for contracts, and didn't bother to examine the quality of the bids or of the companies making them.

Moreover, construction is a particularly low-margin industry in any case.

 

[Gori the Grey]

If one makes a batch of burritos to freeze, one rolls the burritos into the aluminum foil in just the way one rolled the ingredients into the tortilla.

Just sayin'

 

[Takhisis]

I went to the supermarket's frozen foods section and mistakenly bought chicken burgers instead of fish burgers. This was the first time I've ever been to say ‘at least I have chicken’ in a non-ironic way, as a genuine, non-scripted reaction. In real life, to boot. Just a thought, really.

 

[Synobun]

Fish burgers are the worst so you made a good accidental decision.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, no, these fish burgers are quite good. But actually the chicken burgers are slightly less expensive.

 

[Snerk]

If made from good fish, then fish burgers (we call them fish cakes) are delicious indeed.

 

[Takhisis]

Well, these are just fish-paste medallions dipped in a batter of egg and breadcrumbs. But they are good and Synsensa should feel bad about his post and his taste buds.

 

[Synobun]

Well, these are just fish-past medallions dipped in a batter of egg and breadcrumbs. But they are good and Synsensa should feel bad about his post and his taste buds.

The only thing I feel bad about is previously holding you in high esteem.

 

[Ryika]

My math teacher really loved to rant about fish burgers, explaining that they just take all the "remains" that can't be sold otherwise.

Only later did I understand that, while that's true, it's really not as bad as it sounds, because in good products, the "remains" are just the cutaways of otherwise perfectly fine fish parts. Stuff that basically doesn't look good enough to be put into anything other than fish burgers, but otherwise is of perfectly fine quality.

Very superficial if you think about it.

 

[civvver]

The name burger is off putting but I can get behind fish sandwich. Any kind of ground up fish meat is usually really gross. Filet is fine, fried or not fried.

My math teacher really loved to rant about fish burgers, explaining that they just take all the "remains" that can't be sold otherwise.

Only later did I understand that, while that's true, it's really not as bad as it sounds, because in good products, the "remains" are just the cutaways of otherwise perfectly fine fish parts. Stuff that basically doesn't look good enough to be put into anything other than fish burgers, but otherwise is of perfectly fine quality.

Very superficial if you think about it.

Except you get a weird, ground up fish texture, mushy. It's the same way with fried chicken sandwiches. A whole filet is much preferable to a formed patty like a mcchicken or original bk chicken vs a wendy's spicy chicken or chik fil a original chicken.

 

[Snerk]

Synsensa not having an avatar like some barbarian is even more off putting.