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  • How would your budget look if one of your daily staples increased 25% overnight? It's the same as New Yorkers or Californians mofking Midwesterns when their rent increase drastically to something that's considered "low end" in their market.

  • It really depends. I live ina rural town with about 17,000 residents. You are allowed chickens in the city limits, but not allowed roosters. I know a few people that have chickens in their yards, but there isn't really enough apace for a chicken coop and activities in the yards since house are packed in pretty tight within coty limits. Outside city limits i would say about half the farmers have chickens as far as i can tell, but they are fairly reclusive

  • I once tried to set up my first PIN using the year Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs. The problem was that my PIN was 9870, and i quickly realized that was just 1234 with extra steps and had to come up with something else. Unfortunately i have no clue what i changed it to, as it wasn't able to sit in my mind nearly as well.

  • Rent has gone up a lot more than 15% in the past decade. The whole system is rotten and needs to be abolished, but all the servers i know are absolutely struggling right now and depend on getting a 20% tip on each table. How would you feel if half your paychecks were randomly 25% less? Stop going to restaurants that expect a tip by all means, but if you are going somewhere that expects it, you should tip.

  • So could you and your coworkers, but restaurant owners are the sleazist, scummiest, and greediest business owners in your community guaranteed. A restaurant in my town had the entire staff fired and the restaurant closed for a month because the owner would rather miss out on a month of business than pay a fair wage.

  • Servers usually have to pay in X% of their total sales to the back of house. So if you stiff me on a $90 check, i lose $3 because i still have to pay that much in. I actually had a slow night where bith tables stiffed me so i actually left the restaurant $4 poorer than when i entered. Because ihad a better night the next shift, the owner was able to average me out so that he didn't have to pay me more than the server minimum wage.

  • Thrn stop going to restaurants that expect a tip. Don't go to a restaurant and stiff your server. I spent 6 months last year living on $300 a week because people weren't tipping at the bar i was working at. The bar is still open, but the new bartender is in the exact same position.

    You don't take a job at a restaurant or a bar because your life is doing great. You are there because you have no other options.

  • That's over the course of a pay period though. So if i make $40 on a slow night, but $200 the next night, that evens out and the boss doesn't have to pay out.

    I am not defending tipping, but change will only happen from the top down. All the full time servers at the restaurant i work at are at "i cant pay my bills" level of struggling right now and we live in a super cheap area. Stiffing your server won't end tipping, it's just taking a meal away from them or their kids while the owner is just fine. Legislation is the only thing that will end the system, qnd that's where the reform needs to happen.

  • Yeah, I'm not defending tipping in the US, but not tipping is only screwing over the server. You don't end up working at a restaurant because you love it, you are there because your life is a mess and it's closest thing you can get to a stable job. If you don't want to tip, then don't go out to eat.

    Back in October i had a guy "leave a tip" that said "Kamala bullshit" because he was mad his double of jack and coke cost $8. I don't set the prices, i also think it's bullshit, but i was weeknight bartending because I couldnt find any other job.

  • Complain all you want, but not tipping is straight up taking money from someone who is getting paid $5 an hour. Complain to ownership, write your congressman and state legislators, but not tipping only punishes someone who is barely scrapping by.