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I’ve talked about this before here, but I love the Bachman books. The Long Walk is my favorite King work, and I’m a completist nerd.
 
wfudkn said:
Yeah, I'm pretty excited about it. I've run out of propane in the middle of cooking something too many times. And yeah, every time was my fault for poor planning, but now I just don't have to think about it.
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Living in America means you don’t have to be inconvenienced by your own poor planning.
 
Just walked to the bougie coffee shop frequented by the Duke students in their Gucci and G wagons and tipped $2 on my iced mocha latte.
 
mako1331 said:
I’ve talked about this before here, but I love the Bachman books. The Long Walk is my favorite King work, and I’m a completist nerd.
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Just downloaded The Long Walk a month or so ago after not having read it for a really long time. It's one of those short stories that has always stuck with me.

Another is The Jaunt for some reason, maybe just for the concept of being able to teleport from one place to the other.

The Things They Left Behind is a really good one too about survivor guilt from 9-11
 
TownieDeac said:
McDonalds has an anti-tipping policy bruh, as do most major fast food chains. Also they aren't paying tipped minimum wage they're just paying minimum wage, or thereabouts. My preference would be eliminating tipping from our culture altogether and putting the burden of paying better wages on business owners and creating a better safety net for those on poverty line wages short of mandating a living wage. But til then, don't blame consumers for not tipping at fast food establishments.
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My favorite restaurant in my old town, by far the best restaurant in town, implemented a 10% price increase on all food and bar items with the specific intention of increasing worker pay. They notified via social media and put a notice on the menu, and there was a bit of a revolt. Lots of people angrily declaring that it was a freedom thing and they would stop going there. It blew over after a while and the restaurant is doing just fine, even through the pandemic. Two other "classy" restaurants in town did the same thing 6 months later.
 
there's some tech ceo in WA who cut his salary by a million+ a year to pay all his employees from mailroom up $75k minimum starting salary

which is like the wake forest version of that, basically, the one white collar ppl can point to and say yea sounds awesome, instead of the "why are my burgers an extra $1.20???"
 
This probably deserves some math to be done, but shouldn’t the increase in prices be 20% to make up for the standard 20% tip? Seems like some workers might be making less now? I’m probably missing something, but a quick glance this seems off
 
maybe the owner calculated he needed to raise prices 10% to raise wages 20%
 
YoungBuck95 said:
This probably deserves some math to be done, but shouldn’t the increase in prices be 20% to make up for the standard 20% tip? Seems like some workers might be making less now? I’m probably missing something, but a quick glance this seems off
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Do you believe there is a 20% standard tip ?
 
I feel like there was a restaurant or two in DC that added a service charge to your bill but got in trouble because it wasn't going to staff, so you were also given the option to tip.
 
A bunch of places in Philly started to go that way or full co-op just as we were leaving.
 
YoungBuck95 said:
This probably deserves some math to be done, but shouldn’t the increase in prices be 20% to make up for the standard 20% tip? Seems like some workers might be making less now? I’m probably missing something, but a quick glance this seems off
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Never ran the numbers my self, but my understanding was the owner did some analysis and felt that this would be the best path. I think a 10% across the board price increase was enough to increase base wages to a living wage level for all employees, without affecting ownership profits. Customers were still allowed to tip servers as well. It is possible that some staff saw a decrease in weekly income some weeks (especially on football weekends in an SEC town) but the owner wanted to introduce more stability into his staffs' pay checks. They and the staff worked on this together.
 
Always been a 20% tipper at restaurants and bars, usually would tack on 50 cents or a dollar to barista or counter service place.

Since the pandemic started I usually just tip $2 to anyone working at counter or stand (usually a $5-8 expense for a beer, coffee or snack) and now tip waiters 25-30%. These people are front line workers and deserve to be compensated more for their risk.

That being said I'm on board with instituting a living minimum wage and getting rid of tipping all together. It is so nice to now have to tip when you're traveling, although I still usually do when traveling in second or third world countries.
 
Also I'm getting fucking hyped about this Cold War unit we start today in my 12th grade American History II course. So many maps, I can't wait. Gonna try and not lecture the whole 90 mins.
 
yo brews, what does your "echo chamber" question have to do with

1) using an allusion out of context; and
2) hamlet
 
I would pay a pretty significant amount of money for a Jesus vest like Leguizamo wore when he played Tybalt. I think I’d look pretty badass.
 
Has anyone else attended a performance of Drunk Shakespeare? I saw a performance of Midsummer's Night Dream in Austin at the Spider House and the main chick got hammered and was groping and making out with dudes on stage super hard. It was fucking sweet!

I also got fairly shit faced during the show. I wanted to do my part.
 
BillBrasky said:
Always been a 20% tipper at restaurants and bars, usually would tack on 50 cents or a dollar to barista or counter service place.

Since the pandemic started I usually just tip $2 to anyone working at counter or stand (usually a $5-8 expense for a beer, coffee or snack) and now tip waiters 25-30%. These people are front line workers and deserve to be compensated more for their risk.

That being said I'm on board with instituting a living minimum wage and getting rid of tipping all together. It is so nice to now have to tip when you're traveling, although I still usually do when traveling in second or third world countries.
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This is where I’m at. Even though I don’t think grabbing a 4 pack out of the cooler really warrants a tip, I still them. Pre-covid times it was definitely a smaller tip. But yeah, a living wage would be nice.
 
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