I still can't get my head around it. Is there milk involved?

Until this moment I thought Russian and Thousand Island were the same thing. Learn something new every day!

Yeah, soy milk is a bit harder to froth than skim or 2% milk, but I think it's actually easier to froth than whole milk. (I was told it's about the protein content, which is why skim is even easier than 2%—less fat means more protein.) I wasn't a barista, but I worked in a restaurant where we did coffee drinks, and I…

Edit: goddamn kinja.

I worked for one of those places that sold iced cappuccinos (I WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS, OKAY???) and actually, the whole foam scooping thing works just fine. Fill a glass with ice and cold milk, scoop the foam off some steamed milk onto the top, pour espresso through the foam. The foam doesn't dissolve or do…

Albert: "They should get that one free...A lot of places do that."

To be fair, I already knew that...

Sounds like the papers I wrote in college!

Right? Until I've had my morning jolt, my position on race relations in America is that all people of all colors can FUCK OFF AND DIE RIGHT NOW.

So what was your thesis?

Since it doesn't involve perpetuating actual genocide, slavery, or a blasphemous reboot of my favorite childhood cartoons, I'll grant you it's not the worst idea ever. But it's still a terrible idea, for reasons that aren't about the inherent discomfort in talking about race.

You're welcome. Thanks for making a good-faith effort to understand what's being explained to you, rather than snarking at people who have had to choose between accepting illegally low wages and risking getting fired because you know how to Google labor law.

It's fucked up, no doubt. It's a bit like the nickel-and-diming airlines are doing, where you pay a small fee for every little thing that used to be included in the ticket price. Customers see the low ticket price and want that, not realizing they're going to be paying a bunch of extras along the way. Every other…

I don't think I can fix this level of stupid. I'm sorry. I tried.

I"ll try to use small words here so you can keep up.

It's a lot easier to prove when it's your paycheck versus cash tips.

That would be a really great chapter in sex ed, along with how to know when you're ready for sex and how to negotiate enthusiastic consent. Of course, we can't even get sex ed to cover contraception in most of the country, so I'm not optimistic.

Oh please, tell me more about the system I worked my way up through for a decade from host to server to manager, before becoming an employment lawyer. Tell me all about how the law fixes everything because everyone follows it and it's so cheap and easy to sue them if they don't. Please tell me; I need a good laugh…

I completely agree with you. While we're at it, can servers also please STOP whining about sexual harassment in the workplace? If you look at the laws and stuff, it's totally illegal, so obviously it doesn't happen.

Sometimes I tip a little extra in the cheap salons, because it doesn't seem fair that the Vietnamese woman who waxes my eyebrows for only $8 should get tipped half as much as the white woman who waxes my friend's eyebrows at her fancy salon where they charge twice as much. Also because on the few occasions my friends…