Citing two other popular press articles that also don't give sources for the information is fishy, at least to me. I searched several article databases through my university library (searching counseling, medical, psychology, and even humanities databases since she's an English professor), PubMed, and Google Scholar,…
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It doesn't help that I waded over you-know-where and re-read that one thing earlier today, either. Ugh. To head off any curiousity as to why I would do that, you see I also have to ensure that none of my mental health providers - all state-provided and unlicensed no less - know about my gender, too.
There's nothing to talk about. Don't shit where you eat is a pretty basic concept. Lecturing someone who doesn't get that isn't going bring about enlightenment; either they're then having an ugly confrontation with someone who thinks she's done nothing wrong, or she says sorry, roles her eyes, and does the same thing…
I have a coworker with a heart condition and she drinks decaf ALL DAY. She got a little out of control once when she found bags of regular and decaf in the same drawer for fear someone would brew regular in the decaf pot. Spent the afternoon sorting them out and posted a sign about how there are 4 drawers in the…
Seconded, this would be an awesome Very Special Behind Closed Ovens.
Yes...I've heard that advice and witnessed a couple as a customer. So awkward. I never had to be the server. I will admit that it was advice I followed with one guy who really scared me, but I used the popular fountain in a busy downtown area on a Saturday morning instead of a restaurant. I didn't want some poor soul…
What an awful, awful time to assume the father wasn't accepting of his child's identity. Reading one of the articles linked in this post, it seems that father and child had a loving relationship. Quoting from:
Good grief. If the language is so complicated that a regular reader of this blog can't keep up with it, it's certainly too complicated for the general population to get everything exactly right. I'm so sick of hearing "Google it! Do your research! Why can't you get it right?!" as the solution, too, because there isn't…
If cleanliness is a big deal, go mop your filthy floor.
This, exactly this! You are holding up the line (creating the line, even) with worthless TP fort construction and careful hovering.
It's often just spray from toilets with strong flushes. Little water droplets fly out of some of the stronger flushing toilets, like in offices, which tend to have cleaner/nicer bathrooms. Which I guess is watered down piss/fecal droplets? Pee pools in bigger drop. Either way, I just wipe it off and sit down. Urine is…
Exactly. What else does the customer want? Fired bartender, comped (very expensive) meal, apologies, what else is there? But they didn't apologize hard enough?? Sometimes you need to move on. That slur shouldn't have been on the receipt, but I surely understand how it wound up there.
Also, when telling someone to Google it, in my experience, results may vary. All kinds of dated and unreliable things come up in the search results. Especially when accepted terms change so quickly. If you don't want to answer the question and don't think educating is your job, don't reply to the comment. It's an…
This is going to sound meaner than I usually am, but with that attitude, yeah, you're never going to find a relationship that makes you happy. Selfish and self-pitying are traits few people look for in partners...trans or cis gendered.
Because the owner decided it's worth the revenue. Not all restaurants do this...I've certainly been told that the kitchen is already closed a half hour before the posted closing time. I've also been to places that assured me seating 5 minutes before closing was no problem. The few times I've gone in that close to…
It is bizarre, and certainly something worth working to improve. But then, the cost of living has skyrocketed for a good 90% or more of the population while wages remain stagnant at best. So it also isn't *just* server struggling with wage devaluation. I think pitting servers and customers against each other by…
It doesn't sit well with me, either, really...some one above referred to 20% that way above. Seems to me that if the standard added gratuity is 18%, that pretty well indicates that 15-20% is a pretty normal range for tips.
Agreed. When I started eating out it was 15%, 20 for outstanding service. Then 20% became standard (ok, easier maths!) and now it's a "barely acceptable" minimum? How much is "acceptable" and how much indicates superior service? I get that they pay for servers is below minimum wage, tip-dependent, etc., but tip creep…
It'll be ok...Trader Joe's makes really good jelly beans this time of year. Stock up now.
"she correctly diagnosed me with giardiasis and prescribed me (this was India) with an antibiotic to keep my fever down and then had me drink peroxide, I think it was, to smother the bugs."