15% is for dinner, with wine. Tip more at lunch (usually just food/soft drinks) and _way_ more at breakfast. I've been known to tip 50% - $3 on my $6 breakfast, because it's an extra buck, asshole. Go ahead, make her day.

Seriously. 20% is the ceiling, not the bare minimum.

I agree. Fuck this douche author. Tipping is a percentage. So going to fancy pants restaurant is already a steep as shit bill. Then acting like the otherwise unemployable is somehow deserving of 20% of that bill while someone of equal lack of use to society at Chilis is worth 15% of nothing is bull shit. 15% on an…

Of course he's a Skins fan, dogs love to eat piles of bullshit.

[asks for God to show him a sign]
[closes eyes]
[opens eyes]
[sees sign]
[sign says "All You Can Eat - $6.99"]

-JaMarcus Russell

Right. But then again, that was at a time when interest rates had numbers to the left of the decimal point :) If you read the CAPE/POPE post referred to at the end of the article, you'll see a chart tracking "average" PE levels with interest rates. Conclusion: there is no "average." It keeps moving in response to…

Everyone here is making a good point that in my scenario, we're all pretty much screwed. That's true in the case of an unrecoverable collapse. But I'm not saying that we're gonna have to get all Mad Max...

That's "good thinking" in theory, but there is no real way to put that into practice. Good thinking is to invest continuously and regularly in index funds without over-reacting to what happened yesterday...

And if it all out crashes and doesn't return it doesn't really matter whether you put money in or not. We're all monetarily screwed at that point. But if it does continue its overall incline there's a lot to gain.

My guess is they figured you might be more naive than that, being in a small company in Podunk and all, and your eyes would get all big and stuff looking at that number that's 30% bigger than what you're getting now. You did the right thing; unless they were going to make you a VP or something, I don't see why you…

Bingo, that is why they ask that question, and why you shouldn't answer it. It puts you at a disadvantage.

Hiring managers ask you about your current salary to peg their offer to what you're making now, instead of what they've budgeted for. The only times I've even come close to sharing what I currently make is when their offer is laughably out of line with reality, and then I still try to link it back to external data…

And, just like that, I'm booking my flight to Jamaica.......

ACCURATE

gold

Sounds to me like you did the exact right thing. You were completely open and honest about your salary demands. So it's up to them - either they meet your required pay or they continue looking for someone else.

I came out of public accounting working for a reputable firm that is highly recruited, but the salaries in that type of job are very low compared to what you make working private accounting. People in my background run into this all the time. What you have to say to them is that your current salary is not relevant to…

Sneezes BELOW the sneeze guard! OH THE HUMANITY!!!! (that phrase just totally tickled me)

Drew Magary: [walks the fuck right into the side of that car because some asshole won't get out of his way]

There is a Sierra Nevade 12er sample that I've seen making the rounds in my local grocery stores which contains their Ruthless Rye IPA, I'd recommend that if you can find it. Unless you aren't a fan of Rye IPAs (I personally love the hell out of them).