How exciting! This is near where I grew up and my absolute least favorite teacher of all time went to Siena!

Mom says I can't eat anything with carbon in it.

Okay, so, I actually find it pretty frickin' weird that, after that long conversation with the customer trying to explain how heat works, in which the customer had asked about getting drinks iced, the barista didn't clarify whether or not the customer wanted it hot or iced. Yes, the customer was dumb, yes she should…

I really wish they had brought the "mixed eggs" guy one hard boiled, one fried and one scrambled.

"No, ma'am, actually the sun is going to remain in its place as it has for millions of years. The Earth, however, will continue spinning and proceeding on its orbit as planned; would you like me to ask a manager to pull the emergency brake?"

"No, Ma'am, once it gets dark the sun will stop doing that."

Many, many places do not accept Amex or Discover. Amex charges a much higher percentage of each transaction, so many businesses don't want to eat that cost. Interestingly, Amex diners spend 35% more, on average, than Visa/MC patrons.

It's not common to only accept certain cards? If you don't have anything other than an American Express card on you, you're shit out of luck in most (Canadian, if not all) places because unlike the other credit card companies, AE charges retailers a lot more.

Fuck all these idiots. I can relate to both sides: I've been a waiter, and I trained as a nurse. I've seen what EMTs deal with. Once you've done that, how can you have sympathy for someone complaining about how hard it is to carry a couple of plates of food across the room?

I feel your pain.

In the Army I was what we called a "combat life saver". We were to keep someone stable until the medics arrived. Now I do volunteer bike medical support for running events. Even moving people who are in shape (not 250+ lbs) can be extremely hard. That and the fact that you have no idea what you are…

kmart might be the worst place to work ever, I'd get costumers there who would try to break your soul

I have trouble getting angry at it either, especially since the argument that restaurant workers making minimum wage need tips to have a living wage and at the same time food service workers deserve tips when retail workers don't kind of comes across to me that retail workers some how don't need to make a living wage,…

There are virtually no restaurants in the US that don't take credit cards; you're mistaken. The difference is that Canadian credit and debit cards have the built in chip which allows for using the aforementioned credit/debit card machine that they bring to your table. It's nice, but it's really a minor difference.

honestly, I think it's more social pressure than the cost of living, because the cost of the food that the tip is based on goes up with the cost of living

This is why tipping is a mess. 15% used to be fine, then 18%, then 20%, now 30%? I always tip because the system is set up to screw servers otherwise, but I wish we could do away with it. I don't want to have to calculate shit.

Yeah. It's 15 percent. Amazingly people who profit directly from tips will keep putting out the idea that a larger and larger percentage is the standard. It isn't. And clearly, by being generous and tipping twenty percent doesn't give people a good view of the public in general, it just causes them to think that…

A tip is calculated as a percentage of the meal's cost, so inflation is already accounted for.

But the price of food goes up commensurately with the price of everything else. So when a sandwich was 8 dollars in 1998 and it is now 15 dollars, 15% in 1998 = 15% now. So cost of living doesn't really make sense assuming the cost of food increases with inflation.

This is what I was taught, and is still basically how I tip (15% base line, up from there for good service). I'm genuinely surprised to see 20% suggested as the standard. I'd really like to know when that changed.

It's human nature to take the shortsighted view and subconsciously fear that someone else's success must come at one's own expense, as if all of life were a zero-sum game —...