And those things would increase the amount of the tip, too, anyway above what would be ordered by a single diner.

I had a Lyft driver become so rapt in his one-sided conversation with me (about how he felt responsible for girls riding in his car and waited for them to enter their homes before pulling away) that he missed my house and continued driving for almost a mile before I could cut in and tell him.

Plus, you know, there are plenty of tedious and awful jobs where you can’t make nearly as much as a server can because of the lack of tips. Nobody is throwing an extra few grand at call center workers who are micromanaged and screamed at, nobody is considering the financial needs of a roofer.

You have no idea how I tip. I tend to set the bar at 25%, personally. But I recognize a crazy-ass system when I see one and if the only argument for it is that some servers can make money that is not at all proportional to the nature of the work being done, there’s really not a compelling case for it’s continence.

yeah, it’s so emotionally and physically taxing to... uh... bring a second set of silverware to a table?

Maybe they should be paid a reasonable salary in the first place so we don’t need convoluted “rules”?

The shtick of the “Salty Waitress” seems to be tilting toward a low-scale dining experience, but I agree that people in the comments (myself included) often scale up to fancier places. I do wonder why... for myself, it’s the fact that I don’t often eat at diners and almost never at chains.

And high top tables, which are a crime against humanity. Wearing a coat? Guess what, fucker, you are leaving it on while you eat!

My feeling is that there’s been a lot written about how bad servers have it (because A LOT of people trying to make it in media, broadly, have worked as servers to make ends meet) so these articles exist because socially anxious but well meaning people are terrified that asking for a fork without food crusted onto it…

Yes. Now my turn:

Are you implying that Quincy Jones DIDN’T show up at a random Beatles session, order Ringo Starr around using a string of absurd Britishism cliches about lager and shepherds pie, and then replace him with a jazz drummer?

You don’t need to cure them, I agree that sounds like a fool’s errand. But you can try to get them not to act on their compulsions in a way that ultimately harm innocent children. Wouldn’t that be a way bigger win than accepting that this shit happens and that, when it does, getting as much vengeance as possible from…

Pedophiles are often very reluctant to seek help because they fear societal condemnation, even from those who are ostensibly there to help them like psychologists. It’s just an all around horrible disorder that destroys lives on all sides.

there really aren’t that many interesting questions for servers that weren’t covered in, like, the first three of these.

Actually, the server should be paid a real wage so we can stop absurdities like telling people to tip as though they bought things they didn’t actually buy

I’m going to start doing this now.

Give Sufjan his fucking Oscar.

What did you want them to do? The truth is they were being out messaged by the Republicans on this, people like DACA but not enough to shut the government down for it. The gambit failed, this was the only option available to them.

Is there anyone more overrated than H.P. Lovecraft?

And of those, Atlanta functions as a kind of “black NYC”... here in Detroit, when my white coworkers want to get away they go to Chicago or New York. My black coworkers all go to Atlanta, sometimes multiple times a year, to shop at black owned high-fashion stores, eat at black-run high end restaurants, see shows…