Why, yes. Glad Dick Portillo has had such great success, and maybe he’s calmed down a bit through the years, but in that moment, he was just being his namesake.

My first-ever job at just under 16 years old was at a hot dog place named for the owner in suburban Chicago that over the ensuing decades become part of a huge company with restaurants of various kinds across the country.

I highly recommend Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a fascinating study about how that behavior has f*cked up the U.S.

only emerging to obsessively mop the floor over and over

I’ve always found that so weird....I have a few friends who own bars and restaurants and I always end up spending far more there than if I’d gone to a regular place. I want to see them succeed and I want them to continue their business so why would I take free stuff?

Depending how mad you are and how hard you want to commit to the anger (which, sure, as a rule is unhealthy but a good grudge can be very satisfying every now and again too) you could just cut and paste your post here to their, Salsa Facebook or whatever and then watch what happens. Because FFS, coupons!? Why not a…

Not as horrifying as these, but....

When I was 19 I worked at Starbucks in San Francisco part time while attending a bullshit excuse for an art school (Art Institute of California, San Francisco if anyone is curious). The manager of the Starbucks was gay and while flirty and chatty with the young male baristas, tended to act coldly or indifferently…

I had customers like that return. While serving them, I am deeply ashamed to say I surreptitiously loaded their jacket pockets with jelly and many pats of butter.

Grabbing a handful of hot butter knives to unload and getting a steak knife blade in the palm will screw up the rest of your shift for sure.

And that my friend is exactly what far too many business owners depend on to skate by. Both in terms of stuff like health inspections and in terms of stuff like unpaid overtime, stealing tips and the like.

Thumbs up for the Tom Waits reference. Pretty apt.

You’d have better luck getting a serious class on sex education in US public schools than a workers’ rights one. And you’d probably have better luck lobbying for every student to have a unicorn that poops chocolate and pisses rainbows than getting either of those classes.

“Instead, he physically grabs this girl who is about 95 lbs (literally half his size) by the arm and snatches the car keys out of her hand. He then proceeds to throw them in the Awesome Blossom batter and DEEP FRY her car keys.”

I like your style.

1) Use the coupons for the hottest salsa you can get.

I had this pair of asshole brothers come in last night and they tipped me in coupons for free salsa because I had “such a sweet and spicy smile”. Their bill was over $100.

Yes, I know that is your point. I am not disagreeing with you, so why are you continue arguing that point with me?

Given the statement that it was because of an “argument on social media” I wonder if it might have had nothing to do with her working the drive through except the attacker knowing that she’d be there. We’ve had a couple of fights break out in or in front of my library this summer simply because two (or more) people…