oh my god watching him figure it out IS A TREASURE
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Their adorable-ness is more important than your logical argument. BAH!
This essay is brilliant and thought provoking, and I tip my hat to you once more, sir.
God dammit, Pink, I love you. And we're now at the point where I call you "Pink". And you make me despair that I will ever write anything other than the occasional, well-reason comment retort. Anyway, carry on. You're my favorite.
**the wage hike will only affect the back of the house workers. Can't edit my damn post.
Excellent piece, Pinkham. I hope this is picked up and shared by other industry news sources.
Promptly stealing "an amalgamation of creeping darkness given form" and "He's basically syphilis wearing a people suit."
It's interesting to see how much of an impact post-WWII politicking has on the American mindset. The American Dream never was about 'making it on your own' but now anything that hits at Pinko ideology is decried as anti-American. I still can't believe that the country doesn't offer universal health care. Yes I pay…
Wat. What the hell did you even just say? How does that in ANY way confirm the idea that service would suffer under a living wage system? No. Just...what the fuck are you even on about?
ZING!
Right?!?! Oh, I want to start an oil drilling company! The work is super hard and dangerous, but I can't pay anyone, because then I'd go out of business! WELL HARD LUCK ASSHOLE!
"Can you imagine any other industry in which "well I'd go out of business if I paid my employees properly" would be an acceptable excuse? Shouldn't having employees who you pay be part of your business plan? Just saying."
There's a reason non-Americans find our tipping culture so patently baffling; to the residents of basically any other First World Nation, the idea that food service workers should make $2.13/hour and have their entire income subsidized by what essentially amounts to coerced charity doesn't just border on the…
How dare you besmirch the bad name of syphilis! Syphilis is a bacteria that does what it's genetically programed to do. Lobbyist chose to do what they do.