Figuring out what to tip is easy enough, but beyond servers (which is a mandatory for decent people). Do you tip movers? If so how much? Do you tip delivery drivers of things other than food? Do you tip if there is a delivery fee? What about hair cuts? Do I tip the washer individually or give it to the haircutter and…

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.

Yeah, but you also know that if you do great work, there isn't anything beyond a pat on the back to recognize your great work. I think public employees should be paid more and have the option for bonuses, I just think there should be less public employees. If they really like the unions, fine, that's their thing, but…

No, I just don't take pleasure from doing something I'm supposed to do. It would be like patting myself on the back for paying taxes or not cheating. I derive my happiness from going beyond the normal expected behavior, not just barely meeting it.

Honestly (barring police, teachers, firemen) you could fire 1/3 of all government workers, increase the remaining employees salaries (include performance bonuses) and bureaucracies would run like Swiss watches. The amount of incompetence I see in government work is staggering. I have worked across 3 large agencies, 2…

I always thought the issue was that public employee unions make bad employees near impossible to fire. Not being able to fire someone means they don't work hard (unless they want to). In my experience (with government employees in state, local, and federal positions) lots of them just go into the office, do very…

I don't enjoy tipping, but I understand it as a necessary evil. Unless you do something great, I don't feel "good about it." It is something you are supposed to do. Like do you feel good for paying for your meal?

What is the justification for the raise from 15% to 20% as standard for reasonable, but not great service? Food prices go up with inflation and you are matching 15% or 20% of the cost of the food. Also, do you include tax in your tipping % or no?

You must be high, food prices match inflation and the tip is a percentage of food cost. No need to keep raising tip percentages unless food cost has stayed stagnant.

Unless the price off food hasn't increase with inflation, you are correct. 15% then equals 15% now assuming food matches inflation (which it usually does).

I would imagine that they don't have that problem because they have strict guidlines about their posts. Everyone needs a stump and if you could post anything, they would.

They went to OU. OSU is Oklahomah State or Ohio State, depending on where you are from.

Even if you disagree with her framing and her arguments regarding how to move forward, it is ridiculous to dismiss the authors of the studies explaining that their studies shouldn't be used to project national numbers. The numbers aren't valid for framing national policy or to be used as national numbers by what…

To be fair, her call of alarmist rates are backed up in this article. Go to the section called "The Numbers" and it shows how this information was developed. One of the studies that is often cited basically says they used an incredibly broad definition of assault and used too small of a sample size to determine if…

By race issues not being the same, do you mean your racists hate "Pakis" and throw bananas at football matches or what?

Hitler's parents weren't helicopter parents. His dad was a total dick.

If you are smart enough to pass the test to get on, you should understand the simple rules of the game.

Who would have lawyers richer than Rolling Stone? Nationals don't provide legal support to their chapters. Most houses have a lawyer on retainer, but he usually isn't an incredible lawyer. Usually it is a competent alum.

Except guys don't invite guys to a date party. Nor do they let non-members hold ritual gang rapes in their house. I am not saying it didn't happen, but based on the follow up, it sounds like if it did, it happened somewhere else and wasn't involved with Phi Psi at all.

One was Top 15, one wasn't. Its pretty clear.