I wonder how this would shift if we adjusted it from "what people are making" to "what we expect that lifestyle to look like." Your bills should be paid, you should be able to afford a roof over your head, and you shouldn't have to worry about where your next meal is coming from. I was well over the lower bound in the…

Mark, this is extremely coherent writing for someone who should be completely birthday drunk rn. I’m very proud of/sad for you. Hugs!

This is such an important comment.

Just a thought, but if the owners had a "stack of resumes" then maybe they should've fired their harassing BoH staff and replaced them? Naaaaaaah.

I worked in restaurants all throughout my 20's. Sexual harassment is a part of the job, so much so that, as both CA Pinkham and the woman in this story say, you just grow accustomed to it being a part of the job, ESPECIALLY from the kitchen staff. I have this strange feeling even typing this, that just acknowledging…

oh god Martha Coakley ughghghghghghghghgh

Thank you. This is what happens when I nap before posting.

If abstinence-only education made teenagers have less sex and therefore get pregnant less and get fewer STIs, I would still be opposed to it on moral grounds (like, it's wrong to impose your morality on people in public schools, and it's wrong to make teenagers who are having sex feel bad about it.) But it doesn't…

I'm moving from a more upscale place to a mom and pop sushi bar that I worked at 7 years ago. I'll be making less money, but at least the managers/owners are humane. Like I constantly tell friends and family not to come in to the restaurant I currently work at because at least once a week, a server or cook is forced…

The whole structure of restaurant wages is how they get free labor out of employees because the customer's tip is meant to subsidize paying a fair wage. I mean, restaurant minimum wage is a fucking fraction of federal minimum wage - it's basically saying "labor costs are somebody else's problem!"

1) Waiters make bank. I know this because I once met a guy who was a waiter who made over 50k and only declared 30k on his taxes.

Once you find it, recommend me? But only if I can eat the pretzels without wearing any pants. THAT is the dream. A job that didn't require grown-up pants.

You have just described my dream job.

I fucking love Dad rock.

I would say "I don't understand how they're going to try to justify this," because it seems so laughably impossible to justify, but come on. We both know better than that by now.

Former Cracker Barrel server here! Hello!

I don't think I could choke down mayo and pineapple chunks...I've done a lot to hold on to jobs but I don't think my stomach would let me...I'd have to claim severe allergies and hope she believed me. Mayo hits my gag reflex all wrong, always has. A thin smear, maybe I could wait til she left to regurgitate, it makes…

Karen Blake (or anyone in a similar position) should look into getting a sexual harassment suit filed through the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). A thing that a lot of people don't realize is that for victims in most employment law cases, one can usually get free legal counsel through the EEOC—this…

fuck you, man. it's bad enough that it's a monday but to do this to me?