When I was young, I shared a room with my mom, so I had no personal space at all. I got in the habit of bringing a book into the bathroom and just hiding in there. Whenever anyone tried to find me I would just shout, “I’m in the bathroom!” and I would be left alone. Bathrooms are sanctuaries, man.

I’m a nursing student. I get various supplies at the beginning of the semester to practice with. I never opened the lube or disinfectant though, just mimed it. Hence the slightly used. I didn’t throw it out because at some point my classmates and I want to fill the bags with wine and drink from the tubes because…

Oh gosh. It’s 89 point something. I have it saved in my car so I just push a button for it. It has ‘Saturday Afternoon at the Opera’ and I’m always tickled when it has something German.

I used to sleep in my bathtub in college and I left the door unlocked so my housemates could use the bathroom to brush their teeth/pee without either of us interrupting the other’s bed time rituals. Then there was the girl who took giant shits while I napped 1 foot away. Too much.

I have a ‘slightly used’ Foley kit, if you’d like it. (I’m a nursing student. It’s totally unused but definitely not sterile anymore.)

I pay attention to it only in that one of my favorite radio stations is Canadian and has been giving some coverage of it. (I live near Detroit, the signal carries that far I guess.)

I hated most foods my parents gave me. They would yell to EAT THE FUCKING THING and I was once held down with food shoved down my throat until I started choking. A few years later, I developed an eating disorder. Then I moved out and discovered food can actually be enjoyable. My tastes are the polar opposite of what I…

You definitely don’t have to feel obligated to, but if your caterers are anything like where I work they will talk about how fantastic you are for a long time.

My parents were in their 40s when I was born. I have two older brothers who are 4 and 5 years older than me. So yeah, it isn’t necessarily difficult at all to have kids later in life. Just my experience, though.

Can someone clarify the legality of such cases for me? When can the restaurant take part of ‘service’ or ‘gratuity’ for operational costs? Where I work, a whole 40% of the gratuity goes to operational costs and only 60% goes to the servers. However we are a catering company which I think may have slightly different…

I don’t know why people have such difficulty just... talking to each other about things. Life is so much easier if you’re just direct about things.

No, I’m pissy with them because they’re often rude as hell like the author of the clearing article and while servers at restaurant grin and bear it because they don’t want to sacrifice their tip, they’re not going to tip me either way so I’m not going to suck up to them any more than I have to.

Oh Jesus, no. Our shifts range from 6-23 hours and we average $10/hr. What the fuck, dude? Don’t talk about what you don’t know.

Thanks for replying to every single comment on this thread because you know how I get paid better than I do. Really helped people understand.

No, no. It is not expected at all. My only point was everyone tips people serving them in a restaurant, but no one even considers tipping them at a catered event even when they are being served a 3 course meal with wine service.

I am not expecting guests to tip, I am saying it never occurs to any guests ever to tip caterers, although I am sure they would all tip servers in a restaurant and the service is near identical.

There is an auto-gratuity added. Where I work, there is an 18% gratuity added on to all events. However, caterers only see 60% of that 18%. No idea where the rest goes, but not to us. (That makes for 10.8% gratuity, btw.) In addition, we are not allowed to make more than $10/hr in gratuity. If the gratuity for the…

One of my coworkers actually posted the original article in our facebook group the other day. We’re extra pissy with ‘clients’ because we’re caterers and literally no one tips the caterer serving a table. No one. So we have zero motivation to take their shit. Not that anyone talks back, we just don’t care about you…

That’s about where I am at. People have pointed out to me that many children would love my lifestyle... but that doesn’t mean it would be a particularly healthy way to raise them.