We pool tips where I work, and yes, it’s completely transparent. We can see exactly how much each person brought in and how it’s distributed (it’s a point system tiered based on role).

Anyone feeling as alone as I am in this moment? AIN’T IT GRAND. Anyway, I just finished the absolute best book called How to Be Alone by Lane Moore. It’s funny and achingly beautiful and I could not put it down.

Crooked Media has also given us Keep It, which is fantastic. Pod Save the People with Deray is excellent. With Friends Like These is also excellent. The entire media group isn’t just four white guys. The loudest ones just happen to be, as always, the four white guys.

NYC fine dining front-of-house person here:

We take regular menu quizzes as a team to assess our knowledge of allergies that can be activated by each dish. The big ones like gluten and dairy are often obvious but more obscure ones like allium and nightshade are just as important and are not always mentioned on the…

I was at that event in Brooklyn where you met Tucker Max and I remember being deeply disappointed that some of the money I paid for the ticket would go to him (I was not aware he was the other guest on the show).

KC transplant living in NYC--last time I visited KC I went to Q39 and holy shit I love it. Joe’s is still firmly planted in my heart (the gas station one, fuck the Olathe one), but Q39 is my new second favorite.

Please leave these lesbian bears alone.

What you’re suggesting is just an entirely different cocktail. A Cynar spritz is good! An Aperol spritz is... also good!

I guess it’s because “two beers” sounds more like the truth than outright denying having any alcohol at all?  And for some reason two beers is the standard for “not yet buzzed.” My dad was a cop for twenty years and I remember him saying that every time, EVERY time, someone is pulled over for suspicion of DUI they say…

That’s what I gather from working in an environment that puts me in close proximity to people who are rich as fuck. I get all smiles and $50 handshakes from the rich dudes who bring their wives in on Saturdays and the mistresses mid-week. It’s gross but, whatever, I have bills to pay.

My dad was a cop for many years and confirmed that the highway patrol guys usually keep a couple 2-liters of Coca Cola in their trunks because they use it to clean blood off of pavement after bad wrecks :|

Here’s my question to you since you work in Financial Aid: How exactly does someone pull this off? I don’t know if this has been reported yet (I’ve only been following The Root on this story), but someone has to at the keyboard typing in these numbers and hitting “enter”. As someone working in a financial aid…

I was not expecting to love that show but I really did. Also these are all Michael Schurr shows and I like some of the similarities in all of them, mainly between Parks and Office.

Once we dig out all the rot and find out how far up it goes in this school, what’s the punishment? HOW is anyone held accountable, aside from criminal charges?

I’ve dealt with the whole spectrum of A to C, and I agree that the A-listers are always very gracious. When you start hitting B and C territory, it’s a gamble. I’ve never met her but I’ve heard multiple accounts of friends in the fine dining industry that Meryl is absolutely delightful.

Can confirm that Kate Hudson pulls this shit at at least one NYC hotel restaurant frequented by celebrities. When asked to put out her cigarette or please smoke outside, she responds with a thinly veiled threat to have you fired.

Bring your kid wherever you want, but forfeit your right to glare at any bar patrons who curse loudly or say something inappropriate within earshot of the kid. Also, how often do you go to this place? Often enough that the staff know who you are, and you have “regular” status? Prepare to go from “oh yeah they live…

I feel like I’ve been reading similar stories like this almost weekly at this point. Always a chain restaurant and some renegade server/manager duo (or just one of them) making black customers pay up front. Two things: 1.) Yeah, hi, that’s racist as fuck, and 2.) Restaurants absolutely should NEVER hold servers…

If you haven’t watched her “Characters” episode yet, do it. It’s by far the best one in the series.

A coke habit plus a mistress still puts him firmly within the realm of Normal Rich Guy Stuff. It was either a mistress with concrete evidence (photos, texts) of some weird embarrassing stuff... or... and this is not based on any evidence... he was having an affair with a man.