I remember an episode where they got called to a used car lot because some mexican dude was fighting the salesman. The car lot had a huge sign "no car over 499$". Apparently you used to be able to buy a 5 year old used car for 400 bucks.
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I have basically stopped tipping, and its paying off.
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I remember an episode where they got called to a used car lot because some mexican dude was fighting the salesman. The car lot had a huge sign "no car over 499$". Apparently you used to be able to buy a 5 year old used car for 400 bucks.
Actually the most annoying part was dealing with cocksuckers like yourself who think they’re entitled and the most important/only person in the restaurant.
I’ve done concrete work and can bench well over 275...
Seriously if you’ve never worked waitstaff at a busy restaurant, go do it then come tell me about it.
Actually the most annoying part was dealing with cocksuckers like yourself who think they’re entitled and the most important/only person in the restaurant.
I’ve done concrete work and can bench well over 275...
Seriously if you’ve never worked waitstaff at a busy restaurant, go do it then come tell me about it.
Man, I worked front of house, and because I wanted a challenge, moved into the kitchen. You can tell me about busy when you serve 500 plates off saute during a 7 hour, 1300 cover Friday night dinner service. GTFOH with your weak shit.
We go to the same pizza place every week (Mellow Mushroom, great 'za and great selection of beers), wife and I eat in the bar, and I always tip the bartend/waitress $10 cash regardless of our bill. Of course, wife gets free Diet Coke and I'll get a free beer quite often. And a $3 regular loyalty credit. Interesting how much more often that happens when you become a regular who tips them quite well in cash.
You couldn't pay me enough to work in a busy kitchen.
Just as i said, the last time i tipped a cashier was the last time. I did the "no tip" option today for the cashier who range me up. #feelsgoodman
This is why I mostly eat at home. If I'm grabbing something on the go, drive through, where no tip is expected. If I do get rare exemplary service I tip accordingly, I've even been caught with little cash and gone back to tip a deserving server, once.
I actually prefer that to the over-friendly, over-involved way that most American chains force their waiters to behave.
Take my order, bring my food, then leave me alone till I'm done.
This, unless it’s a hot waitress who is DTF.
The better ones look at their tables often for cues that they're needed and otherwise leave people to eat.
Yes, those are the ones I tip well because that's the behavior that I look for.
Most american companies do that and I hate it. When I was a teen working for Safeway they forced us to smile and make small talk with customers. You had to 1) smile 2) ask them how their day was going 3) tell them about specials and 4) lead them to the aisle where their item was. And then these companies wonder why they can't get anybody to work for minimum wage.
I definitely tip on how good the service is and half the time on how good the food is. If the food is sub par but the wait staff are helpful or remorseful about my messed up or mediocre food, ill tip them extra. I am not a complainer unless something is really messed up. I have high expectations but understand reality. Its why 99% of the time i just cook at home. Better food, better prices and only one asshole to blame if its fucked up.
I have walked out on horrible service, many a time. Usually before i even order, because they took so long. A simple “we are busy but we will be with you as soon as we can” is much better than ignoring me until they are ready to take an order.
Since the plandemic started, i noticed a trend. Silverware not on tables and many times my food makes it before a napkin fork and knife do. Its infuriating.
I have walked out on horrible service, many a time. Usually before i even order, because they took so long. A simple “we are busy but we will be with you as soon as we can” is much better than ignoring me until they are ready to take an order.
Since the plandemic started, i noticed a trend. Silverware not on tables and many times my food makes it before a napkin fork and knife do. Its infuriating.
Just today the lady asked if I wanted to donate $5 for the schools, my response, 'you're kidding right, that's what I pay taxes for and if you ask me this nonsense again, I'll never shop here'. Manager heard and smiled as I guess I'm not the only one
give me my change
I'm not tipping for you doing your fking job and besides, if you are making $15/hr pouring my coffee, you're already overpaid
give me my change
I'm not tipping for you doing your fking job and besides, if you are making $15/hr pouring my coffee, you're already overpaid
Last night stopped at a little mom and pop Mexican joint. Place was clean. Waiter was prompt, food was average. he made sure we were taken care of, not overbearing. He got a good tip. I’m not going out to eat to visit with the waiter. If my drink glass goes empty the tip is automatically cut in half.
Last time in a restaurant with people we were splitting up the bill and someone said to me "Give me $x and you take care of this tip." Which I did. What I left was questioned by everyone because it came out to about 40%. I said "She was nice enough and did an adequate job. Besides, if I can make someone's night, maybe even give them something good to think about all week by giving them a few dollars too many, then why not do it. It's only money."
And everyone at the table was very impressed with me and expressed how sweet that was and such a nice thing to do and how nice I was.
Which I followed with... "Besides, I only eat out like one or twice a year, so it's real easy to do."
Tip cup on the counter? Fuck em! That's worse than someone pan handling on the street IMO.
And everyone at the table was very impressed with me and expressed how sweet that was and such a nice thing to do and how nice I was.
Which I followed with... "Besides, I only eat out like one or twice a year, so it's real easy to do."
Tip cup on the counter? Fuck em! That's worse than someone pan handling on the street IMO.
I hate seeing those things because the checkers used to get paid pretty well. Plus they have stupid scales on the bags etc so you put something down on the wrong spot and alarms go off because it thinks I'm a thief.
If they wanna impress me they should automate the store and executive management. I'm sure you could program a computer to make nonsensical employee schedules, print out motivational posters and announce over the PA that smoke breaks were only allowed behind the store out of sight of customers.
...but I don't have to interact with an employee with purple hair wearing gloves that have handled XXX customer's items and payments. AFA alarms, it's happened to me once. An employee walked over and asked to see my receipt. I said, sure, it's in one of the bags. You can follow me to my vehicle if you like. End of interaction.
I favored HD over Lowe's until they installed self-checkouts.
You expressed my feels towards the tipping issue nicely.Last time in a restaurant with people we were splitting up the bill and someone said to me "Give me $x and you take care of this tip." Which I did. What I left was questioned by everyone because it came out to about 40%. I said "She was nice enough and did an adequate job. Besides, if I can make someone's night, maybe even give them something good to think about all week by giving them a few dollars too many, then why not do it. It's only money."
And everyone at the table was very impressed with me and expressed how sweet that was and such a nice thing to do and how nice I was.
Which I followed with... "Besides, I only eat out like one or twice a year, so it's real easy to do."
Tip cup on the counter? Fuck em! That's worse than someone pan handling on the street IMO.
I eat out only a shy more, but I tip well and for your reasons above.
I imagine if we ate out more I could have different feelings towards it.
I somewhat view your response to tipping as a lack of imagination. Never thought I'd say that.
Here is another approach.....
Pretend you don't speak English. I'm sure you can figure out an alternative language to use....then, if they produce someone that speaks said alternative language tip the fuck out of them.
"Guten Tag. Ich mochte....hrm? Nein! Keine Englisch!"
"Ja. Kaffe. Bitte. Mit scheisse..."
"Mehr Geld? Fick dich!"
Extra points for nailing an Adolph Hitler impersonation. More than usual that is.
I had an experience yesterday that....blew my fucking mind.
It was a 3d scanner that replaced the employee. I put the shit in the scanner with 1" of space between everything and tapped my card and left. I didn't even get crack cocaine on my shit, and didn't have to exchange pleasantries with someone who was fresh out of meth amphetamines.
I remember this only vaguely - exact details and faces might be a bit off.
Reminds me of a store I was in where they had a thing going on where you would get between 5% and 50% off that day.... and the percentage was determined by a balloon you picked up at the beginning that they would pop at the counter.
I had 2 boxes of ammo and the dude at the register next to me had like 4 high end rifle scopes. I hit the 50% jackpot and he had 5%....I asked if he wanted to trade discount cards. Made that dudes day for sure.
The Sam's club in Apollo Beach, FL has RFID scanning lines.
Shopper opens their phone with the QR code showing to the scanners above.
Roll the cart into the lined area and in three seconds you're on your way out the door.
Fucking scary.
No tip jar though
Costco turned several lanes into self checkout. Only a 3'x3' scale and NO skip bagging allowed. Everything must fit on the scale. WTF.
3 foot square scale? They're weighing entire shoppers now to make sure nothing is stolen?
Oh I agree. Was just stating how it was different when there's a tip involved.
I'd much rather just get service and they fuck off and not expect anything to having some millennial faggot think we're going to be friends when it comes time to pay the bill, so he sits at the table with us like we fucking invited him for dinner.
My favorite is the obvious corporate policy at the Dutch Brothers coffee chain where the retard 16 year olds who can barely dress themselves are required to try and attempt a conversation with you, every time while some auto tune bullshit is blasting in the background at volume 11.
Oh what are you doing today? I'm killing you in my mind.
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I saw that here too at one of the rare times I've gone.
I absolutely HATE fucking Costco. Fucking hate that place and their fuck fuck 'lets randomly move shit' games. I could make an entire thread outlining all of their dumb bullshit and why anyone who says 'I love Costco' is an inbred retard.
Look over and see there's self checkouts but people are still standing in regular lines 20 deep. Doesn't take much to figure out why. The irony was that it was such a pain in the ass to use the self checkouts with no conveyor belt/tabletop on them that they had to staff people for each self check out to help you. Totally defeated the purpose.
I hate Walmart with a passion, but sometimes it’s there and when leaving they have some dummy asking to see your receipt and look through your shit. I’m not a thief so I say no and keep walking, or just keep walking fuck them. these big stores also say a most theft is internal, but treat every customer like a thief and it’s usually policy to not stop actual shop lifters and let them leave. so which is it?
You can say fuck you to receipt checkers in regular stores. But, club stores line Costco and Sam's club can revoke your membership if you refuse. I was so pissed off once at a mile long line to leave the store, I just held up my receipt and yelled 2 items and kept going.
I need a bourbon all of a sudden.
I need a bourbon all of a sudden.
I don't know what's worse about costco, the endless legions of gray hairs fighting to get in the door or their membership card bullshit. A friend of mine got trespassed from a roseville costco because he was shopping with his dad's card.
2nd cart to transfer your scanned items into.
The Brandon and Apollo Beach Sam's both keep an extra cart at the self checkout.
It’s called a Glory HOLE, not a Glory WINDOW, so you must have me confused with someone else. Though the fact that you referred to it as a “drive thru” in the first place means you don’t take long either way, so…
Just giving you shit man, I saw an open door (window? hole?
) and couldn’t resist, haha.For what it’s worth, I still tip, but I learned at an early age to tip appropriate to the service given. Crappy service? Crappy (no) tip. Good service? Good tip. Amazeballs service (incredibly rare)? Amazeballs tip. Having worked retail/fast-food/customer service in my youth, I can empathize with those on the other side of the counter and am happy to reward quality service and hard work when it’s present.
haha I had a rental house I sold last year that was off Big Bend in Apollo Beach.
I have a buddy that lives over there. It's building up so fast. They are putting housing in every open space.
Even Wimauma is building up.
Welcome to the rational side where people earn a wage for the job they do and if they're really spectacular at it and I happen to be feeling like it, I'll toss a generous tip your way. If you're not spectacular then you get nothing and like it. The kind of people with the kind of jobs where tips are a thing are at their station in life because they made choices that led them there. I was a member of that club once and it sucked so I lifted myself up. I have never been a tipper.
If you expect a tip, you won't get one. If you ask for a tip I'll leave 1 cent on the counter drenched in condiments, stale beer and salad fragments. If you tap the tip jar or wait while I address the issue of a tip at all then I might just short the fucking check by a buck and ask you to get me a glass of water, then walk out.
If you leave me the fuck alone and do your job quickly and without me having to tell you to, you stand a non-zero chance of getting a tip. If you pass the "small plate of lemons" test with my iced tea and my iced tea doesn't go empty and you don't ask me 50 times how everything is then you'll probably get a little something.
I have no pity or sense that I owe anyone anything. I worked myself so hard in order to provide for my family that I won't ever see what is commonly thought of as "retirement age". If I get to do it, so do you. People working today in service industries would have died of exposure where I grew up.
ETA: I remember when my wife and I were first dating and we went to El Torito for a late dinner and drink. Service was abominable, slow, attitude ridden, inaccurate and she was a bit of a bitch. So I left a $.10 tip. The waitress ran after us as we left screaming that we had shorted the check. I said, "No I did not. Learn math." then she looked down at the bill, counted the money and said, "Oh, so no tip then." in a nicely huffy tone and stomped off back to the restaurant. The dumb cunt actually counted the tip first and that really frosted my flakes. I yelled back, "No. You definitely got the tip you earned." and I chortled a bit and we finished walking to the car. My wife was about to walk back and bitch slap the waitress but I restrained her enthusiasm. We had just spent 5 bucks short of every cent we had there only to be ignored entirely for an hour and then given the worst service I've ever received anywhere. Chickie was due for a beatdown.
If you expect a tip, you won't get one. If you ask for a tip I'll leave 1 cent on the counter drenched in condiments, stale beer and salad fragments. If you tap the tip jar or wait while I address the issue of a tip at all then I might just short the fucking check by a buck and ask you to get me a glass of water, then walk out.
If you leave me the fuck alone and do your job quickly and without me having to tell you to, you stand a non-zero chance of getting a tip. If you pass the "small plate of lemons" test with my iced tea and my iced tea doesn't go empty and you don't ask me 50 times how everything is then you'll probably get a little something.
I have no pity or sense that I owe anyone anything. I worked myself so hard in order to provide for my family that I won't ever see what is commonly thought of as "retirement age". If I get to do it, so do you. People working today in service industries would have died of exposure where I grew up.
ETA: I remember when my wife and I were first dating and we went to El Torito for a late dinner and drink. Service was abominable, slow, attitude ridden, inaccurate and she was a bit of a bitch. So I left a $.10 tip. The waitress ran after us as we left screaming that we had shorted the check. I said, "No I did not. Learn math." then she looked down at the bill, counted the money and said, "Oh, so no tip then." in a nicely huffy tone and stomped off back to the restaurant. The dumb cunt actually counted the tip first and that really frosted my flakes. I yelled back, "No. You definitely got the tip you earned." and I chortled a bit and we finished walking to the car. My wife was about to walk back and bitch slap the waitress but I restrained her enthusiasm. We had just spent 5 bucks short of every cent we had there only to be ignored entirely for an hour and then given the worst service I've ever received anywhere. Chickie was due for a beatdown.
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My wife worked in the restaurant business from age 17 until she retired at 57. She worked every position from busing, food prep, waiting tables to executive chef and ultimately general manager. She is murder on a poor or over friendly waiter. A good waiter is well rewarded.
We were in her restaurant having desert with friends one evening. A young kid wearing a staff shirt walked over and said, "Excuse me, Ma'am, Lou (her night manager) just fired me and I..." She shut him down and asked, "Why are you still in my restaurant? You have five minutes to gather you belongings and get out before I call the cops." Kid walked away with his mouth hanging open. Our friends were...stunned. Thay had never seen this side of her. I had, many times, and was still a little afraid.
We were in her restaurant having desert with friends one evening. A young kid wearing a staff shirt walked over and said, "Excuse me, Ma'am, Lou (her night manager) just fired me and I..." She shut him down and asked, "Why are you still in my restaurant? You have five minutes to gather you belongings and get out before I call the cops." Kid walked away with his mouth hanging open. Our friends were...stunned. Thay had never seen this side of her. I had, many times, and was still a little afraid.
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