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(Vanity) Our government has passed a bill which rewards businesses for stealing employee's property
George
Posted on 12/30/2005 10:50:38 AM PST by George14
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:50:40 AM PST
by
George14
To: George14
Gee George, you seem to be fixated on this subject.
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:52:17 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
("We're a meat-based society.")
To: George14
You are right. Do away with tips and pay them all $5.15 an hour.
To: George14
The minimum wage could be repealed.
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:55:43 AM PST
by
fzx12345
(Three lefts don't make a right; they invent one.)
To: George14
Two thoughts. Tip the waitresses in cash. If employers spread the tips that thin they won't have any employees.
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:55:56 AM PST
by
saganite
(The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I gotta a tip for you: Blue Bell in the fifth.
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:56:21 AM PST
by
barj
To: George14
> ... by allowing the employer to pay these other workers
> wages below the minimum wage requirements of this country.
I suspect a majority of posters on this site would support
abolishing the minimum wage altogether, rather than trying
(and failing) to address its unintended consequences with
tip gambits, training wages, and the social burden of those
whose are employable but not yet performaning at MW levels.
Bottom line is: when you take a job, figure out the total
compensation package. If you can beat it elsewhere, go there.
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:56:38 AM PST
by
Boundless
To: barj
Never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast, that's a good tip.
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:57:38 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
("We're a meat-based society.")
To: George14
Umm, thanks. I'll have a Chicken Fried Steak, Fries, and Iced Tea.
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posted on
12/30/2005 10:58:23 AM PST
by
BTHOtu
To: saganite
Two thoughts. Tip the waitresses in cash. If employers spread the tips that thin they won't have any employees.Ever since I discovered that some businesses steal tips intended for a specific person, I tip only in cash, no exceptions.
Thirty years, now, and counting...
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:04:22 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(The IQ of California voters is about 420........... .............cumulatively)
To: George14
A tip is a freewill gift from a private citizen to another. Tips should not be allowed to offset the minimum wage and should not be taxed.
Without good servers (servers that usually get good tips) a restaurant is screwed. Some restaurants will even fire servers that don't report enough tips.
This brings up another issue if a restaurant takes a server's tips and redistributes them back to the server and other employees then that tip money is income to the restaurant and the redistribution is ordinary income to the recipients. But wait, the employer does not pay the payroll tax on tips and the recipients are forced to do so. What's up with that.
To: Tijeras_Slim
But I thought "Early Time" was a breakfast drink!
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:06:58 AM PST
by
barj
To: Publius6961
Your tagline reminds me of an old Air Force joke.
What do you call a fighter pilot with an IQ of 160?
A four ship.
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:11:47 AM PST
by
saganite
(The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
To: Mike Darancette
Charlie Trotter pays his front of house staff a LARGE salary. $50K/year if I recall correctly. They pool tips as well.
And Charlie Trotter is VERY successful.
/john
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:15:38 AM PST
by
JRandomFreeper
(D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
To: Mike Darancette
A tip is a freewill gift from a private citizen to another. Tips should not be allowed to offset the minimum wage and should not be taxed.
Bingo, we have a conservative.
I also detest those "gratuity will be added to parties of X or more" deals. I will divide the party into the necessary quantities and sit them at tables next to each other to avoid it. As if bad service suddenly demands a tip when it would not have deserved it otherwise just because the party is larger.
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:16:51 AM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: barj
I gotta a tip for you: Blue Bell in the fifth.Blue Horseshoe loves Blue Star Airlines.
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:18:24 AM PST
by
T.Smith
To: George14
Since you're so upset about this I suggest you quit your waitress job.
btw, I hear McDonald's is hiring and they DO pay minimum wage.
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:18:25 AM PST
by
Condor51
(Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
To: DJ MacWoW
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:24:40 AM PST
by
NoCmpromiz
(That depends on what "is" is...)
To: Publius6961
Ever since I discovered that some businesses steal tips intended for a specific person, I tip only in cash, no exceptions. We always got tipped in cash but it made no difference. If I got $60 in tips that week, it was deducted from my check. The waitresses wondered if our tips equaled more than our check, would we owe the owner money?
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:32:00 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
To: Tijeras_Slim; barj
Another good tip: 'Don't let your *ick ruin your life'.
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posted on
12/30/2005 11:32:19 AM PST
by
GaltMeister
(“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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