This is just something I noticed in watching the first couple rounds, when a game was on ESPN, I would tune in on time and there would be a coutndown to tip and it would be scheduled for 15 minutes later.
While on TNT, they pretty much get right to the starting lineups as it gets to the top of the hour.
Full disclosure: I'm a European living in the US, tipping culture is still insane to me but I always tip because I understand the reasoning behind it and don't want waiters to be impoverished.
I work next to a mall where there's a restaurant thing (just a booth in the wall with a kitchen behind, you have to take the food at the counter and eat it in the public area of the mall) where I go sometimes. The food is great but it's expensive (I paid $12.40 before tip today), so I keep it as a rare treat. It's always the same girl, late teens or early 20s, manning the booth; during small talk, last time I was there, I asked her if she had the job to pay for college. She answered she isn't going to college because she's the owners' daughter and her parents will pass the business down to her very soon.
To be clear, she isn't a traditional waitress. In that restaurant, you order and pay electronically, she just stands there, gives you a receipt to sign and hand you your food from the kitchen literally 3ft behind her. I always tipped at that place because I imagined she was a young person paid under minimum wage, but when I realized that she is actually taking all of the business' profit home, I didn't want to give her even more.
Today, I went there again and just entered a 0% tip on the iPad and I figured that would be it. But she immediately reacted and said "Oh, there was a problem, your tip wasn't registered." Then she offered to redo the transaction "to make sure the tip goes through." When I politely declined, she started babbling about the other options to tip her, she told me about the tip jar, and if I didn't have cash there was an ATM down the hall, and that they could put the amount on a tab for me to pay next time, etc etc.
At that point, I lost my cool and said "I am not giving you a tip, please stop," maybe a bit forcefully/angrily. I thought it wasn't a big deal, but she looked like I'd slapped her, and all the other clients in queue and around us gave me the stink eye. You'd believe I publicly confessed to being a serial killer, given people's reactions. I booked it out of there as soon as I got my food, and I am still feeling humiliated and upset. I'm never going there again.
That girl didn't do any actual waiting work and she isn't underpaid at all, she is probably wealthier than I am (I earn about $23k), so I don't think it's that big a deal if I don't give her an additional $2 for... for what? For standing there? To avoid shaking up dusty and
... keep reading on reddit ➡First of all, I completely understand that tipping is optional. However, it doesn’t stop me from judging your character when you chose not to tip. With certain groups like foreigners and teenagers I have a litttttle more leniency, because tipping isn’t customary in a lot of countries and sometimes teenagers haven’t been taught proper tipping etiquette. Any American adult with half a brain should know that servers in most states rely on tips and you should tip at absolute least 15% for up-to-par service. I completely understand thinking tipping is stupid and servers should just be paid a decent wage. But I guarantee you that no restaurant is going to be like “oh okay sorry we’ll pay them a decent wage!!!” because you choose to stiff your server as some form of protest, for absolutely no reason other than that. If they have to tip out other restaurant staff, that actually costs them money. If you really want to fight the tipping culture, write a letter to your senators. Protest outside of your state capitol building. Taking it out on the poor server does absolutely nothing. So yes, I firmly believe that you are just a cheap jerk looking for an excuse to save a couple of bucks if you say you’re “fighting the tipping culture” when you chose not to tip, given that the service was good.
I find it amazing how quickly they can move people out, bring in a new court, get the whole building ready, and let people in early. It’s really amazing how quickly these crews can work.
I wonder if the goals are the same, and will they use the same ball? Amazing how quickly they put things together for the next game.
Hello! I'm currently working on a dark blue velvet dress, a pattern I drafted myself. I have never worked with velvet, and I would love for this evening gown to have satin straps. Does anyone have any tips on working with the fabric? I'm thinking of using stretch velvet.
(edited to add photo of pattern)
Image of the pattern I made out of scrap fabric: Imgur link
Hey everyone,
So when I normally dine out, I tip 15% of the pre-tax bill, as is the standard in Ontario. (For context, our prices don't include tax, minimum wage is $14 / hour (even for tipped employees), and tax is 13%). I've never been in a situation where I tipped someone less, and have tipped up to 20% at times.
Today however, I decided to only tip 12%. This was because how the waitress was dressed. Now it wasn't a fancy restaurant or anything, but I felt the waitress was dressed inappropriately for a casual family restaurant. She was wearing a company T-shirt along with a leggings-sweatpants hybrid. They were grey and kind of looked like sweatpants, but were really tight (clearly showed the outline of her behind, including the crack) (more revealing than your typical yoga pants). Since I felt she was dressed inappropriately, I reduced her tip to 12%.
Not sure if it is relevant, but she was actually on the same bus as I was on my way to the restaurant, where she was wearing the same pants and a crop top. So she was able to go to the back and change her shirt into a company shirt, but didn't change her pants.
AITA for reducing her tip?
Edit: Is actually too much to ask in the modern era to expect waiters to wear a proper pair of pants? Sweatpants and leggings are both inappropriate on their own I feel for anykind of job, or even out an about outside of a gym.
Edit 2: Tipping is for service, and part of the service is to expect someone to dress appropriately for their job.
Edit 3: Would your judgement stay the same if someone reduce the tip for a man wearing sweatpants?
Edit 4: Because people are commenting on my age, I am 23.
I live in America and in a lot of states a living wage is made because of tips, I think some states have servers paid like $2.50 an hour before tips.
We HAVE to make 15% of caucus goers in Iowa balloting for Andrew on February 3rd.
ETA: This is NOT the same as 15% in polls. Read below. In theory what we need is ~1.5% of Iowans be dedicated enough to caucus for Yang. Not as easy as it sounds but possibly easier than 15% in polls considering the dedication of being yang gang vs the followers of other candidates.
Polls only reflect what certain Democrat voters think. For the caucus, converted former Trump voters and independents and people that haven't voted before can also participate.
The world is a different place thanks to the Internet, than just 8 or even 4 years ago with gen Z now being over 18, so who knows how important making the debates really is.
In 2016 there were 171709 people casting ballots for Democrats in the caucus. So, say there's 200k this year, we'd need 30k Iowans supporting Andrew. There are about 3 million Iowans total (ETA: 22.6% are younger than 18), so that means we need 1% (that are all 18 or older) to believe in Yang strongly enough to caucus for him. This is where the dedication of YangGang comes into play, though I'm not sure how big the Iowa YangGang is? An unengaged Biden supporter is probably less likely to caucas than a dedicated Yang supporter?
I don't know the system that well at all, but this is what I gather. Does anyone here know it better?
I'd like to get more educated on this subject, so please correct me if I'm saying something wrong or using the wrong vocabulary.
I took my family out to a sit-down restaurant last evening, and our waiter was terrible. He took forever getting to us and taking our drink orders, then took even longer bringing them out. The drinks he brought out were wrong, so we had to wait again. Then we waited forever to place our entree orders.
A waitress at the table next across from us noticed us sitting at a table without even water in front of us and stopped by and repeatedly to check on us and covered for our waiter - she was the one who eventually took our entree orders. She also brought out refills for my kids twice while our server was playing on his phone next to the bar.
The food was fine - but our server never checked in on us after bringing it out. I had to request help from passing busboys and other waiters.
The restaurant was NOT busy that night - it was only half full, and there was plenty of waitstaff - our server was not overworked, and the bar was not backed up. I know this because I repeatedly saw him sitting casually at the empty bar talking with the bartender for several minutes.
After waiting over 10 minutes for the check, I went up to the hostess to request it again. Our waiter, who had been chatting with someone in front of the kitchen saw me and finally seemed to remember that I had asked him for the check and came over to print it out.
I left him a $0.01 tip.
Then I went to the table with the helpful waitress, and said “Our service was terrible, but your waitress helped us out a lot. Could you give this to her?”, they happily agreed, and I left cash for a 40% tip for her.
My wife was horrified that I did that - she just wanted me to stiff the lazy waiter.
So... AITA?
Edit: So, thank you for all for the responses - particularly those who pointed out how petty the $0.01 tip was. I'll adjust accordingly
How I feel now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-gcBVsXEM&t=2m56s
I am making a dress for my daughter, and unfortunately did not realize how difficult it is to sew button holes into stretch velvet. It it super frustrating as it keeps getting caught in the foot of the machine when I use the button foot and bunching up. Does anyone have any tips for sewing button holes into stretch velvet?
Before and after pictures: https://imgur.com/gallery/rMFCZuZ
I came across this tipping guide online, saying: 20% of subtotal is normal, even for food truck or pay before meal. Is it the new norm in Bay Area?
I've seen this many times. I can't always say for sure if they are trying to avoid tipping, but I'm very much positive they are. This always happens on bigger orders too. Person sends their young kids to pay for the food. Kids are told how much to pay the driver but they don't understand tipping etiquette yet so they just give exact cash. This way, the person ordering doesn't have to make any contact with you and think they can get away with being cheap. In the area I worked at, the people who did this did it regularly and I memorized their addresses so every time their order showed up, I could tell dispatch to change or drop my delivery.
