If you dine out, you should read this...

[RICHARD]

I'm usually a good tipper, a server has to be horrible to get a bad tip from me but usually I tip 20% or more. I see it as a labor fee, if I have a plumber over and he's late or takes longer then expected I still have to pay him for labor.

OMG!
Ask Gini about getting a plumber to her house when PT members come over.

She would have tipped, washed their car and ?????????

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I have never been to a Hooter's restaraunt.

Why?

I want to eat chicken wings, not pay for a breast enhancement.

Why pay for something you ain't gonna take home?

[Cataholic]

Lots of times, people presume to know what an occupation involves, what goes on in a daily way, how people might act, etc. Even as it relates to lawyers. One might presume there is some special environment, all white linen and soft fabrics, quiet music, and people just falling all over themselves to be polite and gracious to me. Trust me, after 8.5 years, I can tell you- it isn't true. I am in customer service, albeit, at a higher price tag. I didn't know that that made me unable to grasp how to tip someone.

I don't like being told what to do, and I wager most of you are in the same place. That was how I took the OP.

As for me crying in my soup, and not able to stomach a meal, now, at Red Lobster, well, puh-leeze. Can't opinions just be opinions? Short snap shots on how someone views something, at a set period in time? Does it have to get so personal? So drama'ish? I don't think so. All day long I have disagreements with people. It just can't be that big of a deal to me. If that makes me "wrong" somehow, oh well. It isn't a opinion I share.

I will still tip the way I will tip. If the OP meant to educate others (me included) on how to tip more, well, as it relates to me, she failed.

Audience. Message. Intent.

And, Richard, as usual, you find a lovely way to over generalize 'white collar professionals'. Strangely enough, I agreed nearly completely with your list of people in customer service.

[RICHARD]

Strangely enough, I agreed nearly completely with your list of people in customer service.

Watch your step, missy....I can make you see cross-eyed if I want.

ES,

LOLOLOL,
Having closed MANY OFFICES with those huge Labor Rights and Minimun Wage limit posters, I did notice that they stated the MW was 6.35.

I thought, "Geesus, I am thankful that I earn quite a bit more than than.."

Really.

Blame them for not updating the poster.

I did read the sexual harrasment part and it said that I could not bash women...Ah, so is life.

[Edwina's Secretary]

LOLOLOL,
Having closed MANY OFFICES with those huge Labor Rights and Minimun Wage limit posters, I did notice that they stated the MW was 6.35.

I thought, "Geesus, I am thankful that I earn quite a bit more than than.."

Really.

Blame them for not updating the poster.

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Sorry RICHARD....you cannot blame it on the poster. California minimum wage has never been $6.35.

January 1, 2008 $8.00 $7.50 $0.50 6.7 percent
January 1, 2007 $7.50 $6.75 $0.75 11.1 percent
January 1, 2002 $6.75 $6.25 $0.50 8.00 percent
January 1, 2001 $6.25 $5.75 $0.50 8.70 percent
March 1, 1998 $5.75 $5.15 $0.60 11.65 percent


So repeat after me....mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....

(and next time you accuse a politician of trying to weasel out of something....)

[jennielynn1970]

(and next time you accuse a politician of trying to weasel out of something....)

Who's the politician???

[RICHARD]

Sorry RICHARD....you cannot blame it on the poster. California minimum wage has never been $6.35.

January 1, 2008 $8.00 $7.50 $0.50 6.7 percent
January 1, 2007 $7.50 $6.75 $0.75 11.1 percent
January 1, 2002 $6.75 $6.25 $0.50 8.00 percent
January 1, 2001 $6.25 $5.75 $0.50 8.70 percent
March 1, 1998 $5.75 $5.15 $0.60 11.65 percent


So repeat after me....mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....

(and next time you accuse a politician of trying to weasel out of something....)

Beat a dead horse? I missed it by THAT MUCH (maxwell not so smart)

I'll leave poliiticians out of this one.

Let's dwell on the use of naplam in Iraq and other things.....

Does my underwear look clean?

[anna_66]

If the OP meant to educate others (me included) on how to tip more, well, as it relates to me, she failed.

Gosh, why am I not surprised by this

[Cataholic]

Oh, wait! Wait! I want to do rolly eyes, too!

[anna_66]

Oh, wait! Wait! I want to do rolly eyes, too!

I can't help it but you make me laugh! Thanks for the big smile this morning