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>The $114 or $200 are both with healthcare ~ that was why I asked if you understood the tip credit: healthcare in conjunction with the tip credit was already a thing before the pandemic/ I-82.

Sorry, your original comment didn't make this clear since you stated the service fee was implemented for health care and higher wages. Your premise keeps changing so it's hard to understand what you're arguing.

The rest of your post is waxing poetic about Initiative 82 which I didn't state a position on and focusing on a very specific hypothetical of a server who wouldn't benefit under initiative 82 so I won't address it.

> the customer has always been responsible for keeping the doors open, and the cost of doing business was somewhat hidden

What I'm arguing is very simple - it's not the customer's responsibility to ensure servers are paid as much as they can get anymore than it's the customer's responsibility to ensure owners profit as much as they can.

My personal tolerance is a 20% obligatory add on fee on the bill. I don't care if it's in the form of a mandatory service charge or a cultural obligation of a tip, because the premise of the tip has long been disconnected from actual service quality.

Restaurants that do a 20% fee and guilt you into tipping on top of that are not places I will patronize.

> Would you rather make $114 or $200 on a given 7 hour shift?

If every single factor in the compensation package is equal, obviously more. But that's disingenuous because in your own post you're talking $114 with a guaranteed minimum wage floor + health care benefits vs. one without those things.If you're talking $114 with healthcare or $200 without, it would depend on whether my cost of acquiring private healthcare insurance on my own would be more than $86 per shift.

> And, do you understand how the tip credit worked?

I do!

>it also depends on what the owner wants to dowith the service fee: in many cases it is used for healthcare/ inflation, insome cases it is used to pay the kitchen higher wages, etc.. there isn’t anylaw stating what that money has to go towards.

Which returns to me to my original point - if waitstaff feel like the service fee is not being used to their benefit, they should take their labor elsewhere.Management could also return to encouraging tipping while abandoning the 20% service fee. It's not the customer's responsibility to now do a 40% add-on to whatever they order.

>As is now, with the service fee being added to compensate for healthcare and higher hourly wages, many people are fortunate to make anything above $114 for their 7hrs (and when you include taxes, that’s about $100.)

I'm not sure I follow. Healthcare benefits and higher hourly wages are a workplace benefit and part of the overall compensation package.

I was responding to a poster who implied that the service fee could be going entirely into the owner's pockets. In your example, the service fee was being used specifically to offset better compensation for the staff.

If the staff aren't seeing their wage or benefits increasing following the administration of the service charge the staff should find an employer that is more fair to them.

It truly is not your responsibility as a customer to solve.

Trying to solve an employer/employee problem by putting it on the customer through tip inflation is going to result in more customers staying home in the long run and that's bad for restaurant owners and servers alike.

>I don't think there is any requirement that a "service fee" goes to the staff. So if you don't tip because of the service fee you might just be moving money from the staff to the owner. Which isn't necessarily an awful thing especially if they don't really provide any service but could also screw the staff.

There also no requirement the staff work at an institution where they feel like they're not being fairly compensated.

If staff feel like they're not getting their fair share (or purported value) out of the 20% service fee they can walk.

>I’d rather not have city paid drug dens.

Tbh I'd prefer this over a city subsidized open air homeless encampment where presumably the same activity happens.

nothing like inhaling heated smoke through non biodegradable plastic fibers

so. many. cigarette. butts.

>Somewhat related, I wish MPD could set up bait cars for all of the wheel/rim thefts. Even just put some sort of tracking device hidden on the rims. Someone has to be buying all of these things from the criminals.

This makes too much sense so pretty certain they'll never do it.

Follow the supply chain and where the wheels end up. The shops and dealers reselling the stolen wheels have a lot more to lose than the wheel thieves.

>made it so the folks who are commiting these crimes able to continue to do so.

Can you cite the specific code provision? I'd be interested in seeing how this works because I'm having trouble finding the provision in the bill that won't go into effect for 3 years that does this for robberies

I don't disagree with you. I also found it amusing that the owners were like "oh she needs to come in because we want to reward her." I'd be curious to know if there was anymore rewards beyond taking the call, like a bonus and an extra day off on top of fun of getting to take an order from the President.

I think it's a fun story to be able to tell but not recognizing that it came at a cost and if it wasn't covered for it would be a miss.

>man would I be pissed if I got called in on my day off because the store thought I'd want to meet some celebrity on the phone

I'm waiting for the r/antiwork post

We had the same, but on advice of our contractor had it tested for asbestos. Both the tile and mastic had asbestos and we had to hire a specialized company to remove all of it 🤦

Don't be silly, contracts in DC prioritizes rewards for loyalty first. Usability is like...10th on the list.

Nick Delledonne's butthole making diamonds looking at this picture

Leasing offices dgaf.

We paid for a friend for their time to go on tours and call us on video chat to help us locate.

We also used a service called Apartment Detectives that made it incredibly easy to narrow down - I wouldn't be surprised if they'll do video calls for you too.

buddy you've spent multiple posts in here blaming everyone else but the cops for their behavior of not doing their jobs, pretending you're not justifying it by empathizing with the types of cops who act this way, then claim you don't care if they get paid for their behavior while attacking other people who feel like cops should do some bare minimum of keeping them safe as "pretentious."

It's PAINFULLY obvious where you stand. You good, my dude. We see you.

q.e.d.

Do you think cops that act like this should continue to be on the public payroll, irrespective of your understanding of why they don't want to do their jobs?

>when you’re just gonna have someone shove a recording phone in your face trying to get you fired? I’d stay on my phone too for little shit like that.

"If someone tries to hold me accountable and wants me to follow the law for doing my job that can end up with that person paying a fine, losing their livelihood, ending up in jail, or being shot dead, that HURTS MY FEELINGS so I'll just suckle on the public teat trying to defend my rank on Clash of Clans."

Guess what, this doesn't make people like cops any more than the ones that shoot people for no reason. If they can't handle accountability, demand their resignation, don't justify that shit.

Asian grocer. H-Mart or Great Wall will have good fruit and clementines and Satsumas, far better quality than western grocers.

Bro you think that doesn't happen here or something?

The DMV version is making a right from the left turn lane across three lanes at the light

we made similar observations when we returned to socal for the summer. Every single time someone slowed to allow us to merge or waved us in we were like holy shit it's so much better here!

a lot of cognitive dissonance because our memories were that driving in socal sucked but realizing now it's because of traffic not because most of the other drivers think they're demolition derby racers

If you're willing to go a little beyond Ikea level furniture and price I think Miss Pixie's is great.