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It’s double what’s standard to tip for good service.
It’s double what’s standard to tip for good service.
Tipping is just another way for the corporations to reduce the overhead by having the customer pay the wages of the employee directly, reducing both the budget for salaries and also the reducing ancillary expenses like unemployment insurance and employer wage withholding, occupational privilege tax, etc.
It also makes these jobs falsely competitive against other “unskilled” jobs where tipping isn’t the norm.
I thought yanks were all for the free market, tipping is the oppositeness to this as it negates the free market whereby companies complete with wages and benefits for staff.
So, you’re supporting the unfair system.
Only because you live in a country where they don’t pay people properly.
You yanks are crazy with your attitude to pay.
Even with an insane 20% tip I don’t think you’ve worked it out right. A 20% tip on the food (because why would you tip on a service charge??) comes to 4.09
Ice cold water with a slice of lemon.
Yeah if your desk is stuck just in one position that’s obviously going to be bad. Most ‘standing’ desks are actually height adjustable. You can spend some time standing some time sitting. But maybe even more important, you can adjust the desk to the right height rather than just adjusting your chair.
Like a fucking Valkyrie.
To me Dune is too big for movies. It should have been a series. We’ve had two long films and they’ve cut the book down so far they still barely make sense. The end of Dune two should have been the end of a first season of 8-10 hour long episodes.
The cheapest card you can find with and leave the price sticker on.
If you don’t have a desk phone (or desk) then you’d have a company supplied mobile if they expected you to take business calls. No?
Surely your work landline number is your work number? The phone is just to run the authenticator service.
Would you even need a monthly plan for this kind of thing? It just needs to be able to install the app and run it. If it needs internet you can connect to WiFi. You can get a sim free android for about £50 outright now.
Which means even if it’s not available in OPs local library they could go to their library and get it on an interlibrary loan.
If the shipping is more than 99p it would have been cheaper for you to buy it new.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/entangled-life/merlin-sheldrake/9781784708276
I can also see multiple options for second hand between £5-£7.
Or as others have said, there’s the library.
It was your choice to pay near original price + shipping for second hand
We’re putting in tones of wind power. The problem is the weird linking of electricity prices to gas prices and the fact we don’t have anywhere near the energy storage capacity we need. So we end up paying wind farm operators to shut down turbines and generate less when its extra windy.
Lol because we expect companies to pay people properly rather than expecting customers to top it up.
Tipping is immoral as it allows companies to underpay. Tipping is anti free market as companies should be competing for staff through their remuneration packages.
The thing I’ve never understood about tipping culture in general and especially the American culture around it is why some low paid staff get it and some don’t.
Why do you tip your food delivery driver and not the guy delivering your Amazon package?
Why do you tip your wait staff, but not your supermarket checkout assistant?