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  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,424



    Word to the wise - tip your hair stylist/barber or you'll end up looking like the Dazzler.


    Lol that doesn't make sense. You tip after the cut
  • Fenderbender123Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,989
    If we're going to bash Moe's haircut, I'm out.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 46,808 Standard Supporter

    Lol that doesn't make sense. You tip after the cut
    They keep notes. You'll get the Dazzler cut the next time in.

  • Fenderbender123Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,989
    If you think about it, Moe actually had the nicest looking hair of all the stooges.

  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,424

    They keep notes. You'll get the Dazzler cut the next time in.

    Lol. I go to boardroom cuts or whatever the fuck. Get the nails dipped and other bullshit
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 46,808 Standard Supporter

    If you think about it, Moe actually had the nicest looking hair of all the stooges.

    The Dazzler is the tallest midget, too.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,999 Standard Supporter

    If you get an older Indian person (dot not feather), expect nothing for a tip.
    I always refused service to Native Americans, because I did not want to colonize them.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,999 Standard Supporter

    Non taxable?
    Mandatory reporting of 8% while going home with 13% or so, if you're any good.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,999 Standard Supporter

    My thoughts on tipping:

    1. It's literally people voluntarily giving workers extra money. Imagine thinking this is a bad thing.

    2. It should only occur when paying for a luxury service, such as dining at a full service restaurant or having food delivered to your house.

    3. In some states it's legal to pay servers half or significantly less than minimum wage, and I agree that is bullshit. Tipping is a solution for low wage workers to earn more, not a reason for businesses to pay them less.

    4. Tips shouldn't be expected. I was a server for years, and overall I made damn good money. The secret is to always have the mentality that nobody owes you a tip. You have to constantly earn it. At one point I went 6+ months in a row with every table tipping me. No stiffs. Other servers would complain about a stiff at least once or twice a week. I'd always say to them "what could you have done better?"

    5. If we eliminate tipping and instead charge customers more, we are still paying the same for the service, but without the option to give more or less based on the service received. It also removes the internal reward of feeling about giving somebody some extra money. People LIKE to tip.

    Never got stiffed as a waiter.

    But as a bartender? Many times. Turns out cutting drunk people off thwarts their generosity.

    If you were ever such a dick as to ask me what I could have done better, I'd have punched you in the face.
  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    Mandatory reporting of 8% while going home with 13% or so, if you're any good.
    So it's all taxable. You're just breaking the law. Got it.
  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 16,772 Standard Supporter
    The small business service industry is all about tax evasion. One of the top lunch places in downtown Portland (white owner) was the Red Coach. Place didn't take plastic, only cash. And the cash register wasn't turned on. Just the waitresses order pad yellow receipt was kept. You think the Koreans are reporting their cash receipts from their dry cleaning business? Then the entire hispanic landscaping business is run on cash.

    So it's all taxable. You're just breaking the law. Got it.
  • Fenderbender123Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,989

    Never got stiffed as a waiter.

    But as a bartender? Many times. Turns out cutting drunk people off thwarts their generosity.

    If you were ever such a dick as to ask me what I could have done better, I'd have punched you in the face.
    How did you tell them they were cut off? Were you nice about it? Did you emphasize with them? There's so many ways to win people over. Sometimes the answer to that question is "no", and that's fine. But you'd be surprised how many stiffs you can avoid just by your body language, tone of voice, and choice of wording. I never worked at a bar and don't recall any customers having to be cut off at the place I worked.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,999 Standard Supporter

    So it's all taxable. You're just breaking the law. Got it.
    Never gone over the speed limit?

    Fuck Off and Get a Life.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,999 Standard Supporter

    How did you tell them they were cut off? Were you nice about it? Did you emphasize with them? There's so many ways to win people over. Sometimes the answer to that question is "no", and that's fine. But you'd be surprised how many stiffs you can avoid just by your body language, tone of voice, and choice of wording. I never worked at a bar and don't recall any customers having to be cut off at the place I worked.

    Dude, you know it's hard, fast-paced work and even the bad waiters who can't remember orders are slaving away, sweating their asses off during a rush. So all they need when they get triple-sat-slammed by a dumb hostess is a co-worker asking them "What did you do wrong?" when they get $2 or nothing for a tip at the end. Some waiters are just sad, have no charisma or personality, and routinely get 10%. We all knew them BITD. It's too bad, but at least they have a job and the opportunity to earn more.

    Asking them what they did wrong, in the moment, is just rubbing salt into their wounds.

    Perhaps the better question is how many times you got punched in the face as a waiter for being a dick?

    Don't mean to be overly harsh, but you know how stressful the business is, so nobody needs Mr. Perfect lecturing them in the midst of the hailstorm.
  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    Never gone over the speed limit?

    Fuck Off and Get a Life.
    One is a felony. One is a ticket. Pay what you owe asshole. Tax evaders are fuckheads.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,999 Standard Supporter
    edited March 2022

    One is a felony. One is a ticket. Pay what you owe asshole. Tax evaders are fuckheads.
    From 30 years ago? I paid exactly what IRS required.

    Fuck You, Tax & Spend Liberal.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 46,808 Standard Supporter

    One is a felony. One is a ticket. Pay what you owe asshole. Tax evaders are fuckheads.
    I prefer to call it aggressive tax mitigation strategies.

  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    edited March 2022

    I prefer to call it aggressive tax mitigation strategies.

    There are many legal aggressive tax mitigation s

    The small business service industry is all about tax evasion. One of the top lunch places in downtown Portland (white owner) was the Red Coach. Place didn't take plastic, only cash. And the cash register wasn't turned on. Just the waitresses order pad yellow receipt was kept. You think the Koreans are reporting their cash receipts from their dry cleaning business? Then the entire hispanic landscaping business is run on cash.

    So? I hope they get caught.
  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    edited March 2022

    From 30 years ago? I paid exactly what IRS required.

    Fuck You, Tax & Spend Liberal.
    You underreported income. Probably still are.

    My disdain for the tax man is only rivaled by people who evade taxes.
  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 16,772 Standard Supporter

    There are many legal aggressive tax mitigation s So? I hope they get caught.
    Just pointing out the real world. The biggest evaders of the tax laws are small business owners running cash businesses.
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