Misommar1246
Misommar1246 t1_jagczl0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Pols target NYC’s violent, repeat shoplifters with bill to protect retailer workers just like cops, firefighters by NYY657545
Why is everything a slippery slope to you guys? Why do we have to make laws based on some fringe incident? Some guy somewhere acts excessive so we should ignore the 99% of cases this doesn’t happen and instead make sure this one thing never ever happens again?
Misommar1246 t1_j6ouadu wrote
Reply to comment by pink_gem in My (20F) Boyfriend (19M) of 2yrs Tipped 10%. Am I Being Overdramatic? by [deleted]
I’m not though. Obviously it’s not as easy as JUST bringing food to a table but there’s a reason it’s a minimum wage job - overall it’s low skill and anyone with a couple of weeks of training can do it. Unless we’re talking about Michelin star quality of knowledge and experience accumulation, you don’t need a degree to be a waiter. I’m saying this as someone who has done it for about a year, it’s not condescending.
Misommar1246 t1_j6ocdhj wrote
Reply to comment by aelizabeth3300 in My (20F) Boyfriend (19M) of 2yrs Tipped 10%. Am I Being Overdramatic? by [deleted]
There is nothing degrading about a reality check. 10-15% for someone bringing food to your table is absolutely generous, especially if they’re paid minimum wage. Lots of minimum wage jobs don’t get tipped and nobody bats an eye about them. I’m not angry about the issue, I’m realistic. People beating others over the head for leaving less than 20% are angry.
Misommar1246 t1_j6o7ojj wrote
Reply to comment by chefwalleye in My (20F) Boyfriend (19M) of 2yrs Tipped 10%. Am I Being Overdramatic? by [deleted]
It’s not obvious to the servers or to Reddit, I assure you. Example: we don’t even know where OP lives and what the wage for servers is there and yet a lot of people on this sub think her boyfriend is cheap for tipping less than 20%.
Misommar1246 t1_j6nrajs wrote
Reply to comment by chefwalleye in My (20F) Boyfriend (19M) of 2yrs Tipped 10%. Am I Being Overdramatic? by [deleted]
Tips are still expected in the 20% range in states where the waiters do have minimal wage. I think more and more people are just tired of these expectations despite the landscape getting better for waiters. I don’t know where OP is but my state has minimum $15 wage for waiters and still when you get a bill the tip percentage STARTS at 20% and you get the stinkeye for going lower.
Misommar1246 t1_j6nj1be wrote
Reply to comment by Gosc101 in My (20F) Boyfriend (19M) of 2yrs Tipped 10%. Am I Being Overdramatic? by [deleted]
We forgot the part where tipping is voluntary and somehow 10-15% is sneered at now. Depends on how expensive the meal was, 10% can be perfectly reasonable for carrying plates to a table if the meal was expensive.
Misommar1246 t1_j6nio4m wrote
Reply to comment by buffy6949395 in My (20F) Boyfriend (19M) of 2yrs Tipped 10%. Am I Being Overdramatic? by [deleted]
You’re strongarming your boyfriend over this at your birthday. Whether you approve or not, he organized it, he picked it and he can pay whatever he wants. And no, you can’t just butt in to make up for the rest. If you are paying, you can pay whatever you want but if you’re going to pressure other people into what you believe is right, you will lose them.
Misommar1246 t1_j6ngzyv wrote
Reply to comment by Silent_Impressions in My (20F) Boyfriend (19M) of 2yrs Tipped 10%. Am I Being Overdramatic? by [deleted]
Can someone explain to me why it has to be percentage in the first place? Why is ordering a more expensive menu item mean higher tip even though the same service was put in by the waiter? That’s one. Number 2, tipping 15% used to be generous, now it’s suddenly not. “BuT inFLatIoN” - inflation means prices on the menu went up too, so 15% is still more than it used to be. I honestly think society itself and especially people like OP are causing this nonsense. 20% of your food price to someone who doesn’t even cook or prepare it but simply caries it over to your table is fucking bonkers, stop pushing for this bullshit. “Don’t eat out unless you can afford to tip” is also nonsense - if we all did that those same waiters would be laid off and with them the kitchen staff. And before you come at me with “but they make 2$” - no, a lot of them don’t. Many, many states have implemented minimum wage for waitstaff now, please people update your outdated talking points. edit: not you OP, I was trying to make a general point.
Misommar1246 t1_j0lqdvv wrote
Reply to comment by Where-is-J in Which Virus Is It This Time? New Yorkers Are Sick of Being Sick. by WVOQuineMegaFan
Same as you - vaccinated, boosted, still masked and I caught some type of flu that knocked me out BAD for a week. I had forgotten how bad it feels to get sick as I haven’t come down with anything for 3 years now until this virus around Thanksgiving. Still didn’t catch covid though so there’s that. I think wearing a mask protects me but it would be much more effective if people who feel sick wore one too, because there’s a lot of maskless folks hacking and coughing their lungs out on the trains.
Misommar1246 t1_iu1kn2u wrote
Reply to comment by froggythefish in More Than 104,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year by Lilyo
Cuba? What’s next, NK? I bet they don’t have homelessness either. And yet you don’t see people clamoring to immigrate to either country, how strange.
Misommar1246 t1_itmg4qe wrote
Reply to comment by OverlordXenu in Where Are the Free Housing Attorneys NYC Promised to Tenants Facing Eviction? - Hell Gate by LittleWind_
These people haven’t paid rent for 3 years, anyone who claims they can’t afford a lawyer is bullshitting at this point. I wager they can afford one more than you or I can.
Misommar1246 t1_itlwvi9 wrote
Reply to comment by AceofJax89 in Where Are the Free Housing Attorneys NYC Promised to Tenants Facing Eviction? - Hell Gate by LittleWind_
Lots of people around me are whining that people shouldn’t be evicted 3 years after a pandemic - so they think folks should just be allowed to squat for free, fuck the landlords and all that. And now that the chicken are coming to roost they’re arguing that well lawyers should help the tenants for free I guess. Services of both landlords and lawyers should just be free apparently because some people’s “rights” come before yours.
Misommar1246 t1_itl8rg1 wrote
Reply to comment by NetQuarterLatte in Where Are the Free Housing Attorneys NYC Promised to Tenants Facing Eviction? - Hell Gate by LittleWind_
Ownership itself wasn’t the problem, relaxing the conditions such as credit score requirements were though. It caused a lot of people who realistically couldn’t afford homes to sign up for one.
Misommar1246 t1_itl6jho wrote
Reply to comment by NetQuarterLatte in Where Are the Free Housing Attorneys NYC Promised to Tenants Facing Eviction? - Hell Gate by LittleWind_
I don’t know, we kind of fucked up when we made it easier for tenants to get home ownership and it all came crashing down in 2008.
Misommar1246 t1_jdxh6f1 wrote
Reply to comment by Grass8989 in New Yorkers overwhelmingly support bail changes ahead of state budget deadline: Poll by Grass8989
Finally something most of us agree on it seems: judges should have more discretion in bail sentencing. Criminals with violent crime records should not be allowed bail or if bail must be set, it should be set to a very high number.