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Post by Vene on Nov 28, 2011 18:18:23 GMT -5
No I mean deliberately making and leaving something designed to look like money? There's a reason the shape of the tract and the text on the "face" are wrong, to avoid counterfeiting laws.
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Post by Radiation on Nov 28, 2011 21:58:50 GMT -5
This is still pretty damn deceiving and wrong on so many levels. I've never had to work in a restaurant but I imagine that there are many that do and they don't get paid well. So imagine how must one must feel when they see what looks like $10 under a plate and how elated that they get when they think they will have that extra money to buy food or something only to pick it up and see that it's a fake and on top of that a damn, fucking religious tract!
I am poor myself but if I went out to eat and I saw a waiter/tress pick one of these up and see the sheer disappointment on their faces, I would so tip them generously, if said waiter/tress was serving me.
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Post by dasfuchs on Nov 29, 2011 2:51:18 GMT -5
It happens, I've seen it happen when I worked at Big Boys back when I was in my young teens and I've seen it at Mcd's too. At McD's they would drop them on the floor or put them on the drink station. When I'd see one drop one I'd go pick it up, take it back over and give a line like "You dropped your money, sir, have a nice day". Though more often than not like the cowardly fucks they were, they'd leave them as they were leaving.
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Nov 29, 2011 3:02:24 GMT -5
Some things are better than money Mr Religious Counterfeiter.
One of those things is making you eat your phony note!
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Post by ldm on Nov 29, 2011 13:38:05 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure Ray Comfort endorses these or something. He leaves "million dollar" tracts around that look like money so that people will pick them up. On the ground? I found one in Lowe's once, they look pretty real from a distance, I actually thought someone had dropped some money (it was on a display of ceiling fans), but once you pick it up, you can pretty quickly see what it is. And, yeah, people pulling that kind of crap will only make me hate their religion even more. I mean, yeah, sure, salvation, fine, whatever. But in the meantime people gotta eat, pay rent, etc. I also once knew someone who refused to tip, because she sincerely believed that waiters and waitresses were getting a commission on all the food and drinks they served. No matter how much we tried to set her straight, she kept insisting she was right, and kept stiffing them. The she wondered why we stopped inviting her out with us.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Nov 29, 2011 13:55:29 GMT -5
NoLeafClover (who doesn't post here anymore but is still my best buddy) once showed me one of those phony million-dollar-notes he found while he was working at a store in the mall. Someone just left it sandwiched between two DVD boxes and sticking out, but it doesn't take very long to notice it isn't real. Whereas normal bills like $10s and $20s look real until you actually notice the writing.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: THIS IS A DICK MOVE AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. Restaurants are already dickbaskets of truly insurmountable proportions for paying less than half of a legal minimum wage and FORCING their employees to live on tips which, while generally mandated and expected, are not guaranteed. (Especially not in NY and Washington DC or other areas that are likely to have a lot of foreign tourists, because tipping isn't really something that's done in a lot of Europe.) Is it RIGHT that patrons have to pay the salary of the workers? No. But it's cruel to basically deny a wage-slave a meal or a few gallons of gas for their car just because you want to proselytize.
In conclusion--fuck you, religious people. Fuck you and the little donkey you rode in on.
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Post by ironbite on Nov 29, 2011 16:06:09 GMT -5
Ahh NoLeaf...man of a thousand accents and all of them raging.
Ironbite-did he tell you he and I are doing a wrestling podcast together?
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Post by N. De Plume on Nov 29, 2011 16:13:13 GMT -5
I found one in Lowe's once, they look pretty real from a distance, I actually thought someone had dropped some money (it was on a display of ceiling fans), but once you pick it up, you can pretty quickly see what it is. And, yeah, people pulling that kind of crap will only make me hate their religion even more. I mean, yeah, sure, salvation, fine, whatever. But in the meantime people gotta eat, pay rent, etc. I also once knew someone who refused to tip, because she sincerely believed that waiters and waitresses were getting a commission on all the food and drinks they served. No matter how much we tried to set her straight, she kept insisting she was right, and kept stiffing them. The she wondered why we stopped inviting her out with us. Since tipping is supposedly based on the value of the meal, a tip is kinda like a commission. But the wait staff only gets said commission if, you know, you leave said tip. So yeah, they get a commission, but it is up to the customer to pay it.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 29, 2011 19:31:34 GMT -5
Plume, you & I have differing ideas of budgeting, I suppose.
I suspect my tips are kind of a luck of the draw affair. Since I can't do math to save my life, you can probably end up with anywhere from 5 to 75% of the price of the meal.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Nov 29, 2011 19:38:43 GMT -5
Plume, you & I have differing ideas of budgeting, I suppose. I suspect my tips are kind of a luck of the draw affair. Since I can't do math to save my life, you can probably end up with anywhere from 5 to 75% of the price of the meal. ...I do hope you're being sarcastic, because figuring out 10% is NOT hard, and from there 15% is also NOT HARD.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 29, 2011 19:41:57 GMT -5
Plume, you & I have differing ideas of budgeting, I suppose. I suspect my tips are kind of a luck of the draw affair. Since I can't do math to save my life, you can probably end up with anywhere from 5 to 75% of the price of the meal. ...I do hope you're being sarcastic, because figuring out 10% is NOT hard, and from there 15% is also NOT HARD. I don't think you understand just how bad my math is. Someone once asked me what 15% of an hour was & I told them "12 cents." Also, I usually tip 20.
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Post by N. De Plume on Nov 29, 2011 20:10:18 GMT -5
Hey, all I’m saying is that if you know that you are going to go out to eat after church, you better damn well bring enough money for both the collection plate and the tip. And if you only have enough money that week for one, let the plate slide and make it up next week. You likely won’t be able to make up the tip.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Nov 29, 2011 20:15:26 GMT -5
Honestly, if god wants your money for himself more than he wants you to make sure you don't come off as a mean, cheap asshole to a server whose livelihood depends on your tips... then god is kind of a prick.
Also, Lithp... I am probably the least-functional math-brain in this solar system and I can figure out what 10% is. (Of course I think it's supposed to be 20% now and 10% if the service was really lacking.)
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 29, 2011 20:24:14 GMT -5
I can figure out 10% too and I am abysmal at math. Tho I actually end up giving more than that because I don't want to be a dick.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 29, 2011 22:11:51 GMT -5
I've always been told 15-20. If I ever encountered a situation where the service was REALLY bad, I'd either:
A) Assume there were legitimate reasons for it or B) Not leave shit, I'm po' half of the time, anyway.
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