• Beacon@fedia.io
      34·
      4 days ago

      He AGAIN went drug/drunk driving and majorly crashed. AGAIN. Fuck that piece of shit, i have no sympathy for multiple time drug/drunk drivers. And that’s especially true when you’re wildly rich and could easily afford to be driven anywhere at any time.

      • dotCody@lemmy.world
        13·
        4 days ago

        Jesus christ it gets worse:

        Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s spoken with Woods since the incident, noting the golfer “lives a life of pain” due to his injury history but is “doing great”. Woods has been in a relationship with Trump’s former daughter-in-law, Vanessa Trump, for more than a year.

        “He tested negative for alcohol, as you know, and he is under a tremendous physical pressure from his various ailments, you know, the back and the leg,” Trump said in a phone interview with the New York Post. “He lives a life of pain. He has a lot of pain. He’s an amazing guy. He’s an amazing athlete. He does have pain.”

        Trump added: “He doesn’t have an alcohol problem, but he does have pain.”

        https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/31/tiger-woods-dui-crash-affidavit-phone-florida

            • pyre@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 days ago

              listening to him is a lot different though. first of all his supporters can barely read. but more importantly he has developed a way of speaking in which his word salads don’t need to make sense but a couple of words need to stand out enough for people to think “oh yeah”. people are always half-listening anyway. it’s like abstract art, you get from it what you want.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 days ago

    Bugs the hell out of me that they have decided to ask for tips in nearly every single transaction these days.

    First of all, it is absolutely BS that servers get paid next to nothing in wages on the assumption that they will get tips anyway to make up the difference to at least minimum wage. That means that the difference in that case is not even a tip to the server for taking care of you, but a subsidy to the restaurant to cover wages that they don’t want to pay. That also makes tipping a borderline non-negotiable which eliminates the point of it being a thank you for good service. They should be paid reasonably first, and tips should be optional rewards for gong beyond the minimum.

    Second, when you ask for tips on things you shouldn’t you frustrate people more than they already are with tip culture and make those who are dependent on it less likely to get them.

    Third, as said, tips are thank you’s for good service beyond that bare minimum. Cooking the food I ordered and taking my money is the bare minimum. You don’t get a tip for restaurant carryout (who does that tip even go to? The cashier? The kitchen staff? The owner?).

    I walked into this store, gathered my items for purchase, carried them to the counter, will scan my card on the card reader myself, and will carry them out. You scanning the barcodes is the bare minimum. No tip for you.

    You provide a service, you charge a price for that service, I agree to the price for that service and you provide that service and nothing more. You don’t get a tip for the bare minimum. I paid for your service with the price. Stop guilting people into volunteering more without giving more.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      “Bare minimum service” deserves “bare minimum wage”. Bare minimum wage is $7.25/hr.

      Tipped workers earn as little as $2.13 per hour. So long as there are separate pay scales for tipped and non-tipped employees, tips are not for “beyond bare minimum” service. Legally, tips cover a large portion of the tipped worker’s minimum wage.

      Until we eliminate the different pay scales, the bare minimum acceptable tip for bare minimum acceptable work is $5.12 per hour of the tipped worker’s time. Until we eliminate the tipped pay scale, you have two acceptable options: 1. Pay the tip; 2. Boycott businesses that use the tipped pay scale.

      You do not have to pay a tip every time you are asked, but if you are not tipping, you must ensure that the workers serving are paid at least regular minimum wage. It is not acceptable to refuse a tip to someone paid as a tipped worker.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yeah dude. I know. That is not what we are talking about here. We’re talking about asking for tips for non-service or minimal service, where no one is making the tipped worker wage.

  • null@lemmy.orgEnglish
    22·
    4 days ago

    Sub-minimum wages need to be banned. Employees being paid hourly asking for tips is poisoning the well for employees being paid $2 an hour and relying on tips to make up their wage.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Nobody earns “wages” of 1M/yr. When you get to that point, you’re paid in shares.

        What we need is a securities tax, on all registered securities (stocks, bonds, financial instruments). That tax must be paid in shares of the security, not cash. An IRS liquidator will sell off those shares over time, such that the liquidated shares are never more than 1% of total traded volume.

        Natural persons may exempt up to $10 million of their portfolio from this tax, making capital more valuable to the working class than the Problem Class.

  • endless_nameless@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    Sometimes I like to count how many words the cashier says to me, then compare that with the lowest suggested tip option. You can also count how many times they tap the screen to input your order. You want a dollar per tap, motherfucker?