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Ag with kids

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  1. I work for TAMU-CC. We have been told unequivocally that when traveling on state funds they do NOT cover tips (don't get me started on how inefficient the state is to do actuals and not just straight per diem). Now, individual departments may spend their own budgets to cover them but ours doesn't due to lack of local funds that can cover them. Maybe where you worked they had the funds (and if it was defense money, they could probably charge it to the contract - I know in my defense days they covered tips before everyone got smart and went to straight per diem). $15/hr is. LOTS of people work for that in completely non-tipping jobs.
  2. I go out to visit my oldest daughter in Big Bear every few years. So, I can limit it. I DO have a work trip in Nov to San Jose though. I'm on per diem, but because I work for the state, they won't reimburse tips (that's really a thing). That combined with them making $15/hr makes a convincing case not to tip.
  3. During the Early Coronazoic Period, when everything was getting locked down, the Italian restaurant on the island was having to shutter its doors. We were there the last night having dinner and watching a buddy play music. They had an auction of bags of toilet paper (remember how it was impossible to find) as part of a fundraiser to help the staff that was being laid off. We knew most of them and wanted to help. So I won one of the bags...8 rolls IIRC for $335. But, it helped out our friends. So, cool. Still not tipping if people are paid $15/hr.
  4. For the more dedicated Hatch chile heads around here... It's a small table top roaster for $315. You could probably find one cheaper though...but, just doing my contribution to the world.
  5. This lawyer says differently... I guess it's a grey area... That's what lawyers are for - arguing both sides of the law simultaneously.
  6. This is incorrect in Texas.
  7. Anecdotal data here... Living in a small town (Weatherford) I knew lots of servers/bartenders there...most of them said that was the policy at their establishment. That's all I have.
  8. This little pub (yes it was a pub) that I frequented when I was in Paris had a bucket over the back of the bar. If anyone tipped, they would toss it in there, making a nice clanking, then ring a bell. It was a big enough event to get a tip that it warranted that treatment...
  9. Why just in the US then? People get paid a normal wage in Europe/Asia/etc. And you're not supposed to tip there. But, in the US, we are? Why? I understand tipping in places like TX where the pay is DESIGNED around the tip (the whole $2.31/hr thing). But, why in other places where the pay is NOT designed around the tip? That was the whole point of raising the pay of those servers...to give them a living wage and NOT be beholden to living on tips.
  10. If you're making $15/hr, I'm not tipping 20%. I tip well here because servers make $2.31/hr and the tips are what they're really working for. At $15/hr, you're getting paid a normal wage (like the euro model). I may add a supplement if you've done great, but for normal service they've already been paid.
  11. I think one of the things with service in Europe for Americans is that we are expecting an an entirely different type and level of service. Europeans like to just sit and talk and hang out for hours at the restaurant without having the waiters bug them...Americans expect the waiter to be at their beck and call whenever they want them.
  12. What percentage of the bill is eternal salvation?
  13. I bet you're fun at parties...
  14. No idea yet. When I get more info I'll let you know. And yeah...they'll have to differentiate themselves.
  15. Took my GF 45 min to drive from our house here on NPI to the Bluff (she teaches/coaches at FB HS). I think I'll stay working from home, thank you. I did see on the Facebook that at least one person has lost a NICE palm tree. That sucks. Those are EXPENSIVE to replace. Apparently the wind was whipping the rain around bad enough that my Nest doorbell camera told me there was a person at my front door (it's pretty recessed from the wind). It didn't even do that during Hanna...
  16. I just got a haircut today and every station had a cute little picture with statement "Cash Tips Preferred". I always tip well for haircuts because, well, idk, but they're making me look less ugly so I figure they deserve it. So, I did the cash tip instead of the tip on the CC payment. Figure they get to keep more of it AND they don't have to pay as much in taxes because taxation is theft!!!!!
  17. Dad just said that the name will be the "Beach Bum". Original, I know. I told him to tell them that they need to have GOOD food there. Maybe that will differentiate it AND give y'all something decent to eat.
  18. I'm only tipping for golf if the beer wench shows me titties... Hers, preferably.
  19. Interdasting...just talked with my Dad (he lives at Medina Lake) and some folks he knows there are going to be opening a new bar in Port A in February... If he finds out more, I'll post it here.
  20. Book a refundable flight for that leg. If you make your original flight, cancel it and you've got flight credit. If you don't, you were going to eat the cost of the original ticket anyways and you still have a good flight to get you home...
  21. I wish I'd had this raising my kids...
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