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lob_city_3 posted...

Im pooping right now and I clocked in 15 minutes ago

If you're good at something never do it for free.

The employer pays them for their time. A tip is a reward for their services. Something extra.

If I tip, it is because I feel they did a really good job. And I will do that with any profession that I feel exceeded my expectations. I feel no obligation to tip though and do often see a sense of entitlement when talking to waiters about the subject, which I dislike and don't understand.

The whole 'if you can't afford to tip then you can't afford to go out to eat' slogan a lot of them say is pretty ridiculous in my opinion as well. I don't see why anyone should be made to feel they HAVE to tip no matter what. It's just wrong.

Anisoptera posted...

Flockaveli posted...

Restaurants dont do that extra hour and a half of cleanup after the doors close?

They can't have employees staying longer because a party of 10 demands a table 5 minutes before playing. They are on a set a schedule. If they already worked 8 hours that day they aren't allowed to do overtime if it's a franchise restaurant.

Franchise restaurants aren't subject to different FLSA laws. This sounds like a scheduling problem the manager has. If they need to avoid overtime and know this is an issue for their location then they need to schedule accordingly. For instance, even though I can schedule my part-time workers up to 30 hours a week to keep them at part-time, we had a policy not to schedule them over 25 hours just to give us some wiggle room. Same concept here, just with 40 hours.

I personally never do this because I know it sucks when you're already preclosing and someone comes in and you have to use something you've already cleaned and put away. So I try to avoid it when I can just as a courtesy to the employees.

However, I don't have a problem with the people that do come in right before closing. I've never seen a restaurant tell people the kitchen closes 20-30 minutes before the doors, as another user suggested. The kitchen closes when the doors lock.

That last 30 minutes isn't just for refills.. that's what the time after the doors lock is for and the servers usually give you a heads up at that point that you need to get your last orders in.

Yes. I have around 8k saved and around 7k in my teacher retirement account if that counts.

I'm loaded with debt though as well :( Around 200k

Carveless posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

I definitely don't want to be called daddy. Shits off-putting. Imagine saying "oh, daughter". Gross

Daddy is ok, but papi? That shit is where it's at, son.

I agree on daddy being off-putting for me as well. One time this girl and I were on snap chat getting to the point of meeting up later to hook up and she said said something along the lines of 'do you want me to call you daddy' and even that just killed the whole thing for me. I pretty much ended the convo.

I used to date a Puerto Rican and she always called me papi and I really liked that though. Good times.

Yes, that's what I prefer.

I work in HR.

No, it's not legal to dock a day of work in that circumstance. They could just let her go all together for it though. Either way, it sounds like a hostile working environment.

That is indeed an appropriate time to mow.