Two! Press Releases in December!

[Trev]

We tip in bars (and casinos, of course), too, but good tips are usually balanced by free drinks, top shelf liquor, extra flirting from the waitress ;-), etc.

EDIT: I don't tip delivery people, though, especially the pizza guy. I did tip, however, before they started charging delivery fees.

EDIT2: And I hate tipping the bell service, doorman, etc. at hotels, but I do it anyway.

[persia]

The sketch:

     A customer enters a pet shop.

     Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

     (The owner does not respond.)

     Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?

     Owner: What do you mean "miss"?

     Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!

     Owner: We're closin' for lunch.

     Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this company what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.

     Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the Amiga, Inc...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?

     Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!

     Owner: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

     Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead company when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

     Owner: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable company, the Amiga Inc, idn'it, ay? Beautiful press releases!

     Mr. Praline: The press releases don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

     Owner: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!

     Mr. Praline: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the cage) 'Ello, Mister Bill Amiga Inc! I've got a lovely fresh iPhone clone for you if you show...

     (owner hits the cage)

     Owner: There, he moved!

     Mr. Praline: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the cage!

     Owner: I never!!

     Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!

     Owner: I never, never did anything...

     Mr. Praline: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO BILL!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!

     (Takes company out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)

     Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead company.

     Owner: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!

     Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?

     Owner: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Amiga Inc's stun easily, major.

     Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That company is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

     Owner: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.

     Mr. Praline: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?

     Owner: The Amiga Inc prefers keepin' on it's back! Remarkable company, id'nit, squire? Lovely press releases!

     Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that company when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.

     (pause)

     Owner: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that company down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!

     Mr. Praline: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this company wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!

     Owner: No no! 'E's pining!

     Mr. Praline: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e
     rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-COMPANY!!

     (pause)

     Owner: Well, I'd better replace it, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the counter) Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of tech companies.

     Mr. Praline: I see. I see, I get the picture.

     Owner: I got a sewer cleaners.

     (pause)

     Mr. Praline: Pray, does it talk?

     Owner: Nnnnot really.

     Mr. Praline: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!?

     Owner: N-no, I guess not. (gets ashamed, looks at his feet)

     Mr. Praline: Well.

     (pause)

     Owner: (quietly) D'you.... d'you want to come back to my place?

     Mr. Praline: (looks around) Yeah, all right, sure.

[Methuselas]

That's about £1.40. That would be illegal in England.


*AND*


IMO, *expecting* a tip is rude. Why should I tip somebody for doing their job, for which they are paid a salary?

So 2.13$ an hour is illegal, but for them to expect a tip, when the wage they make is criminal, that's rude?? Here in the states, most people know that people who work in bars or in the food service industry live off their tips.

When I was a waiter and worked as a bartender, 24-7, I lived off my tips. I treated everyone with the respect they deserved, ie, they got stellar service, provided they weren't rude or obnoxious.

2.13$ an hour is *NOT* a "salary" and most waiters, believe it or not, still live in poverty level for "doing their job".....

[Methuselas]

Trev wrote:
Useful breakdown, by US state:

Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/state/tipped.htm

Any state that only mandates the bare minimum required by US federal law isn't doing much for its citizens. (Businesses love it, of course. I suppose it would be different if they got to take a cut of the tips, and I'm sure the lack of a cut is the basis of the argument for the lower wage.)

This is exactly what I'm talking about. If you live in a state, where the bare minimum is the norm, people become dependent on the tips they receive from patrons, so they typically take extra good care of them. People who treat me like sh!t, get the same, whether I'm a patron or a server. It's also ridiculous for a job to actually expect a cut of tips. A bar I used to work at, the bar owners would take tips out of every night, even though they never worked, nor did they ever get behind the bar or do anything that would remotely be construed at work. They found a loop hole that allowed them to literally "tax" their employees and guess what, if you had a problem with it, you could, verbatim in toto, "find another job if you had a problem with it".


Secondly, the US has this nasty little thing called the "right to work" clause, which means that it's a privilege to have a job and a job can fire you for anything, if they so choose, with no reason other than they felt like it. Of course, this also "helps" the employee, allowing him/her to quit their job at any time, without provocation, however, it's hardly unlikely that another job will smile upon you doing so. In other words, if you quit, odds are you've gained a stigma for enacting your "right to work" clause, meaning most places will refuse to hire you, as you might do that to them, though they have no qualms about doing it to you.

[orb85750]

There must be some other non-Amiga thread (or other website) on which you can discuss capitalism vs. socialism?

[motorollin]

Methuselas wrote:
So 2.13$ an hour is illegal, but for them to expect a tip, when the wage they make is criminal, that's rude?? Here in the states, most people know that people who work in bars or in the food service industry live off their tips.

If an employer is paying their staff an illegal wage, then that's an issue for the employee to take up with their employer. I certainly don't agree that customers should be *expected* to subsidise the staff's wages because the employer doesn't want to pay them a legal (or even 'reasonable') wage.

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moto

[yssing]

That is why we have the Union.. To protect the worker.

[nikodr]

This is getting worse.Next thing they do is to create a pacman clone and claim it the best game for pda.What comes next?

I think it is easy for every moron out there to just have a website with a few pictures and name it a professional company.

Maybe we should treat them as some kind of an old disease and never mention the name amiga inc here.

Here are my suggestions.We should symbolize the name amiga with something else than amiga inc : my suggestions ? A-cube,hyperion,amigakit store,just make sure you never ever use the "inc" after amiga.

They just own the name and nothing all and all they do is create hazards for the people that still want amiga.

Bill from amiga inc :go to hell i say,even Doomy is more appreciated person than you are.At least he sings the amiga tune.
 :-D