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Catbird's avatar

I am convinced that we will not have a revolution, or a reformation, until the middle class, such as it remains, begins to fight back.

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Schmoozan Salamander's avatar

Absolutely you do. You accept that you’ve put yourself at risk for others in your time, as your duty to our great societal compact, and now it’s time for you to accept the pro quo, so to speak. I also think that I’m a good tipper and genuinely considerate and grateful, and if I didn’t order, maybe the shopper wouldn’t get someone like me.

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William Howard Cat's avatar

I would love it except for people who, are, say, medically fragile and can’t afford exorbitant tips. Or who just can’t afford exorbitant tips.

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Schmoozan Salamander's avatar

Now I feel cheap at 26% (I wanted to pay in whole dollars 😆)

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Catbird's avatar

I thought this was a joke until I realized that was Kirk Cameron sitting there. Oh, my ever loving Lord. Seriously.

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Schmoozan Salamander's avatar

That was... surgical. /respect

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Catbird's avatar

Even in non-plague times, wash fruits and vegetables that others can touch in the bin. I always wash apples and peppers because I've seen people knock them onto the floor and then put them back in the bin. Or children, with their ooky little mitts, slobbering all over fruits and vegetables in the lower bins. In my store, cauliflower usually seems to come wrapped but not broccoli.

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William Howard Cat's avatar

It’s hilarious—and would probably keep people 6 feet away from you!

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

I hope you complained. If complaints pile up they get take seriously.

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William Howard Cat's avatar

PS: ICYMI, the truck-full-of-dead-coronavirus-victims photo is from NYC and is real. A friend’s sister wrote the article that went with it:

https://www.buzzfeednews.co...

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Antonin Dvorak's avatar

Just dropping by to say I still think Stuart Varney is the stupidest fox correspondent with a British accent. But Steve is certainly making a play for the title.

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retson's avatar

Just like manufactures put the responsibility of dealing with plastic onto the consumer via recycling that will never come close to being adequate, the role of providing wages above some fancifully established minimum for service workers falls to the customer through tipping. Ain’t America grand?

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VandeGraf's avatar

This is an egregious example of little guys behaving in ways that are reserved for board members and the operations team managers. They are punching back far above their station. Apparently they didn't get the memo. Theirs is not to reason why,,, blah, blah. Money is to go to those much much higher up the food chain.

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Stulexington's avatar

So in the middle of an epidemic he's reading random letters? I wouldn't even believe he was reading letters normally.

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chascates's avatar

Letters that would take a week or more just to go through screening to get to someone who would look at them.

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