psyche5297

Reply to tipping your waitress in Misc JoeUser Forums

First, to Gideon. If you had fully read my original message I did say that 15% is a minimum for good service. I did say that if you recieve crappy service, leave a crappy (or no) tip. I am a server and I have left a bad tip for bad service. Also, you are making a lot of assumptions about my financial situation. I am actually the top server in the restaurant that I work at with the highest sales and check average. I never said that I wasn't makin

Reply to I'm just me in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Oh yeah, my name is Jenna. Sorry about that, it's a little late and I am VERY tired!

I'm just me in Welcome JoeUser Forums

I guess I should provide a little background about me in case any one feels compelled to learn more about yours truly. I am a 23 year old female graduate student at Wake Forest University, in North Carolina. I'm studying psychology and I'm interested in just about anything that deals with the human experience. I'm espeicially interested in religion, polit

Reply to O'Reilly vs Moore (a tale of two idiots) in Democrat JoeUser Forums

I didn't watch the convention (only bits and pieces of Edwards acceptance speech) but I have ready Bill O'Reily's "The No Spin Zone" as well as several books by Michael Moore. All I can say is I agree with you completely! I think they are the personification of the extreme of either party. All the current political propaganda from both sides would do even Joseph Goebbels proud! And if you think O'Reily is a screaming lunatic, check out Sean

Reply to tipping your waitress in Misc JoeUser Forums

In any restaurant in the country (with very very few exceptions) servers and bartenders rely on gratuity to make a living. Imagine how astronomically expensive eating out would be if every server had to be guaranteed $7.00 an hour (like the cooks and dishwashers). That money has to come from somewhere, and it is going to reflect in menu costs. If I knew that my money was coming in, regardless of how I treated my tables, you better believe those j

tipping your waitress in Misc JoeUser Forums

For the last year I have been working as a waitress. I am getting ready to start graduate school in a few weeks, and I just have to get something off my chest. Is the concept of tipping your waitress (or waiter) that difficult to grasp??? Servers do NOT make minimum wage (in NC where I work, it is $2.13 an hour). I have had tables with bills over $100.0