This time of year, every server dreads the return of the students to the city. Look, I understand that you are living on a budget, I’m a student too. However, that doesn’t mean that tipping etiquette doesn’t apply to you. Consider the tip as part of the cost of the meal; if you can’t afford that cost then go get some fast food.
Servers have to tip out to the kitchen as well as other support staff, in many cases about 5% of their sales. That means that when you don’t leave me a tip, I am essentially paying to serve you. Sorry to single out students, there are plenty of other assholes that don’t tip either. —I don’t want to pay to serve you
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.
OB, now just wait for it.
Awww BT, ya beat me to it!
Aw, I was gonna say it first, BT! 🙁 Lol.
Oh how I wish I could demand extra money for doing my job.
Yes ma’am here is your bill for new tires $800 as advertised PLUS a 15% tip , because we don’t care to pay the mechanics a decent wage but they did a real nice job of putting those tires on really good for you and you get to pay their bonus.
Tipping: an optional rewared for good service received or to garner favor ; as with a bartender for better service , for example.
Not for : just doing your job.
If they don’t dine and dash or leave your Men’s room looking like a third world shittoir, consider yourself lucky.
Hold on Elvis, people pay $80 per hour for labour, how much of that actually goes to the labourer?
WHY do these dumbasses keep posting tipping bitches when they’re just going to be ripped to shreds?
FUCCCCCKKKKK
You choose to work in a student-infested town – what the fuck did you expect? If they could tip in buttons, you still wouldn’t get squat. Such is the insensitivity of the young, budget or no.
Maybe instead of being pissed off that people can’t afford to give you free money, you should be pissed off that your boss isn’t paying you enough.
It never fails: with every fall a new crop of servers find out that some students (mostly their classmates) don’t tip and then write a Bitch about it.
we haven’t had one in a while, it was time. hey ya old broad, james earl jones stuttered ouat
It’s not free money. How would you like to go out to dinner and be served by some asshole who doesn’t give a shit that it’s your granny’s 80th birthday and is a total vacant jerk throughout your meal? That’s what is going to happen if you take the gratuity out of the equation. No one who does this job would do it anymore and you would be stuck dealing with the types that you get at your current McDonald’s and Timmy’s. They don’t give a shit about you or your experience. If I didn’t make a hundred bucks a night, in tips, plus my wages, I would be doing something else. You would all hate it when you went out and the experience would be lost. You think we don’t deserve it? Try going into a place every night for a week and not tip. I guarantee you that by the end of the third night (and I’m being generous here) you will be getting the bare minimum from your server/bartender. If that. You tip me to keep the smile on my face. You tip me so that I will accomodate your assinine requests. If you don’t tip me, I will most likely fuck you over the next time I see you in my place of work. The last laugh is always mine.
Well Peanut-butter why don’t you let me know where you jack-off, I mean work, so I can avoid it.
You’d fuck with somebodys food because you didn’t get a big enough tip?
You are a fucktard, and a douche, not just any common douche, but an anal douche.
I didn’t say I fucked with your food. That isn’t what I meant. I’m just talking service, plain and simple. Thank you for all of your expletives though.
I appreciate tips at my job, but I don’t expect everyone to give me a tip. I certainly hope they will, of course. Especially considering how hard I work. I mean, at my workplace, I’m one of the few people that will steam more milk (as many may or may remember, I work at a coffee shop) if it turns out you still need an inch to be topped off. Then there is the countless amount of times I’ve given people things that I should’ve charged them for, just to make the customer happy.
I go out of my way a lot, but I am at least working for my tip. I, in no way, expect everyone to tip me. :-/ OP, you shouldn’t expect everyone to bend over for you.
Well Butter, you could act like an idiot, but enough complaints and you’re gone, unless you’re family or give good head. You get minimum wage, like a lot of other get, working a lot harder than you (just think of the places and the like that you just put down). Service there may not be perfect but they get a fuck of a lot more customers in an hour than you get all day, with a better attitude than you’ve shown us here. So to all servers with attitude, go fuck yourselves. All others, no worries.
This bitch is it. From now on I refuse to tip any waiter/waitress because of the sense of entitlement of a few.
What a backwards idea of customer service! The customer has to keep you happy with good tips in order to get good service? Um, no. Your job is to serve the customer, not the other way around. Butter, your attitude is petty and childish.
OP, Don’t take a job where a percentage of your pay is optional. Just because you foolishly agreed to a shitty pay situation does not obligate other people to make up the difference.
A friend of mine recently got shortchanged five bucks by a waiter downtown while paying a bill that had already included a tip in the total cost of the bill. So he paid a 2.50 dollar tip and then had an extra $5.00 stolen by that tips recipiant. The money still wasn’t returned after complaining to the manager.
I hate the attitude of servers in this city. Reading all the bitches from entitled servers on this forum has actually made me tip less often.
well bitches, it’s come to this…tip bitching has broken a camel’s back
I think you are missing my point. What I am trying to say is that I work in this business because of the tips. It’s not a bonus. Yes I make minimum wage, it’s true. I also make a lot more than that because of the tips. I am friendly to my customers because I expect to be rewarded. It’s why all of us do it. I m not doing this job because I can’t do anything else. I am doing this job because it pays better than a lot of other jobs do. I wasn’t attempting to insult the people at these fast food places. If that’s how it sounds then I apologize to them. What I was trying to say was that a good portion of the people working at these places loath their jobs and the customers that they have to serve. I have worked at both of these places I mentioned. It’s not fun. The money sucks and you learn to hate mankind due to the dicks you have to serve all day.
When I say that I am going to fuck with you, what I mean is that I’m not going to be overly friendly. I will forget your extra free bread, and your water refills. I always remember when someone doesn’t tip. It’s comes with the territory.
I work in fine dining. I actually like my job most of the time but if I didn’t make the money I do, then I wouldn’t do this. Serving the public is a shitty job. If you’ve never worked in a place where you have to deal with customers, then you have no right to comment.
Like I said before I don’t make these rules. I am stellar at what I do. People often tip me 20%. I also earn this money. I go out of my way to go that extra mile for you. I make sure you have the best experience possible. If you don’t tip accordingly, the extra mile disappears. Even my boss knows this. This is why our policy is to add 15% to parties of 8 or more. It’s so you can’t screw us.
I don’t have an attitude. I’m sure that if you came into my restaurant you would love me. I’m taking the opportunity to vent in this forum because you people don’t seem to understand the way it works. Or it upsets you to no end. I’m not sure why this is.
I honestly wish I earned $30/hr. It would be great if, instead of tips, that was my wage. That is what my hourly earnings are now. If the pricing in restaurants included a gratuity, I’d jump for joy. They don’t though and this is the way the industry is set up. It’s not my doing. I don’t understand why you feel like it’s ok to screw me out of it just because you don’t agree with it. You aren’t making a point, you just look like an asshole.
Yeah, the entitlement that comes with tips is becoming a bit of a piss-off.
I’m sorry, but I rarely go out to eat, because I can’t afford too. If I happen to get a little bit of extra money to get a decent meal made somewhere, I’m not going to settle for fast food because I can’t afford to tip you.
Plane and simple.
I expect to be rewarded – that’s where I stopped reading. Self-entitle much?
“I am friendly to my customers because I expect to be rewarded.”
This is why entitlement turns people off, Butter. Your attitude is the same as many other servers in HRM who think they deserve to be rewarded for doing their basic job requirements. If you’re nice because you expect shit then you’re a shitty server. It doesn’t matter how hard you hustle or work; personally as a customer I don’t care. If you have a poor attitude and ask me if I want change back you’re getting jack shit. And you deserve jack shit.
Butter again your attitude shows- you expect tips and if you don’t you act like a child by withholding a measly piece of bread or a glass of water, go slower or whatnot. Like everyone else you have a job, so do it, and to quote Mr Holmes “Do it right”.
If servers like you keep on bitching then none of you will receive tips and if you provide bad service then you will be out of a job because no one will go to your establishment.
A server gets extra money and it’s called a tip. If a contractor gets extra money, it’s called a kickback. If a cop or politician gets extra money, it’s called a bribe.
Oooohhhh, I always tip. But thanks to the entitlement issues of fucking servers, I may change my tune. Do your job, do it well. I agree with jdp – he serves people, regularly and doesn’t get tipped. Why should you?
An ya, I worked my ass through university paying my way serving the public. Not all my jobs did I get tips. Seriously, I think it’s more of a generational thing. The “me, me, me” generation who thinks things should be handed to them on a golden platter, just because they exist and might smile at you a bit.
Being an ass won’t get you ahead, OB. So good luck with that. Fucking with people means you lose business. I have a friend who eats out regularly, and tips to people/servers he’s built a relationship with. And tips well. But rarely on the first visit or two.
I’d like to know where Butter works so I can go in, order the most expensive thing on the menu (twice), drink a bottle of wine out the bottle, run the staff ragged and walk out without tipping.
If I get extra money, it’s called theft.
I don’t think that people should give up on tipping servers just because of this OP. It’s not particularly fair to people like me who, again, sincerely work for the tips without necessarily expecting everyone gives me one. Tips, to me, are in fact a bonus. A reward for a job well done. If you think I did a good enough job that merits a tip, then feel free to do so; I would hate to think I’m being denied that bonus because of someone who felt entitled.
I will say, though, that the entitlement to tipping is fairly universal. It’s not just this city. I’m bringing this up just because someone said they “hate the entitlement that servers have in this city”. I was eating at a popular chain restaurant in Toronto one summer a few years back. My order came to somewhere around $14, and I handed the server a $20. He asked if I wanted my change. Seriously? A six dollar tip for a $14 meal? He apparently did the same to my friends who paid him while I went to the bathroom.
Then there are restaurants in the US. Specifically ones in Times Square — automatic gratuity! That’s even worse. Because it makes the servers think that they don’t have to earn a tip; no matter how shitty their service, they’re going to get a tip. This happened to my friends and I with a server who constantly ignored us and took 15+ minutes to retrieve drinks for the four of us. Ridiculous.
Maybe 5% for jdp…
I think that “Tips Included” billing should be illegal. It’s nothing but extortion. And how many of these establishments even have a sign/s up large enough for people to see. I see a place like that, I go by.
HP that display pic … oh oh my.
Haha. Thanks, NGF.
Peanutbutter: tips are O-P-T-I-O-N-A-L. The customer is not required to supplement your income. Y’all are taking a gratuity for granted. Stop being an entitled little snot and do your fucking JOB instead of acting like a little prick.
i don’t like the sense of entitlement either, but as a former server, chef and bartender (i haven’t worked in the food or beverage service industry for a long time) i believe tipping, though not mandatory should be standard.
of course shitty service, bad food or a variety of other dining disasters may be cause to withhold a tip, but if you you have a positive experience you should be prepared to leave a token of gratitude- if only because in most restaurants servers are forced to tip out kitchen staff, bussers, & hosts a percentage of their sales. If they make good sales and aren’t tipped they can end up paying for the opportunity to serve us food out of shitty minimum wage.
if you don’t want to tip then maybe we should consider a lobby to get service staff salaries and benefits. if that’s going too far we could at least allow them to tip out based on tips, not sales. whenever this debate comes up people always bring up places like australia, where tipping is not the norm. the big difference though is wages there reach $15-20 and hour.
i like to eat out, and eat well, and i’m i think expecting to tip is as warranted as expecting willing to be treated right throughout my dining experience.
i also know if i was getting stiffed and it was losing me money i would be a vicious bitch. though i wouldn’t take it out passive aggressively by spitting in the soup, it’s more likely someone someday would push me too far they’d find themselves on my punchline.
NGF: welcome back… BC is so lovely, spent some time out there a few years ago before i moved to calgary, i could totally live there, and there’s not many places i can say that about. i won’t, but i could.
where were you exploring?
Hey Butterface, I worked my ass off as I cashier, would you have tipped me for my lovely service? I also used to work at Subway and served people as well as actually making the food, cleaning, baking bread, prep work, etc etc but we didn’t get tips for that. Do you tip at Subway too?
Mostly downtown Victoria…..
and Ucluelet and parts of Saanich and some islands.
Listen Agent Butter, don’t assume that just because some people don’t appreciate the fact that you think you deserve a tip for doing your shit job, it means they have no idea what it’s like to work in customer service.
I worked in a restaurant in which it was not customary for people to tip for nearly 4 years, but I still worked my ass off and gave 5-star customer service. Not because of the recognition I would receive, or in hopes that someone would pity me and leave a tip, but because I’m a decent fucking human being.
I tip on occasion, but only if someone is going out of their way to make my experience fucking legendary, not just being polite and offering me a refill.
Being polite isn’t just part of your job, and I’m not polite to servers just because I don’t want shit service. I’m polite because you deserve it, and you should be polite because I fucking deserve it.
Oh, and by the way:
“gra·tu·i·ty – A favor or gift, usually in the form of money”
A gift, asshole. “gift (gft) n. Something that is bestowed voluntarily and without compensation.”
If you don’t like when people don’t tip, then get a different job because customers who don’t tip come with “the territory”.
all the places i didn’t see. 🙂
Butter, if the problem is the industry, your beef is with the industry, not your customers. No one is going to shell out extra money to make up for how the industry works. They shell out extra money for exceptional service, not basic service.
Good point jdp. I didn’t mean just in this city alone. I just happen to live here and have dined out here so much more than other places I can really only speak for this city. Although it reads otherwise, I wasn’t trying to condemn Halifax, just exclude other places.
It’s not just because of the OP alone that I don’t tip often. It’s every other tip bitch I’ve read, every time I’m shortchanged at the bar, every time I have horrible service and the server asks me if I want change back and sulks when I say “yes”, every time I have shitty service and a tip is included in the bill, every time I hear my dumb-ass cousin (who is a bartender) go on about how he waters down the drinks of people who don’t give him at least a dollar tip for every drink, every time I hear about shitty waiters or bartenders from my friends like the story I told above.
I worked my ass off for years to pay for college in a customer service position, no tips for me. My job was just as hard if not harder than bartenders and waiters. I had to deal with just as many customers many of which treat you like dirt because they know they’ll never see you again and it’s not like you have the option of sabotaging their food or drinks in retaliation. But I took pride in providing good customer service regardless of how bad someone treated me because it’s the right and professional thing to do, it was part of my job. So after years of smiling and keeping an even voice while talking to angry customers who were yelling in my face for something I couldn’t control, I find the woes of servers laughable. They’re pissed off because their customers didn’t give them extra money? I was lucky if a customer treated me like a human being, let alone give me money!
I rarely get to go downtown for a meal or a night out drinking, I have to budget to make money for a meal at a restaurant. But when I do I always make sure I have enough for tips and I almost always get shitty service and a sense of snotty entitlement from the servers. When I do get good service I tip well, because I enjoy rewarding the servers that actually earn it. But it’s very discouraging when not only are my few outings usually dampened by servers with attitude, I’m expected to reward that shitty customer service. Why bother tipping at all? I could save all that extra tip money and go on a trip instead.
That’s it! I should get a big jar and put the equivalent of what I would have tipped into it after every outing downtown or meal at a restaurant instead of tipping. It’s not like the service can get much worse for me anyway.
Fuck, if ever there was a case for eating at home, this is it.
I rewired my attitude on tipping during the last round of tipping bitches and feel so much better for it. This latest round reinforces the correctness of my decision….
When I was in university a worked in a Wendys that was in a combo store with a Tim Hortons. On the Tim’s side, staff always got lots of tips (although, probably not 15% of their sales). On the Wendy’s side, it was rare. But, I still continued to work there for a whole host of reasons, when I likely could have made loads of money from tips if I switched sides. The point is OP, you could stay in an environment where you have the opportunity to gain tips if people feel that you deserve them, or you can switch jobs to somewhere that maybe doesn’t get tips, but has some other benefits (better hours, better wage, better advancement opportunities etc) and stop whining that you’re a poor student that has to put up with other poor students.
Here we go again with the “give me a tip”…..have you considered asking your boss for a raise instead?
*yawn* Another tipping bitch. Next!
I think a lot of people are missing the point. The server HAS to tip the kitchen staff/hostess, etc regardless of whether or not they themselves receive a tip.
So if you don’t tip, the server has to tip the staff themselves out of their minimum wage pay cheque.
No, we got that point. As a matter of face its been mentioned many times over in previous Bitches. Its really not our problem.
Now if you told us you also rode a bike to work we would have 2 valid reasons for hating your fucking sphincter face.
Garcon – bite my hole.com
Naveed, no one’s missing the point. The point is, it’s the employer’s job to pay a decent wage to their workers. Tipping out at the end of the night is just wrong. No employee should have to lose money that way. Servers are complaining to the wrong people, they should be complaining to the government to get these rules about waitstaff changed. It is not the customer’s responsibility to pay the servers, it’s the employers.
The OP does come across as very self entitled. Even in trying to explain herself further, she just dug herself in deeper. “expect to be rewarded” *snort* that’s laughable. Great expectations.
She should blow the manager, that’s how you get to be made head waiter (hee hee) and then you get paid a little more, and you also get to decide how to spend the excess tip-out loot (parties etc.)
I’m happy to tip when my server does at least a good job but recently we had such a poor quality of service at a restaurant that we didn’t tip. I’m sorry but if my server literally forgets all about me, then I am not leaving that d-bag a tip.
Cranky FTW — we ARE aware that you have to tip out to the kitchen, but that’s YOUR problem, not ours. You knew when you took the job that was the way things worked there and you accepted the job anyway. So….not our problem.
Also, Melectric: haha “hey butterface”….for some reason that cracked me the fuck up and I totally just got coffee up my nose!
Dumbass fucking servers we have in HRM. I never got a single tip in my life. You serve fucking food damn it. Cant be that hard. Ask your boss for a wage increase or stop blaming others on your shitty income and get a real job! You must work at that shitty place on young street, Steak and Swine?
jdp: I’m just wondering if you’re the same guy who works at my local sbux. For some reason, I’m getting that vibe, and yes, if you’re the same chap, you deserve every tip you get 🙂
Since no one else here has mentioned it…or thought of it, & I really don’t know.
What I’m wondering is the legality of a boss, making you pay a tip out to other staff based on the sales of a server ?
How can you be forced to pay other people who work in the same place you do, to be allowed to do your job ?
Where does the arbitrary amount of a tip out come from ?
Since the OP & others who have bitched about this, say it is based on sales & not what they are actually tipped, why should that have to tip out when they do receive no tip ?
O.P. other servers who come here, you got any answers to these questions ?
IF my employer tried to make me pay other employees I’m working with money I’ve earned (I’m saying this because all servers feel they did the work, they earned the money & I’m fine with that) I would take him to court & sue him.
More, if a table dines and dashes the server uses the ‘tip out’ to cover it, instead of paying it out of their pocket.
You usually learn of these policies on your first day on the job. If you don’t like it, quit.
I’ve bartended banquets where we had wait staff, and the wait staff don’t get tipped at all. To make it slightly more fair we give a portion of our tips to the wait staff – probably about 15%. But that’s how it should be, based on our tips instead of our sales, because if I did it on 5% of my sales I would probably make less in my tips than the wait staff.
Thanks Cranky & Hollah
Didn’t answer my questions, especially if it is legal & just by the idea that one employee has to turn over money given to them by someone else, because the ‘boss’ says so…it sure doesn’t seem right …maybe its just me , that feels it is not.
Just because it is the ‘way’ we do business , or ‘has always been done that way’ doesn’t mean it is right , even if it is legal .
And again I will say: tipping is NEVER mandatory. Ever.
TIPS = TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE
Like someone else said: I wish I could demand someone give me a chunk of their hard earned money just for doing my job. “Here you go, Mr. Smith, your bill comes to $348.72 plus the 15% I’ll add on just for doing my job”. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way.
You want a tip? Do your job and do it well and I’ll tip you. If you don’t, I won’t. Don’t ever expect a tip, and appreciate them when you do get them.
OP: Grow the fuck up. You are earning your wage by the hour and its not solely tips. Get off your high horse and stop expecting people to give you more of a wage than your boss is doing.
Hey, Agent Butter:
You say I tip to keep the smile on your face and to get the experience? How about you put that smile on your face and give the experience to EARN my money. Give me a reason to want to give you more of my money.
I work frontline customer service also in the toursim/hospitality industry, and have done for 12 years. I do my job because I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. I often go out of my way to do things for people. I bust my hump and create an experience for them. Would a tip be appreciated? Of course. Is it expected? Not a chance.
I smile, am polite and do whatever I can for my people. I don’t expect them to compensate me for my efforts.
The percentage thing kind of annoys me too. I have a favourite home grown spot I go where I can regularly get lunch for under $7. The ladies that work there are lovely, know my name, and are great. So I tip a couple bucks… Then I go out for a great fancy dinner, where the servers are ok, kind of slow and a bit snobbish. If I drop $150 on food, even a 10% tip seems like a lot of cash. Just because the food is worth more, why does that mean the server should earn more?
I wonder if this peanut butter guy is reporting his/her tips as part of his/her income since he/she is quite dependent on it? If not, then STFU about your free money because most people are taxed on every penny earned.
Butter the more you try to explain YOUR point, the deeper your whole gets and the more servers you start burring with you. Just shut up.
AHAHAHA Bundy, I love you.
Skyisfalling…according to the Oxford Dictionary on the origin of tipping & what “tips” means has nothing to do with “To Insure Prompt Service”
Nor is it To Insure Promptness, To Insure Proper Service, To Improve Performance, etc.
It actually came about as a slang word in the 18th Century, from an earlier (17th Century) ‘to give, to hand, pass’
PK: Unfortunately, that is not me. 😛 I used to work at a Sbux, but that was a couple years back. But I will just pretend I’m that person and thank you anyway. <3 Haha.
Owners forcing staff to pay the tabs for dine and dashers is pure BS. I don’t see any retail stores docking their staff for loses due to shoplifting. Just say no and if your ass gets fired take them to the Labour Board.
When I don’t tip at bars and get lousy service I ask to speak to the manager. When I meet the manager, he/she explains that his/her staff “work” for tips. I say that’s cool. Then I say it’s their job to make money for the bar and not go into business for themselves. That means the bartender is to be taking orders and ensuring the bar reaches as much profit as possible instead of worrying about a tip. Then I remind them that some people prefer to tip at the end of the night with a bill or two instead of quarters. Sometimes I have to ask the manager if their staff are supposed to be working for the business or themselves; it changes things mighty fast.
As someone who has, served, bartended, cooked and/or managed at many a fine establishment it goes without saying that providing friendly, efficient service to customers is a requirement of the job. Employees with attitude are easily replaced by those who have an appreciation for the responsibility of the position and the money that goes with it. In a perfect world, everyone would tip a minimum of 15%. In the real world, you realize that you represent the company you work for and your boss(es) expect consistantly consummate professionalism. No exceptions.
Since we’re knit-picking word origins, how many dictionaries represent regional colloquialisms from which some anagrams have sprung forth?
Good point, Bundy. I’m sure many servers don’t declare their tips at tax time.. or at least put down much less than what they actually get.
It sucks that the servers have to tip out even if the customer doesn’t tip… but it’s not our problem. Talk to your boss about the shitty policy (though I bet it’s the same at most places). You shouldn’t feel entitled to tips. It’s like when you tip someone at Tim’s and they don’t even say “thanks”. I once took my tip back at Tim’s because she saw it but didn’t say thanks 🙂
And I tipped the pizza guy last week and he didn’t say thanks either.. jeez. Maybe we should ALL stop tipping for a while and just maybe they’ll appreciate it more when we actually do tip.
birdie, wanna go to the Parade of Lights with me?
Ok, More, I stand corrected. I recall it being explained to me that way in school, so i guess I’ve always remembered it.
In any case, tipping is never legally required and the amount, if any, is at the discretion of the patron. I often get asked at work what the norm is on tipping. I always tell them it is at their discretion, tip what they feel like leaving.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
tipping is optional – period.
a parade? when does this light extravaganza happen?
You are “paying to serve us” if you don’t get tips!?
You need a different kind of job altogether! I recommend Chapters. Or subway – still food but no tips ever, so you wont know who the real assholes are.
If you are hesitant to switch jobs, I don’t suppose it’s because you’d make less money? That would ruin your argument now wouldn’t it.
Saturday, November 20!
you seem very excited NGF, it must be some parade. 🙂 i remember it from my younger days, but haven’t been in a long minute.
to what do i owe the invitation?
Some servers don’t deserve a tip. Economy Shopshoppe I’m looking at you assholes.
We’re so green we have gas guzzling trucks carry flatbeds of people through the streets with as many lights as we can strap on guiding the way.
hey, maybe it won’t rain this year and have the potential to electrocute half of HRM.
“to what do i owe the invitation?” ~birdie
desparation.
Those servers are lousy Sodey!! They think “I’m ready for the bill now” means “Ignore me for another hour while you get tips from drunk people instead because I don’t have anywhere to be”. When they do that, they get a one cent tip from me ;D. I feel a one cent tip sends a better message than no tip at all. I feel it says “Fuck you, you hipster dufus”. Screw all these entitled servers, I say we, the people of LTWWB refrain from tipping from now on or stop going to these restaurants so these disposable idiots get laid off.
i’m not desparate! truly just curious. maybe all the bitchers should hit the parade…
speaking of which- any of you going to the Best of Halifax party at AGNS tomorrow night? it’s open to the public and there’s dj’s, food, and drinks!
the coast doesn’t have a float?
ultimately, I’m torn because I think they should have one but I’d certainly rather not add to Mod’s list of duties….
she does enough already.
I think I may peruse the shindig tomorrow at the gallery.
I’m already downtown anyways… why not.
I’ve been a captive audience to the “Parade of Unquenchable Despair” for the last decade. “Big Surf II” on the yard-sale sound system and morphia laced hot chocolate provide the atmosphere while perched on top of a stepladder much like Charles Whitman in the U. of Texas Tower. If you’re oot & aboot, you’ll see me.
>: (
i have some treats left-over i’ll try to bring you some^^
Screeeeeeeeeee! Fortunately my sniping is primarily verbal. Live ammunition has yet to make an appearance.
Haha PK.
No Birdie. NGF is desparate, not you.
Ohh myy, you would think that a servers job is rocket science listening to some of these rants. You have a minimum wage paying job, there is no guarantee on your contract that you will make more than this wage. You are lucky that more often than not people do tip you, even if it isn’t the 15% + you hoped it would be. All that your job requires is putting food in front of someone, smiling, and being polite. It’s not hard. I work harder doing my customer service job and I don’t receive tips. The difference is that I don’t start pouting, I do my job with a smile and get on with it. This sense of entitlement is absurd. If you don’t like your fucking easy job get a new one.. one that pays you minimum wage without the chance to earn tips. Bet you won’t be doing that.
I also love going out as a student and getting lousy service because the server just assumes that I won’t be leaving much of a tip. If you just smiled and did your job like you were supposed to, you may just find yourself pleasantly surprised from time to time.
Suck it up princesses, it could be worse 🙂
haha no, birdie, that wasn’t directed towards you! NGF is my best friend IRL and I like to tease 🙂
okey dokey then. not sure how that makes me feel about the invitation though. 🙂
how does being hand-fed a donair from his sausage fingers sound?
yeah, I think you know how you feel about the invitation now.
i should also probably mention though that i’m a single mama, and i have a bf. i do like making new friends though, especially those that like to eat good food, including stuffed poutine, and most of the time NGF makes me laugh. except the homophobic stuff- even if it is a facade -no laughing then.
i have never eaten a donair in my life and i’m not about to start now, no matter who is sticking it in my face.
that’s a good policy for your colon Birdie…
PKs jealous I asked birdie and not her. And Cleo is cooler than Oscar.
And, Donk, show some respect. I make more money than you.
What did I say …
And yes, you probably do make a lot more money than I do …
I’m just messing around and watching Khan on King of the Hill. So no Parade trip for you and Suckers? You can go with PK if you don’t mind sharing your supper with her.
i WAS flattered to get the invitation NGF, maybe we should ALL go for some stuffed poutine instead.
I do live near Xtreme…
I wanna go to the parade too! Pick me! Pick me!!
I do find stuffed poutine intriguing. May be my next post night out feast. If Willy’s poutine doesn’t make me feel gross enough the next morning, might as well do it up spesh.
and yet, i do love a parade. 🙂
mmm. extreme. i may have to poutine tonight, after i go do a psych test at dal, for fun and moola.
ok, I know we don’t really have a big fancy city…
but you have to admit that it is one ghetto-ass parade.
I’ve only been to the Santa Claus Parade in Moncton – and it’s about 30 hrs long, always fucking freezing, causes retarded amount of traffic issues and some kid almost always gets run over. I’d be up for seeing one in Hali, that I can walk to, and at least there’s decent places to booze at after to warm up, instead of pick-a-pig on Main Street.
It’s great after you smoke a nice, big blast and let the cold air enhance your high a bit more. Even the hot chocolate and/or tea tastes better during the Parade of Lights. PK doesn’t go anymore b/c the Parade stopped tossing out free candy; she actually considered it a human rights violation.
joints and poutine, yumm. i’m really hungry, had no time to lunch today.
wow guys, you must be REALLY great friends 😉
Damn I like your lips/mouth!
… good Lord.
lol NFG.
I’ll be parked on SG in front of Roots with my lawn chair…yes I’m one of those people! And the restaurants last year came out and served appetizers to try round up new business PK.
oh my. i don’t know if i should be flattered or offended…
you should see ’em stuffed with poutine. 🙂
rc: if that’s the case maybe i’ll head that way too, il mercato is one of my favourite’s. zuccato is heaven in cake form.
i used to make those birdie…a long long time ago
Blond question? is donk and donkey the same person?
uuummm zuccotto
will you marry me pg? i dream of having a whole cake to myself, so i can put my face right in ‘er. classy, i know. 🙂
Yes RC. Yes.
or drinking a fruit smoothie.
🙂
Roots eh? interesting. you’re gonna have to get there good and early to get a decent spot.
I always do! I’m there with 15 other people (family & kids) …. I work on Dresden so my parkings there and we come in an hour early…set up our chairs…get out HotC and all the kids treats.
PK is NOT jealous you didn’t ask her to the parade of lights mr fatzo. Stop with all this food talk. PK is TRYING to drop some weight because she feels bloated and huge and would KILL for a fucking creamy dill ruffle chip.
My life has no meaning anymore 🙁
aah birdie, i’ve heard that before. you’re just after my magic hands you hussy^^^
damn straight pg, and i’ve no qualms admitting it. i’d settle for a zuccatto lesson.
Fair Kitty…
give it a bit and you won’t be able to eat them anymore without them ripping your intestines to shreds.
I can’t even touch a lays chip…. too greasy for my system.
actually, baked lays I can tolerate.. so there is that.
have some baked lays and be satisfied.
4 gm of fat per mall bag as opposed to 14.
a fair compromise
It’s the salty tangy taste that I can’t seem to get enough of. Someone skip the fried potatoes and give me a bag of the seasoning and I’d probably be a very happy, satisfied woman. 🙂
Tonights menu. Lemon pan fried Haddock, with a hot crude salsa.
Parade sounds fun. I’m more towards the start.
And everybody has new avatars today, isn’t that nice 🙂
i have some time to take the commander candy early morn. then it’s off to a non-paying gig…woof. haddock♥
RC, I’ll look for ya lol. I’ll just ask all the ladies there if they’re a real chick.
Mmmmm, birdie’s mouff stuffed with poutine. Think I just died and ate a pizza.
*chuckle*
NFG…you’ll sound a little crazy doing that. lol. Maybe I’ll switch corners to be on the safe side. I’m sure we’ve seen eachother many times as I can see extreme from my work and your close by.
Tips should be added in with the cost of the meal and all other tips shouldn’t be accepted.
END OF TIP BITCHES.
Also, I always tip the Pizza Delivery person well because their job is actually dangerous.
kitty, why don’t you try the kernals flavoring for popcorn…
it’s basically the same thing.
http://heckofabunch.blogspot.com/2010/07/f…
I don’t see Dill on the list but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
I wouldn’t actually do that, RC lol. And I live within the area; not on the same block or street as it.
I didn’t think so NFG…but there are some crazies out there! I have yet to have a good Extreme experience. So I haven’t gone back in a year. What’s good besides the donairs?
Their poutine selection is quite good actually. Pizza is decent also.