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When To Not Tip Your Waiter?! Really?

August 29, 2011 in Consumer ism, Rants | No comments

Waaaaaah! You don’t like the service you got at nasty ass Dennys from the girl who makes poverty of a living.

This rant is in response to a fucking hideous post and comments I saw at that affiliate sales driven, “advice website,” wisegeek.com

If you were making POVERTY for a living – and knew no one in your entire country gave a shit about your survival, even though you’re getting your ass kicked paying taxes and working for a living, would you give stellar service too?

Believe it or not, some people still do… AND Oh My Fucking God, YES – some people do not! FYI, retards who think tipping should be debatable, it’s just like ANY OTHER INDUSTRY.

Let’s broaden this spectrum for the simple minded…

Regardless if it’s food, construction, an office job or fucking investors over – there are dicks in every industry and every job across the world. It’s been this way forever – and no amount of stiffing your fellow human-being will change it. And think about it FFS – whose to say that the employee is the problem? Seriously, how many bosses have made doing your job suck? How many managers have made their employees look bad? How many cheap ass business owners make employee’s lives shit? How delusional do you have to be to judge and punish one person because you can’t handle minor daily disappointments? And if you do judge – honest to God, who the fuck do you think you are?

    Tipping a waiter is not a “nice thing you’re doing for them.” Tipping a waiter is YOU actually PAYING the living wage that American restaurants are too cheap to pay out.

Tipping a waiter would be a “nice thing to do” IF the restaurant was actually paying your server enough money to pay their rent, let alone buy groceries, health insurance, car payments, student loans, cell phone bills, credit card bills … ect … but they’re not. So no, your tip is not a “reward” for good service. Your tip is sustenance for a working human being.

Also it’s none of your business why a person chooses to wait tables – so don’t get all up on your high horse and start preaching about what people choose to do for a living, lest you are Stalin, a Republican Tea Bagger, Fred Phelps, or Satan himself. (And no one in their right mind listens to those assholes.)

ANYWAY – tipping a waiter is a non-negotiable debate till you get off your ass and tell your politicians to stop shoving special interest money up their gaping assholes while allowing “some” industries to pay human beings a inhumane wages.

Till that day happens …

1. HOW DARE ANYONE DEBATE A PERSON’S RIGHT TO A LIVING WAGE.
2. HOW DARE ANYONE PLAY WITH A HUMAN’S ABILITY TO SURVIVE BASED ON YOUR OWN SHALLOW, SELF-ENTITLED DEMENTIA.

If I met anyone who didn’t leave a tip I’d smack the shit out of them and then I’d go to their job and proceed shred 20 – 95% of their paycheck into non-existence -Because I’m pretty sure 100% of the evil, self-entitled, undiagnosed schizos who do condone treating another human like an insect – aren’t fabulous at their desk, construction, political, or sex jobs either.

I’m pretty sure you would STFU about how to treat a waiter if your own boss docked 20 – 95% of your pay based on their own perception (be it correct or seriously incorrect) of your performance …

ANYONE WHO THINKS TIPPING IS A DEBATABLE TOPIC, (including Denis Grosz and wisegeek.com,) has their head so far up their asses that it’s amazing they can even breath.

And that’s it for my rant. Fuck off.

Union Busting: A Very Good Question

March 10, 2011 in Clippings, Politico Opinion | No comments

Reposting from a commentator on the Yahoo news forum in relation to today’s black shroud that’s descended on Wisconsin … soon to taint the country:

Union Busting
by: The Patriot

It seems that bashing unions at the expense of union workers has become popular and the sport of politicians everywhere, all under the guise of ’saving taxpayer dollars.’ Yet if it’s truly about saving tax dollars and not merely strong arming union members and taking away their right to collective bargaining, then why hasn’t one politician at the federal, state, county or city level brought up the subject of reducing the salaries, benefits and pensions of all the politicians and appointed high level govt. positions? Some of these same Government leaders greatly contributed to the fiscal collapse we’re all facing, yet lazy and irresponsible voters have rewarded them by keeping them in office.

So what does a Governor, Congressman, Senator or State Senator, HUD Secretary, State Attorney General, District Atty, Tax Collector, Comptroller, Treasury Secretary, Judge, Obama Czar, Education Secretary, City Councilman, Sheriff or Property Appraiser earn, and how much of their pre-agreed upon wages and benefits are we going to be taking from each of them? What about the support staffs of the upper level politicians or how about the Dog Catcher, School Superintendant or Principals and others on taxpayer payrolls – how much do they make? And please tell me what justifies giving a Senator a pension for life after 4 years in office? Pensions which often include free medical care for life! And why are these pensions then passed onto their spouses upon the politicians deaths?

Also, no one has mentioned anything about going after the ‘non-union’ govt. salaries, benefits and pensions – which are very often based on what the union members have negotiated – and sometimes it’s even more – especially when they get to vote for their own raises. Attacking union bosses I suppose I can understand, because some of them act like gangsters on par with the crooked and inept politicians they’ve used union member dues to purchase. But attacking unions as it is being done is mostly hurting the union members and their families who are just trying to get by like everybody else. So if it’s really about saving taxpayer dollars and not merely a veiled attempt at busting unions for big businesses, then let’s go after all of these other groups mentioned here so we can really save taxpayer dollars – and since they’re so vocal on the idea of saving taxpayer money, let’s begin with the wealthy politicians bent on harming union families by cutting away at their negotiated paychecks, pensions and benefits.

The “Koch Whore” Deals You Some WTF’ery – Walker Style

February 24, 2011 in Politico Opinion, WTF?!, luLz | 2 comments

So if you missed the prank call of Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s office like I did till just now, then you’re in for an interesting listen. I also suspect Walker had a clue he wasn’t really talking to Koch somewhere towards the beginning because he was sticking more to talking points than an actual flowing conversation. Or maybe partisans really are thoughtlessly talking automatons.

Anyway, talking points aside I’ve learned more about mental retardation in the last 20 minutes then I ever cared to know in a life time. I mean, don’t get me wrong – I love to hate on Democrats as much as the next guy but professional Republicans really are a special breed.

There are soooo many things about this conversation that make me cringe. Mainly the fact that apparently these people are really THAT out of touch. I just figured they were all really good overpaid actors trucked in from Sherman Oaks, Beverly Hills and Bel Air. So other than what I mentioned above, I learned:

1. Walker and “his people” actually perceive people who make money to have more open minds than oh say… the ones who don’t make money? I didn’t know being rich made you more open to the world!!! When did that memo come out?!

2. Walker believes people who have the time to get out and protest are the very “unionized” kind of pricks who should get pink slips for skipping work to protest. Apparently all protesters are work ditching badies because clearly if you’re out protesting, then you’re not working. I’m wondering what his stance is on draft dodging ? I digress – no one should be allowed to not be working if all they’re going to do is spend their free time protesting! Protest? Utter non-sense. Fire those wage slave shills!

3. EVERYONE IS EQUAL!!!! You know? It’s logical to feel excusably justified in making everyone suffer equally. Just not the other way around, of course. If “Sally bus driver” is having hard times because of the original Republican/Libertarian fair economy crushing policies – then no one else should be doing well. OBVIOUSLY! So fuck you people who aren’t as affected by the last 10-years of the Fed in bed with Goldman Sachs/Enron! Right? I mean are you with me on this people!? Who do these average working assholes think they are?! Doing moderately better than the rest of us poor saps…. grumble, grumble, grumble … and so on.

4. Apparently Republicans refer to each other as “One of us.” Almost like it’s some really serious club for hair loss or impotency.

5. Air traffic control were bothersome symbols of communism. Air traffic safety and clean water. I mean really WTF is that other than a huge waste of money (over human life.)

6. Politicians really do hire fake protesters and agitators! I suspected that but it is now confirmed.

7. They really are in bed with big money jizz-buckets like Koch. Next time I’m calling Obama claiming to be Oprah. We’ll see how far I get.

and

8. They’re more right/correct than anyone else. Because they say so. I guess I knew that one.

Anyway – Give the calls a listen yourself. It’s beautiful, beautiful….

Rants: If You Spend $600 On A Bag, I’ll Kick Your Ass …

February 16, 2011 in CT's Instant Messenger, Consumer ism, Rants | 3 comments

P: well i found some really nice luggage
P: but its $$$
P: =/

CT: just go to target and get cheap shit
CT: thats what i did
CT: ;)

P: yea the bag i’m looking at is $180 on Amazon, marked down from $400

CT: damn even $180 is a chunk of change
CT: i mean
CT: it’s going to die as fast as any other luggage

P: in theory it won’t
P: travelpro is what crews use
P: almost exclusively
P: it’s supposed to be very durable
P: and well made

CT: well then
CT: if my cheap bag lasted 7 to 8 years
CT: in theory
CT: youll never have to buy another piece of luggage

P: hehe
P: yea
P: it’s at Macy’s for $400 so I guess I’ll go look at it tomorrow

CT: you’re not going to buy it for $400?!

P: no no
P: i’ll go look at it at macy’s
P: and if i want it, buy it on amzn

CT: i think i would have to sit on your feet
CT: u r forbidden to spend that kind of cash
CT: on luggage

P: this is what married life will be like
P: =P

CT: =)
CT: “ohhh nooo!!!”
CT: “tam’s making me save money”
CT: “ahhhhh!”
CT: but $400 is like wtf stab my face since you can get 8 years out of $30 target shit

P: yeah
P: $400 would still be a bargain for really high end luggage like tumi
P: it all retails for $600+
P: i looked at some of it at nordstrom rack
P: its nice stuff
P: but not $600 nice

CT: …
CT: who ever pays that kind of money for luggage is begging to have someone push them into a brick wall
CT: i would beat someone’s ass
CT: you know there are starving children in the u.s. right?
CT: you just spent $600 on a fucking bag
CT: while people are starving
CT: therefore you get my boot up your ass

P: hehe
P: its supposed to be very high quality and well made, but i dont know

CT: $600 = high quality? high quality at that price better mean when i ask for a martini and a scone that bag better grow some fucking legs and get to mixing and serving me as well as carry my clothes

P: hehe

CT: fer illz

Baby Boomer Boners

November 10, 2010 in Rants | 1 comment

Oh I’m sorry Bo(eh)ner … go ahead and finish your thought….

You were saying that the rich a-holes who lied to us about WMD, who are leading another less publicized Vietnam in Afghanistan, who collapsed fair standards in media to squash dissent, the people who sent all the jobs overseas & keep their billions in Swiss Bank Accounts & got us into the Goldman Sachs mimicking Enron sort of economic slaughter deserve a tax break?

By all means …

Seriously wtf Ohio … Baby Boomers? Howdy Doody is dead and no one cares.

It’s just the bee’s knees having the “white male with a 50’s sense of Manifest Destiny” mentality isn’t it?

Libertarians are the “New” Scientologists

October 27, 2010 in CT's Instant Messenger, Politico Opinion, Rants | 1 comment

CT: ugh
CT: all gov candidates here suck
CT: not any better than illinois i am sure
CT: fucking three batshit crazy libertarians
CT: one GOP zobie whore
CT: and one “Democrat”
CT: zombie*

F: go with the nutjobs

CT: they’re ALL nuts

F: no i mean the really crazy teabagger types

CT: haha ill go with the no women’s rights – no gay’s rights – no poverty rights – no health care – no budget for public education
CT: no nothing

F: i think of it like electing a crackhead
F: it should be amusing

CT: somewhere down the line someone forgot to explain to these assholes what Democracy is …
CT: fair rights for all
CT: nope
CT: they don’t get it AT ALL

F: i think if they get elected they will do something completely ridiculous
F: or say a bunch of stupid shit
F: thus discrediting themselves, their party, their party’s platform etc etc
F: it will also make life hell for the regular bureaucrats
F: right now they have it easy
F: they can just be anti-everything
F: and rabblerouse
F: but if they get elected and actually have to do anything
F: comedy gold!

CT: >_<

F: theyre more powerful on the outside i think
F: they can protest and hoot and holler

CT: they’re bat-shit crazy – like Kim Jong Iil – is what they are

CT: i love how this makes sense
CT: somehow in their brain
CT: Eliminate
b) Education (K-12)
CT: lol
CT: fer real!
CT: this shit is like
CT: blows my damn mind
F: they dont need no fancy book-learnin

CT: Eliminate
h) Welfare
CT: yep
CT: it’s easy to forget what subgroup of humans you’ve spent 400 years ass raping and forcing poverty down their throats
CT: only like what… 30 or so years after the fact
CT: no sense of social responsibility at all
CT: let me drive the proverbial car of society into a wall drunk and kill a shit ton of people in the process get out and walk home without thinking about it ever again
CT: libertarians are retarded

F: they like guns

CT: well fuck!

F: gotta give em that

CT: I like guns!

F: theyre alright with dope too

CT: haha they’re all right with everything the government hates
basically
CT: if you made breathing air something the government was pro choice on
CT: they’d be all like … “oh fuck no we don’t need to breath air! just because big fucking brother tells us too means it’s the worst thing possible for us!”
CT: the libertarian parties slogan should be: “We are the group of adults who never outgrew our teenage angst. Let’s smoke dope together and hate everything that stands for authority and law in the world maaaan.”
CT: and then Christine ODonnell would come out dressed in leaves and dirt playing a pagan tune on her recorder flute…
CT: and would caste spells of power on all of us
…

CT: you know the more i think about it – the Libertarians are starting to sound a lot like the Scientologists

Opportune Take What’s Not Yours Day!

July 4, 2010 in Politico Opinion, Rants | 1 comment

“History books teach that Indians were murderers — is it murder to fight in self-defense? Indians killed white men because white men took their lands, ruined their hunting grounds, burned their forests, destroyed their buffalo. White men penned our people on reservations, then took away the reservations. White men who rise to protect their property are called patriots — Indians who do the same are called murderers.”