Author: Olivia

Do you tip a server the same percentage who works at an expensive restaurant as you do workers at a cheaper restaurant or carryout? Say your table of four at one place has a $64 tab, but at a nicer place you have a $220 tab. You spent an hour eating at each. Is your tip still 15 to 20 percent in both cases? So about $10 at the cheap place but $35 to $45 at the other?

After applying constantly for jobs to get out of the shitstorm I'm in, I land an interview at a chiropractor place close to me. Or so I thought. Guy sends me a fucking 31 minute mandatory assessment to do beforehand. I'm an awful test taker and those “assessments” are just a waste of time. I'd rather not move forward if im just gonna be shot down anyway from a fucking “test.” Feeling really annoyed right now.

My checks have never been bigger.

I’m 18, I work in retail and a couple of weeks ago I almost got stabbed. Long story short, a deranged man came into my shop after stabbing people in other shops. He came in with two knifes and began running around erratically in the shop, he cornered me and tried to stab me but luckily I didn’t get stabbed. My manager sent me home that day, as I was visibly shaken and couldn’t stop having panic attacks. After it happened, not once did anyone check up on me to see how I was doing. In fact, it was brushed off and my coworkers were making snide comments about it. The company have done nothing to help my well-being at all, I genuinely can’t leave my house without feeling nauseous anymore. It’s making me rethink my job.

Raising prices is a choice, nobody is making these executives choose to raise prices. The “invisible guiding hand” of the market isn't real. They're bullshitting us with their smug and cynical conceptions of “free trade.” Freedom to them means freedom to exploit us without external intervention.