Not sure who this is, but john fetterman died of a major stroke a while back.

Every (get this thing away from me!) life is precious!

It means that you are not in control of any of it. You can’t impact any of it meaningfully as a single force, at least in real time. People used to watch a “news hour” once a day. You could artificially recreate that, and then detatch for the other 23 hours using self control, muted phone notifications and browser filter extensions. And maybe your brain will thank you.

Of course you could have a separate rule for local alerts that may be more relevant, but local news is dying unfortunately, soo… You could probably just check in once a week to see how the surviving local paper verbatim reprints favorable press releases from the city’s PR person that they retain from the local municipal consultant group with a forgettable acronym.

But if you really think about it, only the first two words describe the problem perfectly

IME, servers generally feel pretty firmly entitled to those high wages collectively at the end of the day, they live pretty well outside of work compared to BOH and it’s typically less serious work for them as it’s more likely to be a “stop” rather than a career (which is more likely for a kitchen worker).

Nothing stops them from having a personal policy to split tips out the kitchen 20-50% and/or organizing other servers and petitioning management for a formal process. I’ve seen some that do, but very rare.

It’s a hierarchy like anything else - the owners are doing wage theft at scale and collecting way more profit than they should, the servers are collecting tips as the final mile face representing a lot of people in back literally navigating knives, fire and very heavy lifting. On balance, they get more than they should (when I was in kitchens, the servers routinely cleared 3 - 4x more annually than the cooks - talking mid 30s for kitchen versus over 100k for servers all told). And the cooks are just working, sacrificing their bodies and personal relationships until their knees give out at 35 and the weaker ones are addicts to cope with it all.

We just live in a culture in the US where the predominant voices you hear are the public (customers) and servers themselves. The servers have selfish motivations and the public have an inherent guilt for making others “serve” them and for being half educated on the server’s “perilous plight”. And again, cooks are quieter in the mix by nature and busy working, so you don’t really hear their voice.

So yes , the system is fucked, needs major reform, owner class is the driver, but the servers are in the passenger seat silently enjoying the ride. The cooks are in the trunk, with a speaker playing an audiobook about how difficult things are for the servers.

None of them ever asked for a tip? There will be a “just a quick question” on the next screen though.

That’s not the point. Point is two fold; first, we shouldn’t normalize closing the wage gap that shitty business owners choose to create, their vacation home is built from wage theft. Second, the other laborers in the first photo also get paid shit wages relatively, especially the chefs who do infinitely harder work and don’t get a split of those tips in most situations. And to be frank, wait staff is often traditionally filled with more attractive people than the bridge trolls in back of house, and that’s a big part of why they clear so much in tips. I’ve known many servers who clear more than double the average cooks pay at the end of the year. That’s not equitable.

So the tension is well founded and much more nuanced than you know or want to acknowledge.

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She called him “the undertaker” because of his liking for dark, sombre suits.

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Internet trust is about stacking positive signals until you take a calculated risk to a degree. You providing context of your own history and trust, while not definitive, would have been a great push in the right direction, as you are on Lemmy. Which again, is not full qualification by any means, but says a lot about your general technical competency, analytical thinking and likely stronger relationship with reason compared to the general population.

So just try to give a little beyond a link is all.

Qualifying the author prior to blind posting a link is the point. YouTube is full of misinformation landmines and, as I mentioned, you already mentioned one source that would obviously have a conflict here.

If you were not happy at two million, you won’t be happy at one trillion or ten trillion. Broken fucking nazi needs to stop paying confused women to have kids and go away. Get in your bunker and time lock the door for 40 years to “own da libz”

Then those would then be short term contractors (common practice and ghoulish tactic to deny full time benefits to full time workers) who have pre-negotiated finite contract terms that end and do not renew. Those people wouldn’t be layoffs.

But these are hundreds/thousands of actual human beings that committed their full labor to this company and likely disrupted their families lives somehow to do that (moving, accepting new vehicle commutes, kids changing schools/daycare, time/safety risk of company travel, etc).

This is not an acceptable way to treat humans. There is no valid business justification beyond incompetence/mismanagement, narcissism and outright cruelty for sport. The C-Suite and boards of directors are genuinely a mental illness. Their complete lack of empathy should be a major area of study.

The point was who is the source of the youtube video first, otherwise you would be attempting passthrough credibility by proxy for whatever their bias may be in presentation of your cited sources, but further from that, you’re giving nothing on if the orgs you list themselves are credible. Are they lobbying groups? Landing pages hosting outright purchased white papers from corporations directly?

And thew you go, first link I clicked on from your listed sources is an EV charging network - I.E. a group that does not profit from more self contained, regenerative hybrids on the road. That’s context worth having.

Until you can do the above for the channel and all of your cited sources, this is simply a wall of text hoping to abuse the basic appeal to perceived authority most of us hold as humans. 4 of 5 dentists agree.

AI excuse has faded already, what will you claim now to whitewash layoffs, CEO?

Don’t post random YouTube videos without defending the source, if you think is valid. “Independent organizations” blah

Yes, because the wealthiest people in the world concern themselves with a potential return equivalent of your pocket change.

The investment, the game, is having a say and a new dollhouse to play with. Because the ghouls are bored.

To the bigger focus of the post, not paying above $18k for the stripped down tin can. Many differences, but Mexico’s go kart is targeting about $8k. Slate can do much better.

Opposite… The call is coming from INSIDE the business!

This is the tone of your response…

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This guys bible is computer!!!