Agreed. I had more empathy for tipping workers at self-service / carryout settings during the height of the pandemic (which is not over BTW). Now… Given that management has programmed these registers I find myself grudgingly tipping since I have to wonder if management has started paying them even more inadequately in anticipation of tipping.

I have somewhat magically decided I tip 10% at these things as there is no real guidance anymore. 20% for table service. Delivery… 15-20%?

Of course someone will come along saying to tip 0% to hold the line and force fair wages. I have some understanding of that argument too.

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This is definitely an after-COVID thing. Pick hours and stick to them. Case-in-point – local Pho noodle place that advertises closing at 10pm, usually closes by 9pm, but they really want you to come by 8:30pm to pick-up your carryout.

If you are tired – post new hours. If you found new meaning in life – post new hours. If you are having trouble finding staff – post new hours.

Instead, I have to play this guessing game of when they close. My wife gets home at 9:30pm, so I’d rather not be picking up at 8:30pm (or being called back to please rush over to grab the food fast).

This is but one example. It’s getting to the point when – anytime I need to log into an account on a major site – I must disable VPN, disable Pihole and tracking blockers, and maybe make sure I’m on a home Internet service. If they actually cared about security, the 2FA and long passwords would be enough.

Got told “thank you for your service” AGAIN today. I think maybe Disney employees are under command of The Mouse to say it.

HousePanther – That is very nice of you. I’m game to give this a (slow) go given I’m working 50+ hours per week as a psychotherapist.

Already on my radar – an rss feed to lemmy community posting robot (name is at home and can’t find it right now – it is on GitHub).

Anything that takes emails or rss feeds and converts them to Mastodon or Lemmy posts.

Anything that lets me run my own telehealth 2-way video server. I’ll have to sign a HIPAA BAA (medical privacy) agreement with vendors and server farms. Or run it at home.

Well sure, Teft – you are not wrong. But let’s say I’m working 10 hours per day to live in this capitalist system (I am), and need to outsource shopping. There are only so many mom and pop shops I can get delivery from, and only so much time I want to spend going to the store myself.

I’m mostly not lazy – I’m stressed in other ways.

If you take a contract out on yourself, then I disagree – the shooter should be pre-tipped.

Infyrin – I get this. In fact, this tipping supply drivers thing is new for the USA. They are not Uber Eats.

I just have low expectations that Sam’s Club will give two shits if their drivers start quitting. At least for a few years.

In the meantime, I’m partially infuriated by Sam’s Club setting it up this way so I have to guess if their drivers are paid.

In Maryland – a few decades ago – yes, full service pumps did come with the expectation of tipping the gas station attendant.

Extremely infuriating: When the crappy built-in Android screen capture software will only capture gifs as movies, the built-in editing software saves the newly one-frame file in a different directory without comment, then Jerboa throws an error code when you try to upload and edit the original post. Then – after emailing the edited gif to your laptop and attempting to fix the original post from web browser, Lemmy throws an error of “{“data”:{“msg”:“Unsupported image format”,“files”:null},“state”:“success”}”. Yes – the “unsupported” image is a one frame no-longer-a-movie gif.

The file will be staying a movie. I’m out of time to deal with it. It’s only one second long anyway.

They should put some chess whiz and almond milk in there too.

I do wonder how many people would go to Rite Aid for milk?

Thanks – it does become funny for me as more time passes. Not so funny was the year Comcast signal was too weak to operate for 10 days over the Christmas holiday.

I have a long and special history with Comcast. My city has given them the sole monopoly cable contact. So – I believe – they are obligated to provide me service. The distance from pole to house is too long. No less than 3 service people have come out and said they have to put in a thicker cable like those used on the telephone poles. Nope – the work order always disappears. Of course, they have to pretend they will eventually do something, because – city monopoly.

Used a signal booster for a long time and that helped (I had to buy it) except at holidays when everyone was home. Then more people in the area got service – dropping the signal.

After some years, T-Mobile 5G moved in and I happily dumped Comcast (monopoly only applies to cable).

There is more, but you get the idea.

Never give Comcast a monopoly on service. Even had me considering satellite Internet in the middle of the city at one point!

My wife has a 14-yr-old cat that she refers to as “my old man baby”. The cat’s mannerisms and age fit the name. That said, the phrase weirdly straddles a few categories in this discussion.

While piped.video is truly useful, eventually the bot repetition will yuck my yum.