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1. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I suspect Rat made him drop his keys as his once per decade service to humanity.

2. 3 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I know they mean the movie industry, and not actually the city of “Hollywood”, but it puts an image in my head of the city actually moving… in the dead of night… while nobody is watching.

3. 4 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Many of the people I know are named “Chris”. Heck, half the weddings I’ve attended since becoming an adult involved somebody named “Chris” or some variant.

4. 5 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   WOW! And I thought the guys in the F350s were compensating for something.

5. 7 months ago on Rubes

   It didn’t burn the vision chart. (That would have given away his secret ID) and he didn’t actually make it to the hair and nails part.

   Clark was rejected because of the vision test, though. His vision was so bad he got every letter on the chart wrong. (He accidentally read the chart from the next room due to his X-Ray Vision).

6. 7 months ago on Rubes

   Heat vision reflected off of a polished and highly reflective piece of the rocket that brought him to earth.

7. 8 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Many states do have higher minimum wages. Many don’t. I didn’t say “ALL” servers get only $2.13, but MANY still do. Just because there is less or even no injustice in one area doesn’t mean we shouldn’t put a stop to it where it does exist. $2.13 is ridiculous, especially when the people making that much have to pay some of part of their coworkers’ wages. The fact that a server in one state might be making $7.25 or even $15 base pay doesn’t negate the fact that others still make $2.13.

8. 8 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The prices have been raising for years, yet the servers have still been paid $2.13 for over thirty years. Additionally, for chains that have stores in areas where federal minimum is required and in states like Califorina, server minimum is higher, they’re still pretty much the same prices and they aren’t all going under.

   If your really want to talk “margins”, the beverage margins alone are enough to make a loan shark blush.

9. 8 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   These greedy leeches will do whatever they can to keep from having to pay for their employees and to make you do it instead.If you eat out and don’t want to tip, ask the server what they make and who they have to pay out to. Then calculate how much they’re paying to serve you.This crap doesn’t end because you don’t tip.It ends because you eat at places that value their employees enough to pay them.

   I’d like to end by saying that to solve these issues, the following should happen…-Service minimum should go back to being 50% of base minimum.(I also think base minimum should go up. We’re past the point of $15 being a reasonable living wage. It’s time to go up to $20 and permanently tie minimum to the cost of living)-Any business that pays any of their employees less than base minimum wage and/or makes said employees pay out (ie tip share) should be required to inform their customers of it in a reasonable way such as a poster in their main lobby or on the menu with a font size that is easy to read, being no smaller than the descriptions of the menu items. The information should include what wage tipped employees receive and what percentage they pay out to or receive from others.

10. 8 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

    These restaurants have lobbied for years to keep servers and other support staff underpaid, claiming that they’d “have to raise prices”. Meanwhile, the prices have gone up anyways, but most servers still make $2.13 and many still have to pay some of their coworkers’ wages. The prices at a chain restaurant in a state with federal minimum wage are the same as the prices in a place like California where Server minimum is same as everybody else’s. The BS about “We’ll have to raise our prices” is just a bunch of greedy jerks trying to convince everybody that it’ll hurt them (the public) and not themselves (the employer) if the employer has to pay their employees.

    Finally, one last note on my little rant….Most people have said fast food workers shouldn’t get tipped. I mostly agree, but only if the workers aren’t getting ripped off by “tipped minimum wage” and their base pay is decent, $15+. (Though they should still be allowed to accept tips if the customer chooses to offer. They should be fired if they solicit tips, but let the customer offer if they choose.)My first job in high school (mid 90s) was at a Sonic Drive-In. I started in the kitchen, (where I was mostly incompetent), but was eventually moved to carhop (where I excelled).By the time I left, I think I was being paid $5.15/hr with the minimum at $4.75. (Not 100% sure. it was almost 30 years ago, but I’m about 80% sure of it.)In addition to that, I got probably $25-40 per day in tips on weekdays, with $100+ on most Saturdays (though that was ALL day and the evening.)Now, Sonic has switched how they pay their servers to the $2.13.That means that a server working now gets less than half of what I did in the 90s.And to add injury to insult, they don’t even let you (the customer) tip on a credit card if you pay that way at the store. (You can if you use the cc on the app, but not if you use it at the store.)(Continued in one more…)