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We’re situated geographically between the US (which is no longer a country we can consider as allies) and Russia, and we have 20% of the world’s surface freshwater (7% of the world’s renewable water flow)
In the upcoming times of global instability and climate crisis, Canada’s definitely gonna be seeing some action.
What does it say about me that from this comment, I immediately assumed I’d find you attractive??
The current regime in the States has shown that the US doesn’t have rights or separation of powers like the US thought it did.
I really don’t understand calling people one dislikes “cocksuckers”. I personally love anyone who sucks cock. They’re doing good in this world, unlike Cory Booker.
It’s also kinda homophobic, eh?
bike lanes piss me off
Agreed! Most bike lanes end up being nothing more than a painted bicycle gutter.
What we truly need is dedicated cycle paths adjacent to busy roads, and low-traffic, low-speed streets in commercial or residential areas where cyclists and pedestrians are prioritized over car traffic (see the Dutch city-planning concept of autoluw)
Like, why is a plumber qualified to teach typing?
They’ll let anyone teach typing. Heck, I was personally taught by Garfield!
Put it in your cupholder and drink it at home??
Insane that you’re getting downvoted for this. I feel like alcohol abuse is so normalised in a lot of places. This really shouldn’t be a controversial comment.
I find it interesting to hear 5% ABV beer being described as “premium”. Here (Canada) it’s basically the standard for every macrobrew lager, or around 4% for their light varieties. More high-end, craft beers will vary between 3% and 10% depending on the type of beer.
I’d love for the place I work at to be an employee-owned co-op or something but those aren’t really a thing around here, and sadly I’m not rich enough to start a business and open one myself.
Also, could you please cut back on the snarkiness a bit? It doesn’t really make for pleasant conversation.
I’m not arguing for my employer to pay me less. I’m just saying I like the fact I make more money when I have to work more.
On a slow day, I’m basically chilling with my coworkers and my customers (both of who I do actually enjoy spending time with). On a busy day, I can be running around making food, drinks, cleaning, without even having a thought for myself or a second to relax and breathe for stretches of like 5 hours straight.
My wage before tips is fair to the amount of work I do if no one comes in. I would not be satisfied with my untipped wage on a day where we serve 80+ people an hour.
Obviously, I wouldn’t complain if we eliminated tips and made the minimum wage close to what I make with tips on a busy day. That’s not what I think would happen, though. Realistically, under the current economic system, most restaurants could not afford to pay their employees that much. Which is why I said in my original comment that we’d need some sort of change to the labour economy before I’d be willing to give up my tips (such as UBI).
I want to share my perspective on this as someone who works for tips.
I don’t like tips in theory, but I’d be below the poverty line without tips so I really appreciate them. I also enjoy that they act as a mechanism to adjust my wage to the work I’m actually doing; I produce much more value as an employee on a busy day than when it’s dead, and without tips I’d make the same amount despite working much more.
I think realistically, unless we also massively adjust how the labour economy works, eliminating tipping would make profits higher for owners and make service industry workers poorer.
Like I’d gladly trade my tips for universal basic income, I would not trade my tips for poverty wages.
Make it a soy vanilla latte and you got a three-bean* soup going on.
*If you ignore that coffee “beans” are actually seeds and that most cafés use articial vanilla-flavouring.
I’m curious, what attracted you to the Conservatives prior to the Maple-MAGA movement?
If you think bacon on ice cream is weird enough to cancel an order, I can only imagine you’ve never worked a customer service job.