If the ruling stands, I have no idea how they’re going to figure out how to pay those tips back. Many people who this ruling applies to probably don’t work there anymore - myself included. How will they track us all down, and besides that, how will they know how much each person is owed? As I remember it, splitting the tips was a mostly informal affair, and I’m not sure how well, if at all, they were tracked officially. Plus, I actually think that the shifts deserve a cut of the tips. They know everything that a regular barista knows, they work just as hard, and in addition to the regular barista duties, they deal with all the issues that come up during the day - clogged toilet? Tell the shift. Irate customer? Tell the shift, that’s why they get paid a few dollars more per hour. But I’m not the only Starbucks-y person here (Issac, I’m looking at you), so what do you guys think?
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Being an Internet celebrity is one thing, but what I wouldn’t give to reach a level of fame where the paparazzi isn’t paying much attention to my personal life, but a liquor company like Absolut Vodka would pay me to make a commercial for their website any way I wanted to, just so long as the sacred law of product placement was not broken. That’s the position Zach Grocksterlophogous… Zach Galavantashishkabob… Zach Galifianakis, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have evidently attained.
Nice hair, Zach.
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The gradual decline of America’s economy has taken a terrible toll. Jobs have been lost, lives have been ruined, and worst of all, the price of pizza and beer has risen. Up until this point, many of us could quietly reassure ourselves that everything is going to be okay. Recession was something that happens to other people, not you and me. Can we really keep lying to ourselves now that the price of happy juice is skyrocketing?
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There’s a restaurant out in Tokyo, Japan unlike any themed restaurant you or I have ever seen. Especially since it’s aimed at women otakus (fans of anime and manga, both casual and business types) who have a penchant for young boys and homo-erotic comics (also known as yaoi.)
Edelstein Boarding School may sound official, but it’s actually just a cafe. Likely one of many soon to follow in the role playing-themed restaurants and cafes made specifically for women. Complete with bishōnen waiters dressed in school uniforms and the host disguised as a headmistress with ephebophilia, and the potential to border on both the obscene and adorable.
Finally a place I can go to not only eat kappa rolls and chicken teriyaki but also shamelessly ogle the supple young flesh of my servers. Er… did I say that out loud?
Luckily, there’s a lot more to the purpose and idea of the cafe other than to just help women get their jollies off. If you read the article carefully, you’ll see that it’s also one of Japan’s ways of helping people escape social pressures of conformity and well-mannered behaviour - an encouragement of escapism, if you will.
But don’t let all this psychological and socio-economic jibber jabber stop you from enjoying a hot coffee or warm tea in the company of your own yielding school boy. It’s all about entertainment and comfort, after all!
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