man i don't get that

where do you live that you are afraid to WALK PAST PEOPLE ON THE STREET?  i've been in some hairy places and i've never had to cross the street out of fear.  what's more why do you even feel the need to specify what color the thugs are to begin with????  if you just said you'd cross the street to avoid some shady looking dudes in general it'd be alright i would've said man you live in a dangerous place if you're afraid of that type of shit and thought that you were maybe overreacting but w/e, but the fact that it is BLACK THUGS (the worst kind.......) implies that it is only black thugs and not all thuggish people, and is pretty ridiculous (also racist).

FACT: Black people can have sickle cell anemia and interracial breeding will allow other races to have it.

man the sheer amount of IM NOT RACIST BUT.... <UNAMBIGUOUSLY RACIST STATEMENT> posts in this topic is actually pretty surprising.  a lot of you guys sure do have dumb misconceptions!

Yeah I hold bias's towards different races, but only the ones i've had minimal contact with. Probably because I have nothing else to go by.

For instance all the Greeks that I know of will try to cheat me out of as much money as possible when it comes down to anything involving work and thay actually do have to pay for it. If I offer any labor for free they'll take it up in an instant. So this has caused me to think that all if not most Greeks are penny pinchers.

I think the Chinese are worse, where they'll ask for a service that requires tons of money then they refuse to pay you, because they technically don't have to in Canada and they have a list of different phone numbers just incase they are refused service by one of them. The Vietnamese will pay if you are atleast friends with them or know them, and the Japanese will try and talk the price down like no tomorrow.

Unfortunently my bias towards these groups have not been proven wrong as of yet, which only strengthens the notion a bit.

li
uhhhhh..........

i'm hoping you realize that waiters and waitresses have a totally different minimum wage law in most states and usually make like $2.50-$3.00 an hour????????? It's a whopping $3.90 in Arizona!

yeah, waiters and waitresses may not have the most DIRTY JOB when compared to dishwashers and what not , but depending on how busy a restaurant is, they often really have to sweat to earn their measly change. If you've ever read Nickel and Dimed you'd see how difficult it is in most states to make a living on a job as a waiter/waitress

Other than the fact that the minimum wage laws also say that if they don't make the difference up in tips, the employer has to, so at worst they will be making 6.15/hr

girlbones you are dumb.  if the restaurant is dead and servers are standing around they also aren't making money while the people in the back standing around (bussers, food runners, line cooks, dishwashers) get paid an actual wage regardless of whether or not the restaurant is busy.  yes, they make more money, but you don't really have a good perspective of things because it sounds like you've never actually served!  no job is difficult in a restaurant, and i admit line cooks and dishwashers have SHITTIER jobs, but they're easier, too.  i've been on a line and in a dish tank; it's a way easier job!  dishwashers wash dishes and nothing else, bussers bus, runners run food, hostesses WALK TEN FEET AND BACK, and line cooks just take orders and make food.  none of this is challenging or really requires any thought whatsoever!  a server has to interact with people, know restaurant shit, be affable, monitor like 5 tables of people who WANT shit, and manage his time effectively or else he will suck at his job!!!  it requires a pretty good deal of organization to have like 5+ 4-tops at once and not get weeded as fuck (hehehe industry term.....).

w/e man i'm not saying it's hard because it sort of is at first and then not really, but it requires a lot more than basically any other job in a restaurant that is not management or bartending, so just because you don't slave over a hot grill doesn't mean it's an easier or less stressful job, because it's actually the complete opposite, if only because you get held accountable for much more than anyone else.  i think it's more CHALLENGING than other grosser jobs so imo the fact that i make like 25-30/hr on a good night is alright, not only because the job actually requires some degree of thought and organization, but also because it's much more inconsistent without a high normal wage and there are slow times when i only make like 10/hr so it balances out i think.