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Greeman: Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
Blog Post, May, 25 2011
Richard Greeman
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After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of a brutal government crackdown against the democratic movement in Morocco, with violent police attacks on demonstrators in fourteen cities during the monthly national mobilisati...
Weber: Re: Sore Feet, Latin Honors, Coffee Stains and Martinis
Forum Post, May, 04 2011
Mark Weber
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You never REALLY know someone until you see how they treat the janitors in the buildings where they work.
Weber: Re: Re: respect and tipping
Forum Post, May, 04 2011
Mark Weber
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I believe waiters and waitresses are even taxed on some minimum presumed tip rate. In any event, however you and "Mr. Pink" may feel about tipping, your grievance, it seems to me, is with those "service" industries and/or...
Riegel: Re: Re: respect and tipping
Forum Post, May, 02 2011
Magdalena Riegel
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First, not to sound blunt, but sir, it is obvious you have never worked in the restaurant industry. So therefore your complete lack of understanding is totally warranted. Secondly, you say that a “15% surcharge” is too much for ...
Lyne: Re: respect and tipping
Forum Post, May, 02 2011
Steve Lyne
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I agree that of course everyone is owed basic respect (at least until they show they don't deserve it), and wait staff (like people in most lines of work) deserve basic respect as much as anyone else. Obviously. I sy...
patterson: Very touching article
Forum Post, April, 28 2011
george patterson
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Dear Magdalena: Your article - even essay - was quite touching to say the least. The fundamental issue is that people whether they are waitresses, waiters, taxi drivers, students, teachers , professors, lawyers, clints, medical...
patterson: Very touching article
Forum Post, April, 28 2011
george patterson
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Dear Magdalena: Your article - even essay - was quite touching to say the least. The fundamental issue is that people whether they are waitresses, waiters, taxi drivers, students, teachers , professors, lawyers, clints, medical...
Morris: Re: Thanks for the Post
Forum Post, April, 28 2011
Leticia Morris
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think I might have forgotten that non-corporate restaurants existed outside of my dreams, and surely, I await the day when, we, waiters and waitresses can reclaim our dignity and install signs (and alb...
Dorsey: Re: Re: getting even
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Michael Dorsey
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You're confusing funny and sick. Customers abusing and taking advantage of the position of waiters, waitresses, and other people who provide hands on human services is sick. Watching them drink your piss is funny. Like I said...
Shepherd: Re: Re: Re: Great article, but....
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Lester Shepherd
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I'm very sorry! I must have done a dyslexia on you. I completely agree with you. I read your comment backwards. This is happening more and more to me as time passes on. I am completely embarrassed...
Riegel: Re: Understand
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Magdalena Riegel
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Hi David I understand your aversion to simple to those phrases of "hard work" and how they have held the working class captive under a glass ceiling. I'm not one of those typical American dream believers, "pull-yourself-up-by-y...
Riegel: Re: I Agree, But...
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Magdalena Riegel
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My apologies Terry. I was speaking from my own personal experience of how waitressing made me feel. I don't literally think of those in the restaurant industry AS just above prostitution, however, sometimes (and some might agree) it does feel ...
Dorsey: Re: Thanks for the Post
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Michael Dorsey
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good point, "get out" works well in a family run restaurant-bar also. It's much easier to be a human person than a corporate thing in that situation.
Burrows: Thanks for the Post
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Paul Burrows
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Thanks for the post on your experiences as a waitress. As someone who spent 6 years working in a restaurant, I know exactly what you're referring to. However, I wonder if much of the problem has to do with the corporate / chain n...
Andrews: Re: Re: Great article, but....
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
John Andrews
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Sorry, Lester, I'm baffled. Magdalena wrote: We are the backbone of society and without us, you might just have to get your hands dirty. I agree completely. But in my experience, those who 'operate on the higher plane' and are s...
Shepherd: Hard Work always gets you somewhere?
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Lester Shepherd
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I do not agree with your statement. And, I would add, I have always maintained that a ditch digger deserves the same or more pay than a Doctor. The digger works far harder than a student with the innate talent and aptitude to be a doct...
Shepherd: Re: Great article, but....
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Lester Shepherd
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You would make a great Dictator that America can believe in. A staunch believer in the arrogant Puritan Republican free market bull.
Shepherd: Re: getting even
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Lester Shepherd
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Lord have mercy. What a sicko. You have a complex my friend.
Bussell: At the mercy of...
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Dennis Bussell
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...the 'tip-based' remuneration system peculiar to the USA way of life that spawns much of the trouble that bedevils its people. The notion of a 'fair's days pay for a fair's day work' for ALL A...
Everton: I Agree, But...
Forum Post, April, 26 2011
Terry Everton
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You make some valid observations. As a veteran of more than twenty years of restaurant work - serving, bartending, managing - in shithole breakfast joints to white tablecloth pretense - I can wholeheartedly say without "reservation"...
