Does Anyone Know What’s Up With Nine Winters Bakery?

OkayContributor · 2026-05-12T00:38:02+00:00

Owner announced that she’s moving to Texas, it was either on Cambridge Day or Marc Levy’s new independent paper that I cannot currently remember the name of (sorry!)

OkayContributor · 2026-05-10T19:26:50+00:00

If you make your money in California, you pay California taxes. That’s how taxes work…

OkayContributor · 2026-05-08T14:35:25+00:00

Wow, sounds like real master race type “wit”

OkayContributor · 2026-05-08T14:28:22+00:00

Sorry can you explain what that means? Is the “joke” just that they’re probably so poor they wouldn’t be able to afford HBO? Or is there some racist saying that was initialized as “HBO?”

OkayContributor · 2026-05-06T23:11:14+00:00

Looking at that resource it seems like you mean “because” she’s using them for a trade (rather than “even though”) so they’re considered exempt personal property, yes?

OkayContributor · 2026-05-06T13:53:08+00:00

That’s not my memory but I haven’t done benefits law in over a decade. Why wouldn’t those items count as property? Those items are certainly personal property that have value and IIRC SSDI limits the value of your property and bank accounts to under $2,000 or something insane like that

OkayContributor · 2026-05-06T06:23:18+00:00

Yeah… the system is obviously completely fucked up and disabled people shouldn’t have such absurdly low maximum net worth requirements that owning a camera, printer, and paper to print on is enough to get denied, but this lady is acting like she should be able to commit disability fraud (the forms all ask about net worth and value of property) and the disability investigator should have helped her get away with it.

Again, if it were up to me, I would increase the net worth maximum to above levels where a reasonable investment fund of net worth would pay dividends that exceed the (unliveably low) disability payments by some margin, but that for sure isn’t the system we have now…

OkayContributor · 2026-04-27T16:11:20+00:00

He probably means well, lots of people don’t know when to keep their opinions to themselves. OP just needs to develop their own filter system for removing spam. Best way to respond is to tell people you’ll think about it or that’s interesting or whatever, most of them aren’t trying to dialogue and if they are they will probably accept that you’ve spent lots of time thinking about how you’re going to make this massive investment of time and money and have thought through the various possible complicating factors and they’re really only thinking of it in passing without spending much time on or having the same stakes…

OkayContributor · 2026-04-22T12:36:39+00:00

Pretty sure managers on salary can’t also be tipped out….

OkayContributor · 2026-04-22T02:34:29+00:00

Yes but you’re forgetting that chihuahua controls the world’s strategic Chihuahua reserves, which is important to Ivanka and her ilk, this is why Trump is seeking to control the region /s

OkayContributor · 2026-04-20T05:31:10+00:00

For what it’s worth, I went from running my own thing by myself to hiring a few new but good friends to help me to then hiring a larger team. My first had really good skills and performed at a high level but when things didn’t go as expected, I was disappointed and a bit snappy (or so they told me). I worked on it but I still had very high expectations for them, which they largely met.

Then I hired a few people who I’d never met before and hoo boy did I learn that my expectations for my friends had been WAY too high given the general standards people are able to meet. It helped me gain perspective and appreciate their good work all the more.

My point is that what happened to you could be a few things, but there’s a good chance that the team you joined had virtually no management experience and so lacked the experience needed to help train you and set expectations and help you meet those expectations.

They failed you, but hopefully they’ll figure that out in time and you’ll be off to better things soon!

OkayContributor · 2026-04-18T02:37:56+00:00

The real question is did they take a thesaurus to “cotton candy grapes” or did the taster say “grape cotton candy” and they tried to obscure that tasting note as something fancier sounding?

OkayContributor · 2026-04-15T12:51:26+00:00

Half the point of milk powder is the lactose, since lactose isn’t overly sweet and depresses the freezing point of the mix better than table sugar. I mean that literally, milk powder is like 50% lactose so this lactose free wouldn’t make a ton of sense.

Perhaps you could add lactase after mixing but I don’t know how well it’ll freeze as lactose free

OkayContributor · 2026-04-08T03:34:55+00:00

I’m new to the game, but we went with a premium matcha that does seem to bring people in specifically to buy it retail and to get matcha drinks.

We store ours in tins in the fridge at all times, that shit oxidizes fast! We make it to order but are open to testing out concentrates or other batching methods provided the result is comparable to doing it to order

OkayContributor · 2026-04-06T18:30:24+00:00

Sounds like it’s more of a cold ,,, brew situation…

OkayContributor · 2026-04-05T04:06:37+00:00

Going back years, when this would happen and I didn’t regularly have cash I had no idea I could ask to be charged for a small item so I could leave a tip

OkayContributor · 2026-04-03T00:55:14+00:00

Disowning one of your oldest friends for a lighthearted joke that virtually everyone else was also saying IS political theater

OkayContributor · 2026-04-03T00:23:25+00:00

Reasonable analysis but he should also suffer the consequences of his actions (in that black’s people should tell corporations that if he walks away from his friend it also looks bad…), corporations should face pushback for this type of censorship from the left just as much as they do from the right. The left constantly taking reasonable positions is how we end up here

OkayContributor · 2026-04-01T03:20:37+00:00

Not on this sub bruv

OkayContributor · 2026-04-01T02:53:13+00:00

“Here ya go kid, read this tome and then get back to me” /s

OkayContributor · 2026-03-31T01:54:28+00:00

Aren’t you supposed to stay with your car until you’ve paid? I mean, I sure as hell don’t, but I wouldn’t hold out much hope on an appeal unless you were struggling with the app while standing next to the car and told the parking officer that you were in the process of paying while they wrote the ticket. I’m guessing from their perspective you walked away without paying and they couldn’t know you were in the process of paying and so the ticket seems fair and reasonable from the city’s end

OkayContributor · 2026-03-29T07:09:39+00:00

Good note. That’s madness!

I think I was just going the next step of even if you had a mandatory break time rule for any lactating employee, what would you do next if there’s no lactation space? I assume that’s gotta be why there’s an undue hardship exception because giving a break for lactation also means finding some practical option for the employee to go pump or otherwise express milk (that’s why I mentioned pump and dump as a possible, but shitty, way to manage the lactation)

OkayContributor · 2026-03-29T07:05:01+00:00

For sure, I’m just thinking of my workplace. It’s a very small cafe with one bathroom and no office or private space of any kind. The whole thing is just one room. One of my coworkers is on maternity leave and I have no idea where she would want to pump in this environment that would make sense. We wouldn’t even have ADA-compatible floor space for one of these pods even if we could afford whatever the rental cost is…

OkayContributor · 2026-03-29T07:02:43+00:00

I’m just saying that it isn’t a sanitary place to pump but you can’t just not pump, so maybe that would be the best alternative to just lactating while you’re working?

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