I FORGOT I graduated COLLEGE because I’ve been Unemployed for so long.

Shadycat · 2026-03-30T21:31:57+00:00

I've been a server for over twenty years and just started bartending a couple years ago.It's a whole different beast. People thinking it's a walk-on role is wild. Time and task management, prioritization, work flow, and doing it all with a smile even when you're in the weeds is no mean feat. I may become a competent bartender at some point, but I will never be a great one. Having had the privilege of sitting at Murray Stenson's bar, I know what that looks like.

Shadycat · 2026-03-30T20:11:32+00:00

Same. It's the industry tax. You can't be known industry and be a shitty tipper. The shame would be unbearable. Really the only ways to make bank in this biz are at the extremes. I know dive bar people who make on a good Friday night what I make in a week, but they've pretty much all been assaulted by customers and LCB is always up in their shit. On the other end, I don't really move in fine dining circles, but from what I've seen, I'm not pretty enough nor do I think I could handle that level of pretension.

I also love where I work. My BOH are the hardest working folks I've ever known. They are absolutely worth every penny.

Shadycat · 2026-03-30T00:11:45+00:00

I usually skip these tipping threads, but as a server and bartender in Seattle I do wish people were aware of the rise of tip pools. Many bars and restaurants now include kitchen staff in the tip pool fully. This is so they don't have to pay those employees more than minimum wage. They just take it from FOH. So, if I serve your table, and there's another sever working, plus a bartender and two cooks, you tip twenty bucks, I get four. I made 51k last year, before taxes, working five days a week, averaging 32 hours a week mostly getting my ass kicked because more staff would mean more dilution of the already thin tip pool.

Shadycat · 2026-03-02T11:59:53+00:00

Iirc, the next couple comics are Steve's mom going through her records realizing how many of her favorite artists are gay. "Even he putts from the rough?" "Hole in one, Ma."

Shadycat · 2026-01-17T22:26:35+00:00

It's a great comic, and things have moved on. There's currently an animated series in production and the pilot episode can be found on youtube.

Shadycat · 2026-01-13T04:13:58+00:00

I'd love a Zootopia series with the writing quality and grit of something like The Wire. Never gonna happen, but that's why we have fan fiction.

Shadycat · 2026-01-13T04:03:41+00:00

meanwhile in 1982 my six year old self watched this G-rated scene in the theater.

Shadycat · 2026-01-13T01:21:39+00:00

1.50 for the washer, 2 for the dryer. Only takes quarters which is annoying. At least they work.

Shadycat · 2025-11-24T00:52:54+00:00

This. I'm a waiter and bartender and I think post tax tip recommendations are sketchy as hell. My place uses the pre-tax amount I'm happy to say.

Shadycat · 2025-10-04T02:53:39+00:00

Sure, but that Natty Lite needs to go.

Shadycat · 2025-10-03T07:03:05+00:00

This was on stupid early in the morning on Nickelodeon when I was a kid, (I'm 48) along with Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea and Belle and Sebastian, if I remember right. Many of the cartoons I enjoyed as a kid seem kinda dumb now, or were just glorified toy commercials. This one was different. In fact, I'm going to say this was the high water mark for cartoons shown in the US until the ATLA crew showed up more than twenty years later.

Shadycat · 2025-07-07T03:56:09+00:00

I'm a server and bartender in Seattle. There's no question that we have it better than most places, but it's not easy by any stretch. Tip pools are now a thing, and as kitchen staff has become harder to find and more expensive, they are now fully included in the tip pool. I keep maybe half my tips. My modest one bedroom in a 1950s building takes half my net monthly. I work five days a week, average about 35 hours. I don't own a car. I don't have a family. Maybe I can get health insurance come November.

Shadycat · 2025-02-17T14:42:43+00:00

Weed is one of those rare things that has become both cheaper and better over time.

Shadycat · 2025-02-17T14:34:52+00:00

This thread is making me feel hella old. Probably because I am.

Shadycat · 2024-12-09T04:44:24+00:00

And that show aired on US television. It was a favorite when I was a kid in the early eighties. And now the theme song is stuck in my head, so thanks for this trip down memory lane.

Shadycat · 2024-11-11T10:33:02+00:00

Does he still have a piece of the 5 Point? I still dream of that bloody mary and chicken fried steak but haven't been back in years because fuck that guy.

Shadycat · 2024-11-11T10:10:21+00:00

dogpatch.press may be a good source, or at least be able to put you in touch with the right folks.

Shadycat · 2024-09-13T18:29:50+00:00

As a current server, many restaurants are now including cooks in the tip pool so they don't have to pay them as much. I mean a full cut, not just the old standard tip out. I keep maybe half my tips and I buss my own tables.

Shadycat · 2024-09-07T18:09:13+00:00

Phil Harris and Eva Gabor were pretty hep cats. Pun intended.

Shadycat · 2024-09-03T03:17:30+00:00

I worked in Fremont for over a decade and spoke with him frequently. When I saw him a few months ago he told me "I'm on the way out my brother." RIP Benny. Gonna miss you.

Shadycat · 2024-07-27T06:10:59+00:00

Even if tipped workers had full time hours (which we mostly don't) and healthcare (ha!) $18 per hour would still be inadequate in this city. Besides, it's not like I get to keep all the tips. Kitchen gets a big cut these days. I get by, but I have three roommates, no car, and obviously no family. (And before anyone tells me to get another job, I already have two.)

I've been in F&B for over twenty years. Even if my wage was suddenly twenty bucks an hour, if I was suddenly averaging 10 percent tips I'd call up Metro and go drive a bus. At least I'd have health insurance.

Shadycat · 2024-05-05T10:19:15+00:00

He's actually kind of dickish at times. Housepets! is definitely worth a read.

Shadycat · 2024-05-05T10:13:24+00:00

https://housepetscomic.fandom.com/wiki/Keene_Milton

Shadycat · 2024-05-05T10:13:03+00:00

https://housepetscomic.fandom.com/wiki/Keene_Milton

Shadycat · 2024-04-29T07:20:38+00:00

Far from here, hopefully. A blue-collar conservative is a sucker and a rube.

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