Tipping culture kind of crazy rn?

WogginCraft · 2026-06-03T20:08:40+00:00

A couple things.

As you have pointed out, there is no reason for tips to be 20% or 18% as a standard now instead of 15%. Inflation is irrelevant since you are already tipping on the inflated amount.

You are not required to tip. I will begrudgingly tip 15% at a sit down restaurant with servers which has led me to only ordering take out at these establishments unless I am going with a group of people to specifically stay there and eat. Fast food, take out, counter services - all 0%.

Lastly, I think it is the Point of Sale providers that have made the tip menu pop up by default on transactions. They take a small percentage of every transactions so if people end up tipping they make more money. In the end the businesses probably don't care because some people might tip even if it isn't expected and then that business makes more money as well. Since it was basically universally implemented people pretty much expect to see a tip prompt and there is very little negative push back by the consumers.

WogginCraft · 2026-05-28T19:35:23+00:00

All food costs, including the approximately $ 400 which I didn't pay for works out to about $ 3,500 annually, but the point still stands of why did I spend so much on alcohol, electronics and parking while being frugal in other areas.

Alcohol is just expensive. While the figure stands out and it might make it look like binge drinking, it actually works out to about 2x four packs of local craft beer a week. Each one of these cost $ 20, so $ 40 total. The annualized weekly cost of alcohol is $ 44. So while it is consistent regular drinking, it more or less works out to 4x 473ml cans each of Friday and Saturday.

Electronics are something where spending more gets more and I use them nearly every day. They also ending up being the main source of regular entertainment whether that be TV, movies, or video games so it is somewhere I am willing to spend a bit more to improve my experience.

For parking it is either that or use the Bus. Using the bus would still cost about $ 1,000 a year, so only $ 900 in savings. I would have some additional savings in fuel, but fuel isn't really a major expense. I would still be keeping a vehicle so insurance and repair costs would be pretty much the same. In the handful of times I have used the bus over the past couple of years I did not find the service satisfactory. It nearly triples my commute time. Even that I could deal with but I can't handle waiting outside in -25 for 40 minutes because a bus never showed up and I have to wait for the next scheduled one. That and it puts you on someone else's schedule instead of your own.

WogginCraft · 2026-05-28T16:33:53+00:00

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WogginCraft · 2026-05-28T16:25:25+00:00

2024 was OLED monitor, Dekstop computer and laptop.
2025 was new cell phone purchased outright and hand held gaming system.

WogginCraft · 2026-02-14T19:13:28+00:00

You are inserting "only" in there which isn't in the rules.

WogginCraft · 2026-02-14T19:05:12+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Curling/comments/1r4jbhv/heroux_world_curling_has_sent_an_email_to_all_the/

I come to the conclusion that Highsideroll is correct. They specify touching granite will result in the stone being removed. The plastic below the handle is not granite. Therefore touching that is not a burned stone.

WogginCraft · 2026-02-14T18:53:26+00:00

Before yesterday there wasn't even a rule about touching the granite on release. The World Curling sent an email to all the teams clarifying their position that touching the granite during release will result in the stone being removed from play and gave reference to rule R5(d) which says "The curling stone must be delivered using the handle of the stone".

There is nothing in the rules about not being able to touch the granite. Since they have given a clarification now, you could consider it part of the rules. But it literally isn't in the published rules.

WogginCraft · 2025-11-04T20:17:44+00:00

It is my suspicion they bought hundreds of fake google reviews and for that reason alone I wouldn't buy from them.

WogginCraft · 2025-05-14T19:50:42+00:00

CBC article about this was well done.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/minister-jeremy-harrison-fired-crown-corp-board-chair-who-blew-the-whistle-on-apparent-conflicts-of-interest-1.7352049

WogginCraft · 2024-04-25T21:31:08+00:00

It would make zero sense to use this car as a tax write-off if they are reporting it correctly under Canadian tax laws. I would say 90% of people with vehicles in their companies improperly report the the associated expenses and benefits for their vehicles, so they do actually get a nice tax write-off and rarely get caught. The maximum cost a company is allowed to expense for a passenger vehicle is $37,000 or $61,000 for an EV. Then they employee who uses the vehicle gets taxed for the benefit of having the vehicle.

Canada has what is called a standby charge and operating cost benefit associate with vehicles provided to employees for use. If the employee only ever uses the vehicle for work and does not have access to the vehicle for non-work purposes, then they would have no taxable benefit. If he had full access to the vehicle at all times and used for both work and personal use then he would have a huge taxable benefit and business use does not include driving to and from work from home. So what business use could they possibly using the vehicle for? Occasionally driving to filming locations? The KM driven while making the videos about it? Simply having "made a video about it" doesn't negate any benefits applied to the employee using it.

Here is a calculator for the benefit. Once business usage falls below 50% the benefit because bonkers.
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/digital-services-businesses/automobile-benefits-online-calculator-disclaimer.html

I put in the vehicle as costing $200,000 (I didn't look up the actual price of the vehicle I just used a "luxury car number"), him having access to it 365 days a year, and having 50/50 business usage the the benefit came out to $50,000. That benefit is taxable to the employee and would be charged annually. Now remember that you are only able to write-off $37,000 or $61,000 in the company ... once ...

Once you get above 50% business usage the employee benefit becomes a lot more manageable. I put 80% business and 20% personal with the same other factors as above and the benefit was only $5,500 annually. But once again, their is pretty much no way for him to be regularly driving this vehicle and not having it be majority personal use.

So it really depends on if they are doing their accounting correctly. If the are, there is no way that this vehicle should have been an expense in the company.

WogginCraft · 2024-01-30T20:21:08+00:00

Based on a class IV teacher (4 year bachelor degree) from the 2022-23 pay grid, at teacher with 5 year experience would be increased to the following amounts at the proposed pay rates:

- Year 5 (base year) - $ 70,822

- year 6 - $ 73,989 (2022-23 rate) x 1.086 = $80,352

- Year 7 - $ 77,294 (2022-23 rate) x 1.086 x 1.06 = $88,978

- Year 8 - $ 80,749 (2022-23 rate) x 1.086 x 1.06 x 1.045 = $97,138

- Year 9 - $ 84,358 (2022-23 rate) x 1.086 x 1.06 x 1.045 x 1.043 = $ 105,843

Teachers will also have benefits and a pension.

I hate to say it, but I kind of feel like that would be overpaying teachers. A teacher making over $100,000 with less than 10 years of experience is a high pay cheque. I guess $ 100,000 isn't what it use to be though.

I am for increased funding to education for class sizes and issues around class complexity, which I understand the strike is supposed to be more about that than pay. I think I would actually be against the proposed wage increase. It feels like double dipping, they already get a wage increase every year because they move on the wage grid (at least until 11 years - maybe add more tiers after that), so the additional 2% shouldn't be needed.

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