NOLAVOL16

This is the stupidest shite imaginable. If this actually succeeds then EVERYTHING will cost more.

I can’t tell you the last time I ordered a steak at a nice restaurant. It’s just too expensive for something I can do as good or better at home on my grill v

If ordered at the same time, $1.

If ordered separately, $1 each.

For people who say I’m cheap, that’s the equivalent to about $100 an hour for time they spend pouring 2 beers.

Yes, we are fed up with it in general and specifically the proliferation of it into places it doesn’t belong. Buy a $15 beer at a game, screen asks for a tip for the stadium person to hand it to you. WTF? It’s a constant barrage of what amounts to panhandling.

Restaurants love tipping because it pushes their cost of labor directly to the customer. Servers LOVE tipping because they make WAY more than they would on a straight wage.

None of this has ever made any sense. Percentage of the cost of a meal is a truly insane way of determining server pay. If I order iced tea for $3 and get it refilled 4 times, the server makes less than if I ordered a beer for $7 and they walk it to me once. If a buddy and I share a table, he orders a steak and I order a burger, why does the server get paid twice as much to bring him his plate? Why would I pay someone $20 to pop the cork on a nice bottle of wine I order off the menu?

All of this is just asinine and it’s becoming much more noticeable as the price of everything increases AND rhe “standard” percentage keeps getting pushed up.

Brake tags in Nola are for suckers.

I use Waze and cruise at 9 over which usually means there is at least one car passing me every few miles and running blocker for me in case Waze misses Barney.

My biggest gripe about speed limits are that in many if not most cases they are set for political reasons rather than safety. Having 30mph limits on 4 lane divided roads through towns is just a revenue opportunity. Rural interstates are designed for speeds well above the posted limit. Out west you can see 5 miles in all directions. There should be no speed limit in such places. Going 40 in an active school zone though should get your license pulled.

The problem with that is that most places would soon collapse if they were run by your typical McDonalds worker. There would be no profit to share.

The working class has massive amounts of power if they ever get fed up enough. Minimum wage workers could cripple places like NYC simply by moving someplace they could make the same money with 25% the cost of living.

Just come up with some other plausible story for why you left. Two years isn’t a ridiculously short stint

That said, there is a severe lack of accounting talent out there due to a couple decades of those types of people shifting to tech, so you’ll probably land somewhere reasonably quickly. Horrible market for white collar workers right now though.

I can guarantee that almost nobody is going to use a buyers agent and pay for it themselves. Completely useless expense