O.m.g. I died laughing
Omg I love you twinnie <3

I can understand your reasons, Asami. I am job hunting and attending university. on top of that, the job place wants me to volunteer. :/

Sad to see someone I have known leave but there's still FB. I don't check it often but once in a blue moon, I am on.

Yea Chloe. I met you back when I was a freshman in highschool. That's so long ago... Sad to say we have really talked these past few years but still..

I wish you luck on your job hunt

Is true, Hermes is one of the seniorest of seniors. Hermes probably remembers when we could see how much Au and runes everyone had right under their avatar. xD

@Lucid - I do! I also remember when we entered the item contest thinger jigger, and your cyber suit thing won, right?

Oh yeah, that was a thing. We've had different variants of cyber suits made throughout the years, so even though it's not exactly like the one I drew I'm pleased with it.

I remember when you made the harem outfit =P I remember the other friend, including her username. I remember everyone

....Why are we swatting people with canes?

http://awesomegifs.com/wp-content/up...dead-horse.gif

Because something like this.

Why....are we beating dead horses...

Can't answer that one.

Beating a horse because it was the donkey's day off?

Because that's what my Bop-It cane told me to do.
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...ldx4zBkPD9EOaQ

So who are we bopping?

Yes, it's hard to believe we have known each other that long and I think due to real life, me moving overseas and a new time zone was one of the many of the reasons why we didn't speak much. I always seemed to miss people cause everyone would be active while I was in bed. I rarely speak to many from the old sites anymore, people worrying about college, finding jobs, having families, etc.. It really makes it harder to keep in touch and when you do, it's like... omg, this isn't the same person anymore.. what do I say..

I am kind of dreading going back in a year time and meeting up with two of my friends from school cause I know it will be like, is this is the same person I went to school with? Probably be odd at first cause it's been a few years since I chatted face to face with them due to both living 20 - 30 mins away from me and one didn't have her own car so we couldn't arrange much cause I didn't have license.. I had a car.. lol.. that was one thing my parents made sure of.. I was paying for Mom's old car since the escort was written off..

and I guess I never updated you much either.. we lost my grandmother in November last year than my sister passed away in December.. I get a little emotional over it.. especially since they both shared the same birthday, so it's a double whammy for me when June 20th rolls around... Other than that, getting job interviews but just not finding the right job yet.

*Lurks around* Hmm...to join or not to join the "beating a dead horse" craze, that is the question.

Nah, you don't need to join, that'd just be beating a dead horse.

Everyone, Coda! He'll be here all week folks.

Thank you, thank you very much. Tip your waitress! Try the veal!

Always tip your waitress, their bosses are allowed to count expected tips as part of their wages for living =T

And tip them directly. If you just leave it on the table, someone will steal it, or it goes into a pool, gets divvied up, and taxed right back to the state, they never see any of it.

Just a little insight on tipping from someone who works in a job where he gets tips!

Seriously?
Not like that over here.

....I'm not sure whether to be angry about this.

Espy, you should applaud.

Kagu, it's how it is here, but most people get around it.

That's majorly sucky.

It can be, but the places I've worked, people are usually really cool about it.

That's good at least

Aye, 'tis. Man where is everyone? I remember when a thread like this would have ten pages in a few hours, tops...

I know...
Where did everyone disappear to?

If you tried pocketing your tips like that anywhere I've lived, you could get in a lot of trouble. It's illegal at a federal level; you HAVE to pay taxes on the tips. >.>;

I know over here there is a tip pot in places, but you aren't taxed on them

We have that here, but I do believe you're supposed to pay taxes on them. I do put them down, because I don't care enough and I like not breaking the law, but it doesn't always happen.

That's true.
I knew of a place here where the management would take a % of the tips meant for the waiting staff for themselves.

If you're not taxed on the dollar value of the tips I would imagine you're being taxed on an estimated average tip value. (I wouldn't be surprised if this is common, it's probably easier on the management...) Tips are income and the IRS is cranky about these things. You're SUPPOSED to track your tips and file the total with your employer.

It... would also be a reason to get cranky about lousy tippers, because you'd be getting taxed for an average tip out of a crummy tip. Someone not tipping at all would be a direct negative to your actual salary.

Edit: And having other people take a portion of your tips... I can understand doing that for splitting the tips with the cook staff, since they don't interact with the customers directly, but management shouldn't need it. :/

Where I work CURRENTLY, we have the filing our tips thing. I used to work somewhere with implied tips. You know what our implied tips were? $100 a month. Do you think I made that much in tips? Hell. No. Almost nobody tips anymore unless it's like a nice place or a diner.

You know what really bugs me? Places that automatically add an 18% gratuity to the check.

That's not a tip anymore. :/ The whole point of a tip is to provide feedback to the wait staff. Being forced to pay it is essentially just a quiet way of raising your menu's prices by 18% without making your food look expensive.

Edit: And on that note... when did recommended tipping amounts change from 15% to 18%, anyway?

I usually tip well when I eat out

I tip well, too, unless the service is bad (which generally means "negligent waiter"; I don't blame the wait staff for things outside of their control, like the behavior of other patrons, or a special order being ever-so-slightly wrong). Then, of course, I don't tip well. That's the point of a tip.

Edit: But I DO still tip. A low tip sends a lot better signal than no tip at all; no tip at all just makes you look like a cheapskate, not someone who was dissatisfied with the service.

I tip well for good service, I tip an average for average service, and I will leave a quarter and a note (a nice one with advice) for bad service. If the person is just having a shite day and I can tell? They get an average tip and a nice note. I've worked so much customer service that I get that.

The best tip I ever gave was $20. She gave me the most exemplary, non-sexualized service I have ever gotten. And did this consistently with every customer she helped. And I dropped a $20 in her hand and told her to keep it.