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hyperskate65 posted...

Yeah I've seen a handful. I always stare, but not enough to let the driver know cause I don't want them to feel special.

oh really you make a point not to do that because of that reason? really have not heard that one before.

It has come to light that after california's recent law saying that the minimum wage for all fast food workers would be at least 20 bucks per hour now, that there was a provision excluding restaurants that were mostly bread restaurants...etc.. like panera bread and turned out a big contributor to newsom's campaigns owns almost 40 panera breads in calif. and they would not be subject to the 20 buck an hr minimum wage law. Iirc newsom's camp has not officially denied the allegations. But any of you know if retailers like walmart are subject to this new 20 buck an hr law, or think they should be?

Blbmbr666 posted...

I was just looking on Autotempest and yep you can.

Corvette market falling down finally. You could get a C7 Z51 for under $40k now, there is no reason to get a Nissan Z.

are you a huge corvette fan? but you can't get a new c8 though for the same money as a new Z, i don't believe? iirc the huge performance advantage in the 90s to the rx7 and Z and supra are mostly gone now. The new supra etc....are not great performance bargains. What happened?

Blbmbr666 posted...

The Z looks great but the problem is for the money you can get so much more value from many places.

NISMO being auto only is kind of a joke, since from all the reviews I've watched that has the suspension setup the base model really should have had.

You can't get a base c8 yet for z, money can you?

ArsGoetia posted...

its also super inaccurate, idk why
every time ive had my credit pulled, credit karma showed me something like 30-50 pts lower than the lender
when i went and bought my car i had just taken out a new card at lowes and was worried i had fallen out of excellent rating
when the dealer ran my credit it had me over 800 but credit karma showed 745 lol

do you find free credit report. com to be accurate? free cr .rep. does not show a credit score though

the one that came out like a few yrs ago as a remake of the popular 90s zx. Nissan must not be very happy with its sales , they are like as rare as ferraris. See a bunch of the remakes of the toyota supra. Wonder why the supra remake would be much more desirable.

FolkenRawr posted...

Never. Credit Karma.

credit karma is free? Maybe many more people use the other site. It is more heavily advertized and stuff

free credit report.com? Iirc you can request 1 free one each yr from each of the major 3. Idk possibly less people might be doing this than yrs ago

Shotgunnova posted...

SC&O 4 Lyfe

it prob easily sells more than original too. Any of you don't like any pringles?

iirc it used to be cheaper before right? Comparing similar tiers, obv.

NoxObscuras posted...

I'd say Little Caesars gets you the most bang for your buck still. Their classic pizzas are $6.49 and their lunch combo is $5.99

Taco Bell has the build your own cravings box for $5.99 that's a great deal, but it's the only thing that comes close to cheap pizza for calories per dollar

seems like taco bell actually might be the most popular place among younger guys esp. wonder why

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's 1 million just to buy the rights and then you have to pay for the land which if you want it in a prime location in a city could run you well over another million.

Edit: oh and they can also just take it all away from you if they feel like you're not following their instructions.

yeah reportedly it is not even close to being a good moneymaking venture if you have a lot of money, possibly it was in the past.

ArsGoetia posted...

dunno, that still takes the bottleneck out of the drive thru tho
my cousin owns a bunch of sonic drive thrus and i took a job as GM at one when i had to close my bar due to COVID lockdowns
the way their app orders worked, they went straight to the kitchen order screens, front of house only saw them as they moved up the queue

He owns a bunch of sonics? He must be a multi millionaire then . I heard that like MCd's franchise owners, corporate wants a big cut

Glob posted...

This was event catering. I used to do the silver service tents at Goodwood and Ascot and places like that. A few times a year, but you could easily make over a thousand pounds per day in tips. Most people would earn 800-1200. On the occasion in question, I took just over 5k home with me.

Did they try to fire you though after you refused? You thought they were totally wrong?

ArsGoetia posted...

apps are nothing but a win for fast food companies tbh

they dont have to pay someone to take your order
can serve a higher volume of customers because theyre not being bottlenecked by how fast a customer is verbally ordering and how fast the taker can send it to the kitchen
and can delay or rush it as they see fit through the order tracker

don't a large number of people use the app but do not place their order online. Go up to register and they scan the code on your phone

Tyranthraxus posted...

Depends on how you want to stretch fast food. I believe on a pound for pound basis little Caesars is the cheapest. $5.55 for a cheese or pepperoni hot n ready.

the hot n ready went up a lot by me. Iirc LC price rose the most among pizza places

Glob posted...

It depends on what the normal policy is.

If they share all tips, its fine.

However, I did once work somewhere where we kept all our own tips, and once when I had a particularly high earning day, it was suddenly suggested that we should pool our tips. That wasnt going to happen.

Either you go into the shift knowing that you will share tips, or you dont share them.

this was a restaurant? i kinda side with you. Did they want to fire you after you said no?

mercurydude posted...

Seems like the customer is creating a problem here by saying that in the first place.

That said, if you're the customer in this situation and the other workers just mean nothing to you for whatever reason, you could bypass this by dropping it under the table and claiming you saw it fall out of her pocket before you hand it to her.

You'll know what happened and she'll know what happened, but so long as you stick to your story, those other folks can't lay any claim to that money because it was always hers.

Had a guy do this to me when I worked at the grocery store... we weren't supposed to accept tips and I told him this and then he insisted, saying he saw it fall out of my pocket and he just stuck the money in my shirt pocket.

but his tip was like less than 5 bucks right? no big deal

ArsGoetia posted...

mcdonalds using the app has by far the best deals (not saying anything about the quality tho)
wendys and BK also have pretty good app deals

taco bell has the app exclusive boxes that are a pretty decent deal, but they dont do much (any?) BOGO or price reduction deal stuff

ummm arbys has decent deals on their app.
subway is hit or miss depending on whether your franchise honors corporate deals or not (BOGO footlongs, etc)

dominos has the best pizza deals through the app of the major chains

through wendys app last night, I got a daves double with bacon (i think comparable to a double quarter pounder, but idk), a classic chicken sandwich, a large fry, a 4 PC nugget and a large drink for $8

wonder why fast food really wants to use apps though. Many older people who loved paper coupons must not be happy.

TheOtherMike posted...

Depends on whether the restaurant has a tipout/tip sharing policy or not.

yeah i guess so, if it is stated on some board or something that that's their policy. Do you think the policy itself is wrong?

Glob posted...

Whats the cost of a meal at Taco Bell? We dont have them here.

idk like 7 bucks?

LeoRavus posted...

If it's a cash tip she can just stuff it in her shoe or something.

yeah she should tell no one. Have had this happen. You tell someone you thought were your friend and then they tell on you.

willythemailboy posted...

I plead the Fifth, for the same reason I don't say exactly which city I live in or which university I went to. There are some users here who have explicitly said they would like to doxx me if given the chance.

yeah i kinda understand you. In real life have told some people before some stuff, like a potential friend, and they then used it against me. Have seen it on this site. They use it to harm you...etc... Pretty awful. But not sure they could dox you though if you told what retail chain it was though, but i do kinda understand...etc...

willythemailboy posted...

I wasn't there for the every manager fired on the spot incident, just that the store manager who was in charge of the Lowes it happened at was hired as as our store manager after being fired from Lowes. Given his performance at our store, I'd say the Lowes mass firing was probably justified. Last I heard he had left retail management entirely as was working part time as a substitute teacher.

With the current crop of managers at our store, I'd say a mass firing of every member of management who hasn't been with the company for at least five years (meaning predating that district manager) would be entirely justified and probably long overdue. There might be one or two worthwhile people caught up in that but for the most part the best I can say about them is they're a waste of headcount and the majority are actively detrimental to everyone around them.

The manager who died was in his mid 50s but overweight and obviously heavily stressed.

what retail chain is this? your store management stuff sounds extremely bad

willythemailboy posted...

Similar. The district manager was knows for exclusively hiring Walmart management failures so it's slowly becoming a Walmart clone. It will take years to reverse the trend if they ever can, since the Walmart dregs tend to scapegoat the preexisting management whenever things go wrong.

Edit: The prior store manager was hired from Lowes where something similar happened. The district manager walked into the store and fired every single manager on the spot. Prior to him was the guy that worked 17 consecutive 12+ hour days during Covid and dropped dead.

isn't that kinda unusual , fired every single manager on the spot? You agreed with it though? That's some story about that what happened to that guy 17 consecutive days , he was kinda old right?

willythemailboy posted...

Absolutely. The store manager here is running the place into the ground, and the district manager that hired him was fired on the spot when a company VP visited and saw the state of the store. Unfortunately the store manager was "too new" in the position to get the same treatment. That was 8 months ago and the place is still getting worse.

is this a walmart or something?

.... like terrible attitude or maybe incompetent and most of the managers below them thought he was pretty terrible etc... and many of the non managers wanted him gone but none of you had the authority to get rid of him? Has this ever happened at your work?

lydiaquayle posted...

It's a Bronx medical school, dude.

bronx medical school, that makes it extremely difficult though?

Glob posted...

A medical school wouldnt be my first choice, but yes, if I was a billionaire I would give the vast majority of it away.

what would be your first choice though? Iirc most of the billionaires have declined to sign gates' giving pledge, much less than half iirc

ROBANN_88 posted...

And only 100 million of that is gonna go to the football team, 300 million to the shareholders, 400 million to the CEOs christmas bonus, and oops, they're out of money

isn't this only supposed to go to medical students? this school has a football team? But many of the huge football schools say no taxpayer money is ever used for football team. that it pays for itself.

dollars to a nyc medical school? or it was probably his widow iirc, Now medical students there will not have to pay tuition. might have been the largest donation to any college ever. Any of you think hypothetically you would do the same?

have you ever

Shamino posted...

Cash.

Target was terrible about everything return related though. I remember my friend telling me they returned their NES and got a new boxed system, even though they only brought in the deck. I didn't believe him at the time but...
Years later I worked at Target and saw the return policy in action and...
Many many years later I read a book that laid out how Nintendo flat out told Target they weren't allowed to let people return systems years after release, and charge it back to Nintendo. Nintendo wanted this done so people couldn't flip a NES for a SNES and leave Nintendo with the bill instead of Target. Target protested and was told they wouldn't get to sell Nintendos anymore. It took arm twisting, but Nintendo finally got Target to see sanity and not be so flippant about returns.

On a funny note, we used to get carts full of go backs (stuff to put. back on the shelf and sell) that all matched, like full bathroom and bedroom sets. And the first thing I'd think was "Well, that wedding had issues"

They had no receipt , how'd they get cash? You still work there?

Shamino posted...

I know for a fact that people used to buy stuff at Frys (Kroger and maybe soon to be Albertsons) and return it at Target and pocket the difference.
Heck, we had someone try to return a weed eater, I took one look at it, called the front lanes and said "we don't even have this model." followed by "It's used"
At some point Target realized they were losing tons of money cause they finally changed the policy.

They got store credit or cash? Prob they might not want it if it were cash

Trumble posted...

Not quite, but there's a duty manager at my current store who - although he'll later put it down to "I just wanted to get rid of them" or something like that - is notorious for giving difficult customers their way. To the point he once outright ordered a staff member to sell restricted products to someone we knew was buying them for a person we'd refused (we can legally make such a sale if it's tobacco as long as the person who ultimately makes the purchase is of legal age, but not if it's alcohol (unless the substitute buyer is the declined person's parent) or scratchcards (regardless of relationship) - this case was scratchcards).

you work at like a big box retailer right now, like walmart, you like it? I think i saw your topic on ask the mods about a thread that was deleted, what happened there?

harley2280 posted...

Yes in both the positive and negative manner. One of my favorite managers used to say, the customer is always right about what their issue, but not the resolution.

what does this mean, the customer really was always right about their issue?

what field were these jobs in you were thinking about that paid pretty well though

some customer service some retail, what kind of jobs are these?

Smackems posted...

None that you'll get right out of the gate with no experience no

how about the ones with experience though?

Smackems posted...

I can think of a shit ton

I'm a medical scribe. No degree. Speak maybe 30 words a day, to one person. Pay ain't great but I work at home

can you think of many of them where the pay is pretty good?

Glob posted...

I dont work in customer service.

Stuff like hospital admin often doesnt require degrees up to a certain pay grade. I used to work for the NHS years ago and anything band 5 or below on the pay scale wouldnt normally require a degree.

uk hospitals require degrees at upper levels? Bad that even the upper levels say you must have a degree

Glob posted...

Plenty of admin roles. Construction.

what kind of admin roles? i might look into this. Do you also hate working in customer service?

Glob posted...

Often? No, I wouldnt go that far. Sometimes? Yeah.

Im not from Vietnam originally. I moved here in 2022. But yes, the people here are mostly very nice.

you were from uk right? really, most in vietnam are much nicer than uk, you been to u.s. too right, what do you think of most americans?

..but you also don't have a degree? Can you think of any?

VampireCoyote posted...

yep and idk, it is just life for me now

how do you shower, like get your mail, and stuff like that?

VampireCoyote posted...

still homeless but much higher level

so you still live out of you car? how do you do that for like a yr? it has been like a yr, unsure

R_Jackal posted...

Yep, but they specified that the rule was to avoid confrontation. Basically us to placate and lie to angry customers to get them to calm down..

Fucking amazing manager she was.

oh you thought she was a great manager? How about, do you think that most of the customers were pretty good, over half? have heard this debated before, this subject

Glob posted...

Ive never had that, no.

I did have a boss once in hospitality who has the mantra that the customer is often a dick.

sadly he may be right. Did you agree with him? You are from vietnam right, i believe i remember you. Mostly nicer people over there...etc...?