Don't forget to tip your f***ing waitress: Thursday night edition.

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Thursday June 26, 2008 · 11:42 PM PDT

2008/06/26 · 23:42

It's ten minutes until close and I'm up in the lobby texting my babysitter. I haven't had a table in half an hour, and all the sidework's done. I'd be home in fifteen.

But oh no, the door opens and in swagger two women in their early forties, dressed scantily in poorly ironed silk for the self-importance they're trying to exude, claiming matter-of-factly and loudly, "we called, the kitchen's open till ten, correct?"

I give the hostess a death stare and march into the back to tie my apron back on.

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Tuesday June 24, 2008 · 11:37 PM PDT

2008/06/24 · 23:37

UPDATE: Holy overpriced ribeye! I can't believe the outpouring of comment and sympathy. It's good to know there are people out there who understand tip and server minimum wage policies (even if it seems sometimes like no one who I wait on does!). I'm working lunch today and I've got to walk out of here in 20 mins. The sitter isn't here yet and I've got to clean up myself and my two year-old before going in. When I get back, I'll be commenting.

After the comments started coming in last night, I can't tell you people how much better I felt. Maybe DKos would allow a "Tip Your F***ing Waitress Daily." I promise you, it'd be outrageous if I relayed the day-to-day. I DO have a Master's degree in creative writing...(tip your fucking waitress because she's got student loan debt up the wazoo!)

The following is a rant which in no way helps the election of any democratic candidate. But, dear Kossacks, it's 2:30AM EST on a Wednesday, and I'm hoping some of you are on a wait-staff somewhere, home from an awful shift and cursing at the same twinkle star out the window.

Poll

28 votes Show Results

For subpar service, I will tip, at a minimum...

28 votes Vote Now!

For subpar service, I will tip, at a minimum...

20%

4 votes

15%

8 votes

The coin change in my pocket.

1 vote

Whatever rounds out the nearest dollar.

2 votes

A quarter out of spite.

2 votes

Depends, I'll tell you in the comments!

5 votes

More than 20% because I've got it to spare anyway.

1 vote

More than 20% because I am or was a waiter/waitress/worker for tips, and you've literally got to drop a knife on my foot and incite massive bleeding, and even then, I know you're still working for tips!

5 votes

Open Letter to Dunkin Donuts

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 8:42 AM PDT

2008/05/29 · 08:42

Dear Dunkin,

Because you've decided, or so it seems, to dictate your ad policies for a puny bevy of right wing idiots, you've lost the business of this left-winger.

It amuses me no end to think that you've possibly lost more patrons from the left wing in this recent attempt to save face with the right. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, depending on which polls you've seen, but....come close, I'll whisper it to you. Shhhhhhh... Republicans are the minority now... The only two places where they reign are in the soon to be democratic White House, and on Fox News. I guess if your TV is consistently tuned to Fox, like yours appears to have been, you might get the sense that Republicans are in charge of shit around here. Not so much.

Poll

116 votes Show Results

Who is worse?

116 votes Vote Now!

Who is worse?

Michelle Malkin

68 votes

Dunkin Donuts

22 votes

Rachel Ray's sinister giggle

5 votes

The Latte

4 votes

"EVOO"

17 votes

Do not eat at this restaurant. UPDATED.

jwestfield

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Monday May 26, 2008 · 10:56 AM PDT

2008/05/26 · 10:56

I just finished a Master's degree in poetry, and last week, had to run out and get a restaurant job to tide me over money-wise until something field-related comes up. I'm 25 and I'm a single mother, with a two year old daughter, and my student loan money was/is gone. I have years of previous restaurant experience ranging from knowledge of fine wines, sakes, sushi, seafood joints, corporate chains, you name it.

I live in Tallahassee. If anyone you know lives here, or if you do, I'm hoping they or you will not be patron to this restaurant.

I'm also hoping someone can tell me if there's any worthwhile legal recourse I can take after experiencing what I just went through.

I'm highlighting the most relevant parts, legally. Thanks in advance for reading this.

jwestfield

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 11:26 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 11:26

So much happened on the national scene yesterday, a huge news day. McCain proposed a withdrawl-- er, "victory"...timetable of five more years in Iraq, to counter his previous "as long as it takes" policy. President Chimpzilla ran his mouth in Israel (at one point in an attempt to disparage the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee), only to send Senator Joe Biden into a philippic on the senate floor. Chris Matthews laid a fat smackdown on a rethug sock puppet that was a true thing of beauty on Hardball.

jwestfield

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 6:28 PM PDT

2008/05/15 · 18:28

jwestfield

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Saturday May 10, 2008 · 11:33 AM PDT

2008/05/10 · 11:33

"Down in the manhole with Barney" is an expression my ex-husband invented after coming out of an every other weekender with our daughter. I'm in the middle of one now. It's a four day one-on-one stint with our near two year old, no assistance.

At her age, I'm a slave to her whims (all 384/hr), one of which is that Barney MUST be on at all times when we're in the house. We could be back in my bedroom jumping on the bed with the Baby Mozart blaring, and she'd hear the "I Love You" ending song (I'm pretty sure it'll be playing during the apocalypse), and would stop whatever she was doing and run out there to demand the DVD be restarted. "Bah-eey! nnnnBah-eey!"

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21 votes Show Results

"The Economy" is:...

21 votes Vote Now!

"The Economy" is:...

an unknowable conglomerate of scientific forces.

0 votes

an elitist puppet disguised as hard science.

4 votes

where I'm putting my $600 tax "rebate."

0 votes

a contestant on "American Idol."

0 votes

controlled by no group of persons.

0 votes

pissing me off constantly and breaking my back slowly.

11 votes

now a mess I feel I'm responsible for making.

0 votes

now a mess I feel I'm responsible for cleaning up.

1 vote

an evil lord in the final "Harry Potter" installment.

4 votes

my best friend.

1 vote

Liveblog NAACP Dinner/ Wright (replay)

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Sunday April 27, 2008 · 6:09 PM PDT

2008/04/27 · 18:09

It's on CNN now. I missed the live speech.

Anyone game?

Rev. Wendell Anthony is about to introduce Wright. I'm dying to hear him speak because I haven't been able to see the Moyers interview yet.

Rev. Anthony is fired up, and I'm already excited!

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128 votes Show Results

Based on this speech by Reverend Doctor Wright, he is...

128 votes Vote Now!

Based on this speech by Reverend Doctor Wright, he is...

going to hurt Obama's campaign.

17 votes

appears off point.

4 votes

Has no place as a Reverend to preach politics.

1 vote

an inspiration.

45 votes

a powerful speaker.

55 votes

anything close to what the pundits have made him out to be.

2 votes

I'm still on the fence.

4 votes

Lame Duck, Dead Goose

jwestfield

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 2:08 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 14:08

I used to work at a restaurant in downtown St. Petersburg, FL called the Ovo Cafe. It's been closed now for years.

Servers always complain that waiting tables is the last legal form of slavery-- a hyperbole no doubt-- because American wait-staffers are directly responsible for the amount of money they procure for their service, and some patrons exploit that mercilessly to save a buck. It's a double-edged sword. There are others to whom you can do no wrong. I once tripped and dumped an iced tea all over a customer and the guy laughed about it, allowed me to help him clean up, and still tipped twenty percent. You can imagine how that might have gone with another kind of patron.

During my time, there were actually three Ovo Cafe locations, ours in St. Pete and one each in Ybor City and Sarasota. They were owned by a couple from Tampa, Ron and Marcie. Because they had three restaurants spread out over 60 or so miles, they were hardly around, but when they were, it was a nightmare.

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Friday April 25, 2008 · 1:37 PM PDT

2008/04/25 · 13:37

I only know how bad a depressive episode has been when I emerge from it.

In the last two months, I receded into a physcial cave setting-- one of almost full sensory deprivation, social isolation, self-hatred, writer's block, and a bitter anti-establishment attitude to justify it all.

jwestfield

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Thursday April 10, 2008 · 2:12 PM PDT

2008/04/10 · 14:12

Forgive if this was blogged when the movie was released in theaters. It came out on DVD this week.

I just finished watching "Lions for Lambs," and I'm feeling one part swindled and two parts dumbstruck.

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Wednesday April 09, 2008 · 4:27 PM PDT

2008/04/09 · 16:27

[This goes hand-in-hand with SusanG's current open thread commentary on Ehrenreich's suggestion that we should blame companies and individuals instead of "the economy" for our financial woes. If you want to know who is looting our standard of living and how, read Naomi Klein's book.]

I'm almost done with The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, and it is one of the most important books I've ever read. You will literally sit there with your jaw on the floor for hours. It is absolutely as Anthony Shadid suggests, "nothing short of a new paradigm for understanding politics."

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Don't forget to tip your f***ing waitress. [UPDATED: w/Poll]

Open Letter to Dunkin Donuts

Do not eat at this restaurant. UPDATED.

We're In This Together

Déjà vu.

Down in the Manhole with Barney (w/ Poll)

Liveblog NAACP Dinner/ Wright (replay)

Lame Duck, Dead Goose

Depression and the Politics of Difference

"Lions for Lambs" Neocon Propaganda?

Read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine.