One of our local restaurants is run by friends , with no restaurant experience. I have learned many ways to say things like " please make sure the people pouring water do not let the pitcher touch the glass" or even "unless the service is more consistent, I can not wholeheartedly recommend this place to friends". I am also unreservedly generous when things go well -- with specific things like -- all our dishes come out together" .
This habit, now continues to other restaurants. I've never had any one get publicly upset with us.
And my tipping is generous - except if the service is surly or neglectful.
I can think of 2 occasions when I revenge tipped, penny each, with venom: one, our wait-not took our order and that was it. We had to got get our our drinks and saw the order come up from the kitchen and had to retrieve it ourselves after a good while because he was too busy socializing. We told him and the manager at the same time. Two, fucked up my simple order, didn't bring out the reorder for forever, then when I went to pay with credit, didn't return my card. When I went to retrieve it, discovered he'd charged us for the order and reorder AND gave himself a 50% tip. Oh the hells no. Manager again, wait-idiot again, got the whole bill gratis. And hopefully that ass fired.
Most of the rest of the time, I do 20%. 15% if it's just lame, not malicious or stupid.
I kind of wanted to stop watching Eastwick, but then they cast one of my old friends from college, Jason George
he'd charged us for the order and reorder AND gave himself a 50% tip
Jesus, I hope he got fired too.
I was supposed to be watching Eastwick too, because a friend's on it, but I just couldn't get over the lameness of the trailers. Is this guy getting a lot of screentime?
The BBC does Five Minutes With Sesame Street: [link]
I thought it was very cute.
Most of the rest of the time, I do 20%. 15% if it's just lame, not malicious or stupid.
This. There are exceptions on the plus side for super service or if I had a great day and feel like paying it forward. The crap tip is when the server really needs to consider a new career. That is very rare.
David Schwartz linked video of baby red pandas on FB yesterday - I thought that it should be linked here too due to the lethal cuteness.
Slice of bread shuts down LHC. Seriously. Slice of bread.
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation.
The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
And in the comments thread FTW:
The bird's briefing:
The approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station.
Heh. A different blog also made the "maneuver down this trench" joke.
