tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058062507886340941.post6963973372767443593..comments2013-07-12T15:07:52.604-07:00Comments on You're Tarquin Out Your Ass: Jobs That Should Be Banned # 1Tarquin Machismohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879507491695326622noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058062507886340941.post-24837725543740448062010-05-01T18:21:14.400-07:002010-05-01T18:21:14.400-07:00Ah Fawlty Towers, one of my all time favorite show...Ah Fawlty Towers, one of my all time favorite show --probably because I used to be in the restaurant hotel business --- even attended CERIA (Brussels hotel training school) for a whole year before I flanked ballistic which they said we had to know so as to understand refrigeration --I still haven't figured out the connection and/or the need.... so I had to be sent off in shame to my aunt in the US where things became so much more intelligible probably because I didn't understand English....Katihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645682203535768013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058062507886340941.post-37159313625959302282010-04-26T19:27:21.442-07:002010-04-26T19:27:21.442-07:00Oh, right ~ my tits again. God love you for a liar...Oh, right ~ my tits again. God love you for a liar, Smag. You don't think it might have anything to do with the fact that I'm a FREAKIN' MERMAID in their restaurant? YOU'VE gotten used to it but it's not something the average landlubber sees every day. My naked boobies aren't exactly the first thing guys usually notice about me, if you get my drift. ;)<br /><br />This kissing my tail is all well and good, SmagBoyWonder, but how will we ever have the hot make-up sex if you won't ever take the bait and fight with me about anything, so we have something to make up about? *pout*Mermaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17583754215885030959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058062507886340941.post-37306369283754641012010-04-26T15:41:59.433-07:002010-04-26T15:41:59.433-07:00@Tarquin: well, sure, anytime a wait person can l...@Tarquin: well, sure, anytime a wait person can land a gig in a high end, la di da restaurant, they're going to bring in the duckets if they're worth a piss (and if they're not, they'll be fired in short order anyway). But, considering they're starting from essentially no base salary, most everyone else does have a ways to go before making a decent earning. That's why if you ask any waiter, ever, they'll tell you they're just doing it until they finish school or land this job or that job or until they snag a rich spouse, etc. None of them are aspiring to be professional waiters. But, in Europe, because the base salary is a living wage -AND- one earns tips on top of that wage (much smaller, percentage-wise, though they are), it seems to me that system's a bit better, a bit less like saps, yeah? Plus, they get universal health care there!<br /><br />@Mermaid: My lovely Mermaid, I'm not sure why you'd say that? Every time I've gone out with you, we end up paying no tips at all because the waiters are always so enamored of your naked boobies that they often don't even have us pay the bill! So why are you hatin'? ;-)SmagBoy1https://www.blogger.com/profile/06579694369460538262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058062507886340941.post-14676901964602070872010-04-26T02:49:16.792-07:002010-04-26T02:49:16.792-07:00Hey, mermie, i live it large every now and again. ...Hey, mermie, i live it large every now and again. When i can actually find a Burger King, that is.Tarquin Machismohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879507491695326622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058062507886340941.post-81080275685593967962010-04-25T03:20:08.501-07:002010-04-25T03:20:08.501-07:00Well, the American system sounds potentially highl...Well, the American system sounds potentially highly profitable if you're working in a fancy-pants restaurant which attracts big tippers. Otherwise, though, it's like I said - you're practically forcing these overworked saps to smile which is just out of order, to use a British expression.<br />Also, the whole concept of waiting is wrong, when all you need to do is walk to the kitchen : )<br />Thanks for <br />stopping by, Smaggie.Tarquin Machismohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879507491695326622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058062507886340941.post-35533179620547840592010-04-24T17:29:28.300-07:002010-04-24T17:29:28.300-07:00Greetings Tarky! One thing that I'd like to n...Greetings Tarky! One thing that I'd like to note, only because I'm not sure how extensively you've traveled in the US, is that waiters in Europe actually do quite well compared to here. Matter of fact, and I'm not even kidding, there were a few times in Germany where the waiter said I'd tipped too much! Here, the expectation is between 15-20% of your dinner bill. Period. And waiters don't make minimum wage! The restaurants are actually not required to pay them minimum wage! So, not tipping here, as you say, really should be reserved for shitting in the soup! I mean, it's sort of a social contract that if you're going to go somewhere with a wait staff, you'd better know up front that you need to tip.<br /><br />Now, in Europe, as you know, waiters are actually treated as employees! They actually make money from the restaurant and, too, typical tipping percentages are considerably less.<br /><br />Of course, I realize that I'm terribly off-point here, but, it just felt like it had to be said. I don't know why.<br /><br />Cheers! :-)SmagBoy1https://www.blogger.com/profile/06579694369460538262noreply@blogger.com