Whoa, fascinating, thank you! I never actually thought about the power dynamic…it kind of makes sense especially for what I see at bars sometimes where some douche thinks tipping extra might get him the bartender’s phone number or something.

lol on the off chance I go to a theater to see a movie I’ve just been showing up 20 minutes late…with success.

I’d like to offer an opposing view but solely because I want to learn, if that’s okay?

I’ve owned businesses. I tried to do away with tipping and raise wages a commensurate amount, and then increase prices a commensurate amount to cover.

Keep in mind I made no money from this business, ever, in fact one could argue I lost well into the six figures on keeping it afloat for the employees and customers…but that isn’t the point. That part is fine by me.

The point is this, the customers were fucking dumb. They’d pay $5-$6 per beer and tip $1-$2 each drink, sometimes $3+.

But they felt paying $7-$9 per beer was too expensive and during the brief time we tried it even with tipping disabled at the register sales tanked 30-40%.

Which eventually led to less money coming in to the business and more money needing to be injected to pay the servers the same amount they were getting before.

I am all for abolishing tipping. I’m all for paying living wages and benefits and everything. I am willing to lose money to defend that. But I think the wild card is stupid fucking people who feel better about paying $5 and tipping $2, versus paying $7 and tipping nothing.

I don’t know how to overcome that.

I’ve since left that industry because it’s insanity - but I’m open to feedback and to learn.

I’d donate to the cause.

In house at my work, we’ve found ChatGPT to be fairly useless, too. Where Claude and Gemini seem to reign supreme.

It seems like ChatGPT is the household name, but hardly the best performing.

I’ve definitely been pretty anti-AI, finding it kinda stupid and generally useless…

…but we hired an AI researcher at my work (which I laughed at). But I cannot deny anymore that with the proper setups, configs, rules, blend of onsite / cloud resources etc. - workplace AI can be pretty fucking game changing. To the point where I went from campaigning against the changes because I felt they were a waste of time to where I am worried for my future job and am using agents 5-10 times a day to handle small bugfixes for me.

I don’t know what will happen when the bubble pops though.

Oh, did you set a display name for each alias?

If not, I think you do it in the same area and that should fix it.

Oh wow. So you just added the /logout endpoint itself or something else?

I honestly don’t understand the point of it. At every single job I have or have had, it doesn’t seem to do anything and I still have to sign in multiple times a day.

If you set up aliases it should be auto-sending back as that email when replying (or mine does). If it isn’t, just click the Sender field and change it to the alias in question. If all your aliases aren’t an option in that dropdown then I think something isn’t configured right and it’s possible you set up a catch-all instead of an actual alias I think?

Sounds like we should burn it down.

This sounds amazing.

Balls not so big if a gun is pointed in his stupid face.

Fuck Trump. Fuck his supporters. I hope they all die.

Holy shit I just choked on my beer.

I was playing with my retirement account’s calculator earlier and…

…even if I contributed 100% of my paycheck for the next 25 years - I can’t replace even half my current income.

So that’s cool.

I recently learned there are only like 13,500 ICE agents right now.

There are way, way, way more people than that who hate ICE and, dare I say, at least that many people OK with taking them out…so…yeah, we totally could if we organized.

But we aren’t organizing.

What’d ChatGPT do?

What’d Meta do?

Oh absolutely

My friend who has a non-white son is considering something like this just in case an ICE kidnapping happens.