A new tipping concept: tipping on amount of time waiter spends on you
#76
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A college education is an expensive proposition. It's not something that should be expected for free. We're not talking about a high school diploma (which almost everyone has); a degree is something that can change your entire life for the better, and which can significantly increase your contribution to society. But that only holds true if you earn it.
If you're not willing to put in the work to earn it, both academically and financially, then you lack appreciation for just how important and special a college degree is.
Being a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, or a physicist is hard. Becoming one is hard, too. If you're not willing to do the hard work to become one, you won't be willing to do the hard work of being one, and you're not worthy to be one. But if you have the drive and dedication to go through the crucible to earn your degree, then you have the drive and dedication to use that degree in the manner in which it is intended - to contribute to society in a significant way.
One of the best things about restaurants is they are very flexible about the hours their employees can work. And like I keep saying, my coworkers work really hard because our very lives depend on it. I'm going to be a lawyer, they're going to be social workers, bankers, musicians and more but we all have to get there.
If people could become doctors, lawyers, engineers, and physicists without the hard work, more people would do it, but fewer people would truly earn it, and you'd eventually get sub-standard doctors, lawyers, engineers, and physicists. I don't want anyone getting those degrees who hasn't truly earned them.
A person's job has nothing to do with their character or their worth as a human being. How people DO their jobs, and how they treat other people, is what defines their character, and what gives them worth as a human being.
#77
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Well said WillCAD.
#78
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Honestly I just don't get some of you people & attitudes toward wait staff, right CMK10 ? My youngest son is a engineer . He worked his whole time in college @ Starbucks at CLT airport graduated debt free with help of the job & couple other things. So reckon you look down on him also.
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Closed for a cooling off period.
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