Daily Breakfast 558 - The Green Lantern
Thanksgiving in CA, 3rd grader in church choir, Green Lantern, new MacBooks, current economy & our personal budget, turning off TV/radio avoids anxiety, minimum wage & teens, economy & ethics, tipping, Peculiar Bunch: Divorce, Healthy Catholic, Clone Wars, Secrets of Star Wars.
If the end result is better customer service, and good servers are rewarded so that they can easily make better than minimum wage, then I think I prefer our system. It just depends on the customer being responsible enough to observe the socially acceptable behavior and tip at least 15%.
Hey father, are you reading my mind or what? I’ve been a fan of Green Lantern for years and I was so surprised to see the title of your podcast. Your geek credit has gone up yet another notch! The comments from the website you linked to really spiraled out of control in the comments section…. but overall worth the read. Thanks for the heads-up.
I really am enjoying the new format. 30 minutes for the Monday thru Thursday episodes and a longer episode on Friday. I like being able to split up Friday’s episode. Thank you!
The keyboard of my macbookpro is crap… the “r” & the “4″ never worked… *grrrrrr*
SaRa
PS: Most of the time I’m using headphones anyhow
PSPS: never heard of the “Green Lantern”, but I will definitivly check it out now …
Two of my daughters are clones (identical twins) and I don’t think anybody would doubt that they have separate souls. It therefore seems logical that the clone warriors would each have individual souls.
Jonmichael, you’re on the right track for servers. Most of them make 2.10 - 2.25 per hour and depend on customers to make up the difference. And the better the service, the better the tip, most of the time. Yes, there are still inconsiderate morons who wouldn’t tip to save their life, but I think most people are good for 10% at least.
Reminds me of a comedy club I worked in. One server, Terry, would always work the front-right section and end the night with sometimes hundreds of dollars in tips. So the other servers would constantly grumble about him having the best customers and the best section, etc.
Then Terry left and the other servers got the chance to work the lucrative front-right section and they couldn’t end the night with any more than they got in any other section.
Terry was the magic ingredient. He would take care of his customers in a non-intrusive manner, empty ashtrays (when we had them), wipe the tables, pick up trash and keep things clean and, most importantly, he would say “please” and “thank you.” Something you don’t hear from service employees often enough.