Petty grievance thread

Mod Edit: Locking this down as it’s been derailed with trolling and toxicity.

today i was at the grocery store and somebody got in front of me in the 12 items or less lane with 28 items. I counted. this is not ok

In what way have you been mildly inconvenienced or slightly annoyed lately?

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A four year old child from a rich family at work asked me how many calories were in his organic applesauce his mom packed.

I’ve never hated “privileged” people more. :unamused:

Edited so I don’t have to listen to racists complain.

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Also went to the grocery store. Was over by the fresh produce and went to get some apples. Turned and took 2 steps to get one of those little bags from a bag holder at the end of the display. Turned back. In those seconds, some woman had parked herself right in front of the apples.

She can see me with the bag in my hand. She doesn’t care. She starts fondling the apples. Literally, she’s picking them up, one by one, and feeling them. Then putting them back down. For two minutes. Not moving. While I stood there, a bag in my hand, having technically been there before her and clearly wanting to get to the apple display where she’s body blocking while handling every apple within reach.

She finally picks two apples - one in each hand. Then she walks off, still not acknowledging that I had been standing there. You know, generally when you’re in the grocery store and someone’s in your way or you’re in someone else’s way, there’s an apology and an acceptance given. Not here. The apple fondler went her way and I spent the next minute digging for apples she hadn’t handled.

(yes, I have strong feelings about grocery store weirdness)

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at the grocery store i got corned by a little girl that yelled OH MY GOD DO YOU LIKE ROCK AND ROLL

For context I have a mohawk and wear a leather jacket

I was so caught off guard and could just barely mutter yes before her mom grabbed her and apologized, saying she used to have a mohawk too. I laughed and said it was fine because it was very cute

then someone cut me in line at the register

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That little girl was running interference.

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I’m a delivery driver for a local bar and pizzeria. Most of the locals tip well enough; if not 10%, then 20-25%. Except for one place.

The military base.

If they tip, its great! Too bad they don’t like to tip, doubly if they live in the barracks. But yet we still deliver there because they order the food.

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Live with family, stayed up hella late on my one day off (not that I work long hours or anything, but I’m incredibly prickly about my time), had already agreed the day before to drive my partner in to work so their mother, who’s day off it also was, didn’t have to. So I get a couple hours of nap, drive them in, come back and sleep knowing I’d have to pick them up after work in the afternoon.

I am harshly awoken a couple hours later because their father’s truck couldn’t back up in the slush and thus I needed to move my car all of a few feet backward so he could get passed and up the driveway. Breaking my day of sleep into a series of few hour intervals, because local idiot’s truck can’t offroad better than my small city car.

Define “petty” because I’ve got a really interesting grievance.

bro why are you dunking on a four-year-old

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It’s a joke lol I work with kids every day, I like them.

I thought this was a silly thread.

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Question (and I’m asking this because I I genuinly dont know and not to be a snarkly *@^hole). Do restaurants actually pay delivery men/women wages? Or do they, like waiters, get payed like indentured servants that have to rely on tips to be able to afford to eat?

(I cannot stand that this relic of prohibition still exists and is not outlawed)

My favorite chocolates are actually from IKEA, but I don’t have a car and there’s no public transport there.

I don’t like IKEA cuz all their toilets are out in the open with no privacy. Not that I can go back there anyway, they got my picture at the door.

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I can answer this! I can’t speak for Jiantou but what you are thinking of is probably tip minimum wage.

For simplicity sake, I’ll discuss it at the Federal level because this varies on a state by state basis. In the United States we have the Fair Labour Standard Act, a Federal law that dictates various labour practices like the 40 hour work week, overtime laws and minimum wage.

Federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour.
Tipped minimum wage under FLSA basically means, an individual is paid $2.13 an hour. With the idea that you receive enough tips to earn what would come out to be the Federal minimum wage and/or more. If you do not make enough in tips, your employer is required by law to true you up to at least Federal minimum wage. Do not let them get away with this.

The other thing is tips are taxable income, ideally you should be reporting this but because the IRS can’t come into your work and take half your tip jar. Usually what happens is say (using simple numbers) you make $200 but $150 of that is all in cash tips. The remaining $50 you are paid on your pay cheque is taxed for that $200. So often you end up with a $0.00 cheque because taxes ate that $50 AND it’ll carry forward, either onto your next pay cheque or at the end of the year when you file.

Some states outright ban tip minimum wage because they should because this practice is terrible and must be outlawed. Like oh wow, look at these servers making tips, how dare they get that extra few dollars for busting their butt.

Ideally this whole stupid thing exist because I guess it’s to help businesses stay afloat and help small time business. idk if you’re business can’t pay someone a living wage then you probably deserve to go out of business, especially if your a large country wide chain. On the flip side, managing this is also a pain in the butt, so some companies just pay their people whatever is the state/federal minimum wage because it’s just a really stupid law that should be banned.

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It’s not a petty grievance, but…

And somehow we get told the reason we can’t afford a house is because we buy coffee.

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I actually know where it comes from. When prohibition became a thing restaurants couldnt afford to paybtheir employees and relied on bribes from patrons

It should have gotten repealed with prohibition!! :fire::fire::fire:

America doing something in 2020 because of hundred year old reasons that don’t make sense anymore?

That doesn’t sound right :thinking:

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I can’t speak for anywhere else, only where I work.

BUT.

I make just shy of regular minimum wage hourly. On top of that, I get 1-3$ for gas based on the zone the delivery takes me to. And on top of that I earn whatever tips I get. I’m a college student so it’s decent money. But when kids in the barracks order 25$ and up worth of food/drink/beer (we actually deliver that too!) and can’t spare any money for me to spend upwards of over a half hour bringing them that food, it’s really irksome when I could have done three deliveries in that same timeframe and made a lot more in tips.

Also not petty, but this sentence shouldn’t be able to be said in a first world country.

Not to hijack your point, Jiantou, but that’s always bothered me.

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