By being a bad tipper, am I screwing over the employees or the establishment?
It depends... if the employee would normally make over minimum wage with tips you are screwing over the employee. If the employee would normally make under minimum wage you are screwing over the business and potentially the employee if the business decided to fire them.
I work in the software industry. I have "goals" or "targets" or whatever each company wants to call them, and my performance bonus is tied to them. At my company these goals are reviewed on a quarterly basis and are modifiable by management. If the game devs bonuses are tied to game reviews, I imagine their managers have the ability to re-negotiate and re-set those goals. If not then the company they work for is the problem not the un-related reviewer. The reviewer should not have to care about what their review will mean to anyone else. It is their review and is largely subjective. I certainly would not want my yearly bonus rigidly tied to the results of a bunch of independent subjective reviews.
I believe that tipping should definitely not be banned, because it is well established in society as a reward for good service. However, I believe that it also should not be mandatory, or otherwise, it is not a tip; it is simply part of the normal bill. A person should have the option of giving a tip, and if that person believe that they have been given poor service, then have every right to not give their server a tip (which is unfortunate for the server, but, hopefully, it shall help them to learn to provide better service in the future).
That is the way it is.... You are not legally obligated to provide a tip. You are socially obligated to provide a tip (unless you can justify not giving one with reasons like the service being terrible).
So you're not rich because you were able to name the other 3% of people who are richer than you? Rich doesn't mean winning at capitalism (which, at top 97% you are anyways) it means not having to worry. It means having the ability to choose between the Hilton and the Holiday Inn when the rest of us don't even get the vacation. Rich is having the ability to get that new car and instead settling on the one that's only 5 years old while the rest of us trade in our 15 year old one in for a 10. Tell us more about your struggle.
I never said I was struggling... But I don't think my manager's life should be classified as being rich (remember I don't break the magical $150K barrier that started this discussion). It should be classified as upper middle class... my life should be the norm. Norm should not be 1 or 2 promotions from rich and it also should not be choosing between going to a movie or getting to eat, poor.
I get the impression that you want me to feel bad for having a decent job and not working minimum wage. I'm not going to apologize for going to school in a field I knew would be profitable and doing well.
People earning 150 to 250k are, actually, very rich. No, they're not in the stonkingly rich multi-millionaires club, but they are in the top couple of percent of total household incomes (Less than 4% of *households* in America in 2011 earned 150k; so a lot less than 4% of individuals).
Are you for real? Where is 150K "very rich"? My wife and I together probably get close to 100K for the year and I can't imagine a 50K boost would bump us into "rich" land. After taxes around here that would be an extra... 30K? so roughly an extra 2k a month to spend? That's cool... I suppose instead of living 45 minutes away from work I could afford to live much closer (currently I own a 3br 2 bath fixer upper, my co-worker lives much closer and his mortgage is 150% of mine for a smaller older house), instead of driving an 08 pontiac I could have a nicer car... my wife could have gotten a nicer car too but her new car is already $500 a month. I guess I'd go ahead and get a smart phone at that point since the extra $30-$50 a month wouldn't be as big of a deal anymore... We'd go on nicer vacations sure... we could stay at a Hilton instead of a Holiday Inn but I don't see that as a "rich" only perk. And we live in a pretty low cost of living area... I have a buddy who lives in San Fran and cost of living out there is significantly higher than here (my awesome apartment was a couple hundred dollars cheaper than his room in a shared house an hour out of the city).
When I say "people" who earn 150 plus are rich, I mean individuals, not couples. And I stand by what I said (ok, maybe "very" is a step too far); an individual making 150k is more than comfortable. Yes, they still have to consider where they spend their money*, but the notion that they cannot afford to chip in slightly more *on money earned over that 150k* is, frankly, absurd given the current american tax brackets.
* because if you're earning that much and can't budget, you're probably being overpaid.
Comfortable sure... but I take offense to the idea that I am somehow rich. Rich is being able to just wake up in the morning and decide to take a trip to Hawaii for giggles. Being able to afford a "decent" home, car, clothes is what I would call middle class. Just because only 4% of people make that much does not make them rich. Unfortunately we have a situation where there is a steep drop off from what I consider to be rich, to what I consider to be middle class. CEO's, Business owners, models, celebs, athletes are all rich.... some doctors and lawyers are rich. I highly doubt too many engineers and sales staff are living the "rich" life but would be quite close to your $150K cut off. Keep in mind I live "near" Minneapolis which compared to cities like NY, San Fran or Washington is dirt cheap... I'm guessing there are people living in those areas that make well over $150K and don't live all that much better than I do.
And owlington... I am not at all oblivious to the fact that I make significantly more then most people. But my wife and I making triple minimum wage is not even close to the same as a backup pro-athlete making 100 times minimum wage. So if someone wants to call 5x minimum wage "very rich" I want to know what we call 100x minimum wage.
so I have a job interview to be a park ranger in the Canadian province of Alberta, which has gone through a boom period the past few years because of oil and whatnot.
I'm not too sure where I'd be posted so I guess it's hard to be 100% certain on costs but I just wanted to know what general costs of living are out there.
The job pays between $22 and 27 and hour and my only other real expenses are my phone bill and OSAP (student debt) payments of $325 a month.
On a side note, what should I expect on a park ranger job interview?
The higher you go, the more subjective and optional the motivations become. How do you consistently and reliably use "esteem" to reward people?
I'm a high school teacher. That's pretty much ALL I use.
It seems to work on the majority.
As a former High School student I can assure you that for many students "esteem" is not what the students are shooting for. I personally was motivated by money. I recognized that doing well in High School would give me a better chance at going to a good college which would give me the most potential to make money. If I went to school knowing that as an adult all jobs were equal I wouldn't have given a ***** about school and probably would have played more Gameboy during class. Perfect example of this is despite being in AP Calculus, when I had to take the state required math test that has zero meaning to the student and only measures the school's ability to teach math I bubbled every answer as C and got out of there as quickly as possible to go to my real classes. Making that score available to the teachers would not have changed my behavior (heck it might have been available to them I cant remember) and knowing that my parents would see that score did not effect me in the least, but if that score would have been available to colleges I most certainly would have actually taken the test for real.
If I remember right rail guns actually generate a ton of heat from the friction of the projectile riding down the rails and one of the issues they face is it's hard/expensive to make rails that can can handle being used more than a few times before warping/melting.
One of the things I look at with Dechs story is with the cab driver. He is happy to be able to go to that country and work for "dirt cheap" to be able to send some money home to his family. He's happy to have the opportunity even though it takes him far from home. Just think of what that means for those people that don't have the opportunity to take that "*****ty" job? The cab driver is not the one we should feel sorry for, the people that are not able to even go to the extreme of moving for work and sending money home are the ones that are in truly *****ty situations.
When we left, my wife gave her a tip in the equivalent of $150 USD. Sure, that seems like a big tip, but the lady had to clean up after our toddler. Big job. That's not really the point. The point is, the woman cried when we gave her the tip. It was "so big" and she was in tears over how generous we were. $150 ain't that much,
"Ain't that much"? $150 is an enormous tip. That's a lot of money even by US standards. I'm struggling to think of places where a $150 tip would not result in the recipient reacting shocked outside of a multiple-star-rated restaurant. It certainly isn't customary to tip housekeeping that in the US, where it's generally $2-5 a day. Moreover, I'm not sure what the UAE does in terms of its tipping policies. In the US, we tip for just about anything, but this isn't the case for most countries.
He said he was there for 2 months which is roughly 60 days so that's roughly $2.50 a day.
I understand I should go by what my manager's want, but I thought this is making emails easier to read and not waste time (I hate wall of text emails and my previous managers would literally just delete them without reading).
By not waste time I mean that the readers know what to look for. Nothing worse than scanning through emails trying to find details (that's why I highlight key info like dates or requests)
The original email is only 2 lines long... (5 if you include the good morning and signature).
When doing internal emails it might make sense to use highlighting, bold, italics or something else to direct people's attention to key text. See what your manager prefers for these options. For external emails though the company you work for wants to be presented in a professional way. Clearly they see using the @ in front of a person's name as not being professional and want you to not do it.
Also, I wouldn't call what your manager sent to you as a reprimand. That is simply managing. The manager is telling you to correct a behavior to fit what the company wants. As far as I can tell you were not punished.
Also keep in mind that while internal emails may be more relaxed when a customer is included there are different rules. If management sees using the @ as "texting" jargon, they are not going to want the customer to see that because they don't want the customer to think a bunch of "punk kids" work there. It's all about appearances. For this kind of issue just deffer to what management wants because fighting over it gains you nothing, where making management happy lets you keep your job.
I dont think we have to give a fetus rights to provide it with legal protections.
Afaik, the act of providing something legal protection requires you to recognize that it has rights.
We give legal protections to inanimate objects... do rocks have rights? No. For these kinds things we would typically cite the legal protections as protecting public interests (like protecting trees in a public park). If we don't give a fetus person-hood, I see no reason not to treat it like an object or a pet that can be owned. Once it crosses the threshold to person-hood then the fetus is no longer own-able.
It depends... if the employee would normally make over minimum wage with tips you are screwing over the employee. If the employee would normally make under minimum wage you are screwing over the business and potentially the employee if the business decided to fire them.
I work in the software industry. I have "goals" or "targets" or whatever each company wants to call them, and my performance bonus is tied to them. At my company these goals are reviewed on a quarterly basis and are modifiable by management. If the game devs bonuses are tied to game reviews, I imagine their managers have the ability to re-negotiate and re-set those goals. If not then the company they work for is the problem not the un-related reviewer. The reviewer should not have to care about what their review will mean to anyone else. It is their review and is largely subjective. I certainly would not want my yearly bonus rigidly tied to the results of a bunch of independent subjective reviews.
That is the way it is.... You are not legally obligated to provide a tip. You are socially obligated to provide a tip (unless you can justify not giving one with reasons like the service being terrible).
I never said I was struggling... But I don't think my manager's life should be classified as being rich (remember I don't break the magical $150K barrier that started this discussion). It should be classified as upper middle class... my life should be the norm. Norm should not be 1 or 2 promotions from rich and it also should not be choosing between going to a movie or getting to eat, poor.
I get the impression that you want me to feel bad for having a decent job and not working minimum wage. I'm not going to apologize for going to school in a field I knew would be profitable and doing well.
Comfortable sure... but I take offense to the idea that I am somehow rich. Rich is being able to just wake up in the morning and decide to take a trip to Hawaii for giggles. Being able to afford a "decent" home, car, clothes is what I would call middle class. Just because only 4% of people make that much does not make them rich. Unfortunately we have a situation where there is a steep drop off from what I consider to be rich, to what I consider to be middle class. CEO's, Business owners, models, celebs, athletes are all rich.... some doctors and lawyers are rich. I highly doubt too many engineers and sales staff are living the "rich" life but would be quite close to your $150K cut off. Keep in mind I live "near" Minneapolis which compared to cities like NY, San Fran or Washington is dirt cheap... I'm guessing there are people living in those areas that make well over $150K and don't live all that much better than I do.
And owlington... I am not at all oblivious to the fact that I make significantly more then most people. But my wife and I making triple minimum wage is not even close to the same as a backup pro-athlete making 100 times minimum wage. So if someone wants to call 5x minimum wage "very rich" I want to know what we call 100x minimum wage.
I mean exactly what I said... shooting stuff in general is a great stress reliever like punching a pillow.
This might be useful for you:
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country=Canada&city=Edmonton
It breaks down the costs of goods in Edmonton Canada.
As a former High School student I can assure you that for many students "esteem" is not what the students are shooting for. I personally was motivated by money. I recognized that doing well in High School would give me a better chance at going to a good college which would give me the most potential to make money. If I went to school knowing that as an adult all jobs were equal I wouldn't have given a ***** about school and probably would have played more Gameboy during class. Perfect example of this is despite being in AP Calculus, when I had to take the state required math test that has zero meaning to the student and only measures the school's ability to teach math I bubbled every answer as C and got out of there as quickly as possible to go to my real classes. Making that score available to the teachers would not have changed my behavior (heck it might have been available to them I cant remember) and knowing that my parents would see that score did not effect me in the least, but if that score would have been available to colleges I most certainly would have actually taken the test for real.
He said he was there for 2 months which is roughly 60 days so that's roughly $2.50 a day.
The original email is only 2 lines long... (5 if you include the good morning and signature).
When doing internal emails it might make sense to use highlighting, bold, italics or something else to direct people's attention to key text. See what your manager prefers for these options. For external emails though the company you work for wants to be presented in a professional way. Clearly they see using the @ in front of a person's name as not being professional and want you to not do it.
Also, I wouldn't call what your manager sent to you as a reprimand. That is simply managing. The manager is telling you to correct a behavior to fit what the company wants. As far as I can tell you were not punished.
We give legal protections to inanimate objects... do rocks have rights? No. For these kinds things we would typically cite the legal protections as protecting public interests (like protecting trees in a public park). If we don't give a fetus person-hood, I see no reason not to treat it like an object or a pet that can be owned. Once it crosses the threshold to person-hood then the fetus is no longer own-able.