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Oh, Busboy! (Hey, Where Did He Go?)
Topic Started: Jan 27 2009, 05:55 AM (192 Views)
QuirtEvans
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302375460718461.html
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Aqua Letifer
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Oh sack up already, waitresses. You still have a job, don't you?

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In many states, it's cheaper to keep servers on the clock than bussers because of a loophole that allows restaurants to pay servers who earn tips less than the minimum wage -- as little as $2.13 an hour. Bussers must be paid at least $6.55 an hour.


Not sure about that. If bussers are required to be cashed out by waitresses at the end of the night, then they get tips too, technically, and so the management might be able to slide their wage down below the minimum.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Frank_W
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Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little odd.

When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I noticed that he also had a spoon in his pocket. Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.

When the waiter came back I inquired, ‘Why the spoon?” ‘Well, ‘he explained, ‘the restaurant’s owner hired a consultant to evaluate all of our processes. After several months of analysis, he concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift, making us more time efficient.’

Wouldn’t you know, I dropped my spoon and he replaced it with his spare. ‘I’ll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.’ I was impressed and thought that it was a pretty good idea.

I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter’s fly. Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had a string hanging from their flies too. Before he walked off, I asked the him, ‘Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string, um… right there?’ ‘Oh, certainly!’ Then he lowered his voice. ‘Not everyone is so observant. That consultant I mentioned also learned that we can save time in the bathroom. By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, therefor we spend less time in the Bathroom.

Curiousity set in and I asked quietly, ‘Well after you get it out, how do you put it back?’ ‘Well,’ he whispered, ‘I don’t know about the other waiters, but I just use the spoon.’
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Eileen
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That's one hell of a hijack Frank. Laughing so hard that I can't remember what the article was really about!

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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Frank_W
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:sombrero:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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That's funny!
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