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No, I just like people to follow the safe food handling protocol they are supposed to. Health Depts. exist for a reason.

Have you ever had someone waiting on you covered in dog/cat hair? I have. Gross. I don't really care about attire as long isn't a shirt that says "f@#k you for making me deliver this pizza," which I've never seen. And of course, grooming communicates something about people...and if you are working for tips, you should try to maximize your first impression, which would seem to preclude having facial hair that looks like pubes. If you're delivering/serving my food, please don't look gross, especially if you want a tip. Well that's just it, too. Some markets, like Los Angeles, are pretty expensive. By that I mean food just costs more. What might be a 15% tip for you could be the same dollar amount as a 10% tip here. Of course, in CA, tips are in addition to your minimum wage, not a part of it. So I'm much less inclined to tip more than 10% for service that isn't exceptional, since I know the employee is making at least minimum wage. Back in Indiana, this isn't the case, so I usually tip a little higher percentage...of course food is a lot cheaper there so I end up spending comparable amounts of money overall.

10% is if things are expected, 0% if they are not, 20% if exceptionally good service.

1. I know you quit the job...but I'm suggesting you stay out of any customer service industry--it just doesn't seem to fit you well. 2. The second paragraph contained my thoughts on the subject of delivery people, and did not accuse you of anything. I don't see where I assumed anything about you, personally, since how would I possibly know? I don't live in Massachussetts. I was thinking in particular when the delivery person had me walk two blocks to a gas station because he "couldn't find my address." Apparently when I said 24th St., and he repeated it back to me, he didn't realize that "twenty-fourth" does not include the alphanumeric "23rd." Fool. 3. The "tip entitlement" rubs me the wrong way. By meeting all the prerequisites, a delivery person certainly has earned a tip, if given, but tipping is not mandatory. I don't care how nice and polite the delivery person is, if the retaurant screwed up and delivered my order an hour and a half late, I'm not spending any more money than that already charged to my card. Sucks, but if you live in a state that allows tipped employees to be paid less than minimum wage, try working for a restaurant that doesn't treat its customers like $h!. Especially if the place already levies a delivery surcharge, as I'm paying for the extra delivery expenses (assumedly) since it doesn't cost $3 to set the to-go containers on the delivery counter versus the take-out counter.

You know, there's no obligation to tip. Acting like people who don't tip are the worst people in the world just tells me you need to get out of the customer service business. There's nothing more obnoxious to me than a petulant delivery boy showing up being rude because he thought he didn't get tipped as much as he "deserved." Listen, no one cares how many near-accidents you almost got into, or how little your boss pays you. If the pizza is delivered on-time (or early!), the deliverer doesn't reek of pot, is wearing clean clothes, is well groomed, and has a polite, cheerful manner, the likelihood of a decent tip increases. Deliver late, complain about how my house numbers are hard to find/see/read when no one else has an issue with them, or act all immature/unprofessional for whatever reason...yeah prolly not going to happen. I tip if service is good, and I don't tip if it is bad. And one of the occupational hazards of working for a $h!ty company is that the company's bad service gets taken out on your tip.

Ouch. You don't even wanna drive after having like a small drink...even though you'd be well under .08 no cop would believe it

omg, keep dreaming buddy. 80s girls are hot, that's all I'm gonna say.

HAHA! Oh dude, several of my fraternity brothers get the glow soooooooo badly we joke they glow just from sniffing it. Have you tried taking a Pepsid AC about an hour prior to drinking?

Dude, they aren't. Not at all. Shoulder pads are coming back for fall, say fashionistas. LA Times did an article about that a couple months ago, with Marc Jacobs debuting his "punk prom girl" look: Personally, I can't wait. I love the 80s; I'm just waiting for big hair to come back.

You're right. I forgot Lacoste didn't have exclusive US distribution back then. I stand corrected.

Jack isn't that strong...it's only 80p. There's some real nasty $h! out there, but I've never had a problem drinking Jack straight, not even when I was 16 and first got started on it. In fact, I think I'll have a Jack and where's-the-Pepsi Throwback right now...

Because they can only get with their sister and can't afford cocaine?

Members Only jackets are making a big comeback around LA this year; it's nuts. Cubical: Lacoste is the alligator, IZOD has the stylized Z I think.

I think just about everybody who has heard that irritating song got the reference.

Spent the weekend cooking/cleaning in preparation for a 500 party, got my drink on, ate way too much food, went to a friend's graduation party, got my drink on again, and hung out with some old friends (while continuing to drink) for about 5 hours. Oh, and nice Madonna reference in the thread title, ocn. I bet nobody EVER saw that one coming

HAHA SOOOOOOOO TRUE...

LOL. Well in the thread linked to in my "Indefinite Hiatus" link in my sig, I laid out some things this site NEEDS to do to stay relevant. Of course the ineffective people at the helm haven't done any of them. Just like GM. I certainly will NOT be renewing my premium subscription in a few months, that's for sure. Two dead forums does not make me encouraged to shell out.

WOOHOO!!

Ohhhh...that's pretty obnoxious. Is there a reset button on the DIC to turn it off to your knowledge?

I have a major problem with this statement. I do not believe it's legal to only honor warrenty on a part "once." I hope your dealership was simply misinformed, and that the directive came not from GM, but from the dealership management.

Actually, the proverbial little old lady who drives to church once a week and nowhere else is actually pretty hard on a car as short, sporadic trips do not allow it to properly heat up. Plus, those kinds of trips are very light on gas, leading to old gas being used, which isn't good for an engine.

Guys, honestly, lay off Vipes. If it hasn't been made abundantly clear since he joined this board, let me spell it out: he likes to bitch. Whether it's rational, logical, or just for attention, the world will never know--but that's his prerogative. It's not like he started doing anything in this thread he hasn't done a million times before. The only thing more obnoxious than senseless bitching is bitching about senseless bitching...if it really bothers you that much, then don't engage it...but frankly he isn't the only consumer in the marketplace with this concern. GM's lack of perceived quality is real--and costing them sales every day in real dollars.

I hope that's programmable--that would annoy the $h! outta me. On my Aurora, I didn't know the steering was programmable until I read about it on a forum. Now it's "firm."

Lottery?

90% of HGTV's programming says otherwise.