Doctor_Satan @ Doctor_Satan @lemm.ee

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A lot of places won't even hire wait staff without prior waiting experience, so "entry level" still doesn't cover it very well.

Maybe "specialized service work" or something.

There's a lot more to it than "carrying a lot of plate at once".

First, you have to memorize the menu backwards and forwards. Not just the items, but also the ingredients and the cooking techniques. A customer is allergic to everything in the nightshade family. Do you know what you can't offer them? Better learn it. Someone has never eaten smoked chicken and is concerned with the pink color of the meat. You better know how to explain the smoking process and how it affects meat color. What is the temperature difference between medium and medium-rare? Are your oysters local? What's in rice pilaf? Why is it called "she-crab soup" (it's not why you think)? You have to know all of this and about a million other things, and be able to recall it on the spot without hesitation and with full confidence, every time someone asks.

Second, you have to be a salesman. You need to be able to know how to convince people to buy something that they may not have considered buying when they walked through the door, and you have to know that they will not only thank you for it in the end, but financially reward you for it.

Third, you have to be cool under pressure. You might think you are, but until you've worked a dinner rush, you have no fucking idea. It is non-stop, go go go, and you need to time everything just right. You'll also be talked down to by customers, yelled at by cooks, burned by hot plates, sexually harassed by both customers and coworkers, while fielding complaints and mistakes, and you have to do all of this while looking like you're having the time of your life. A sour expression or a snarky comment will get you pulled from the floor, and if you're waiting tables in the US, there goes about 20% of this weeks income.

Fourth, you need to be able to get along with everyone, or at least be such a convincing liar that Ted Bundy would be impressed with your sociopathic people skills. I am not kidding. You have to be able to ingratiate yourself like family with the drunk college bro table just as well as the black church group table. If you aren't a social chameleon, you need not apply.

I could go on and on, but I hope you get the idea. Waiting tables is not easy, it's not "unskilled", and it takes a very specific personality type to do it well. The job has a high turnover rate because most people can't do it.

Yes you did.

Financial experts are seeing a spike in affluent working Americans looking to resettle in Europe.
Arielle Tucker is the founder of Connected Financial Planning, a company that helps Americans relocate to Europe.
Tucker received more than 30 new American clients in the week after Trump’s reelection, a level of interest that’s been sustained throughout the last few months.
Many of Tucker’s clients are in their mid-30s or early 40s and work in executive roles in tech, pharmaceuticals or finance.

Yet again, the average working-class person is left behind to suffer the worst effects of the policies that these people largely voted for and now cowardly run from.

No alternative to Reddit while including a Reddit link at the bottom is killing me.

Under the right director, with the right story, Jared Leto can be absolutely brilliant. There are plenty of examples of this, from 'Requiem for a Dream' to 'Dallas Buyers Club'. Unfortunately, the stars have to align perfectly for him to be anything other than a cringe factory of hammy over-acting. I don't know who is directing the new Tron, but the odds of them being the right person to pull a good performance out of Leto are not great. I'd like to be wrong, and I hope I am, but probably not. He's probably going to chew the scenes in the worst way, as he usually does, and be the worst part of the movie, as he usually is.

Countdown to the UK government apologizing to Israel over this in 5... 4... 3...

He already sent that money to Israel.

It's Floribama. So yeah. Total shit hole.

30% saying this has no impact on their daily lives.

"The eco-terrorists are just as bad as the Nazis!"

Both. It's actually funny. Someone posted that image of alternatives to things like Reddit and Whatsapp and Google, etc, and it had Lemmy on it. I was at the point where I was getting sick of Reddit and had one account banned already. I joined Lemmy, and a few days later my other account got banned for up voting a comment that was just the gif of Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. I had already decided I liked Lemmy more at that point, so whatever. The one thing that sucks is that I had my own little sub with a couple thousand members where I posted my writing, and people seemed to like it. I enjoyed sharing my stories with all those weirdos, and now I can't.

I've seen Reddit do the same thing for years and always wondered why. It's super annoying.

It's more than likely true because this shit always blows up in their faces, but it won't matter if all we do is elect more milquetoast Zionist corporate Dems. If that happens, we will end up right back in this same spot in a few years.

It really depends on where I am. Winter in a city sucks. Winter in the mountains is awesome. Summer in Phoenix sucks. Summer on the Albanian Riviera is awesome.

It doesn't take much calculating at all. It's just easy to convince right-wing audiences that sexual misconduct allegations are all a conspiracy by the Deep State^TM to silence them. It's a pretty basic grift.

If you scroll down beneath the article, there are links to other articles. The graphic is from one called 'Markets tumble as China announces 34% retaliatory tariffs on US imports'. No idea why Lemmy decided to grab that particular image for this post, though.

Oh for sure. He's been soft-pedaling his right-wing transformation ever since the initial allegations went public years ago. The hard turn recently is probably exactly as you say, he knew charges were coming.

He's a bad actor and he knows it. He knows, and doesn't care one bit, that his previous comments contradict his current comments. Everything these people say is in service to making their people look good and right, and making your people look bad and wrong. That's literally the only goal. You will never win an argument with them or embarrass them, because facts don't matter to them and they have no shame. Words mean nothing to them. Words are just a weapon and they are fighting a guerilla war.

I was talking about the posters of Nazis. I should've been more clear.

EDIT - To be perfectly clear. There are two pictures of Nazis, and one picture of someone who would have been a Nazi supporter if he didn't prematurely die of hubris.

I don’t think that’s true really. I really think that some people don’t think their decisions through to the end, or at least halfway through. Just look at brexit, after the vote passed, people were googling the consequences lmao.

Brexit is a perfect example of "dumb" intersecting "cruel". 33% of Leave voters said they voted in favor of it due to immigration. A thinly veiled excuse for "too many brown people in my white country". Brexit has done nothing to elevate the white population or reduce the non-white population (the cruel part), but it has done a lot to fuck over British trade (the dumb part).