RobXIII
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You didn't tip just for pickup did you? Everyone has those stupid Ipad checkout things now, and they all have pre-set tips at 18% up to 40%, it's stupid.
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Whats rustling your jimmies?
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You didn't tip just for pickup did you? Everyone has those stupid Ipad checkout things now, and they all have pre-set tips at 18% up to 40%, it's stupid.
Denamian
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I grew up in the restaurant business, so tipping is ingrained in to my fucking soul.
That said, I never tip fast food or take out barring some truly exceptional shit happening.
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Bandwagon
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$21 alone is fucking absurd for a fast food burger and fries combo. And I was the only customer in there, along with about 12 employees. 4 of which looked like inbred siblings (not exaggerating in the slightest). I'm pretty sure the place JUST had their grand opening or something, because no one knew what to do.
I can't help tipping though, even when it bugs me. I usually do 10% for stuff like that.
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Denamian
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Gotta break that habit. None of those people are being paid like wait staff, making a pittance + tips.
Bandwagon
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Imperial conditioning is impossible to break.
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Denamian
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Fucker
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Big Phoenix
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Isnt that the crazy white lesbian couple that adopted 5-6 black kids then murder-suicided them along the pacific coast in california?
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Big Phoenix
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Am I the only veteran(let alone one who spent a year in a combat zone) who isnt on disability at all, or even filed a claim of any sort?
Week ago talk to a friend while hes in the hospital and he mentions hes 40% disabled, $1400/month for life. Now this guy deployed to Afghanistan, got hit by a few ieds so I dont think to much of it.
Out of the blue a guy I used to work called me up. Ask him what hes been doing and he says nothing, im 100% disabled. $4800/month for life. Goes onto tell me just about everyone we worked with has some sort of disability or is working on a claim. Some of these guys never even left the States and deployed like me. From what hes said none of these dudes have like actual my leg got ran over by a forklift at work type claims, just oh this is an issue for me now in my mid 30s etc.
I honestly feel like a fucking retard here.
Week ago talk to a friend while hes in the hospital and he mentions hes 40% disabled, $1400/month for life. Now this guy deployed to Afghanistan, got hit by a few ieds so I dont think to much of it.
Out of the blue a guy I used to work called me up. Ask him what hes been doing and he says nothing, im 100% disabled. $4800/month for life. Goes onto tell me just about everyone we worked with has some sort of disability or is working on a claim. Some of these guys never even left the States and deployed like me. From what hes said none of these dudes have like actual my leg got ran over by a forklift at work type claims, just oh this is an issue for me now in my mid 30s etc.
I honestly feel like a fucking retard here.
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Kithani
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As someone that works in a VA a few months a year… without going into too much detail I will say that PTSD is a diagnosis made fully on clinical history / patient interview and cannot be ruled out with a blood test or scan.
Big Phoenix
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This isnt even ptsd related stuff. From what it sounds like they just claim every possible thing as service connected and see what sticks.
Burren
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Big Phoenix
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I wish that had a monetary or tangible value attached to it.
A year of my life in Iraq. 300+ days of strapping on 60-70 pounds of gear and what do I have to show for it? Nothing. Some guy who never left the states gets $2000 every single month merely because he's feeling the effects of aging.
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Fucker
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Virtue is its own reward. It sounds corny, but it has real heft to it if you stop and think about it for a while.
I've been around long enough to see the fruits of being good and being bad. 100% of all the fuckups I have ever known have had their behaviors come back to bite them in the ass, and often rather severely.
These people on the dole have to sleep with one eye open because they know they are going to do something stupid, and it will bite them in the ass. Some people believe in karma....I believe in pattern recognition. They are getting free money, but chances are pretty solid their lives suck in most ways. Either through crappy relationships, endless debt, substance abuse...the list goes on and on. I laugh at their self inflicted misfortunes because it is so predictable.
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Izo
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Fogel
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If it makes you feel any better, you'll always be our disabled vet on FoH buddy
SeanDoe1z1
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You are.
sorry to say. Bill oreily of all people had an amazing piece on it and the ridiculously abused system it has produced. I mean our VA budget is around 250b a year now.
was TAPS not a thing for you? It’s basically pushed now.
I work directly with two people at 100% va. That’s only 1500 a month or so but it’s all tax free and for life.