We’re AC or CA, so air conditioning or California lol

All I have is ramen, will that work??

You’re a good landlord.

I’m 98% sure that all of my landlords would look at this, say “cannot be repaired”, and use my entire deposit to renovate the entire bathroom.

Claire Elaine

Take a look to see if either the ring or the box have any indication of the jeweler who made it, or call around local jewelers and ask what type of boxes they give with rings. Return it to the jeweler whose box it is, and they can contact the person who bought it!

Especially if/when something bad happens to them (death in the family, etc). There’s an outpouring of support right away, and then everyone seems to forget and go on with their lives. I found the most difficult time of my grieving process was the “in between”—when I was still feeling intense and debilitating grief and most of my friends had forgotten/stopped reaching out.

The week is defined by your employer but can’t change pay period to pay period.

Maybe next time you’ll be scheduled for Saturday through Monday and Wednesday through Friday and get paid OT without working 5 consecutive days.

Tbh I think you need to let this go. What are your options? Continue to be mad about it, stew on it, and let it take away the joy from your wedding? Or let it go, move on to Plan B, and take the extra $400 from the “overages” budget? I’d rather do that. It happened. Move on. You don’t have to be their best friends after this, but don’t let it steal your joy.

I think people should wait to get a horse until after they learn the difference between there/their/they’re and your/you’re

I’m seeing the same in the Portland area! Nuts!!!

I work with one trans woman and worked with another before. The one at my current company transitioned while working here. I don’t work with her closely, but one day her name changed in Slack and email, no one gave it a second thought, haven’t hear anyone deadname her etc.
I love my company because at one point, it was not really possible for people to change their display names on Slack due to the IT system. Our VP of IT made an announcement at a company all hands super early into me working there saying “It’s important that we honor each other in the workplace, and one of the ways we can honor each other is by using preferred names. I’m sorry that it’s taken this long to fix this bug.”

The math ain’t mathin.

For a typical restaurant, they pay out about 25-35% of their revenue towards labor. If you raise prices by 20% (increase revenue by 20%) and spend that all on labor, you can nearly increase wages by 60% to 80%. Raising prices to eliminate tipping won’t change the cost of ingredients, the cost of rent or electricity, and shouldn’t increase the amount of profit going into the owner’s pocket.

If your restaurant increased prices by 20% and put that all towards increasing wages, I’d expect you to be making $30-34/hr.

(And tips are absolutely subject to payroll taxes.)

Let’s suppose tipping is banned.

If I’m a restaurant owner and I’m stupid, I might do nothing. Pay servers minimum wage. Keep menu prices the same. No change. However if I do that, the natural conclusion will be a complete inability to hire or retain servers. I will go out of business. It will be a disaster.

If I’m a restaurant owner with at least three brain cells, I look at all of the data from years of business to figure out what people actually pay for their meals, and increase prices by that amount (probably 15-20% depending on industry and area). I also look at that data to see what my employees are actually making on average, and increase their wages to that number. These numbers should be almost exactly the same, depending on local tax rates. I print new menus with higher prices, I raise the base wage of my employees to be commensurate with what they made including tips. Nothing changes. This keeps people happy in the short term. In the longer term, the market will show what a server needs to be paid at different restaurants, but this will be a slower shift.

If a dummy restaurant owner thinks they can pay a server minimum wage, they deserve to go out of business. Most restaurant owners don’t want to go out of business and will preemptively raise wages to prevent a mass exodus.

Same!

Dealt with acne my whole adult life. You can do a lot of experimentation to see what helps, but it could get worse before it gets better. I’d get to my doctor (PCP) asap and ask for a course of oral antibiotics. Oral antibiotics worked absolute wonders for me, however you can’t take them forever and this is an ideal situation for them (“I’m on a specific timeline and need something with really high likelihood of positive results right away.”)

This is the answer, OP!

Jumpsuit?

I know an Abi who is Abilene!

I’m a little confused by your post. The “freshly graduated” intern should be making more than someone who is a junior in college.

For the same level of experience, level of education, and job duties, you should be making the same as your “twin interns.” But you can’t compare apples to oranges, legally speaking.

What state are you in? I would send an email to both your manager and HR saying “It has recently come to my attention that I am paid less than X. It appears to me that we have the same experience, education, and job duties, so I don’t understand why I would be paid less. Can you please clarify?”

When you get a response, forward it to your personal email address for your records.

The white fuzz is mealy bugs, a lot of them. Spray everything down with isopropyl alcohol and then keep out of the sun until the alcohol completely evaporates (like 2+ days)

Following!

I love the idea of a do not disturb card! Definitely stealing that.

I’m still quite far away and have spent too much time thinking about it, but was also planning to put local items (little soaps, nuts grown in the area, etc). And possibly some standard snacks (chips, a granola bar). Also planning to put a handwritten, personalized not in each (guests are staying at our venue and we’re assigning rooms, so will put the bags with notes in each room before people arrive)

Can anyone explain this “leak”? I’m very confused

This is exactly what I’m looking for! But I’m in Portland, Oregon 😭

Best of luck with your business!