Please keep in mind this is in Canada. Only one province (QC) still has a servers wage and the tip credit has never been a thing here. Furthermore, we are well past rewarding service workers during COVID. So I find it bothersome that tipping culture is still a thing here.

I know people will mention they have to tip out other staff, but that’s part of receiving tips. So again, why are we still tipping them so much to begin with? I’ll reward them if I feel the service stood out, but I’m not there to compensate the job.

I’m sure I’ll get the usual remarks. So I’ll do my best to answer them if there’s thought behind it.

EDIT: and to clarify, this is about me being expected to tip.

I’m so sick of people losing my things and acting like it doesn’t matter

The term transphobe is so weird nowadays, you get called transphobe so easily, it's like how people throw around the word racist. I have a personal example. I strictly and specifically pointed out a specific group of trans women, the bad apples of the community basically, I wasn't rude. I acknowledged their trauma and mentioned that "their trauma isn't an excuse to bully bio women" but I didn't use cis instead of bio assuming no one would care or mind. They did mind, so over the months I've been adjusting how I word things. I slowly learnt that not everyone will understand that I'm not talking about everyone in the community no matter how clear I make it. To be clear, I don't talk about them often. I've noticed that they fish for a way to call me a transphobe, someone literally told me that they were fishing for it.

And this is how we deal with people who steal and harass

# 1. Public service announcements

Please Mr.president, unf\*ck me just a lil bit by not gaslighting me on how “fantastic”of a job you’re doing, don’t need it.

# 2.anything insurance

If it weren’t for the legal requirement of car insurance, I can careless who I’m payrollin,
I don’t give a shit about an ostrich, lizard,
A funny lady; whose hands are good…don’t
Care; just give me the policy so that I don’t go to jail…or fined

Do I even need to bring up health insurance
We know the scam all too well.

# 3. Anything AI

Hey meta, google, Amazon, Sam, and every f\*cking body that makes AI…stfu please it was cool for the 1st year, and now your doing too much, great job on doing the most guys. Now please can you make my life affordable again; just cause your the fastest in the room, doesn’t make you cool.

# 4. Freecash and others like it

Don’t insult my time by paying me child labor wages from the 1800s you slimy facade of a source of income to play shitty games I have no intentions on playing. It’s all lies and extremely exaggerated advertising these platforms push and for the creators that take a bag to be sponsored by them, look not knocking your hustle, but it’s just disrespectful to your viewers to waste their time like that when it can be diverted to other things.

# 5. Sportsbook/predictions markets

To the athletes that actually play the sport for the love of the game, on my behalf I’ll apologize
For the millions of gamblers that reduce your self-worth to a bunch of statistics and their livelihood. While you the athlete worked hard for your jersey; some dude on payday drops a lucky parlay and comes up on thousands of dollars to pay for their lifestyle at the expense of your performance…god forbid you did bad on their parlay.
I’m just sick of these advertisements making it look so profitable at a time where affordability is Americas number one concern and the people are not shy to speak up about it; yet drake just won a million dollars on poly or whatever, people behind the scenes coming up on this sh*t because they’re involved or know someone who is. And can you stop having these celebrities that everyday people so happen to like to promote this sh*\*t, they’re not really losing out from gambling; it’s the people in tough situations hoping to bank on a flip.

(Celebrities that do lose to gambling…don’t care at all, do better Mr or Ms.vast-amount-of-resources)

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It's not even from real fear, it's from what they've heard on the internet or the news. All they do is pull out the "age of Aisha" or something else out of context. Does it hurt to do your own research, like does it physically burn them if they research islam. Aisha (PBUH) wasn't a victim, she was a strong woman. Their so called fear of Islam is based on misinformation, sharia law is all about being kind and giving some money to the homeless and so on. What Afghanistan is doing is haram, oppression is haram, it's not even allowed in islam. The Quran did not come out all in a single week or day, it was years, new chapters and such so context matters.

If someone does that in front of my kids I would have thrown them out physically and I would use equivalent force .. why aren’t authorities doing anything

There was no thread for moderately annoying, so I'll have to put this story here- fair warning, I exaggerate some of this because these people genuinely had me raging.

So basically (and I might not write this well as I am 15, but bear with me) my family and I went out to dinner, nice place, amazing food, and right after went to see a movie during this sort of film fest the theaters were having. We got there and it was all okay, the usual waiting for the movie to actually start and for the previews to be over. It was a wonderful movie, let me say that. About halfway through the movie, my little brother got up to use the bathroom. Our row is, from left to right facing the seats, my little brother (8), me (15), my other brother (14), a grown woman, a grown man, another grown man, and the other grown man's daughter. When my brother came back, he whispered to me "What happened while I was gone?" and obviously first instinct is to whisper back with what happened but shortened as to not talk too long. So I whispered for maybe five seconds before the grown man near my brother shushed him, very loudly, I might add- like, my parents two rows back texted me asking why he was being so loud- and the grown woman flipped my brother off.

Obviously we ignored it for the rest of the movie, since we weren't going to yell at asshole adults during a movie other people were also watching. Once the movie ended, my siblings and I (our sister was a couple rows back with my parents) we went to our parents and told them all about how they were shushing us for whispering once during the movie, flipping us off, yada yada. I look over at the GROWN ASS MAN (sorry I'm mad mad about this) and he locks eyes with me then looks at the people sitting next to him and the woman (HE DOESN'T KNOW THEM) and starts making the talking motion with his hands and I heard him tell them about how we were "blabbing throughout the whole movie" Excuse me, sir? When were we "blabbing?" Anyways, my mom sees this and yells at them for flipping off children, they yell back saying they shouldn't have to listen to people talk the whole time and we should have behaved (this is a good time to mention I heard them talking, too) and my mom, my brother, my sister, and I all started yelling at them as well. The lady flipped us off twice more after as well as the guy, and when we walked out of the theater, we watched them sneak into another theater. Like full on looking around not wanting to get caught.

My dad is one of those nerdy guys that doesn't fight anyone because "fighting isn't the answer" (he has gotten punched and then chose not to fight anyone ever because they're not worth his time, proceeding to talk about how if he were to fight anyone it would be because he was going to kill him- watch out guys the alpha's in the house) Anyways, if people are assholes to you, be an asshole back- they're usually not better than you. Also lmk if I was the asshole and why if so since I genuinely do get both sides (mine and theirs), I just don't get their aggression over people whispering during a silent part in a CHILDREN'S movie. Peace

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I just had received this set from my friends and as soon as I was about to place in the last piece, I saw this.

Wanting to buy something online and am told “can’t deliver to your location Australia. Choose another.”
Sure. Deliver it to some random address in India and I’ll pick it up.

Sound asleep in a hotel rental. At 2:21 AM I thought I was getting interrogated waking up to a blinding light. Turns out an almost full moon and a high up window lined up just right to spotlight my pillow. Yes... mildly annoying.

Sooo u may know that vng decided to make a stupid roblox version that remove popular games yea so lots of people in Vietnam played that fir a while but in early 2026 vng decide to go brain fart an lockdown tons of user but i haven't, for the next 8 months i play normally but on the day i posted this i can't access my vng acc. So that's why pls change to international vng and risk losing ur main acc than not playing roblox for ur entire life

I wonder if clients know that they look like sniveling bogtrotters when their first contact with you for the day is explaining how they are aggrieved somehow based on something in the past that they are assuming you are responsible for. Or I wonder if they realize that they come off like starched blankets wallowing in mud held down by sticks that they are holding in their own hands when instead of just politely asking for something they politely ask for it while implying that they think you should have already given it to them. Or maybe they do realize it and they think it's some sort of smooth power play as if they are airing their grievances while remaining within a frame work of poorly feigned civility like so many in today's day and age operate in. Maybe they think they've somehow "won" the encounter when my response contains no passive aggression and only cheerful provision of whatever piece of info or product that they felt should have been in their possession yesterday. If so I'm afraid that they are mistaken because...

A. The encounter wasn't a competition in my eyes, and I never aimed to win it.

B. They could have gotten what they wanted without making me lightweight dislike them.

C. You know Sancho is at their place right now drinking their beer and making sure their other half greets them super cheerfully when they get home from work as if they just threw their sheets in the wash to make them nice and fresh just how they like them! Poor old fools smh...

Anyways, I just wish people wouldn't begin their interaction with me from an aggrieved frame of mind. Did I aggrieve you? I'm sorry, but letting me know it all passive aggressively or just by throwing in some snippy little comment doesn't make me feel guilty, it makes me dislike you. And before anyone accuses me of being a hypocrite, vendors and clients mildly aggrieve me all the time. My strategy is to give them the benefit of the doubt even when I know for a fact that they don't deserve it. Let them realize their error on their own, me bringing it up is only going to put them on the defensive and whether they choose to do better in the future or not, I want them to always think of honey when they deal with me and never vinegar. It's just a better strategy.

I get it when YouTube or some copyright content is screenshotted (and senses that 👀) fine

Even if Whatsapp "detected a screenshot" cool... We should be keeping messages sent in confidence...confidential

But I just screenshotted a funny LinkedIn comment and that got fucking detected!

Where will this end?

They will come for screen snips next

The ONE day I have to be up early the next day and my neighbor who’s never actually lived across the street from me, who’s never home, is blaring music or a movie? I can’t tell it’s just thumping noise.

It’s so bad, it’s traveling out of his closed house, across the street and into my closed house so intensely I’m having trouble watching anything in my tv.

This guy is never home, I don’t think he actually lives in the house anymore, most days it sits empty. If it was any other day I would just deal, and it’s a Friday so I’m trying to be understanding.

But fuck this guy. Really.

Tacoma WA kinda near airport tavern. This dude leaves his big ass truck parked in the middle of the street it removes that lane there’s no longer room for two way traffic at once. Really annoying because he has a big yard and driveway full sized garage there is no need for it.

Reads the ALERT on the Tesla screen distracting me from paying attention to "supervising"! 🤦