Why do Internet Marketers always insult McDonald's employees?

There's no shortage of McDonalds out there. That's all I know.

Yup! But rather, I think they should all try IM sometime. They can stay home and work for themselves and build lists and create cool niche sites and make money online through Adsense and Amazon and make massive products by JVing with the big players. Who wants to wake up everyday in the morning and travel to work and be told what to do by a snotty disgusting boss anyway?
(This is just tongue in cheek humour! No offense intended towards anyone.)

There was a thread here a year or so ago about how everyone should word from home online.
It developed into a thread bashing everyone who has a job.
I reminded everyone if it wasn't for people having jobs, you wouldn't be able to work at home online.
People with jobs deserve some praise, not ridicule.

You have no reason to be sorry, Steve, as you didn't say anything to
warrant it.

When did this start, almost 10 years ago? The tip jar on the counter for
people at the counter.

I've seen lots of tips jars at counters that say, "Tips for the cooks."

Well hell... how about a whole line of tip jars each with separate labels?

Tips for the cook's children.
Tips for the employees' pets - hey, they need to eat, too!
Tips for my relatives.
Tips for...

But this has caught on, hugely, as you all know. And now it's expected.
I've seen people hand me my change, and they so cleverly put their hand
right over the tip jar and moved it slowly so it hovered over it.

Of course that sealed their fate with me. Never will they get anything.

And just as an fyi, I always tip waiters and waitresses 30% regardless of
the cost. For guys, if you go to a real barber - a real one - they routinely
only get tipped about a dollar. I've seen it too many times. But I even tip
my barber 30% of a $15 haircut.

Hey, nothing wrong with putting your hand out and asking if you can spare
a dime, brother. If that's what people want to do. But tips for counter work?
I don't see it and never do it.


Ken

McDonalds gets free advertising on the Warrior Forum!

Well, Ken, Kim, and I, are in the US, whatever difference THAT may make. At least one restaurant in the US had people JAILED for not paying a "tip". And you are apparently right about big parties. So I have been TOLD. I have been in parties consisting of DOZENS of people, and they make a point to pay the tip! HECK, I once went to a group that basically rented a room, in a restaraunt every week. They covered EVERYTHING, so all people attending got free food. The waiters and waitresses seemed happy, etc...

Then again, some waiters and waitresses ARE bad about big parties. HECK, I was in one party of about 20 earlier this month and ordered a dish. I was HUNGRY! They had NO pictures, etc... It was an INDIAN place and though they "described" things in "english", it required a knowledge of indian cuisine, terms, and culture, that I certainly didn't have. I was kind of lucky that there were a lot of indians in the group so I could ask.

I was the ONLY one ordering a MEAL to that point! Do you know what happened? They figured if it got to the TABLE, it would be OK. The OTHERS shared it among themselves, as an appetizer. I got not so much as a nibble, glance, or sniff. They REORDERED and, MUCH LATER, I got the dish! Luckily, I liked it. If I didn't, I probably would have talked to the manager, and asked to talk to the owner, and I would have said I was hungry and would go elsewhere to eat and just LEAVE! I would have tried to be nice to my paarty, and very harsh to the restaurant, and let both sides know how I felt. AND, frankly, I never want to be there again.

If I had been the head of that party, I would have been VERY upset, and paid less of a tip on the ENTIRE bill. That bill was probably well into the hundreds. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it were about $600USD! A 20% tip on that would be $120! I probably would have lowered it to $90, just for that fiasco! AND, if the tip were that high, I would have let them know that it was lower than it could have been.

And YEAH, GOOD waiters and waitresses deserve it. Giving it to everyone else CHEAPENS the idea.

So who knows, maybe the idea of big parties not paying tips is some sort of myth. I never saw it.

steve

You can teach people to function in a kitchen.
But the truly good cook isn't made, they're born
For example, I've never used a timer while baking, or cooking anything else for that matter. It wasn't uncommon for me to have 5 or 6 cakes in different ovens and I'd be making something else like a 5 gal. batch of chocolate moose while they where baking.
Another thing about working in a kitchen like the club's was the hours you put in. You didn't produce that much food in an 8 hour day. You also didn't do it working a 5 day week. Organization and planning where the keys as well as having a natural ability to cook. I would start my days at 7 am. Usually by midnight I was calling it a day. By then I had done any prep I could for the next day and had started living that day in my mind. By the time I came to work the next morning I had gone over everything I needed to do that day so many times that I never had to think about what needed to be done next.
Also if something happens, you need to be able to adapt immediately. Very rare was the times you had to actually stop and think about what you had to do. You had to always be prepared for things you didn't expect to happen.
That was probably the hardest and most stressful job I ever had.
But if it didn't destroy me physically (candidate for artificial knee in my mid 30's, start of my back problems) I'd still be there, it is one of only 3 occupations I've had that I loved passionately and was damn good at.

Anyways I told you that to get to this point
True you need effort and knowledge which you pick up as you go along.
But if you aren't born with the abilities, love, and passion, you won't make it long enough to gain the knowledge no matter what the effort.