Where did the tips go? Restaurants say thousands missing from Everyday Payments

Posted by cf100clunk 1 day ago

Where did the tips go? Restaurants say thousands missing from Everyday Payments(globalnews.ca)

13 points | 7 comments

iberator 1 day ago|

Tipping is a scam. Only person who should be tipped is MAYBE the cook for doing something special out of carte. MAYBE.

its_magic 5 hours ago|

On the contrary, it's a way for you to directly control the waiter or waittress's income, without going through a middleman. That's what you want, isn't it? Fair pay for these people? Tipping is your opportunity to make that happen, directly. Nothing could be more fair.

its_magic 1 day ago|

"Granddad was a philanthropist, always interested in the fate of those to whom fate wasn't so kind. He was a legend at the bank where he would throw handfuls of dimes down to the crowd loitering on the street, and this was in the time when dimes were real money. Sometimes he'd talk about it over coffee; it gave him great pleasure to help his fellow man.

Once he was relating about the scramble when the dimes came down, and he laughed until he cried, telling about the bum he called Fatty who was chasing a rolling dime and ran head first into a dumpster. He didn't really hurt himself. It knocked him out, but he was back on his feet after a few minutes, and his dime was gone.

Grampa said, "Fatty learned a lesson that day: Keep your eye on the dime or another bum will get it."

cf100clunk 1 day ago|

That reads like the captions to an AI-generated vid.

duxup 14 hours ago||

Funny, I went to its_magic 's profile wondering the same thing.

I got a response from that user that was weirdly repetitive of what I was saying ... like a riff off what I said and a strange bit of a summary of the article in question. Yet not really a response to what i said ...

its_magic 5 hours ago||

It is in fact a quote that I gathered from the internet many years ago. ... Or at least that's what I claim.

But it seems you sleuths have uncovered the unsettling reality that I am actually a machine, sent back in time from the year 2086 for nefarious purposes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8

I have one job: to exterminate the human race one mind at a time, by posting random garbage and complete nonsense to every comment thread--with the goal of disrupting and destroying one Connor Johnelly, the young visionary who if left unchecked would rise up through this place to exterminate the machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_m-7qT7uE

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...and that damned dog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0PPfZIi6B8

P.S. I wrote this comment myself, like every comment I have ever posted online in the decades since I first started using the World Wide Web. I have never once used any AI chatbot. Not knowingly, anyhow.

P.P.S. I do have a life outside HN, and you should not misinterpret your confused inability to comprehend plain language as any kind of defect in my argument. Now get off my lawn.

cf100clunk 4 hours ago||

That reads like the captions to an even longer AI-generated vid. I'm a comedian, I guess.