So Says SALVATORE

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising the minimum wage.

Costco announced record profits today, averaging $10,000 in profit per employee compared to $7,400 at Walmart.
The secret to Costco’s success is paying employees well, providing benefits, and giving them an opportunity to unionize.

So large corporations’ excuses that treating & paying workers well would damage profits are all a crock of shit.

ctcon: Remember that awesome Nickelodeon TV show from the 90’s,...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:58:53 -0400

ctcon:

Remember that awesome Nickelodeon TV show from the 90’s, Figure It Out? Now is your chance to participate! Apply now and have the chance to show off your geeky talents on stage while winning prizes by stumping the cast of Wreck It Ralph!

Don’t forget, the application deadline for this event is Sunday, June 9th!

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joehillsthrills: Donald Glover talking about the comments he...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:03:00 -0400

joehillsthrills:

Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)

“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”

He woulda been a great fuckin’ Spider-Man.

emperpep: artist-confessions: Picasso is sketching at a park....

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:17:07 -0400

emperpep:

artist-confessions:

Picasso is sketching at a park. A woman walks by, recognizes him, and begs for her portrait. Somehow, he agrees. A few minutes later, he hands her the sketch. She is elated, excited about how wonderfully it captures the very essence of her character, what beautiful work it is, and asks how much she owes him. “5000 francs, madam,” says Picasso. The woman is incredulous, outraged, and asks how that’s even possible given it only took him 5 minutes. Picasso looks up and, without missing a beat, says: “No, madam, it took me my whole life.”

Every time I see someone complain that a person’s commissions on DA are way to expensive, I think to myself how silly they are for saying that. Artist’s have put their time and effort into their style, anatomy, and art in general. Yet people think the years an artist has practiced their skills don’t really matter. It takes years to improve and perfect artist’s styles, don’t go and judge when you have no idea how much it took them to get to that place.

All art @ Picasso

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I like the second part, and I’m going to reblog this.

Connecticon Dating Game 2013 by *virgiliArt

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:04:22 -0500

Connecticon Dating Game 2013 by *virgiliArt

Valentine Hearts

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:02:53 -0500

Valentine Hearts

becauseiamawoman: thefrisky: The 8 Jerks Who Opposed The...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:14:28 -0500

becauseiamawoman:

thefrisky:

The 8 Jerks Who Opposed The Violence Against Women Act

This link includes their contact info. Pass it on!

Bradley Warshauer: Louisiana State University continues to persecute professor it fired for being right about U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:11:48 -0500

Bradley Warshauer: Louisiana State University continues to persecute professor it fired for being right about U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:

bradleywarshauer:

As a director of the university’s Hurricane Center and faculty member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, van Heerden had helped develop the computer models for storm surge that proved horrifyingly accurate during Katrina. Within weeks of the storm he had assembled proof…

laurennmcc: “If you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to eat...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:29:25 -0500

laurennmcc:

“If you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to eat out.”

My husband works INCREDIBLY hard for his low wage, no health care and tips. He has kept us together while I have been in grad school by working at a job where he has to be nice to people that treat him like dirt. That this woman thinks that he wouldn’t be worth $6 of her “godly money” makes me insane with rage.

mercurialme:

lukeybabee:

guardiancomment:

Chelsea Welch, the US waitress who was fired after she posted a picture of a tip receipt on Reddit, wrote for us:

I was a waitress at Applebee’s restaurant in Saint Louis. I was fired Wednesday for posting a picture on Reddit.com of a note a customer left on a bill. I posted it on the web as a light-hearted joke.

This didn’t even happen at my table. The note was left for another server, who allowed me to take a picture of it at the end of the night.

Someone had scribbled on the receipt, “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?”

I assumed the customer’s signature was illegible, but I quickly started receiving messages containing Facebook profile links and websites, asking me to confirm the identity of the customer. I refused to confirm any of them, and all were incorrect.

I worked with the Reddit moderators to remove any personal information. I wanted to protect the identity of both my fellow server and the customer. I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone.

Now I’ve been fired.

The person who wrote the note came across an article about it, called the Applebee’s location, and demanded everyone be fired — me, the server who allowed me to take the picture, the manager on duty at the time, the manager not on duty at the time, everyone. It seems I was fired not because Applebee’s was represented poorly, not because I did anything illegal or against company policy, but because I embarrassed this person.

In light of the situation, I would like to make a statement on behalf of wait staff everywhere: We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make.

After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I make less than $9 an hour on average, before taxes. I am expected to skip bathroom breaks if we are busy. I go hungry all day if I have several busy tables to work. I am expected to work until 1:30am and then come in again at 10:30am to open the restaurant.

I have worked 12-hour double shifts without a chance to even sit down. I am expected to portray a canned personality that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people. And I am expected to do all of this, every day, and receive change, or even nothing, in return. After all that, I can be fired for “embarrassing” someone, who directly insults his or her server on religious grounds.

In this economy, $3.50 an hour doesn’t cut it. I can’t pay half my bills. Like many, I would love to see a reasonable, non-tip-dependent wage system for service workers like they have in other countries. But the system being flawed is not an excuse for not paying for services rendered.

I need tips to pay my bills. All waiters do. We spend an hour or more of our time befriending you, making you laugh, getting to know you, and making your dining experience the best it can be. We work hard. We care. We deserve to be paid for that.

I am trying to stand up for all of us who work for just a few dollars an hour at places like Applebee’s. Whether a chain steakhouse or a black-tie establishment, tipping is not optional. It is how we get paid.

I posted a picture to make people laugh, but now I want to make a serious point: Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think that the easiest way to save money on a night out is to skip the tip.

I can’t understand why I was fired over this. I was well liked and respected at Applebee’s. My sales were high, my managers had no problems with me, and I was even hoping to move up to management soon. When I posted this, I didn’t represent Applebee’s in a bad light. In fact, I didn’t represent them at all.

I did my best to protect the identity of all parties involved. I didn’t break any specific guidelines in the company handbook – I checked. But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebee’s has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than an angry customer. That’s a policy I can’t understand.

I am equally baffled about how a religious tithe is in any way related to paying for services at a restaurant. I can understand why someone could be upset with an automatic gratuity. However, it’s a plainly stated Applebee’s policy that a tip is added automatically for parties over eight like the one this customer was part of. I cannot control that kind of tip; it’s done by the computer that the orders are put into. I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the “Big Man” used as reasoning.

Obviously the person who wrote this note wanted it seen by someone. It’s strange that now that the audience is wider than just the server, the person is ashamed.

I have no agenda here. I seek no revenge against the note writer. I have no interest in exposing their identity, and, at this point, I’m not even sure I want my job back. I was just trying to make a joke, but I came home unemployed.

I’ve been waiting tables to save up some money so I could finally go to college, so I could get an education that would qualify me for a job that doesn’t force me to sell my personality for pocket change.

I totally understand how this person feel I was a server at ihop

This is fucked up and is the norm. You can’t demand that people play into the system as it’s set up, play the game, move up in life legally and with out the help of government ( and in many cases family) only to stiff them.
If you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to eat out.

Connecticon Battleship 2013

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:44:32 -0500

Connecticon Battleship 2013

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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:56 -0500

I’m the strongest there is.

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:04:39 -0500

I’m the strongest there is.