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My current annoyance is I don't remember what it feels like to be really nice and warm.
Also, the air mattress & crappy chairs are making my back hurt. Feh.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 01:16 AM
NeroW, what jerks! You need to get out of there, that shit is never going to get better. Loyalty is wasted on these people. You are just being used.
My current annoyance is I don't remember what it feels like to be really nice and warm. Also, the air mattress & crappy chairs are making my back hurt. Feh.
My current annoyance is I don't remember what it feels like to be really nice and warm.
Also, the air mattress & crappy chairs are making my back hurt. Feh.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 02:30 AM
ngatti, on Dec 6 2005, 11:28 PM, said:
Come to NY.
Nah. More of the same. Come to Flint.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 02:59 AM
Maurice Naughton, on Dec 9 2005, 02:30 AM, said:
ngatti, on Dec 6 2005, 11:28 PM, said:
Come to NY.
Nah. More of the same. Come to Flint.
Hell no. I was born in Detroit. I know better than that.
EDIT: Unfortunately, Chef, I like Chicago too much to want to move to New York
Thank the gods I have the next two days off.
We eat so many shrimp, we got iodine poisonin
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 04:45 AM
NeroW, on Dec 9 2005, 12:46 AM, said:
I actually combed the neighborhood bars looking for the owner so I could wrench his beer from his ego-ridden hands and demand an explanation.
When you find him let us know so we can beat the shit out of him.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 05:02 AM
Thanks for the outpouring of support. I just remembered, I don't have the next two days off. I work Saturday night. Another annoyance.
Also: finals.
Also: finals.
We eat so many shrimp, we got iodine poisonin
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 06:36 AM
just leave. always be present only where you are valued. kitchens NEED and are desperate for good people on the line.
remember, they need you more than you need them.
remember, they need you more than you need them.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 04:41 PM
Time to tip the building staff. Mama mia.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 04:44 PM
omnivorette, on Dec 9 2005, 11:41 AM, said:
Time to tip the building staff. Mama mia.
Ach. And the trouble is, it's deserved - we're lucky. But another expense.
Did I mention before that all the birthdays and anniversaries I really have to buy for, plus Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year arrive within the space of about a six/seven week period?
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 04:49 PM
I know it's deserved. We are also verrrry lucky in our building. The guy on the list who has been here the SHORTEST has been here 11 years. But it's just a lot at one time.
I have to buy exactly zero Christmas gifts. Ah, the joys of being a Jew at Christmas.
I have to buy exactly zero Christmas gifts. Ah, the joys of being a Jew at Christmas.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 04:58 PM
Wilfrid, on Dec 7 2005, 02:44 PM, said:
omnivorette, on Dec 9 2005, 11:41 AM, said:
Time to tip the building staff. Mama mia.
Ach. And the trouble is, it's deserved - we're lucky. But another expense.
Did I mention before that all the birthdays and anniversaries I really have to buy for, plus Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year arrive within the space of about a six/seven week period?
Fortunately, neither of my friends requires much maintenance. And I have to tip only the mail carrier.
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 05:10 PM
mail carriers have to be tipped?
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 05:13 PM
omnivorette, on Dec 9 2005, 11:41 AM, said:
Time to tip the building staff. Mama mia.
I got a holiday card under my door from my bldgs staff - the super, the part time handyman, and the 3 guys who work the front desk.
Is there a standard amount to tip? Do you put it all in one envelope for them to divvy up or do you give $ to each individually. (one of our doorpeople/front desk guy has only been here a month and I don't even know his name...)
Also, I only moved in Sept 1 - am I expected to pay the whole years worth of tip or a smaller amt as I moved in late in the year?
I have never had a doorman or super before so I don't know how this whole thing works.....
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Posted 09 December 2005 - 05:23 PM
It's tricky. I live in an enormous building with dozens of doormen and maintenance people. I tip the guys in the package room, the one concierge of the phalanx of them that has been helpful to me, and the doormen I actually interact with. That's about six people and they each get $50. We have 'rovers' who bring up your cleaning, packages, etc. I tip them when they deliver stuff but not at the end of the year. The letter carrier (I have always tipped them because my mother did ) gets $20 and I always get a thank you note which leads me to believe not everyone does this. Cleaning lady, when I had one, got two weeks pay. When I lived in a non doorman building I gave my terrific, wonderful super $200. He kept the building spotless, took packages, fed my cats when I was away and could fix anything. In my current place I don't tip the maintenance people--there are a ton of them--but I may have to tip the head of maintenance this year because he's been very helpful with a leak that I had.
Aaron, you could try asking a neighbor, if you know any of them well enough, what is standard in your building.
) gets $20 and I always get a thank you note which leads me to believe not everyone does this. Cleaning lady, when I had one, got two weeks pay. When I lived in a non doorman building I gave my terrific, wonderful super $200. He kept the building spotless, took packages, fed my cats when I was away and could fix anything. In my current place I don't tip the maintenance people--there are a ton of them--but I may have to tip the head of maintenance this year because he's been very helpful with a leak that I had.Aaron, you could try asking a neighbor, if you know any of them well enough, what is standard in your building.
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