Gary Ponderosa

This take is insane. You must be a mod at r/antiwork

If all the staff does is pack up takeout orders, they can legally be paid $2.13 an hour.

Do you really think the food just springs into existence without having to be cooked or prepped?

No they won’t. USCG does not bill for search and rescue operations. US taxpayers will foot the bill for this.

I cannot speak for other sovereign entities that were involved, as I’m not familiar with their laws.

Did you submit a handwritten ticket,pay with cash, and order without ever looking at the menu? Did you do so without taking up any time of an employee or occupying any space in their establishment for any amount of time? Did you ask them to just give you all of the raw ingredients in a Togo container without actually cooking anything?

Of course not, so you used everything you just whined about getting a discount for.

Yes they can.

It can be, but it seems unlikely. Too many r/antiwork users are here already.

I agree comrade. Fuck anyone who tries to turn a profit.

Edit: and I never brought up grammar. I brought up you trying to use a phrase you clearly don’t understand.

You’re quoting British prices to an American topic, you clearly don’t understand how any part of the wholesaler process works, you don’t know that it’s en masse, not on mass, and you don’t seem to understand that the container isn’t the only cost associated with takeout orders.

A dollar fee seems like a small price to pay to not have to deal with you as a customer.

You’re wrong.

I have never seen that style of container for takeout in my life and I spent two decades in the service industry. That’s not common in America.

Still, for arguments sake that works out to about £.05 per box. Of course, that’s if you go to the wholesaler to pick it up. If you’re running a restaurant, you probably get it delivered with the rest of your dried goods. You pay for that, just like you pay for the cutlery and the napkins and the sauce packets and the bag it all goes in.

A buck really isn’t unreasonable here. I’ve worked at spots where the takeout container was $0.30 each, and that’s without figuring in the delivery/fuel surcharge.

It’s a charge for the container your takeout food went into. They’re a significant expense, especially if it’s any type of sustainable packaging. This is not new. It has been a thing since at least the early 2000s.

I agree. That’ll happen anywhere people reflexively downvote and insult over an objectively true statement just because it doesn’t fit their worldview.

I don’t care enough to go back and read what I wrote to confirm, but I’m fairly sure that I said I could tell when English wasn’t someone’s native language as an ancillary statement to my initial point that the correct course of action is to assume everyone is American unless contrary evidence arises.

I do not assume anyone who writes a certain way online is a native speaker. I assume anyone who writes a certain way is an American. We are the largest group of native English speakers online, especially in forums that aren’t dedicated to a specific country.

That’s not what you said. What you said was downvotes mean I’m wrong. I showed a case that clearly proved you were wrong, so now you’re trying to make a strawman argument out of an insignificant tangent.

I don’t think you actually believe anything you’re saying or are even cognizant of what it is that you are saying. I think you saw someone being downvotes and jumped on it as an opportunity to feel better about yourself since people are more likely to downvotes me since I’ve already been downvoted. I hope you progress in your life to the point where you don’t need this validation from others to function.

Good luck, and have a nice day.

Downvotes don’t mean I’m wrong. Downvotes mean people disagree with me. The two are not always the same.

By your logic, if I were to go into a conservative community and get downvotes for saying trans people deserve to live, that would mean they don’t deserve to live.

A typographical error is not a grammatical error. It’s nice to see people will always fall back on attacking the person when they don’t have a valid point.

And you can usually tell the ESLs because they usegrammar in an unnatural way, either very stiff and formal or with a heavy dose of influence from their native language.