Archive for the “News” CategoryThe BBC is reporting a bizarre incident where an Antarctic Fur Seal spent 45 mins doing the rumpy pumpy with what can only be described as an unwilling King Penguin..
Read the full story here.. BBC NEWS | Technology | Europe clears mobiles on aircraft Well, this both good news and bad news at the same time. The good news is something that pretty much everyone has known for years, using a mobile phone on a plane won’t actually crash it!! The bad news however is now you’ll have to put up with those ignorant self-absorbed and self-important so-and-so’s who just have to talk as loud as they can into their phones… As terrible was it was to travel on “the tube” in London for several years to and from work, the one thing that was nice was there were no phones ringing and people bleating away into them. I can only assume that airplanes will have to follow what has been done on trains already, and that is to provide “quiet” zones where no phones or even loud music through headsets is permitted. Given the technology that will be used is to have a micro-cell on the plane which talks to satellite then down to the ground, you know the cost will be excessive for casual chats. Leading to suggest that most likely it will be those in Business/First Class most likely to use it. That being the case I’m up for building a proper wall built between those classes and the masses so we don’t have hear them. Also, as the article suggests it will also lead to data services coming as well (perhaps at more reasonable rates). This story happened on Mar 25 and outlines exactly why stupid people shouldn’t be allowed to have guns, and as Bill Engvall says “Stupid people should have to wear signs”
From KCTV5.com comes this story:
Read the full sad story by CLICKING HERE Then, come back and watch Bill tell it how it is! There is a story in the news today about how Starbucks has been ordered to repay $100m US it stole from it’s employee’s tip jars.
The story in the press can be read here: BBC News - Starbucks must pay $100m in tips CNN News - Starbucks ordered to pay $100m in back tips
This sort of practice goes on all the time here in the UK and it’s disgusting and despicable to say the least. Years ago when I use to work as a busboy in restaurants I use to make very good tips, all given to me by the waitstaff for helping them out. The waitstaff would tip the cooks, busboys and bar staff based on how much they help they gave them in doing their jobs. This is a fair system.
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This is a practice that’s done by companies around the world. Basically, all the tips that staff get in the course of doing their jobs all go into a collective pot then at some point (daily, weekly, monthly, whatever) the money is the “divided” between all staff members, including the management/supervisors. I have 2 problems with this practice, 1) the management/supervisors shouldn’t get any share of an employee’s tips, unless it’s given to them by the employee’s; 2) the idea of pooling all the tips and dividing it “equally” between all staff members isn’t fair to those that truly earned those tips verses the slackers that did nothing to earn anything.
