I’ve never done food service or retail where people are way more often openly terrible, but I have dug ditches (in the last year) and been a dirty laborer and understand the feeling of being in a servant class and how a fancy person actually being nice and saying you can use their bathroom or giving you some water makes them seem extra-nice. And being in very rich people’s homes and told by their people not to take pictures and more or less keep your head down and don’t speak unless you’re spoken to. I don’t experience the degrading treatment nearly to the degree of other people in my position (who are mostly Hispanic - or if they are white they often have clear class indicators (maybe tattoos)), but occasionally I see some very interesting changes after someone talks to me and they see I speak upper-middle class.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1217811852790587392
Lollllllll
Parnas threatens to release a new photo every time Trump denies knowing him
As the years have gone by I’ve been more and more grateful to have worked in a restaurant when I was in high school, which I think contributed to my current worldview (which is obviously awesome and perfect)
The best world view! Award-winning world view!
Undoubtedly if he could prevent black and brown farmers from getting the welfare and allow only whites in flint to get it, he would.
#UnitedStatesofRacism
It’s a very fleeting change tho. They always quickly find a way to reestablish those class boundaries.
That happens too. Nice chat, now get back to work.
Sometimes they really fall in love though. It’s like I’m a noble savage, which, come to think of it, I am.
Luckily Karen is easily the most annoying person I meet during my work day, but she’s a lightweight compared to drunk Karen at 12am on a Friday with 1 shoe and no boyfriend… And it’s still Trivial shit.
Wee mick down the road though, he’s just a nightmare all told and capable of some real shit…
Having a accent that fits with both helps in most situations… 
Word is Lamar! has been straying from teamTrump. Need to butter him up a bit.
I find that even more insulting. I have less than zero interest in being some bougie fuck’s one working class friend so they can feel better about themselves and how they treat all the other working class people like 3rd class citizens.
Lol grain markets have been down hard both yesterday and today since the language of the agreement was released.
Katy Tur and Nicole Wallace are particularly good.
https://mobile.twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1217852260136427521
You can run but you can’t Hyde
So much this. My parents tip everyone extremely well and I picked up on that
I struggle to tip someone poorly even if the service is atrocious. I recently went to dinner with a friend from high school, who works in private equity in NYC, and his wife and the waitress must have forgot to put our order in. The entire place started clearing our and we waited about an hour for our food when others came after us and got served before us.
Was I happy? No, but my friend’s wife was furious and I talked her off the ledge of reporting our server to the manager which seemed pointless. Unfortunately our server didn’t apologize or anything and acted like everything was cool. However, even then I struggled to leave less than 15%. You never know what’s going on in someone else’s life and everyone has a bad day at work once in a while.
Part of Karen’s problem is that having money isn’t making her happy and she resents it. She’s desperate for it to matter. Abusing people who can’t punch back fills the void.
it’s amazing that people think there’s some sort of conspiracy. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out there’s a good chance Hyde (or previously, Stone) is about to get arrested and send a camera crew to sit across the street from his house.
I love them both. It seems that the near universal consensus here is that Wallace is one of the best if not the best on MSNBC. I’m seeing tweets from people calling for her to replace Chuck Todd. Nobody seems to remember that she used to work for Dubya McSlingblade and was a Republican waaaaaayyyy more recently than Liz Warren and also gets treated much better than Rick Wilson or Jennifer Rubin.
in other news, so much winning you’re going to get tired of it
John Paul, owner of Cameron Winery in Dundee, says “Cameron literally rides on the coattails of French wine sales. This is true of all my compatriot wineries in Oregon.” Paul’s prediction if the 100% tariff is levied? “I expect literally 100% of my distributors around the country to fold. It will devastate us like nothing seen since Prohibition.”"