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Old 23-11-2009, 05:08 PM
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Take Rhode Island, for example. Minimum wage there is $7.40/hr but if you work somewhere that tips (like a fast food joint) you get....drum roll....$2.89/hr
Yeah but Carl at the end of the financial year they all get a $5 million bonus just for turning up to work all year right.
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Old 23-11-2009, 05:29 PM
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Yeah but Carl at the end of the financial year they all get a $5 million bonus just for turning up to work all year right.
Which job's that....can I apply for it last week??
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Old 23-11-2009, 05:37 PM
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I feel bad for foreigners traveling to the USA nowadays. The incredibly insane "security" process makes life bad enough for Americans, but when I see what non-Americans have to go through at our airports I wonder why they even visit the States.

The good news is that many American tourism businesses are waking up to the fact that it's been a total disaster for them. American authorities used the bogus terrorist threat as a way to tighten their grasp on Citizens. The USA is a great place but it has some kinks still to be ironed out, some of them pretty bad ones.

As sad as I am to leave my old home behind me, Aussies and Kiwis are now my countrymen and I consider myself honored and privileged.
Glad to call you an Ozmeister man
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Old 23-11-2009, 05:40 PM
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Which job's that....can I apply for it last week??

Oh sorry no. My Bad! The annual $5million bonus only applies to executive personnel who lost the company a squillion last year or contributed to bringing about the financial crises. Because if we didnt pay them a annual $5million bonus how else could we attract such talent. No I'm affraid you're gonna have to content yourself with $2.89 an hour. But dont worry just keep calling people sir and beg for tips and you might end up with a minimum wage.
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Old 23-11-2009, 05:50 PM
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You're back! You said it was your last post. Your like KISS last gig ever in Australia. They say that then come back the following year for another last one!
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Old 23-11-2009, 05:54 PM
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You're back! You said it was your last post. Your like KISS last gig ever in Australia. They say that then come back the following year for another last one!
I tried to warn him many posts back....but would he listen?

Now look. The eye's starting to twitch....the veins are starting pop out at the side of his head

Get out......get out while you can. Run you fool!!!!!!!
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Old 23-11-2009, 05:54 PM
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You're back! You said it was your last post. Your like KISS last gig ever in Australia. They say that then come back the following year for another last one!
LOL! It's amazing that when a debate is lost for some, it must degenerate into boyish retorts.

I never, ever stated that the US is a model environment. Pay rates are bloody awful in many cases! This just wasn't the subject of the thread so why make it so?

Matt - the poofer valve is busted already - staying away is now a moot point. I'm in for the long haul. I guess that it's known here now - when I promise to put the effort in to something, I will.

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Let's hope he doesn't dress like them!!!!
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wow, the moderators are quicker than quick draw mcgraw in this thread

and rightly so in my opinion for most of it
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Old 23-11-2009, 06:24 PM
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This is not America, I make no claims about Freedom of Speech here.

This is IceInSpace. Not a place for political discussions or anti-any country discussions.
Mike - with all due respect why was this thread even allowed then, since anyone with common sense was going to realise that it would attract comments about tipping and US lifestyle(s)?

A bit of the pot calling the kettle black imho. It's OK to praise US tipping styles, but not to criticise it. If you were fairly censoring things, you'd be removing all of the pro tipping posts as well.

Gee...I can see why Mike Sidonio made his comment earlier on in the thread about post nazis...all I see here is favouritism to certain individuals allowing them to wax rhetorically about the beauty of the American wages system.

I mean, we're in Australia, should we even be talking about US wages?

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Old 23-11-2009, 06:25 PM
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OH and I wonder what will happen when (and it will happen) freedom of speech gets legislated here...online forums will be in for interesting times methinks.

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