• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, I never understood the ‘make me feel special’ argument, not fully. As gifts go it feels kinda like artsy stuff (pendants, necklaces, garments, etc) but at the same time it has even less (or another kind of) … I guess social value (how that person is now seen within a group) … ?

    The room ornamental value seems mute compared to potted plants.
    In case that is actually the point, that it somehow looks more aesthetically pleasing without all the other plant parts, … then hitting people a little is fine, as a treat.

    • chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Some plants the flowers are very pretty, but the whole plant isn’t practical to be kept indoors (e.g. roses), and they don’t necessarily flower all year round. If someone has a favourite flower or favourite colour of flower, it makes them feel special when someone thinks to buy them for them (they get a flower they love to look at for the next week, and they know that someone cares about them enough to buy them flowers, and keep the knowledge of which like).

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    4 months ago

    Well, I wasn’t aware until now that boobs could get angry.

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    4 months ago

    Hitting people isn’t funny.

    Edit: I guess about half of you think that hitting people is funny.

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      4 months ago

      Say that again when you’ve worked at an airport and handled the idiots’ stupid heavy luggage.

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        4 months ago

        …or in food service and had a 10 top walk I. the door 5 min before closing on a slow ass night

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          4 months ago

          I don’t know what that means, exactly, but 10 sounds too much in any case.

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            The number indicates how many people are at the table. A “4 top” is 4 people at a table, and pretty standard. A “10 top” is not only 2.5x as many people as normal, it’s also chaotic to seat and serve normally. You will also generally have to split out bills, some times in a complex way. Worst of all, the size of the table diffuses responsibility for tipping, generally leading to paltry or no tips. This will occasionally go the other way, with someone being generous as it’s usually an event, but the “5 minutes before close” crowd doesn’t tend to be generous.

            So it’s a hard table, that won’t pay well, right before you were about to go home for the night.

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              4 months ago

              First, what does "paltry"mean (non-native and shit-faced at that, sorry). Second, why do US workers accept this (assuming you are US)? That sounds like kerosene to revolution.

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                Paltry means “minimal, pitiful, lacking, without substance.”

                People put up with it because we have no social services of any note and need to keep a job to live indoors. Lots of times, people don’t put up with it long term, which is why lots of service jobs have horrendous turnover of staff.

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        Me, travelling with a 7kg/15lbs trolley while my wife is 1kg/2lbs under the maximum limit I appreciate what you do for women.

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          4 months ago

          I told my colleagues, I’m proposing the following new policy:

          Your luggage isn’t weighed. Instead, the passengers hopeful are put up in a line. One after another, they get their luggage thrown in the face. Those who survive may board the plane.

          Additionally, luggage scales will henceforth only have one reading: “If you need to weight it, it’s too heavy, idiot.”

          Also, for adding the weights in both reasonable and imperial, you are the MVP of the day.