Social Etiquette

I have the wonderful and distinct pleasure of working in the service industry. As a server I have gained knowledge of a few things that I will gladly share in a polite way on this blog. Call it an insider's view to eating out.

ALL YOU NON-TIPPING CHEAP MOTHERFUCKERS NEED TO STAY HOME AND COOK!!!!

First and foremost all businesses run on a standard business model. Sales-Expenses=Profit, with that being said certain business change the way this equation is arranged and accounted for. This process is simply called managerial accounting(makes sense don't it?). In the resturant industry, the price of food is based on an equation of how much it cost to buy from the supplier plus employee wages which gets your price. So if they pay $8 for a steak and they pay $8 per hour to the cook and they charge you only $18 for the steak that leaves the server out of the equation leaving them to fend for themselves with tips.
To put it plainly, you are able to afford to eat out because they DO NOT PAY the servers. Period. Honestly if they paid servers what they are worth then a date at Chili's, Applebee's, Longhorn, O'Charley's etc. could cost you $65 or $70 for two instead of $35 or $40. So a tip is and should be required. Social etiquette says that MINIMUM tip is 15%.
Which brings me to my second point, 15% is not negotiable. It's what you are supposed to pay. If the service is below average, you tip at least 15%. Feel free, however to tip more if you feel the server was good. For those that don't know how to calculate percentages, 15% is the ten's column and to the left plus half that amount. An example would be a $60 check warrents a 6+3=9 dollar tip. That's at the least. If its $150 check then 15+7.5=22.50 dollars is what you should be leaving. Also, when considering how the service was consider how many times you asked them to refill your drink when it wasn't empty and how many times you sent them for ranch dressing. Also you cant get mad if it takes twenty minutes to recieve a well done steak.
Which brings me to my last point, even though I can go on. Why do people get a well done steak? Then they smother it in steak sauce. For those that don't know steak has a flavor in and of itself. If you didn't order it over cooked then you would probably enjoy the taste of great beef as opposed to a textured slab of A1 steak sauce.

In conclusion. if ya can't act like ya got some gotdamn sense stay ya raggedy asses at home.

Immagitatcha

And the winner is...

I see a pattern developing in the media landscape and how they protray us as black people and I dig it. Before, there wasn't a whole lot of positve back story to the people that the media embraced. And, on some level I think that could have affected how our people view success (basically thinking that it's more "who you know" or stirring up trouble to get acclaim) I mean from Biggie, to Tupac, to R. Kels, trouble has surrounded our talent.
It is a new day.
The last two years have been flooded with positive black star power. Let's start with the obvious. Denzel, Halle, and Will. Denzel and Halle of course won oscars and Will, commands the second most(behind Mr. Pitt) for a male lead in Hollywood.
I would have been happy with that, but here comes straight laced Kanye West, classically trained Jamie Foxx, and Ivey league graduate John Legend. It's important that we consider the backgrounds both socially and educationally of the people we support. We aren't in the civil rights movement or anyting but we are still thought of as being the exact same as the people who are in the know.
I can dig being compared to these people. I hope and wish them many more years of success.

Immagitatcha!

My alias ( all of em)

It was said to me that women have split personalities. It went much more in depth than that and was actually quite profound but the jist of it was summed up in that sentence. It made me think, 'Why is it that women have split personalities or many different faces'. I've come to the conclusion that women are simply too complex to be enveloped into one face. Makes sense right?
So then that begged the question why are men so simple? Well that one I don't have an answer for just yet. But wouldn't the Irony be that I'm too complex to figure out why I'm so simple. Fact is I do have different faces. It just only comes up when I have entered into certain arenas. For example, the net.
The net has given us a way to be more than we are. To be more efficent, more savvy, more communicative, in short, more of us than we could be without it. In this 'more' comes more faces to us as individuals. A brief synopsis of who you can find me as on the net are as follows:

iced OWt intellect: I started using this one first. I just adapted the 'out' to 'OWt' to incorporate my fraternity. I even wrote a short poem explaining it. Wannahearit hereitgo...

I've always had the ability to retain.
Guess it comes from always being asked, "What did you learn in school today".
I had to say something cause "nothing" wasn't an acceptable retort
So of course
I had to learn!
Now I yearn to become engrossed in a book.
Or to politic with others to see thier outlook.
I can see why people with clout 'ice out' thier chains
Why they purchase 22's when factory rims are just too plain
I can see where the parallel between my brain and thier chains lies
Why should I have regular intellect when it can be accessorized?!?!?!

Others include: ScottFree63, Poetic Justice(Which is my Iota name and and the namesake of this blog) and one of my other favorites Illtellectual Property.

These are the faces of me. All small parts of me but all also give insight to who I am. I too have many faces. And I am, by no means, a simple creature.

Immagitatcha!!!

And so it starts....

"... hmpgh, Sophia home now. Thangs gon change round hea, pass me dem peas ova thea!!!"

I haven't kept a journal or diary or anything of that nature in years. The closest thing to it has been my poetry. I'm sure this blog will get it's fill of that. I would like to take a page out of the hip hop award show chronicles and give a shout out to my Fiance. I love you baby. And to the people that I surround myself with. Ya'll my crew and my niggas if we don't get no bigger. Last but not least, due to the bad and good that has come into my life I realized that the bad has been weathered and the good has been celebrated all because of the existence of God. Having faith back in my life is the biggest change to come and I am convinced that whatever life brings I will be prepared. My life is on a better plain now than its ever been and I owe that to my peoples.

I'm not a writer but I type alot, and here's why...

Why is tv sitcom theme music not as good as it used to be?
Why is the Boondocks able to say what needs to be said in today's society and keep me in stitches at the same time?
Why is Cam'ron beefing with Jay Z but wants it to seem legitamatly more than a marketing ploy?
Why did I just but an apostrophe in Camron's gay ass name adding to his ploy to make him seem tougher?

That's Why!

"Why?" is a segment of my blog that will crop up from time to time. Pay it all or none of your mind.

I think I've exhausted my fun quotient for the evening. Im gonna grab something to eat.

Immagitatcha!