Rumor Moving to Portland for an NBA season

[Chris Craig]

Why would he be in portland???

Blazers fan?

 

[BlayZa]

we rarely tip in NZ. minimum wage isnt bad here so there is no sense of overwhelming exploitation to try counteract.

some restaurants, if you are paying by card, will have a 'tip - yes/no' option on the machine - but 80% of the time the person cashing you up just presses no before even handing you the terminal.

i dont think id ever tip an uber driver either. I did give a driver a $50 tip in cash on NYE for like an $8 fare, but hey, i was drunk and its NYE....

i would find it hard not to tip cute a cute waitress in the USA tho.....

 

[Propagandist]

Tipping is a pretty American concept. Most places in the world don't require tips. Its more of a leave the change if you feel like it.

What country do we live in again?

 

[SIeepwalker]

It feels good to not have to worry about tips for anything

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

It feels good to not have to worry about tips for anything

Well thats definitely NOT what she said...

 

[riverman]

We have these things called shoe companies. Some players actually make deals with them to wear their.... shoes.

Shocking, I know.

I want a deal with the gas company to use their gas..like Dick Cheney had

 

[THE HCP]

Well thats definitely NOT what she said...

DAMN YOU BRO!

 

[KingSpeed]

Why would he be in portland???

Visiting his daughter

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

WtF is Nurk doing

You in the wrong thread?

 

[KingSpeed]

JUST DROVE JONAS VALENCIUNAS. He invited me to hang with him, Joakim Noah, and Chandler Parsons. I passed but that was pretty cool.

 

[hoopsjock]

JUST DROVE JONAS VALENCIUNAS. He invited me to hang with him, Joakim Noah, and Chandler Parsons. I passed but that was pretty cool.

Why did you pass? Need to work?

 

[Darkwebs]

Why did you pass? Need to work?

Kingspeed was inspired by Turner doing something Dame couldn't do (getting a triple-double), so Kingspeed thought he would do something CJ can't.

 

[KingSpeed]

Holy cow. It gets cooler. Got a request for an Evan for Select. Sure enough it was Evan Turner’s house. I was freaking out and also why he was going out!! Well he came out with another guy and it was that guy who got in. It was Evan’s high school teacher and Evan had called the Uber for him. Ok I can breathe now.

 

[KingSpeed]

Why did you pass? Need to work?

I do need to work and I think I would’ve been too nervous. NBA players are a big deal to me.

 

[THE HCP]

Thats so cool King! What a great experience for you.

 

[tlongII]

Thats so cool King! What a great experience for you.

Why can't he see this post?

 

[dviss1]

we rarely tip in NZ. minimum wage isnt bad here so there is no sense of overwhelming exploitation to try counteract.

some restaurants, if you are paying by card, will have a 'tip - yes/no' option on the machine - but 80% of the time the person cashing you up just presses no before even handing you the terminal.

i dont think id ever tip an uber driver either. I did give a driver a $50 tip in cash on NYE for like an $8 fare, but hey, i was drunk and its NYE....

i would find it hard not to tip cute a cute waitress in the USA tho.....

If we paid people a living wage there would be no need for tips.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/41051

 

[BlayZa]

If we paid people a living wage there would be no need for tips.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/41051

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yeah consumer subsidised services is pretty alien to us here.

 

[KingSpeed]

Going out to drive Uber tonight. I wonder if I’ll drive a Thunder. I’ll let you know.

 

[kjironman1]

Going out to drive Uber tonight. I wonder if I’ll drive a Thunder. I’ll let you know.

If you get a call and the guys name is Russ. You know what to do.

Bite him!

 

[GDiama]

Read the conversation regarding the tips and as I visited US a couple of weeks ago I got to say i'm a bit surprised with the whole tipping concept.

Since we were 8 in many places we got the tip added to the bill by default (some rules of groups over 6). I don't say the service was bad, but at least let me judge it . Very surprising also the very high tips. In Europe even 10% is considered very good and it's mostly like El Presidente mentioned "keep the change" and it's not that waiters are rich men over here. It is what it is though. I also didn't get at all why the tax is not included in the price displayed on the menu

 

[Orion Bailey]

Oh stop, cheapscape.

Hiw. He is saying he wants to pay the same but wants to be charged more andchave the companie disperse raises rather than paying an individual cash on the side.

Nothing cheap just a fairer disbursement of tips.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Going out to drive Uber tonight. I wonder if I’ll drive a Thunder. I’ll let you know.

Hopefully picking them up from a bar at 2am.

 

[kjironman1]

Hopefully picking them up from a bar at 2am.

Portland has been known to have a few "Risque" type venues.

 

[dviss1]

If you get a call and the guys name is Russ. You know what to do.
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Bite him!

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I also didn't get at all why the tax is not included in the price displayed on the menu

Tough for most of us to comment on this as Oregon is one of the few states that doesn't have sales tax, so that's not an issue that many of us have to deal with. That said...

I would say that there are many US chain restaurants that have locations in many different states, so the tax percentage differs for each one. When they're creating menus that are intended to be uniform nationwide, to try to factor in tax for all those different states would be impossible. Now for restaurants that don't have multiple locations, that's obviously not a concern, but I think the former outnumber the latter.

 

[GDiama]

Tough for most of us to comment on this as Oregon is one of the few states that doesn't have sales tax, so that's not an issue that many of us have to deal with. That said...

I would say that there are many US chain restaurants that have locations in many different states, so the tax percentage differs for each one. When they're creating menus that are intended to be uniform nationwide, to try to factor in tax for all those different states would be impossible. Now for restaurants that don't have multiple locations, that's obviously not a concern, but I think the former outnumber the latter.

Ok at least now I can see some logic behind it. In every country I have been so far it's same tax all over the country probably so that's why I have never encountered that again.

 

[KingSpeed]

Just drove Robin Lopez

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Just drove Robin Lopez

You should have told him you were the mascot on Bones and he would have beat you up!

 

[kjironman1]

Just drove Robin Lopez

Hope you asked him if he was coming back to play here?