It's not required by law to tip your waiter

Since it is an exchange of money, they do have to report they spent it. If one is an intelligent investor in the 401K, the portfolio can actually make you the owner more money. Yeah, why do that? And again, you have no flippin idea. Continue to see that my dog knows more than you!

 

I'm sure the big boys would be glad to open up their books for everybody, for all to see exactly how they do it, huh? Work for me, for free (because I'm not paying your salary). That's a great gig! What a deal! Free labor!

 

No, that is the point you sky falling alarmst!

 

hahahahahahaahahaahaha................please go to a business school and then we can finish this.

 

"they do have to report they spent it"

Very good, grasshopper! Let's take that, for a moment. So, what's to stop me, as an employer, from taking that money (that isn't reported) and doing whatever I like with it in the meantime? I just get to play with that cash, (that unreported cash, that really doesn't exist in the first place cause, it's not being reported), I can give you a 'statement' and continue to play. Am I right? (Please say no, because I can then relate what MY employer did to his employees).

The 401K gets tied up in Wall Street, let's say. Suppose the dow crashes? There goes your 'generous' retirement, paid to you by your employer (that he didn't actually have to pay, that didn't exist to begin with, and remains 'unreported'). You pretend you know what you're talking about. You don't.

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I see.. so Belk doesn't have payroll to contend either. Interesting.

 

Yeah, and be as 'smart' as you? No thanks. Keep working for free, and depending on the generosity of the public to encase your future. Sounds like a good plan. Very, VERY 'smart'....indeed.

 

But that isn't what happens, so toad I have no idea where you're hopping around to.

Not if the owner follows the advice of financial advisers who say to diversify the funds you don't. Oh, and you don't think the social security isn't in wall street? Then that same thing happens to the SS money. And BTW, where has all the pension money in Illinois gone?

Not if there are no customers to spend their money in Belk's store. That's exactly right. And the money that is used to pay an employee who is paid is from customer purchases, it is the customers money Belk puts in a bank to write a check. Your point?

 

Oh, it happens, friend. Nonexistent money that moves around, landing nowhere, and somebody else picking up the tab. It happens everyday. That's exactly what happens. Wait till the DOW crashes and watch the news of how many people lost their retirement, next time it occurs (and it will). Years of 'hard work', right out the window. That 'non existent' money, strikes again. The point you're missing, is that the entire financial system is corrupt, and void of honesty, and that it's only a matter of time before it bites all of us.

Keep working for that generous public though. I'm sure it will see you through. I'll take the paycheck, and not depend on whether or not I smile, and bow down, more directly (as miniscule, and perverted though that may be, as well). Least I don't have to 'wonder' what my paycheck will be, or if I even get one this week. Keep showing up for work, as a cost free tool for your employer to enrich himself with. Hope it works out for you.

Does the Belk employee get a check at the end of the week, with his name on it (like most people that work for a living get), or do they show up for free, and hopes that a smile and a kind word will get them to the end of the week too?

 

doom and gloom, must suck to be you! Before you eat your meal do you weigh out the options of what might happen? Do you struggle to swallow for fear of chocking? Dude you are an alarmst of the highest honor! Don't choke on your dinner tonight. Oh, sorry, I probably shouldn't have brought it to your attention because now you'll be thinking of it. BTW, have you reserved your final landing spot? If so, you better hope the land isn't sold. Ooops another one.

 

BTW, I have a few years left and I retire.

Basically, yes the Belk employee shows up for free because they don't get their pay check but weekly or bi-weekly. The server gets tip money the night they leave. Again, your point is useless.

 

Yes, yes...smile and depend on other people's simple generosity to get you your future. Great plan.

As to the meal rhetoric, no, I don't weigh it out. I know that if I'm eating cheap, processed garbage, like from Walmart, I'll die a slow and painful death, and actually, I'm counting on a higher power to reconcile the injustices of the world, and I'm confident that he will. I guess I'm the one "depending on his generosity' in this case.

 

But the check varies, depending on the mood of the customer, no doubt. Excellent way to go. Just tell the bank that other people 'weren't in the mood' to pay your mortgage, next time it's due. I'm sure that will fly real well.

Belk employees work for free, get no check, and their checks depend directly on their patrons, just like the slave owner that doesn't pay you, correct? Ant Belk employees wanna second that??

 

Who pays your salary, government handouts? My money!

 

Other people's money, pays yours, and it varies, day to day, IF, you get a paycheck from the generous folks, at all, and certainly no check from your 'employer'. I don't go handouts, friend. If I do something, I want the cash, in hand, with a known amount, ahead of time, rather than 'hoping' the public will feel generous this week.

 

sounds like you go for the handouts. You've offered nothing to convince me that you don't receive handouts. Not many businesses out there that deal in cash only, know of only one, pan handler.

 

does anybody know the record for longest thread on tipping?

 

I'm not interested in convincing you that I don't get handouts. I could care less if you believe it or not. I wasn't being literal in the 'cash only' term, but you know that. It means that that want to know I have a paycheck coming, in advance, and not have to wonder what my check will be (banks don't like that sort of thing, you may have heard).

To review, your employment depends strictly on the mood, the generosity, of the patron. So, consequently, you MAY 'earn' a dollar, maybe 50 cents, maybe nothing. You simply do not know in advance, and most people can't sustain themselves that way.

 

Apparently, not long enough. Maybe a new one needs to be started. Call it "Getting paid? Maybe...maybe not", or "Nobody knows how much or how little".

 

Maybe you need to ask Andy!

 

Then stop trying to convince others on here your lies about tipping. Pot calling the kettle eh?

 

Don't get handouts, bro. I guess you missed that the first time?

 

Well I don't tip Starbucks or McDonalds or Arby's and don't think I'd find an advantage to paying for it on my phone. I do get pizza delivered and pay for it online with my credit card and when they delivery hand me the voucher and I add a tip on it.

I can't ever recall eating in a restraurant and paying with a credit card an not being able to add a tip.

Nope, they don't work on a commission type arraignment as do personal servers in the restaurant.

If they take the bags out to the car and load them I do.

Because they are two entirely different services.

And watch the service go down.

Amazing people even have a problem with it.

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What profit margin is a MEGA profit?

 

Many do and you can always buy the stock and share the risk with the other owners and then share in the profits if any.

Now what profit margin is a MEGA profit?

Yes they are. With tipping they are also paid a direct commission by the customer. That's why I like tipping, it is an incentive for them to make sure I am a happy diner that night.

 

Actually you just showed how ignorant you are of taxes and business. That is exactly where the match comes from. There are also similar programs called "Safe-Harbor" plans.

 

My wife and I were in Prague shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. We went to a very nice well recommended place for breakfast, like an old fancy restaurant out of the 1920's. The wait staff was mainly older women who gave us great service and made us feel most welcome and gave us some advice on touring the city. We noticed that at night they had jazz music so decided to come back that night. At night waitstaff was mostly if not all younger people and the service sucked big time. Waiting for drinks finally had to go up and get them ourselves, the people working there just sat around and didn't care about the customers at all. We went back another morning for breakfast and told our waitress about our experience that night and she shook her head and began to tell us how the younger people who grew up under the communist rule didn't know what work was all about and just expected to paid if they just show up. The older people loved that the communist were gone and now they could make more money and create business but the young people were spoiled and had no initiative to work and better their lot, they expect to be provided for automatically.

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Again showing you don't know what you are talking about along with you assertions about MEGA profits and not being able to back them up.