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spiralicious) wrote2024-01-07 12:56 pm
spiralicious) wrote2024-01-07 12:56 pm
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2024 Snowflake Challenge #4
Challenge #4
IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.
I went the random question generator route and had it cook up 10 for me.
What's your opinion on tipping?
Spicy from the start, I see. I think tipping culture in the US has gotten out of hand. It's part of why I don't really go out anymore. Expected tipping rate has gone from 15-20% to 30-40% a lot of places and it has also gone from an optional thing to do to a mandatory thing. Also, places where you wouldn't expect to tip before like to go counters, services where they set their own rates, etc. are shoving tablets at you, asking for tips.
Service workers are put in a tough spot with all this as they need the tips to survive and all this is giving people tipping fatigue, causing them to tip less or not at all in situations where people should tip.
If you could assign one household chore to someone else, what would it be?
The dishes. I don't even have to think about it. I will do anything else without complaint, but I avoid dishes like no one's business and I don't even know why. It's always been an issue, though now part of it is standing hunched over the sink long enough to do it kills my back.
What mode of transportation have you never tried?
Helicopter. I am terrified of heights so, I'm not apt to ever try it voluntarily either.
If you were handed $500 at this moment, how would you spend it?
Half would get added towards what I've saved for a computer, the rest would go towards groceries, the plush bear Panda Redd is selling, and, um, I'm not sure.
What's the last thing you complained about?
When I hopped on to DW to catch up, there was a post on my reading circle that set off my anxiety and I'm still struggling to deal and my stomach is still all knotted up since I read it. (No, I am not going to talk about it.) I complained very loudly about it to the couch cushions.
What do you try to do to make the world a little better?
I'm polite to service workers and just try not to be an asshole in general.
What's your opinion on naps?
Necessary to functioning most days.
Do you have a nightmare travel story?
I've got a couple that people consider to be, and I'm sure I might have at the time, but I don't think of them that way. The New Orleans trip is too long, but there is always the thanksgiving the belt tensioner broke on my dad's pick-up on the highway and we had 1) get to a town and 2) find a hotel that was open and had vacancy's on Thanksgiving day, while my dad drove his pickup without power steering and the host of other issues that come from not having a belt tensioner, like the risk of the engine overheating, until we found a place to stop for the night, since there were no auto parts stores open until the next day. We were prepared for a host of mechanical issues, including a belt breaking, but not the belt tensioner suddenly busting apart. For dinner, we had 711 pizzas (there was one in walking distance) and I had been bringing pies to dinner. And we watched movies on the hotel TV. The next day, my dad replaced the belt tensioner and we had breakfast at a nearby diner, then drove home. It was one of my best thanksgivings ever.
What is something you thought would be a great idea but was terrible when you actually did it?
SO. MANY. THINGS.
Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert?
Definitely an introvert
IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.
I went the random question generator route and had it cook up 10 for me.
What's your opinion on tipping?
Spicy from the start, I see. I think tipping culture in the US has gotten out of hand. It's part of why I don't really go out anymore. Expected tipping rate has gone from 15-20% to 30-40% a lot of places and it has also gone from an optional thing to do to a mandatory thing. Also, places where you wouldn't expect to tip before like to go counters, services where they set their own rates, etc. are shoving tablets at you, asking for tips.
Service workers are put in a tough spot with all this as they need the tips to survive and all this is giving people tipping fatigue, causing them to tip less or not at all in situations where people should tip.
If you could assign one household chore to someone else, what would it be?
The dishes. I don't even have to think about it. I will do anything else without complaint, but I avoid dishes like no one's business and I don't even know why. It's always been an issue, though now part of it is standing hunched over the sink long enough to do it kills my back.
What mode of transportation have you never tried?
Helicopter. I am terrified of heights so, I'm not apt to ever try it voluntarily either.
If you were handed $500 at this moment, how would you spend it?
Half would get added towards what I've saved for a computer, the rest would go towards groceries, the plush bear Panda Redd is selling, and, um, I'm not sure.
What's the last thing you complained about?
When I hopped on to DW to catch up, there was a post on my reading circle that set off my anxiety and I'm still struggling to deal and my stomach is still all knotted up since I read it. (No, I am not going to talk about it.) I complained very loudly about it to the couch cushions.
What do you try to do to make the world a little better?
I'm polite to service workers and just try not to be an asshole in general.
What's your opinion on naps?
Necessary to functioning most days.
Do you have a nightmare travel story?
I've got a couple that people consider to be, and I'm sure I might have at the time, but I don't think of them that way. The New Orleans trip is too long, but there is always the thanksgiving the belt tensioner broke on my dad's pick-up on the highway and we had 1) get to a town and 2) find a hotel that was open and had vacancy's on Thanksgiving day, while my dad drove his pickup without power steering and the host of other issues that come from not having a belt tensioner, like the risk of the engine overheating, until we found a place to stop for the night, since there were no auto parts stores open until the next day. We were prepared for a host of mechanical issues, including a belt breaking, but not the belt tensioner suddenly busting apart. For dinner, we had 711 pizzas (there was one in walking distance) and I had been bringing pies to dinner. And we watched movies on the hotel TV. The next day, my dad replaced the belt tensioner and we had breakfast at a nearby diner, then drove home. It was one of my best thanksgivings ever.
What is something you thought would be a great idea but was terrible when you actually did it?
SO. MANY. THINGS.
Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert?
Definitely an introvert
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What is something you thought would be a great idea but was terrible when you actually did it?
SO. MANY. THINGS.
Haha! I feel this answer in my bones! 😍😍
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:D It was said with my whole chest.
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AND on the Thanksgiving, actually avoiding most of the family ending up providing one of your BEST holidays...
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<3
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i feel you on the tipping rant. i've started tipping at coffee places because they're providing a service and they're moving as fast as they can to get people their caffeine but as much as i like the folks at the place with the cheese scones i'm not tipping 20% for a cup of tea and a bagel sandwich. i mean, it's a counter. i have to bus my table myself. i have zero evidence for this but the explosion of tipping
demandsrequests in places that never asked for tips before seems like a way for the company to pay their employees less under the assumption that they'll be getting tips now. and in reality i'd bet people are just tired of being asked to tip someone for, what, ringing up a bottle of water and a sandwich, so they do it less and complain more and employees end up with the short end of the stick.no subject
Exactly!