Trolling is a little too obvious with this one.

Either way, you’re going on the blocked list because I don’t find that you contribute anything of value to these forums.

 

I don’t do this anymore. It became a PITA. Some of us are instilled with frugal habits from a young age. I’m sorry you don’t see eye to eye with me on everything.

 

If you're standing in that interminable line buying coffee from the coffee stop in the airport instead of bringing the free stuff from the hotel or the plane your frugal habits are sorely lacking.
And I can use that word to describe the line much as I feel about this thread

From Vocabulary.com And yet I keep coming back for this train wreck.

 

While this was the case back in the day, "most" states now use a higher hourly wage and offset it based on received tips, at least at your more organized outfits. If you dont make enough in tips, the $9-$12 an hour wage kicks in, if you exceed that average you keep the tips plus a much smaller hourly wage and if somewhere between all that, the system averages it out.
I always try to tip, but can honestly admit that I have at times forgotten to get cash. I usually will ask around if anyone has a buck to spare, usually they do. I then make sure to get to an ATM that night or next morning and reciprocate. There are legitimate reasons to not have a tip that are not simply due to being a cheap ass.
lol, classy minority bit there. I am sure you didn't mean it that way, but a good proof read may have caught that.

 

I’ll bet you a dollar that all you bleeding heart Proud to Tip Boys voted against increasing the minimum wage.

 

Separate issue. I actually agree with increasing it, but the exact level really needs to be locale-dependent. A federal min wage that's appropriate for NYC, DC, LA, and SFO will be detrimental to people in KY, WV, WY, etc.

An increase in min wage will permanently eliminate some jobs, at some point people will just make their own coffee, mow their own grass, etc. Many min-wage jobs involve services which are are discretionary, not essential, and price-point drives business volume in a big way.

So you have to find the sweet spot where the net benefit to society outweighs the cost of the inevitable lost jobs. That equation varies by location, which means a federal min wage is probably over-kill, unless set to the LCD.

Also... it's a fallacy that you need to be able to raise a family of four as single mom on min wage. There are people who don't need or want a full-time professional career (students, seniors, non-primary breadwinners, etc), but rather some supplemental income. A high min wage basically bans a lot of those kinds of jobs.

 

Waiting tables wages are not old school anymore. In AZ my daughter makes over $7/hourly plus tips. She will make $200-300 per day in tips. They ain’t starving.

 

Yet AOC wants to increase her base wage by $16,000 per year, because she is being paid starvation wages.

 

It’s a bit of a stretch to compare TAFB to working hours but with a 4 to 1 trip rig, that comes out to at least $11.59 (pretax, take home is too subjective) for every hour a first year FO is away from base.

 

Nobody in any industry gets paid by the hour for "time away from base". Hotel time is your time.

A better comparison would be gross pay per duty hour, which can actually get pretty low. Perhaps about half your published hourly rate, or even worse without rigs. That's why more seniority is better, so you can do longer legs and fewer of them. Also why transcons, over-water, and widebody flying is even better... you can get between 85% to 95% of your rate per duty hour.