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Sarah Jessica Parker and Al Sharpton go to war over tip policy, he calls her a clueless limousine liberal.
Liberal actress Sarah Jessica Parker is now effectively at war with loudmouth liberal activist and MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton over New York’s minimum wage law.
In a letter submitted months earlier to the state’s governor, Parker and 15 of her Hollywood peers demanded the state raise its minimum wage for restaurant servers. Why? To purportedly help women.
“Women deserve to earn a fair base wage so that the tips they still collect don’t come at a personal cost,” they wrote.
“A subminimum wage for a predominantly female workforce is linked to high rates of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry and prevents thousands of working women from achieving economic security,” they added, citing zero evidence to back up their hysterical #MeToo-equivalent claim.
But instead of earning the adoration of New York’s thousands of waitresses, Parker’s letter triggered massive backlash from waitresses and even Sharpton, who slammed “limousine liberals” like her during an event Saturday. more here
The most difficult job in the world…..Al Sharpton’s sign language to the deaf person….
pound MeToo
@Willysgoat – Yeah, where can you find someone to stick their head up their ass?
At our local greasy spoon waitresses HAVE to be making at least $40 -$50 an hour in tips alone during peak hours of breakfast and dinner. Average it out with downtime, they make more than minimum wage per day.
Of course this is a conservative area, so perhaps waitresses do get stiffed by lefties in lib areas.
What ingrates. Parker and her friends came from their ivory towers to liven up the help’s dull, dreary lives and they didn’t even understand or appreciate it.
I loved her in the Kentucky Derby.
It is great that Sharpton, the totalitarian leftist repressive race baiter and income tax criminal, sees himself above the Demoncrat limousine liberals.
I love it when the guppies eat each other.
Black males followed by Mex males followed by anything Lib are the absolute worst tippers on the planet. I think these maroons are simply trying to get owners to make up for their stiffing the help. I have been a bartender and occasional food server for 35 years and have consistently been in the upper 15% or better of wage earners in the country. It would be nice if these know-nothing do-gooders would just go away and leave us alone.
Shouldn’t the headline read “Jackass Insults Horse’s Ass”?
After a not so close vote
The Neigh’s have it.
Why is the Food Service Industry subsidized by U.S. Taxpayers. Stop the 15% tip and a wink BS non-sense.
You work a job and should get paid an hourly rate or salary.
Everybody else in a ‘non-tipping’ job has to live by those rules. So should the Food Service Industry.
Pay the waitstaff the same hourly rate as the cook.
I wonder if Bourdain was going to expose how corrupt the Food Service Industry is, or maybe it was guilt, at the fraud he knew really goes on ‘Behind the Scenes’.
It’s all connected.
Politicians eat a lot, too. Some way much better than others. Go ask Maxine. Hot Dog juice fertilizes some of the greenest lawns and manicures those bushes too.
Cook I disagree. A food service person is like an independent contractor, like a hair dresser
If a waitperson (see how woke I am?) does a good job their money goes up.
Do a suck ass job and it goes down.
Give them a set wage and they will ALL do a suck ass job as anyone with any talent in the field will seek other fields and you will be left with the dregs
Poor Lazlo,
So the Dishwasher is not an independent contractor?
Baloney talk.
Give them an hourly wage. Tip if you wish. I personally tip and my help gets tips but I pay my help 5$ over minimum wage and they still get tips. Trying to make a living off of tips is horrible for the average waiter unless you work in a high priced eatery
cooks, poor lazlo is absolutely correct….an eatery lives or dies by word of mouth….if the service sucks, it don’t matter how great the cooks are – or the dishwasher…..
people recommend restaurants that have good wait staff….if the wait staff regularly sucks, people tell you don’t bother…..EVERYONE’S job depends a good deal on the wait staff….
so says a back of the house food professional….
In some places, (like casinos) the drink girls get tipped well but their unions take most of it.
Breaking news headline: “‘Limousine Liberals’ attacked by ‘Cadillac Coon'”.
😉
Parker looks better when she wears her feedbag.
A crony tactic at its best, crapped out by a braying marxist jackass. Just because his mother benefited from a free market enterprise, then that industry gets a pass. However, McDonalds, and other large corporations are still being harassed to pay $15/hour. Parker may be a feminitwit limousine liberal but Sharpton is a hoodrat commie.