in Australia restaurant servers are paid a basic minimum wage and tipping is optional. if you can't afford to pay your staff a liveable wage them you can't afford to be running a business.
It's Spain, it's the same. Tipping is optional, in any business. I work in a store and sometimes a client leaves me part of the change as a tip because he thinks I have treated him well and he thanks me, but it is not mandatory.
@@paulbland5625 you are a clown arent you people work to survive and people like youvthinkbits ok to take advantage of it 300vyears ago you would be a slave naster .. master
In America eating in a sit down restaurant is seen as frivolous, so if you can afford to eat there, you can afford a tip. Employers are notorious stingy. Happy customers tend to be generous. It should be obvious that the path of least resistance for a restaurant employee to be paid well is to get paid in tips. Now, if you have a powerful union culture and a labor friendly government, you might consider receiving a tip beneath you.
A big one that gets me is when Americans casually mention having security guards at school as if that's even remotely normal, like you've been taught to accept violence in so many aspects of your life that this is normal, and Americans don't seem all that interested in doing much about it which is pretty sad
@@Sandra-di1pm if that’s the case then those people need to vote for representatives that support gun laws. No point in people saying they support gun laws but do nothing themselves about it.
@@Sandra-di1pm bravo Sandra. Gee it couldn't have anything to do with this commie government creating the wild West could it? Not to mention a one party nation now and who's going to do anything about it? You have criminals that have lived for a regime like this, then you have every agency that's totally with this complete failure of a government. When you have revolving doors for the criminals in hopes of crime getting so bad that you can't go to your mailbox, that's when they'll have their case for banning our guns. This letting criminals do whatever and walk free is all part of their plan.
Security guards were common in a lot of schools before school shootings were common place. We have a big gang problem in America and in a lot of schools in bad neighborhoods there were security guards in order to stop fights, bringing drugs, etc. Now there’s usually police at schools, most of the time they have to just stop fights, or arrest kids for doing something illegal at school but they are trained for school shootings even though its fucked up we have to think about it.
What's funny about the tipping culture in the US is that waiters overdo their jobs for European standards, as a European we tend to be really annoyed by this... We want to be left in peace while we eat, when we need something we will ask... The "overdoing" of american waiters will have a reverse affect on our tipping, so for al you waiters out there... If you have a European customer... Don't ask them every 5 min if everything is ok... Whats even funnier is that when an American comes to Europe, they will complain about the bad waiters 😆 because here they don't come to your table and ask if you need anything every 5 min...
I'm in Australia, and really don't like wait staff hovering constantly either. I especially don't like it when they whisk away empty plates before everyone has finished eating...different places have different rules on this, but unless it's a large party event, leave plates there. Glasses for refills isn't the same, or empty bottles. But leave all the plates until everyone's done.
In America, it's great that you visited a restaurant and purchased food, but after a bit the wait staff and restaurant want that table free again and for you to leave.
@@joelwillems4081 In the US management/owners would want you to leave to free up a table but the wait staff would want you to stay to increase their tips.
The kettle one is real. As a brit I was shocked when I saw twitch streamers microwave water. Most boil on the hob though, have seen TH-camrs trying tea sent by their viewers boil water in a pan. I saw a streamer receive a kettle in his PO box and he damn near panicked when it was boiling not sure it was going to stop before it boiled over. It was like giving an iPhone to a cave man. 😆
@@neonknees that's not correct, too much energy will get lost to surrounding environment compared to an electric kettle, though it is slower than an electric pot in the Europe due to voltage.
Kettle lady is right, I have only seen 2 electric kettles in all of my years visiting and travelling around the US. Here in the UK there will be a kettle where any humans congregate, every home, every workplace, just everywhere
The thing with kettles in North America is that the maximum wattage an appliance can draw on a household socket is far lower than norm on UK power sockets. North American kettles heat water much slower than British kettles. Electric kettles are common in Canada but if you need water heated fast, yes, the microwave is an option.
It's so uncomfortable as an Australian when I'm in the USA and waiting staff are behaving overtly "customer service" friendly and it's obviously and clearly fake... It's actually confronting and offensive to us as we expect to interact honestly and openly with people regardless of their job. It's really sad because these people are just trying to earn a basic wage ...but instead of them getting a fair minimum wage the USA has this sick system of tipping! It's vile. 😔🤦🏼.
The lack of a kettle is definitely a thing in America. Some of my TH-cam channels often speak about it, especially those who have migrated, those who receive tea in a parcel/package opening, and several others have mentioned that they don’t own a kettle.
I'm American and I know some people with a Kettle, but it not common because tea especially traditional tea is barely a thing in the US. It does exist but it's a small minority. Most don't drink tea or if they do then it's pre-made and in a bottle or can. Also spaghetti needs to be cooked beyond just having boiling water pored on it.
What you called a tragedy about the wages of tipped employees is what we call unregulated capitalism. The problem with profit being the ultimate goal is that some one as to pay the price and that is usually the workers. Nothing wrong with a business making a profit but the right of workers also need to be protected as well. This is where the US falls short of other developed western countries.
16:10 It's an even bigger gap than that. I mainly know about the UK but I'm sure this applies to other countries too: We don't get sent a tax bill to pay, it's taken out of salary before we ever get it. The employers accountants work it out and do everything for us so most people never have to care about income tax.
Tax gets taken out of our salaries too. We might owe a different amount to the government than what gets taken out of our checks. So even though tax get taken out of everyones checks you still have to do your taxes to see if you owe more or are eligible for a refund.
@@sheajackson4616 Where I live that's just double-checking the numbers to make sure nothing got left out. And apply for any discounts or benefits you're entitled to.
@@johan.ohgren thats awesome in my country if you mess up the government can take your house, limit your job options, and claim up to 95% of your income, or you can go to prison.
She might have been snarky about it, but what the kettle lady said is true, lol. Kettles are almost nowhere to be found, and the 2 main methods for boiling seems to be on the stove or in the microwave. I have had multiple people make me tea in this manner, and sage to say I was legit horrified. I’ve never been to another country where kettles were so universally absent, very strange. Every single household in Australia has a kettle. Without exception. Also, the prescription ad thing - I don’t think you realise how much you became the meme there. Like… we don’t see ads on TV for anything stronger than cold and flu over the counter medicine. Ever. It is the single wildest thing about watching American TV. Also re: food, your small/normal portions look like super sized to us, she isn’t talking about actually super sized meals.
@@Dr_KAP as an 8 cup of tea a day gworl, I was regularly traumatised by the lack of boiling water accessibility, but the microwave thing was a BRIDGE TOO FAR 😂
I think you will find it has to do with different voltages in outlets. USA is only 110 and from what I have read in other threads about this topic that is not enough to actually boil water in an an electric kettle.
@@deadkodo oh I’ve definitely used kettles there (in ex Pat households lol), it just takes a little longer than it would elsewhere due to the voltage issue. But it’s definitely not impossible, and the alternatives remain JUST as inexplicable to me 😂
The kettle thing is so true. I go to the states almost weekly, as I work for an Aussie airline. I take my own travel kettle because even the fancy 5* hotels we stay in don’t have kettles, they usually have some weird coffee machine that drips brown liquid into a big glass pot.
What the hell is wrong with Americans, employment laws from the 1930’s is still relevant !!! WTF !!! Our employment laws here in New Zealand are always evolving. We don’t have tipping because our minimum wage is $22.00 per hour. And that goes up slowly with the cost of living. God help any employer who underpays their staff. This also includes private citizens who employe people in their homes. I had the most amazing service when l was staying at a very well known hotel in Washington DC. I tipped the waiter $50 - he deserved it. My American friend, whom I brought dinner for, got upset with me for over tipping. I had to put in her place - my money, my business.
@@mavx4 yes really. It's about US$14 an hour, and taxed much higher on top. Did I stutter? Healthcare is only a couple of percent more. The point is, people in NZ aren't paid US$22 an hour so it's not even remotely comparable. The cost of living is much higher in NZ also. Electricity, food, housing, petroleum. All significantly higher.
@@mct0407 I was asking you whether your comment on cost of living was before or after healthcare costs. You are right, New Zealanders aren't getting paid $22 USD per hour, the actual median is $17.5 USD which is a little bit higher than the $16.36 USD in the US. The latest price level indices according to OECD lists the US at 117 & NZ at 118. Where did you get the idea that NZ is a lot more expensive?
As an Australian trucky that gets paid $6 AUD over our already great minimum wage, I can backup the theory that well paid workers are loyal and efficient. They'll have to drag my corpse from this truck dude!
Don't know if you're having a bad day, or were particularly offended by the kettle chick, but she was right, she wasn't judging americans, just found it super weird that Americans don't have ELECTRIC Kettles. And if you've never seen or heard about Americans heating up water in a Microwave, then I'm sorry but you've been living under a rock.
She didn't need to say "grow up" though.. Not knowing something has nothing to do with being childish.. It was rude of her to react like that.. I'm not even a U.S. citizen, but I feel this wasn't ok.. She needs to accept different countries do different things.. It can be shocking, I was shocked too, but there's no reason to be rude. By saying it like that, I think she was judging.. Without the last line, it would've been ok..
Patriotism, flags everywhere: You can overdo the flag waving. I'm guessing that most people you live near own a flag and display it on their houses or on their car, or even get a tattoo featuring it. Sure, it doesn't hurt anybody, but other countries don't do this. It's weird to us. We don't need flags to be patriotic. Ours is a more understated thing. We see people who have the flag waving from their car as tacky. Especially the clothing with star spangled everything. The rest of the world sees that as disrespecting the flag. It should be handled with the respect that a symbol of your country deserves, yet you can get flag underwear and swimwear. Not exactly respectful having your ass wrapped in the flag. People died defending it. You bury your heroes with it. And Billy-Bob walks around in a flag tank top, flag flip flops and is wearing a flag thong for underwear.
Thing is; according to US flag code, specifically, respect for the flag, its not supposed to appear on clothing (exception: it may appear as a small badge/patch on a service uniform) or used in advertising.
As a Brit, Terry Pratchett had it right, waving the Union jack is something that the Military and foreigners do. Edit : and weirdo's, but they aren't all mutually exclusive
Well, when I was I'm the US, I had to go to the cvs, to buy a kettle for my late night and early morning cups of tea. I lugged it around to every hotel I stayed at. Also , I don't mind tipping in the US, but I hate that the billion dollar businesses, expect that the customers are responsible for THEIR staffs standard of living.
As an Aussie, I'm interested in the news of the nation from that nation's perspective. It stuns me how controlled news coming out of Americ, primarily for American viewers, blocks any direct reports from other countries. Here in Aussie, for example, we have news reports directly from that country's news desk, without interpretation or 'and now from our correspondent in Chinese' over comments. Yes we do have those, but we mostly have that countries' direct story from them. This, I believe, is why Americans are so ignorant to the real world, as opposed to America's interpretation of the actual goings on outside of their country.
@@petemedium2185 That is still true, but it has been becoming less true in recent years with things like the interference in, and defunding of, the ABC, and a lot of local news companies have been bought up by newscorp. Plus the journalism/media education pipeline is very much geared towards getting a job in these companies so it's a bit of a cycle too. Considering this election and everything people are still getting news from other sources though. We haven't got problems as bad as the 24hour news cycle in America, but we still get very filtered news and need to be aware and understand ways to find less biased information.
@@DForSpiD Maybe it's time we started visiting the news of origin sources. China news, for example, is less propaganda than the US. After visiting these sites, a check with our own media services soon show how slack news generally is, all around the world.
11:05 I've never understood encouraging high turnover of staff either. Regardless of how well trained a person is, or how experienced, in a particular industry, it usually takes some time before they're fully on board with a particular company's procedures etc. It actually COSTS MORE to train staff up to a particular performance standard, than keeping good employees happy. Staff retention should be a minimum industry standard.
@@Roel_Scoot iirc that 6 months is mainly due to the new person integrating into the existing workforce on a personal level, the training can be a lot quicker
Im full blown Australian. And worked as a a waiter/food service. And would get alot of ppl say keep the change. So we just put it into the donation jar for animal rescues ect... But we had/have a good base wage. So turning up to work your happy. Because you know your getting a set amount of money for the hours you worked.
I agree with your point on water. It can’t be free but it must be easily affordable to even the poorest member of society, hence why it must be public utility and paid through taxes since private companies in contrast aim to maximise profits, not efficiency, quality, or affordability. Iirc quite a few cities in Europe bitterly regretted their decision to privatise water and had to turn around quite quickly due to the catastrophic results… Also about tipping culture: One often hears the defense that businesses wouldn’t be able to stay in business if they were not allowed to exploit their employees. Thing is, if that were the case you shouldn’t be in business in the first place but leave it to the more capable competitors…
The thing about flags in America, is that for you it may not seem like much, but for us in Europe, even seeing any flags outside of certain areas or certain times is incredibly rare When we think "country that shows flags everywhere", it brings to mind... certain cultures You may not see flags *everywhere*, but compared to Europe, it's still insane amounts of flags, even seeing flags on houses outside of certain events is essentially unheard of here The only time here in Norway when we see flags, is on state buildings during different calendar events, our independence day, or on half mast outside someone's house when someone has died in that family... And that's basically it
For those that complain about water bills think of the alternative of areas here in Australia that doesn't have town water and you have to rely on rain water or pay for trucked water - been there done that - so happy to be able to just turn a tap on and know we don't have to check the water level first
Yep paying for water is probably necessary. One could talk about the price, and whether it's drinkable, though. If you can drink your tap water without treatment, appreciate that fact for a moment - there is enough people out there, who can't do that.
I had to do some work out in Goulburn back in to early 00's. They were in the middle of a drought at the time and the town's drinking water was terrible. They had setup water dispensers in shopping centres for people to go fill up their containers at. Some were free, other's were paid swap and goes.
The problem with the water bills is some towns in the US pay for water that ISN'T drinkable because of local government corruption. There are videos of people setting their water on fire and that is not a joke video or trick it's in places where they're fracking or there's industrial waste being dumped in the groundwater. There's still LEAD in some of the flint water supply, though they're fixing it finally.
@@jonathanfinan722 where do you live? Do you pay bills or someone else? Do you have many air treatment plants (no pun intended...) around in your city? Do they deliver air through infrastructure to your house? Nope... Do you have a river pluged to your house? If not then you most likely use city infrastructure. Which cost money to install, maintain, expand...
@@jonathanfinan722 thing is, the air you're breathing does not go to a treatment plant, does not need a sewer, and does not need destribution.... and every country i know have to pay for water. i live in europe, we're pretty civilized (sometimes), NOW, bottled water is a scam, sometimes it is legit just tap water with a brand name and addictives
As for super sized portions, she may refer to the standard sized portions in the US, that are, let's be honest, huge in comparison with the standard size in Europe. Added to the processed food in the US, it may have widely contributed to the unbelievable proportion of obese people in the US. That is one of the things that shocked me most while I was travelling in the US. Never in my life had I seen so many overweighted people, let alone morbidly obese folks. Not to mention the children: some are really fat very very young.
American Freedom. How free are you when you need to work 2-3 jobs and still die to a simple influenca because you still can't afford healthcare? Not at all, that's how free you are. You are slaves. 6:20 - Europe still tips, but not as a requirement for the workers to survive (this was never the case), but as a thank you for good service. That's also why there is no rule like "you should tip 10%" or something like that here. On small bills people might only round up or something. Decent ppl even tip 50 cents or 1 Euro to their package delivery guy, or the food delivery guy, etc. I personally give up to 20% when the service was really nice and if they were shitty, then I don't tip - which only happened once or twice in my lifetime. But I am 41 years old now and there was always tipping in my lifetime in Europe. 16:12 - Yes, most countries will send you "a bill", but only if you are hit by a random (really random) control and they find you filed something faulty or not filed something you needed to file. Here in Austria you don't have to do anything if you don't want to. In that case your taxes are basically done, because your workplace needs to do your taxes for you and most financial service providers also do it for you (like if you have income from shares, they will automatically pay your 25% gains tax for you and report that in your name). However, there is one item on the tax form that basically every worker can tick and that's basically a flat 70 € discount for "keeping yourself in shape for the working market", which broadly speaking means any form of "special expense" to stay employed. That can be any work related books, any work related clothes that you would not buy for personal use only, etc. The state simply assumes that every worker needs to pay at least that amount each year and they don't ask for any verification on it - BUT you need to "do your taxes" to get it. Which needs you to do this: 1) Get access to your online tax account, 2) Start the tax form, click through 5 pages of basic personal information, the item is already pre-selected for everybody, 3) hit send. The tool will automatically tell you if you owe something or if you'll get something back (if you have not entered any other information it will tell you that you'll get 70 € back within about a week).
Here’s a funny story, I was restaurant owner (we recently changed our business model due to COVID) and all waiters/waitresses started with the minimum state wage after that they got a yearly increase, we didn’t mess with the tips they got it all figured out with the kitchen about their cut, anyway we were paying them well over what any other restaurant was paying their waiters needless to say we have people working for us for over 20 years in an industry with a hell of a lot of rotation. So a couple of years ago we got audited because and I quote “you are paying too much, something is wrong here and we’re going to find out” another quotes “somehow you find a way to avoid your duties and we’ll find out” “there’s no way this people are receiving that much” I have to be honest it really wasn’t much the business was pretty standard 1/3 payroll 1/3 the rest of the operation and 1/3 earnings. (With a lot of fluctuations during the seasons of course) our people were interrogated TV style we actually made a lot of fun about this (what else we could do) at the end the auditors leave us alone somehow surprised and one of them a lady I remember well because she was from labor department or something and she said to me “you should pay less there’s no need for more there are people that would do it for less and you would get better profits” I just couldn’t believe it, the one that should be working in favor of the employees telling me this. I guess she didn’t understand that I just can’t imagine paying less than what I myself thought was low already increase that because is the right thing to do with someone that has shown loyalty and is making your business work did she know how painful it is to lose someone that knows all of your inner workings and function as a clockwork how difficult is to find someone that can withstand the “pleasures” of the hospitality industry and how costly it is to train them?
The concept of "tipping" is an issue with me. I will never tip. All employees should be getting the minimum wage, no matter what their job is. Waiters/servers should be getting minimum wages. They are employed by the owner of the business to be hospitable, polite, welcoming, and helpful. If they want a "tip" from me, they are going to have to stand by my table, and cut my steak for me, twirl my spaghetti round my fork, scoop my soup with the spoon, etc., but i dont want them to do that, as I am not helpless. Concierges/bellboys at hotels are employed to take one to their room and to carry one's luggage. One should not "tip" them for doing something they were employed to do. Why should waiters/servers get "tips"? What about the chefs (and kitchen hands), who stand for HOURS in a hot kitchen, cooking over hot stoves, cooking food to customers' requirements....medium rare, well done, with extra this, without that, and wash the dishes? They dont get tips, yet they do harder work than waiters/servers. Tipping is an ill-gotten concept.
It's insane that people get paid under minimum wage... Its really hard to comprehend as a Dutchman. If your business doesn't make enough money to pay your workers fairly, you shouldn't benin business. And even if you legally are allowed to pay your workers sub minimum wages, it does not mean you should! A tip should be a reward for excellent service or amazing food, but not to get someone to the minimum wage level
"And even if you legally are allowed to pay your workers sub minimum wages, it does not mean you should!" - that's where you lost me. If paying your service staff proper wages, in the environment where those practices exist, was viable, you would see such enterprises succeed in america as well. Bear in mind, that they would have higher list prices for everything and in a country where 1/3 pound burger didn't sell over competitors 1/4 pounder one, because people thought they would get less(because 3 is a smaller number than 4) you would not get enough customers to survive. If it was a law, and everyone had to do it, sure, but saying that people should pay more, when they're competing against those that don't, is just naive. Such businesses would not survive.
@@raifthemad again.. if your business doesn't make enough money to pay your staff normal wages you don't deserve to benin business and should go bankrubt, the problem is this also happens with good running restaurants and diners and people accepting these near 'slavery' practices and wages.. Just to have a job is kinda the problem... But the owners just don't care and only care about their purse, if they can make 20000 dollar profit over the backs of their employees iso 15000 dollar where they pay fair wages, they will choose the 20000 even if its pure exploitation. This SHOULD be regulated by law though...
@@dohtje5029 Nothing happens in a vacuum, in murica, if someone tries to compete with businesses that pay less, while paying more, they will go out of business. That was all I said and meant. If the laws were changed, to make this behavior illegal, then there would be no underpaying competitors, and then enterprises paying fair wages could succeed. All I disagreed with, was that in an environment, where other businesses are allowed to pay less, this claim "And even if you legally are allowed to pay your workers sub minimum wages, it does not mean you should," makes sense. I agree that laws aught to be changed I just disagreed with that statement of yours, in the context of current US competitive environment. It was really idealistic and simple minded. If you can't grasp what I mean, there is no point in conversing with you.
I'm from the UK and a few friends and I went to NYC. Obviously we know tipping is a thing there and going to a bar we ordered drinks but didn't tip as we were planning to have several drinks and so would leave a bigger overall tip at the end when paying up to leave. But because we didn't tip on that first round the bartender refused to serve us any more drinks and just ignored us until we left. So rude! Your loss man!
Hi Ian, I have run a couple of businesses in my time and I always remember something that an old boss old me "your workers are your greatest asset" If they are unhappy, they pass that onto the client (Wittingly or unwittingly). Piss your staff off and that is definitely passed onto the client.
Suffolk, UK. An old friend of mine had to walk up a 1/8 hill with a yoke over his shoulders with two pails in order to get water for his family from a well at a local farm. He would say that thank goodness it wasn't the other way round, rather than empty on the way up. He used to 'bless' that journey! He was also a farm labourer and looked after and ploughed with horses. This was daily until the mid-50s, when we had piped water laid on. It wasn't long after the water was laid on that he developed Parkinson's. The family that he looked after all his life then took care of him. I used to visit as a child. He was a big man and had to be helped from his chair to go anywhere by being led. His daughter became his nurse.
My wife is American, and she moved here to the UK about 8 years ago as this is where we decided to settle. One of the first things she wanted to do was ''to get a nice stove top kettle, we can stow that electric one away''. I had to remind her that I usually go through about 10-15 mugs of tea on a daily basis and if she thought I was waiting 10+ minutes for a brew every single time she had another thing coming. She bought one anyway. These days it's a curiosity piece in the conservatory that doubles as a flower pot.
Restaurants are supposed to add to the tips to guarantee at least minimum wage. The irony is that when you tip, you are actually tipping the owner, because you're saving him money. This system is ludicrous.
As far as the advertising for prescription drugs is concerned, as long as that's limited to just regular old commercials on radio/tv/the internet/billboards/etc. I don't have too much of a problem with it either. Where it _does_ become a problem is when pharmaceutical companies start paying doctors to push their particular drugs, even if and when cheaper and/or better alternatives are available. Or the medication isn't really necessary at all. Big pharma paying physicians to prescribe their (opioid) painkillers unnecessarily has been a major contributor to the epidemic of opioid addiction currently plaguing the United States, for example. Also, the comment about super-sized portions probably doesn't refer to people having the option to order XL meals, but rather to the average, normal portion sizes in the US being _way_ bigger than they are in much of the rest of the world, contributing to the US having among the highest obesity rates in the world.
My cousin went to America for a holiday and was flying an Australian flag out of his hotel balcony and apparently everyone was going ape shit. Cars were stopping yelling abuse and was asked to take it down. That's pretty full on considering people of other nationalities fly their flag of origin here in Australia
I think the girl at 4:36 actually meant to say electric kettles. They are so much faster than using a conventional kettle on the stovetop and certainly don't seem to be common at all in America.
@@666t That's not entirely true. American households will usually have both 15Amp and 20Amp circuits. 120v @ 15A will provide up to 1800w and 120v @ 20A will provide 2400w. As a comparison Australia uses 240v @ 10A providing 2400w. Most electric kettles average 2200W so along as they were plugged into a 20A circuit like a microwave would then there wouldn't be a difference to performance. I'm pretty sure most kitchen outlets in America are 20A. You are actually able to pull more current from these circuits depending on how much current other devices are consuming on the same circuit.
Stovetop kettles have more radiant heat loss between (and around) the stove's heating element and the kettle. edit: The best is to use a stovetop kettle (ferrous) on an induction stovetop. Much, much faster with almost no heat loss.. (using equal electrical power and water volume, obviously)
I have seen Americans comment on going to a restaurant in Australia for the first time and having finished their meal and expecting to have their bill to be bought to them , sort of a polite message to go , where as the Aussies sit and take their time to leave paying on the way out
In the UK we generally have to ask for the bill when we are ready to go. I think someone bringing it when it looks like I'm finished would be a but rude!
In Australia I'd be so cut off from so many things if I didn't have a VPN and while they may not disguise your iSP they do hide your IP address. Maybe you have access the whole world in the US but geo-blocking is just annoying.
13:33 while technically not tipping, we had a local restaurant try that *pay what you think it's worth* gimmick instead of actually setting prices. Needless to say, they weren't in business for long as they were constantly getting people that were refusing to pay anything, or were only paying in loose change for a dish that would easily cost around $20 in another restaurant.
There is alot i could say but i will keep it short, America this is the reason why there is so much mental health in your country and America your not the best country in the world you are one of the worst & bloody guns grow up America grow up and stop the killings. 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
Yes, and the excuses are pathetic and stupid. Stop it already. The only country on earth that loves guns more than their own children!! And the hypocrisy of the only developed nation in this world to take women's rights over their body away with the lie *PRO LIFE* but totally supports and enables gun killings every single day SHAME SHAME SHAME
What I as an European don't get, is how when I go to a fancy restaurant in the USA and spend around $500 on dinner I have to tip the waiter $100+ for less than two hours of work. And it's not like the waiter is just helping me/my table. He's helping other tables as well, with similar prices. Even just helping two tables, he's making like $100 an hour if both tables stay 2 hours. That's just absurd to me. Imagine he helps more tables
It happened here in Australia where the Government encouraged everyone to go to University. The problem with that is that we now have a shortage of trades people. Trades are now the way to go as they making more money than some Uni. Grads.
They really need to fix the Apprenticeship scheme so that Apprentices get paid a bit better. They should also look at adding additional units for Year 11 and 12, so they can do part TAFE and part school to gain a HSC but also get accreditation for courses completed. So many options but no government with balls to achieve it.
@@killzoneisa Let's hope the new Federal Government steps up and fixes this. Trades are high on the Visa list but if we can train our own citizens then it would benefit the entire country.
They also need to make sure the education is up to trade standards. Bosses are finding they struggle with 3rd year carpentry and electrical apprentices, because they don't have the math skills to cope with the courses.
Ian, i would love to hear your take on America's gun laws, gun culture, the 2nd amendment and what you think should be changed in the constitution in regards to the tragedy that occurred in Ulvalde, Texas this week. to date there have been 213 Mass shootings in the US this year.....meanwhile since the Port Arthur Massacre, and banning on guns in Australia, we have had 0 mass scale shootings, i know gun culture runs deep in America, but surely something can be done to make sure no innocent people, let alone children, have to needlessly die before something is done.
That shooting was a 'false flag' and allowed to happen, very corrupt situation. Don't believe the news. The Democrats, the FBI and police were all in on it. The shooter was more than likely groomed and given guns and a truck to pull it all off to push fear into the American people to get guns out of their hands. A tyrannical government doesn't want the people to have guns. You need to be aware of how evil and corrupt the current American government is.
Yeah they’ve done something about it…..banned abortion so they well have more targets 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ As an Aussie it blows my mind the craziness of guns and gun violence and their healthcare and controlling people with their basic healthcare rights 🤷♀️
It seems debt collectors are the same everywhere. Just today there was an interview with some guy that took a loan here in Czech republic back in 90's, it was about 20 000 Czech crowns and after like 15 years he finally paid the loan that increased to 170 000 CZK. All legal by the way. He has received a letter from debt collector that assured him the loan has been paid but after several months the debt collector send another letter saying he owns like another 50 000 CZK because they somehow forgot to count those.
The most screwed up part about debt collections is that they can literally take you to court after they've bought your debt from a loan center violating the contractual agreement. So you have to take it seriously. Hurting your social credit is understandable; but the fact that they can sell the same debt multiple times hitting your credit multiple times over and sue you in a court of law that isn't even the people that loaned it to you should be illegal within itself.
@@MrSmexy702 Always ask them to send a statement of account (and always tell them you don't recognise the debt), 9 times out of 10 they will never do it because doing so would open themselves up to potential criminal liability (depending on how sketchy their process is for estimating the debt value). I went through this with 2 separate debt collection companies a decade ago and both of them ended up dragging it out and making me jump through hoops, only to write off the debt in the end without ever sending a statement of account. Just a letter that was essentially an NDA requesting I don't tell anyone else what happened lol...
@@djvillan indeed, but he tried anyway.. They behave like that here. They are more like loan sharks than just mere collectors. My father was in debts and although they knew he has no money they visited him every week and went through all his stuff forcing him to pay up something.
@@MrSmexy702 Of course they can take you to court because you contractually still owe the debt and you have to repay it, including any accrued interest and legal fees incurred in collecting the debt. Bad debt transfer and resale is 100% legal but only the shadiest of debt recovery/collection agencies would engage in that activity.
@ 5:42 It is not your job as a customer to ensure that employees are paid properly. That is the job of the employer. The tip is intended to be a bonus for the employee. Minimum wage + tip. That's the real meaning behind it. This topic really makes me angry because I have to realize more and more how antisocial the living and working conditions in the USA really are. If I had to make a list of the worst countries in the world, the US would be number 2, right after North Korea. Sorry for the hard words.
Spectacular! Maccas in New Mexico starts at $13/Hr in 2022 for comparison. Keep in Mind Cost of living is Much lower in a state like New mexico as opposed to Big city like Melbourne
In Sydney, it’s Sydney Water that charges for water, not the councils. When they built the desalination plant everyone who was covered by Sydney Water was paying for it, even if your location didn’t benefit from it during the drought.
The problem with direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising is that customers end up going into their Doctor's office and asking for medications that are wildly unsuitable for whatever condition they may or may not have (and can be deadly if used improperly). Then, when Doctors refuses to prescribe them, patients leave dispicable negative reviews for medical professionals who are doing exactly what they are supposed to do: look after your well-being!
Where I work everyone is required to take at a minimum of 2 weeks off each year (10 working days). Most will take it around Christmas so they can spend time with family and last Christmas we were asked to take 3-4 weeks, only because of COVID a lot of us were required to work to support the community so couldn't take time off for almost 2 years. I also never did understand linking Health Insurance to your employer, if you had Universal Healthcare then your employer wouldn't be responsible and everyone could be guaranteed access to Healthcare.
The debt collector thing can be used in your favour, I've had this happen to me before in the past. They bought out a pretty small debt that I had with a bank that had gone out of business (only a few hundred) and then stacked a bunch of charges and interest on it over the space of a few years before dumping it on me. At that point they were trying to get around 2 grand... All I did was say "I don't recognise this debt, I would like to see a statement of account to see how you have estimated the value of the debt". They made me jump through all kinds of hoops to deter me, even going as far as asking me to post a letter to them with £1 in an envelope to cover the costs to "retrieve the archived records"... So I just did everything they asked, jumping through all the hoops for a few months and what happened in the end? No statement of account, but instead a letter informing me that they have decided to write off the debt as long as I don't tell anyone about what happened lmao... Point is there was never any intention of sending me the details, they just wanted to scare and frustrate me to the point that I would just pay the entire fee without asking questions. I think they must have been doing something sketchy to reach that value of debt and obviously didn't want to send evidence over and open themselves up for a lawsuit.
I highly doubt that's what happened. The debt collection agency couldn't provide the statements because the bank went out of business and couldn't get access to them. However they could have easily printed a statement from the day they acquired/bought the debt and shown how much monthly interest had accrued, default charges, legal fees, etc over those few years.
@@djvillan They didn't supply any kind of statement whatsoever. I was asking for months before they decided to write off the debt. The only information I ever got was the total debt owed to them, after all charges and interest.
@@djvillan What legal fees? They bought a debt and made up numbers without any notification to the person. Ooooh, 'the debt accrued'. Hm, so why was the person not notified they have to pay you now upon receiving that debt? Mayhaps to cook the books?
I wonder.....how does it feel to know that America is not the greatest country in the world or the ideal democratic country for the rest of the world to follow ?
I have 3 kids all 3 of them have had extra schooling to different degrees, a son qualified chef who earns $27 an hour, my daughters degree an early learning educator she earns $29.00 an hour and my youngest son a qualified carpenter who earns $24 an hour, they all get holiday and sick pay, and none of them owe a single cent for schooling, my son was in an horrific accident horse trod on his head he died twice then revived him he had a fractured skull and orbital bone, he had brain surgery to remove bits of bone from his brain, he was in a coma for 8 days with every machine on him beeping and every vein tapped, when he woke it was bad and he needed a lot of rehab occupational, physical,speech, neurological therapy’s, and dental (he lost teeth to), and we didn’t get a single bill it would of bankrupted us, i myself have an autoimmune disease and the medication is very expensive, but I only pay a portion of it luckily else I couldn’t afford to take it, and it’s the only stuff that helps, and I’m happy to be an Aussie, where we CAN turn on a tap and drink straight from it, it’s rare not to have running water, very happy to b an Aussie, America would of broken me in every way possible
The thing with the water in the microwave I‘ve seen myself a lot of times in hostels around the world, where they have a tiny kitchen to make a cup of tea or microwave your food. Most Americans use the microwave to heat water, all others use the kettle.
The flag flying thing in the yards of private citizens drives me crazy. Do you need to be reminded which country you are in? It comes across as aggressive. There's a fine line between patriotism and antagonism/ xenophobia.
The really funny thing is that it probably started out as a way for a company to sell more flags and also where the American pledge of allegiance comes from, America where you have to pay to show you like being american... i guess
There's a TH-cam channel of American and Canadian friends that compare their cultures and in one video they each drove 10 minutes from their home through their neighborhoods and counted flags. The Canadian got 5 and the American got 20. Before that the American didn't realize there were so many flags around. He didn't notice them.
I don't know about other countries ,but here in the UK it's illigal not to pay minium wage and as far as Im aware it is one of the few laws here that is actualy implimented .As for tipping .thats not realy a ''thing'' in the UK at all. Dosnt Everyone pay for water in the first world ?. Here, only self employed people have ''do'' there own taxes for most its sorted out by employers . To a Brit ,America seems like a money obbssed country a result of this is companys seems to scam the people that can least afford it as a part of life and it's become ''the norm''. A education is not a guarentee of a job anywhere . we tend to to viue the ''educated '' as being lazy and having the lowest ammount of common sence of people in our population .Money cannot buy intelegence . Even natives in the third world use a kettle . I feel like i should appollogise for the stupid English woman that thinks differentley ,she was very rude and thats most lightley a result of being educated as per my last comment .
If the US had a higher minimum wage, workers wouldn't have to hustle for tips. In Australia some casual cafès have a tip jar at the counter, where ppl often leave small change, but that's about it. Tipping is just not a thing.
“Stiffing” employees with no tipping, is probably something tourists to the Stated are ignorant about - from personal experience I tipped if food, service and ambience was great, just like I do in the UK. 🤷🏻♂️
Does tipping only apply to the food industry in the US? Would I need to tip at a servo (gas station) or if I go to the local corner shop to buy some milk. What if I go to the movies, do I need to tip to buy some M&Ms for the movie? I agree, it should not be the customers responsibility to ensure their staff are paid right.
To the whole, advertising prescription drugs thing, as a Canadian, I have seen, in my youth the American prescription drug ads. All they did was confuse me, they'd tell me the products name, show a few scenes of happy people, then say, "ask your Doctor if this product is right for you" then list a bunch of possible side effects. Why was I confused? BC at no point did they ever tell you what the medication was supposed to do, what illness it was designed to combat. Luckily I cancelled my cable 14 years ago.
A VPN was almost essential for me when I lived in Sudan for 4 years. I had to use a VPN every time I bought something online or wanted to see things about any other country. But I agree they are advertised way too much compared to how usefull they are for normal people
It is also far more useful for Europeans than Americans as we are much more commonly interested in other cultures and want to watch Netflix shows from other countries. Americans don't tend to watch much stuff from outside of America so it makes sense they don't see any use at all for it.
Why doesn't the advertising of Rx drugs not bother you ...? Please explain just how this is supposed to work..... Does Madison avenue know more about your health condition than your doctor...? You are just supposed to go in to your doctor because you saw an ad and DEMAND the doctor give you an Rx for that drug...? most times that same doctor gets a kickback from the drug company if he pushes a certain amount of drugs out his office door ...... AND THAT DOESN'T BOTHER YOU...?........ open your eyes & grow the hell up !
G'day, "fun" fact water heated in a microwave can "Explode" Be careful if you try doing this as it is easy to get scolded. There are some conditions that need to be met, but can be done without realising it.
0:40 I would go further: the scam is that healthcare is connected to your job 21:31 only 5 limited advantages: - be able to choose a different country as you said. - privacy: when it's encrypted it's still possible to see what you are connecting to (like website name), a bunch of US ISPs sell this data. A VPN provider has not been caught doing that, it would destroy their business model. However court orders have forced them to log data of a customer or more. Even if they claim they don't log or can't log anything. Only one company has shutdown over such a request: the Lavabit email provider. They told the court to f-them, because it was for the Snowden investigation. - WiFi encryption isn't great, but much worse, it's easy to create a WiFi access point with the same name to fool your device to connect to it instead. You won't know you if are actually connected to the right WiFI access point - investigations across borders are difficult to do, example: you get yourself a VPN by a Russian company and do illegal stuff through them. A US investigation might not be able to coordinate with Russia to force the company to log. - when buying stuff online some webshop's prices can vary depending on the country/region you are from (obviously taxes and delivery charges is a different story). Bonus: if you are using IPv6 instead of IPv4 and your operating system (Windows, Mac OS X/iOS, Linux/Android, etc.) does not have IPv6 Privacy extensions enabled then your IPv6 address might be partially the same in different networks (thus being able to track you like a cookie could). A VPN would masks that.
Go even further. The idea that you can only be healthy so long as someone makes a profit on it is a scam. Health insurance is a purely American concept which every other developed country in the world is disgusted by.
@@YouTaus it's more nuanced, private hospitals, doctors, etc. exist as well in pretty much all these other countries. And lots of these countries have entrepreneurs in the medical field. But the situation in the US is the worst.
I know lots of Americans who heat water in their microwave. I think the reason that they don't have kettles is that the electricity supply is 110V so it takes forever to boil water.
10:38 What is written there about non consensus among tipped employees is making the argument about tips, when in reality it should be about minimum LIVING wage, with TIPPING optional on behalf of the customer. Great employees deserve tips, but before that, they deserve the minimum wage or better. The discussion is getting derailed by the tipping issue. Make minimum wages a standard, and let restaurants, businesses and/or customers define what constitutes a decent tip for good service.
I’m from California and I never knew servers in other parts of the country made below minimum wage until I moved out of state. As a server in my early working days, I’m so thankful I was able to make CA state minimum wage and not less. Idk how they do it, but this law needs to be changed.
I don't know how it is in the U.S., but in Australia your sewage is part of the water bill. The water component is the smallest part of the bill. People tend to think the whole bill is the cost of water. She is kind of correct about the kettles. Your 110V is not enough to boil water, so you couldn't use electric kettles. I believe you can get 220V now, so you can use them. In Australia we have 240V, so we have always had electric kettles.
it is enough to boil a kettle, it just tends to take longer as its 110V and the outlet is usually limited to 15A, so that equals 1650W where as here in Australia the grid is 240V at 10A which is 2400W so the water will boil a lot quicker. From what I understand that is one of the reasons electric kettles did not become that common in the USA as it is a lot slower than boiling water on a gas stove or even an electric stove as they are usually higher power than an outlet can provide. you can boil water at 12v, it just takes a lot more amps or a lot more time.
@@myopinion69420 here in the uk its 240v and 13amps per socket so we can just squeeze 3kw out and the water you get charged at both ends, is sewage very expensive to treat
I must admit, I didn't even know this before I bought a house. For renters it is just the water component and service to the property - the owner pays the largest expense, sewerage. My water bills used to be around $50 renting, but are now regularly $300 every quarter.
@@drew3030 yeah, ours are around the $280 mark, water is the smallest part by far, not sure why you wouldn't have to pay for water unless maybe she meant at a restaurant or something.
VPNs have become popular due to COVID and remote work, you can connect from your home to the place you work for as an extension of their private network. This of course is previously agreed by the company and the users.
The reason why electric kettles are not popular in American is because with 110v electricity it takes 6-7 mins to boil 1.7 litre whereas with 230v it only takes 2 mins.
Biggest scam easy .. health insurance.... its a joke and the quality of care is.... questionable. Not the worst Ive seen but deffently not the best. Also kettles Ive seen those whistle kettles on the stove top. But electric kettles ... never Ive had Americans laugh at me when I described them ...... weird.
I work for an ISP. The guy talking about VPNs is correct. The only thing he missed is that they also slow down your connection speed. The only possible use they may have is if you connect to a public network (starbucks or maccas free wifi eg) which doesn't require a password to join.
The Kettle Thing: electric kettes are ubiquitous in British kitchens, they are the quickest way to heat up water to boiling for making tea, instant coffee, for cooking, whatever. It works that way becuase our National Grid electricity is supplied at 240V, plenty of power to get the water up to boiling very quickly. What many British people who see lack of kettles in US kitchens dont realise is that your electricity is supplied at typically 120v, nowhere near enough power to make an electric kettle efficient enough to boil water quickly.
20 years ago they didn't have electric kettles here. I went to Macy's and the lady gawped when I asked about one. I did find one in the entire store and it cost over $100. Now you can get them eaily but most people still tend to use stove top ones here. THey had ekectric kettles and front loading washers way back in the 70's when I was a kid in the UK, Probably earlier.
11:37 I'm European but I'd guess the exact opposite... that women will get more and bigger tips than men... especially when young and good-looking... Credit score... one of the most ridiculous and stoopid things... but as long as it makes money, it will not be changed...
Jup. And dont get me started on the excuse of it being to complicated. They know what to add at when you are going to pay then the know what to add to the sticker price. Just another american scam to lie about price so you spend more at the store.
I got the feeling this "loud lady" made everyhing aboutthe "victimclasses" I dont believe that Women making less tipp then men. I would asume it is the opposite. In Germany Women waitresses getting tipped a lot.
I don't believe men get more tips than women, at least not here in Oz. When I was head barman in a hotel it was always the women who got the most tips and tipping here is usually only for exceptional service. I don't believe the women gave better service, they just played up to the men to get noticed.
VPNs: They're not as useful as they think they are. Yes, privacy while on the internet is good. Getting around country codes for streaming services is useful. But as long as you have good antivirus protections on your device you'll be fine as long as you don't open emails from addresses you don't know.
The vast majority of US citizens do not even know about electric kettles because, generally, they are not sold there. The reason for this is because of the voltage of the electricity supplied. US voltage is 120 with 60Hz while in Britain and here in Australia it is 230v with 50Hz. Running an electric kettle in the US would take nearly twice as long as here or the UK! A stove-top kettle or pan can be faster but coffee or tea (or hot chocolate or cup'o'soup, etc...) are usually done in microwaves to save time.
12:00 Tipping!!!! I hated the idea of HAVING to tip when I first started coming to the States in the 70s. It sounded so unaustralian. Thanks for explaining the real reason for leaving a tip, and why you should. I also never knew it was allowed to pay someone below the MINIMUM wage.
in Australia restaurant servers are paid a basic minimum wage and tipping is optional. if you can't afford to pay your staff a liveable wage them you can't afford to be running a business.
There are very few restaurant owners seen driving beat up old Fords
It's Spain, it's the same. Tipping is optional, in any business. I work in a store and sometimes a client leaves me part of the change as a tip because he thinks I have treated him well and he thanks me, but it is not mandatory.
This is bullshit. If they were getting a shit wage, they wouldn't do the job.
@@paulbland5625 you are a clown arent you people work to survive and people like youvthinkbits ok to take advantage of it 300vyears ago you would be a slave naster .. master
In America eating in a sit down restaurant is seen as frivolous, so if you can afford to eat there, you can afford a tip. Employers are notorious stingy. Happy customers tend to be generous. It should be obvious that the path of least resistance for a restaurant employee to be paid well is to get paid in tips. Now, if you have a powerful union culture and a labor friendly government, you might consider receiving a tip beneath you.
A big one that gets me is when Americans casually mention having security guards at school as if that's even remotely normal, like you've been taught to accept violence in so many aspects of your life that this is normal, and Americans don't seem all that interested in doing much about it which is pretty sad
Believe me most Americans do want to do something about it, but it seems our government no longer listens to the majority in this country.
@@Sandra-di1pm if that’s the case then those people need to vote for representatives that support gun laws. No point in people saying they support gun laws but do nothing themselves about it.
America cares more about unborn foetuses which are just a bunch of cells, than they do about living breathing children, apparently.
@@Sandra-di1pm bravo Sandra. Gee it couldn't have anything to do with this commie government creating the wild West could it? Not to mention a one party nation now and who's going to do anything about it? You have criminals that have lived for a regime like this, then you have every agency that's totally with this complete failure of a government. When you have revolving doors for the criminals in hopes of crime getting so bad that you can't go to your mailbox, that's when they'll have their case for banning our guns. This letting criminals do whatever and walk free is all part of their plan.
Security guards were common in a lot of schools before school shootings were common place. We have a big gang problem in America and in a lot of schools in bad neighborhoods there were security guards in order to stop fights, bringing drugs, etc. Now there’s usually police at schools, most of the time they have to just stop fights, or arrest kids for doing something illegal at school but they are trained for school shootings even though its fucked up we have to think about it.
What's funny about the tipping culture in the US is that waiters overdo their jobs for European standards, as a European we tend to be really annoyed by this... We want to be left in peace while we eat, when we need something we will ask... The "overdoing" of american waiters will have a reverse affect on our tipping, so for al you waiters out there... If you have a European customer... Don't ask them every 5 min if everything is ok...
Whats even funnier is that when an American comes to Europe, they will complain about the bad waiters 😆 because here they don't come to your table and ask if you need anything every 5 min...
As an Australia I'd agree. If we need something we'll ask - politely I'd hope. Don't hound the customer!
I'm in Australia, and really don't like wait staff hovering constantly either. I especially don't like it when they whisk away empty plates before everyone has finished eating...different places have different rules on this, but unless it's a large party event, leave plates there. Glasses for refills isn't the same, or empty bottles. But leave all the plates until everyone's done.
In America, it's great that you visited a restaurant and purchased food, but after a bit the wait staff and restaurant want that table free again and for you to leave.
@@joelwillems4081 In the US management/owners would want you to leave to free up a table but the wait staff would want you to stay to increase their tips.
@@joelwillems4081 Sucks that we can't eat our meal in peace... and under pressure too I suppose
The kettle one is real. As a brit I was shocked when I saw twitch streamers microwave water. Most boil on the hob though, have seen TH-camrs trying tea sent by their viewers boil water in a pan. I saw a streamer receive a kettle in his PO box and he damn near panicked when it was boiling not sure it was going to stop before it boiled over. It was like giving an iPhone to a cave man. 😆
I heard it was because of the USA power voltage is too low and it's faster to actually use a kettle pot on a stove top than an electric kettle.
@@neonknees that's not correct, too much energy will get lost to surrounding environment compared to an electric kettle, though it is slower than an electric pot in the Europe due to voltage.
@@dennisbohman3848 we do have an induction stove and a whistling kattle. Much faster than an electric kattle.
Please explain me what the h*ll is wrong with boiling water on the stove??
@@JustMe-sh8nd slow as shit.
Kettle lady is right, I have only seen 2 electric kettles in all of my years visiting and travelling around the US. Here in the UK there will be a kettle where any humans congregate, every home, every workplace, just everywhere
I cna even walk into the staffroom next to the labs at uni and there's a kettle in there
Yes and when we move its the last thing we pack and then the first thing we unpack at the new place 😆☕
The thing with kettles in North America is that the maximum wattage an appliance can draw on a household socket is far lower than norm on UK power sockets. North American kettles heat water much slower than British kettles. Electric kettles are common in Canada but if you need water heated fast, yes, the microwave is an option.
And in most hotel bedrooms
Searching for "electric kettle" on walmart shows literally over 50 different kettles. Hotels might not have kettles, but they're not hard to find.
It's so uncomfortable as an Australian when I'm in the USA and waiting staff are behaving overtly "customer service" friendly and it's obviously and clearly fake... It's actually confronting and offensive to us as we expect to interact honestly and openly with people regardless of their job. It's really sad because these people are just trying to earn a basic wage ...but instead of them getting a fair minimum wage the USA has this sick system of tipping! It's vile. 😔🤦🏼.
The lack of a kettle is definitely a thing in America. Some of my TH-cam channels often speak about it, especially those who have migrated, those who receive tea in a parcel/package opening, and several others have mentioned that they don’t own a kettle.
I'm American and I know some people with a Kettle, but it not common because tea especially traditional tea is barely a thing in the US. It does exist but it's a small minority. Most don't drink tea or if they do then it's pre-made and in a bottle or can. Also spaghetti needs to be cooked beyond just having boiling water pored on it.
@@loneponderer495 A kettle is for boiling water for any reason.
@@RandomStuff-he7lu I'm aware of that.
UK voltage is double that of US.. boils twice as quick - priorities! 🇬🇧
I'm British and whether or not you guys have a kettle is no reason for that god awful woman's attitude.
What you called a tragedy about the wages of tipped employees is what we call unregulated capitalism. The problem with profit being the ultimate goal is that some one as to pay the price and that is usually the workers. Nothing wrong with a business making a profit but the right of workers also need to be protected as well. This is where the US falls short of other developed western countries.
Americans faith in capitalism being self-regulated is naïve beyond belief..
16:10 It's an even bigger gap than that. I mainly know about the UK but I'm sure this applies to other countries too: We don't get sent a tax bill to pay, it's taken out of salary before we ever get it. The employers accountants work it out and do everything for us so most people never have to care about income tax.
I always get money back. Last time I got a months salary back.
Tax gets taken out of our salaries too. We might owe a different amount to the government than what gets taken out of our checks. So even though tax get taken out of everyones checks you still have to do your taxes to see if you owe more or are eligible for a refund.
@@sheajackson4616 Where I live that's just double-checking the numbers to make sure nothing got left out. And apply for any discounts or benefits you're entitled to.
@@johan.ohgren thats awesome in my country if you mess up the government can take your house, limit your job options, and claim up to 95% of your income, or you can go to prison.
That's nuts. Most countries pay their servers a living wage, and tips are just a bonus on top of that.
She might have been snarky about it, but what the kettle lady said is true, lol.
Kettles are almost nowhere to be found, and the 2 main methods for boiling seems to be on the stove or in the microwave. I have had multiple people make me tea in this manner, and sage to say I was legit horrified.
I’ve never been to another country where kettles were so universally absent, very strange. Every single household in Australia has a kettle. Without exception.
Also, the prescription ad thing - I don’t think you realise how much you became the meme there. Like… we don’t see ads on TV for anything stronger than cold and flu over the counter medicine. Ever. It is the single wildest thing about watching American TV.
Also re: food, your small/normal portions look like super sized to us, she isn’t talking about actually super sized meals.
Spot on !! Also .. the kettle lady 😂 gold..
@@Dr_KAP as an 8 cup of tea a day gworl, I was regularly traumatised by the lack of boiling water accessibility, but the microwave thing was a BRIDGE TOO FAR 😂
I think you will find it has to do with different voltages in outlets. USA is only 110 and from what I have read in other threads about this topic that is not enough to actually boil water in an an electric kettle.
@@deadkodo oh I’ve definitely used kettles there (in ex Pat households lol), it just takes a little longer than it would elsewhere due to the voltage issue. But it’s definitely not impossible, and the alternatives remain JUST as inexplicable to me 😂
@@deadkodo Taiwan and Japan are both on 110V and they have kettles, you can get 110V kettles.
The kettle thing is so true. I go to the states almost weekly, as I work for an Aussie airline. I take my own travel kettle because even the fancy 5* hotels we stay in don’t have kettles, they usually have some weird coffee machine that drips brown liquid into a big glass pot.
hahaha. I hear that brown liquid is often miss labeled Coffee.
As much as it pains me to agree with an Aussie, you are right! Not one person I know in the US has a kettle
@@tallthinkev I don’t understand why not. Kettles are so useful.
@@leemo2000 Think i's down to their silly 110 volts
@@tallthinkev nah because my travel kettle switches between 240v and 110v
I am baffled by Americas tip culture. In Australia you get a tip for excellent service not to support your employer in paying substandard wages.
What the hell is wrong with Americans, employment laws from the 1930’s is still relevant !!! WTF !!!
Our employment laws here in New Zealand are always evolving.
We don’t have tipping because our minimum wage is $22.00 per hour.
And that goes up slowly with the cost of living.
God help any employer who underpays their staff. This also includes private citizens who employe people in their homes.
I had the most amazing service when l was staying at a very well known hotel in Washington DC.
I tipped the waiter $50 - he deserved it. My American friend, whom I brought dinner for, got upset with me for over tipping.
I had to put in her place - my money, my business.
That’s $14 US and taxed at a much higher rate. With a much much higher cost of living
@@mct0407 And apparently minimum wage hasn't gone up for ages to keep up with inflation I herd.
@@mct0407 really? Is that before or after healthcare?
@@mavx4 yes really. It's about US$14 an hour, and taxed much higher on top. Did I stutter?
Healthcare is only a couple of percent more. The point is, people in NZ aren't paid US$22 an hour so it's not even remotely comparable.
The cost of living is much higher in NZ also.
Electricity, food, housing, petroleum. All significantly higher.
@@mct0407 I was asking you whether your comment on cost of living was before or after healthcare costs.
You are right, New Zealanders aren't getting paid $22 USD per hour, the actual median is $17.5 USD which is a little bit higher than the $16.36 USD in the US.
The latest price level indices according to OECD lists the US at 117 & NZ at 118. Where did you get the idea that NZ is a lot more expensive?
As an Australian trucky that gets paid $6 AUD over our already great minimum wage, I can backup the theory that well paid workers are loyal and efficient. They'll have to drag my corpse from this truck dude!
Don't know if you're having a bad day, or were particularly offended by the kettle chick, but she was right, she wasn't judging americans, just found it super weird that Americans don't have ELECTRIC Kettles. And if you've never seen or heard about Americans heating up water in a Microwave, then I'm sorry but you've been living under a rock.
He proved the point of the title. Americans are conditioned to believe its normal
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They sell them in all the shops. Looking at conflicting comments here I think it's based on region in the US.
She didn't need to say "grow up" though.. Not knowing something has nothing to do with being childish.. It was rude of her to react like that..
I'm not even a U.S. citizen, but I feel this wasn't ok.. She needs to accept different countries do different things.. It can be shocking, I was shocked too, but there's no reason to be rude. By saying it like that, I think she was judging.. Without the last line, it would've been ok..
She might've been right, but her attitude was piss poor..
Patriotism, flags everywhere:
You can overdo the flag waving. I'm guessing that most people you live near own a flag and display it on their houses or on their car, or even get a tattoo featuring it. Sure, it doesn't hurt anybody, but other countries don't do this. It's weird to us. We don't need flags to be patriotic. Ours is a more understated thing. We see people who have the flag waving from their car as tacky. Especially the clothing with star spangled everything. The rest of the world sees that as disrespecting the flag. It should be handled with the respect that a symbol of your country deserves, yet you can get flag underwear and swimwear. Not exactly respectful having your ass wrapped in the flag. People died defending it. You bury your heroes with it. And Billy-Bob walks around in a flag tank top, flag flip flops and is wearing a flag thong for underwear.
Thing is; according to US flag code, specifically, respect for the flag, its not supposed to appear on clothing (exception: it may appear as a small badge/patch on a service uniform) or used in advertising.
I see all flags being displayed here in the states whether in or on vehicles, clothing, property, etc.
As a Brit, Terry Pratchett had it right, waving the Union jack is something that the Military and foreigners do.
Edit : and weirdo's, but they aren't all mutually exclusive
Christ yeah, the Stars n Stripes hanging from everywhere… Kinda reminds me of photos and films of Nazi Germany …
Faux patriotism
Well, when I was I'm the US, I had to go to the cvs, to buy a kettle for my late night and early morning cups of tea. I lugged it around to every hotel I stayed at. Also , I don't mind tipping in the US, but I hate that the billion dollar businesses, expect that the customers are responsible for THEIR staffs standard of living.
As an Aussie, I'm interested in the news of the nation from that nation's perspective. It stuns me how controlled news coming out of Americ, primarily for American viewers, blocks any direct reports from other countries. Here in Aussie, for example, we have news reports directly from that country's news desk, without interpretation or 'and now from our correspondent in Chinese' over comments. Yes we do have those, but we mostly have that countries' direct story from them.
This, I believe, is why Americans are so ignorant to the real world, as opposed to America's interpretation of the actual goings on outside of their country.
it's very filtered in Australia too, the Murdock/ Fairfax won't give you the full story
@@wazzabanzook5028 That is true, but there are far more independent choices than those two influences.
@@petemedium2185 That is still true, but it has been becoming less true in recent years with things like the interference in, and defunding of, the ABC, and a lot of local news companies have been bought up by newscorp. Plus the journalism/media education pipeline is very much geared towards getting a job in these companies so it's a bit of a cycle too.
Considering this election and everything people are still getting news from other sources though. We haven't got problems as bad as the 24hour news cycle in America, but we still get very filtered news and need to be aware and understand ways to find less biased information.
@@DForSpiD Maybe it's time we started visiting the news of origin sources. China news, for example, is less propaganda than the US. After visiting these sites, a check with our own media services soon show how slack news generally is, all around the world.
@bob Murton you obviously have not really tried living in another country that has as much or more 'freedoms' as the US
11:05 I've never understood encouraging high turnover of staff either. Regardless of how well trained a person is, or how experienced, in a particular industry, it usually takes some time before they're fully on board with a particular company's procedures etc. It actually COSTS MORE to train staff up to a particular performance standard, than keeping good employees happy. Staff retention should be a minimum industry standard.
I have taught once that, no matter what job it is, 6 month is the minimum for a skilled worker to reach the desired productiveness.
It is probably because the jobs are thought as being low skilled jobs anyone can do and people don't respect those who do that work.
@@Roel_Scoot iirc that 6 months is mainly due to the new person integrating into the existing workforce on a personal level, the training can be a lot quicker
Im full blown Australian. And worked as a a waiter/food service.
And would get alot of ppl say keep the change. So we just put it into the donation jar for animal rescues ect... But we had/have a good base wage. So turning up to work your happy. Because you know your getting a set amount of money for the hours you worked.
I agree with your point on water.
It can’t be free but it must be easily affordable to even the poorest member of society, hence why it must be public utility and paid through taxes since private companies in contrast aim to maximise profits, not efficiency, quality, or affordability.
Iirc quite a few cities in Europe bitterly regretted their decision to privatise water and had to turn around quite quickly due to the catastrophic results…
Also about tipping culture:
One often hears the defense that businesses wouldn’t be able to stay in business if they were not allowed to exploit their employees.
Thing is, if that were the case you shouldn’t be in business in the first place but leave it to the more capable competitors…
The thing about flags in America, is that for you it may not seem like much, but for us in Europe, even seeing any flags outside of certain areas or certain times is incredibly rare
When we think "country that shows flags everywhere", it brings to mind... certain cultures
You may not see flags *everywhere*, but compared to Europe, it's still insane amounts of flags, even seeing flags on houses outside of certain events is essentially unheard of here
The only time here in Norway when we see flags, is on state buildings during different calendar events, our independence day, or on half mast outside someone's house when someone has died in that family... And that's basically it
For those that complain about water bills think of the alternative of areas here in Australia that doesn't have town water and you have to rely on rain water or pay for trucked water - been there done that - so happy to be able to just turn a tap on and know we don't have to check the water level first
Yep paying for water is probably necessary. One could talk about the price, and whether it's drinkable, though. If you can drink your tap water without treatment, appreciate that fact for a moment - there is enough people out there, who can't do that.
I had to do some work out in Goulburn back in to early 00's. They were in the middle of a drought at the time and the town's drinking water was terrible.
They had setup water dispensers in shopping centres for people to go fill up their containers at. Some were free, other's were paid swap and goes.
The problem with the water bills is some towns in the US pay for water that ISN'T drinkable because of local government corruption. There are videos of people setting their water on fire and that is not a joke video or trick it's in places where they're fracking or there's industrial waste being dumped in the groundwater. There's still LEAD in some of the flint water supply, though they're fixing it finally.
Paying for water also includes paying for the other end of the process as well. Sewerage treatment infrastructure is an expensive part of your bill.
Where in the world you don't have to pay for water right?
Do you feel good paying for air also? The stuff you need to survive? Do you feel obliged to pay for oxygen?
@@faguolvlv every civilised society doesn’t charge people for stuff that keeps them alive. It’s what we call human decency.
@@jonathanfinan722 where do you live? Do you pay bills or someone else?
Do you have many air treatment plants (no pun intended...) around in your city? Do they deliver air through infrastructure to your house? Nope... Do you have a river pluged to your house? If not then you most likely use city infrastructure. Which cost money to install, maintain, expand...
@@jonathanfinan722 thing is, the air you're breathing does not go to a treatment plant, does not need a sewer, and does not need destribution.... and every country i know have to pay for water. i live in europe, we're pretty civilized (sometimes), NOW, bottled water is a scam, sometimes it is legit just tap water with a brand name and addictives
As for super sized portions, she may refer to the standard sized portions in the US, that are, let's be honest, huge in comparison with the standard size in Europe. Added to the processed food in the US, it may have widely contributed to the unbelievable proportion of obese people in the US. That is one of the things that shocked me most while I was travelling in the US. Never in my life had I seen so many overweighted people, let alone morbidly obese folks. Not to mention the children: some are really fat very very young.
"Wow she is really loud" you mean American, yes, yes she is! 😂
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Most American I have talked to don't have kettles. Some didn't even know what a kettle was.
American Freedom. How free are you when you need to work 2-3 jobs and still die to a simple influenca because you still can't afford healthcare? Not at all, that's how free you are. You are slaves.
6:20 - Europe still tips, but not as a requirement for the workers to survive (this was never the case), but as a thank you for good service. That's also why there is no rule like "you should tip 10%" or something like that here. On small bills people might only round up or something. Decent ppl even tip 50 cents or 1 Euro to their package delivery guy, or the food delivery guy, etc. I personally give up to 20% when the service was really nice and if they were shitty, then I don't tip - which only happened once or twice in my lifetime. But I am 41 years old now and there was always tipping in my lifetime in Europe.
16:12 - Yes, most countries will send you "a bill", but only if you are hit by a random (really random) control and they find you filed something faulty or not filed something you needed to file. Here in Austria you don't have to do anything if you don't want to. In that case your taxes are basically done, because your workplace needs to do your taxes for you and most financial service providers also do it for you (like if you have income from shares, they will automatically pay your 25% gains tax for you and report that in your name). However, there is one item on the tax form that basically every worker can tick and that's basically a flat 70 € discount for "keeping yourself in shape for the working market", which broadly speaking means any form of "special expense" to stay employed. That can be any work related books, any work related clothes that you would not buy for personal use only, etc. The state simply assumes that every worker needs to pay at least that amount each year and they don't ask for any verification on it - BUT you need to "do your taxes" to get it. Which needs you to do this: 1) Get access to your online tax account, 2) Start the tax form, click through 5 pages of basic personal information, the item is already pre-selected for everybody, 3) hit send. The tool will automatically tell you if you owe something or if you'll get something back (if you have not entered any other information it will tell you that you'll get 70 € back within about a week).
Here’s a funny story, I was restaurant owner (we recently changed our business model due to COVID) and all waiters/waitresses started with the minimum state wage after that they got a yearly increase, we didn’t mess with the tips they got it all figured out with the kitchen about their cut, anyway we were paying them well over what any other restaurant was paying their waiters needless to say we have people working for us for over 20 years in an industry with a hell of a lot of rotation. So a couple of years ago we got audited because and I quote “you are paying too much, something is wrong here and we’re going to find out” another quotes “somehow you find a way to avoid your duties and we’ll find out” “there’s no way this people are receiving that much” I have to be honest it really wasn’t much the business was pretty standard 1/3 payroll 1/3 the rest of the operation and 1/3 earnings. (With a lot of fluctuations during the seasons of course) our people were interrogated TV style we actually made a lot of fun about this (what else we could do) at the end the auditors leave us alone somehow surprised and one of them a lady I remember well because she was from labor department or something and she said to me “you should pay less there’s no need for more there are people that would do it for less and you would get better profits” I just couldn’t believe it, the one that should be working in favor of the employees telling me this. I guess she didn’t understand that I just can’t imagine paying less than what I myself thought was low already increase that because is the right thing to do with someone that has shown loyalty and is making your business work did she know how painful it is to lose someone that knows all of your inner workings and function as a clockwork how difficult is to find someone that can withstand the “pleasures” of the hospitality industry and how costly it is to train them?
The concept of "tipping" is an issue with me. I will never tip. All employees should be getting the minimum wage, no matter what their job is. Waiters/servers should be getting minimum wages. They are employed by the owner of the business to be hospitable, polite, welcoming, and helpful. If they want a "tip" from me, they are going to have to stand by my table, and cut my steak for me, twirl my spaghetti round my fork, scoop my soup with the spoon, etc., but i dont want them to do that, as I am not helpless. Concierges/bellboys at hotels are employed to take one to their room and to carry one's luggage. One should not "tip" them for doing something they were employed to do.
Why should waiters/servers get "tips"? What about the chefs (and kitchen hands), who stand for HOURS in a hot kitchen, cooking over hot stoves, cooking food to customers' requirements....medium rare, well done, with extra this, without that, and wash the dishes? They dont get tips, yet they do harder work than waiters/servers. Tipping is an ill-gotten concept.
It's insane that people get paid under minimum wage... Its really hard to comprehend as a Dutchman.
If your business doesn't make enough money to pay your workers fairly, you shouldn't benin business.
And even if you legally are allowed to pay your workers sub minimum wages, it does not mean you should!
A tip should be a reward for excellent service or amazing food, but not to get someone to the minimum wage level
I think it's really hard to comprehend anywhere but in the US.
"And even if you legally are allowed to pay your workers sub minimum wages, it does not mean you should!" - that's where you lost me. If paying your service staff proper wages, in the environment where those practices exist, was viable, you would see such enterprises succeed in america as well. Bear in mind, that they would have higher list prices for everything and in a country where 1/3 pound burger didn't sell over competitors 1/4 pounder one, because people thought they would get less(because 3 is a smaller number than 4) you would not get enough customers to survive.
If it was a law, and everyone had to do it, sure, but saying that people should pay more, when they're competing against those that don't, is just naive. Such businesses would not survive.
@@raifthemad again.. if your business doesn't make enough money to pay your staff normal wages you don't deserve to benin business and should go bankrubt, the problem is this also happens with good running restaurants and diners and people accepting these near 'slavery' practices and wages.. Just to have a job is kinda the problem...
But the owners just don't care and only care about their purse, if they can make 20000 dollar profit over the backs of their employees iso 15000 dollar where they pay fair wages, they will choose the 20000 even if its pure exploitation.
This SHOULD be regulated by law though...
@@dohtje5029 Nothing happens in a vacuum, in murica, if someone tries to compete with businesses that pay less, while paying more, they will go out of business. That was all I said and meant. If the laws were changed, to make this behavior illegal, then there would be no underpaying competitors, and then enterprises paying fair wages could succeed. All I disagreed with, was that in an environment, where other businesses are allowed to pay less, this claim "And even if you legally are allowed to pay your workers sub minimum wages, it does not mean you should," makes sense. I agree that laws aught to be changed I just disagreed with that statement of yours, in the context of current US competitive environment. It was really idealistic and simple minded.
If you can't grasp what I mean, there is no point in conversing with you.
I'm from the UK and a few friends and I went to NYC. Obviously we know tipping is a thing there and going to a bar we ordered drinks but didn't tip as we were planning to have several drinks and so would leave a bigger overall tip at the end when paying up to leave. But because we didn't tip on that first round the bartender refused to serve us any more drinks and just ignored us until we left. So rude! Your loss man!
Hi Ian, I have run a couple of businesses in my time and I always remember something that an old boss old me "your workers are your greatest asset" If they are unhappy, they pass that onto the client (Wittingly or unwittingly). Piss your staff off and that is definitely passed onto the client.
Suffolk, UK. An old friend of mine had to walk up a 1/8 hill with a yoke over his shoulders with two pails in order to get water for his family from a well at a local farm. He would say that thank goodness it wasn't the other way round, rather than empty on the way up. He used to 'bless' that journey! He was also a farm labourer and looked after and ploughed with horses. This was daily until the mid-50s, when we had piped water laid on. It wasn't long after the water was laid on that he developed Parkinson's. The family that he looked after all his life then took care of him. I used to visit as a child. He was a big man and had to be helped from his chair to go anywhere by being led. His daughter became his nurse.
My wife is American, and she moved here to the UK about 8 years ago as this is where we decided to settle. One of the first things she wanted to do was ''to get a nice stove top kettle, we can stow that electric one away''. I had to remind her that I usually go through about 10-15 mugs of tea on a daily basis and if she thought I was waiting 10+ minutes for a brew every single time she had another thing coming.
She bought one anyway. These days it's a curiosity piece in the conservatory that doubles as a flower pot.
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@@-jacinta- Happy to oblige.
@@-jacinta- It could equally be super Australian. I don't even know where I would go to buy a stove top kettle here.
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@@A_nony_mous Stove top kettles aren't a thing these days in Oz either, and as for conservatories.....we just go outside for some sun ;-)
Restaurants are supposed to add to the tips to guarantee at least minimum wage. The irony is that when you tip, you are actually tipping the owner, because you're saving him money. This system is ludicrous.
As far as the advertising for prescription drugs is concerned, as long as that's limited to just regular old commercials on radio/tv/the internet/billboards/etc. I don't have too much of a problem with it either. Where it _does_ become a problem is when pharmaceutical companies start paying doctors to push their particular drugs, even if and when cheaper and/or better alternatives are available. Or the medication isn't really necessary at all.
Big pharma paying physicians to prescribe their (opioid) painkillers unnecessarily has been a major contributor to the epidemic of opioid addiction currently plaguing the United States, for example.
Also, the comment about super-sized portions probably doesn't refer to people having the option to order XL meals, but rather to the average, normal portion sizes in the US being _way_ bigger than they are in much of the rest of the world, contributing to the US having among the highest obesity rates in the world.
My cousin went to America for a holiday and was flying an Australian flag out of his hotel balcony and apparently everyone was going ape shit. Cars were stopping yelling abuse and was asked to take it down. That's pretty full on considering people of other nationalities fly their flag of origin here in Australia
I think the girl at 4:36 actually meant to say electric kettles. They are so much faster than using a conventional kettle on the stovetop and certainly don't seem to be common at all in America.
Yep and having lived in the US, no one I knew had a kettle! No one! They literally use the stove top to boil water.
I've used a stove top jug for 30 odd years, my first one was my Great Grandmothers whom I loved. I guess it just keeps a bit of her with me.
110volt electricity means it takes twice as long
@@666t That's not entirely true. American households will usually have both 15Amp and 20Amp circuits. 120v @ 15A will provide up to 1800w and 120v @ 20A will provide 2400w. As a comparison Australia uses 240v @ 10A providing 2400w. Most electric kettles average 2200W so along as they were plugged into a 20A circuit like a microwave would then there wouldn't be a difference to performance. I'm pretty sure most kitchen outlets in America are 20A. You are actually able to pull more current from these circuits depending on how much current other devices are consuming on the same circuit.
Stovetop kettles have more radiant heat loss between (and around) the stove's heating element and the kettle.
edit: The best is to use a stovetop kettle (ferrous) on an induction stovetop. Much, much faster with almost no heat loss.. (using equal electrical power and water volume, obviously)
I have seen Americans comment on going to a restaurant in Australia for the first time and having finished their meal and expecting to have their bill to be bought to them , sort of a polite message to go , where as the Aussies sit and take their time to leave paying on the way out
In the UK we generally have to ask for the bill when we are ready to go.
I think someone bringing it when it looks like I'm finished would be a but rude!
In Australia I'd be so cut off from so many things if I didn't have a VPN and while they may not disguise your iSP they do hide your IP address. Maybe you have access the whole world in the US but geo-blocking is just annoying.
13:33 while technically not tipping, we had a local restaurant try that *pay what you think it's worth* gimmick instead of actually setting prices.
Needless to say, they weren't in business for long as they were constantly getting people that were refusing to pay anything, or were only paying in loose change for a dish that would easily cost around $20 in another restaurant.
There is alot i could say but i will keep it short, America this is the reason why there is so much mental health in your country and America your not the best country in the world you are one of the worst & bloody guns grow up America grow up and stop the killings.
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Yes, and the excuses are pathetic and stupid. Stop it already.
The only country on earth that loves guns more than their own children!!
And the hypocrisy of the only developed nation in this world to take women's rights over their body away with the lie *PRO LIFE* but totally supports and enables gun killings every single day
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What I as an European don't get, is how when I go to a fancy restaurant in the USA and spend around $500 on dinner I have to tip the waiter $100+ for less than two hours of work. And it's not like the waiter is just helping me/my table. He's helping other tables as well, with similar prices. Even just helping two tables, he's making like $100 an hour if both tables stay 2 hours. That's just absurd to me. Imagine he helps more tables
It happened here in Australia where the Government encouraged everyone to go to University. The problem with that is that we now have a shortage of trades people. Trades are now the way to go as they making more money than some Uni. Grads.
They really need to fix the Apprenticeship scheme so that Apprentices get paid a bit better. They should also look at adding additional units for Year 11 and 12, so they can do part TAFE and part school to gain a HSC but also get accreditation for courses completed. So many options but no government with balls to achieve it.
Didn't help they shut most of the trade schools down.
@@killzoneisa Let's hope the new Federal Government steps up and fixes this. Trades are high on the Visa list but if we can train our own citizens then it would benefit the entire country.
They also need to make sure the education is up to trade standards. Bosses are finding they struggle with 3rd year carpentry and electrical apprentices, because they don't have the math skills to cope with the courses.
@@brclyn losing some of pointless things they are teaching in education could help.
Ian, i would love to hear your take on America's gun laws, gun culture, the 2nd amendment and what you think should be changed in the constitution in regards to the tragedy that occurred in Ulvalde, Texas this week. to date there have been 213 Mass shootings in the US this year.....meanwhile since the Port Arthur Massacre, and banning on guns in Australia, we have had 0 mass scale shootings, i know gun culture runs deep in America, but surely something can be done to make sure no innocent people, let alone children, have to needlessly die before something is done.
That shooting was a 'false flag' and allowed to happen, very corrupt situation. Don't believe the news. The Democrats, the FBI and police were all in on it. The shooter was more than likely groomed and given guns and a truck to pull it all off to push fear into the American people to get guns out of their hands.
A tyrannical government doesn't want the people to have guns. You need to be aware of how evil and corrupt the current American government is.
Yeah they’ve done something about it…..banned abortion so they well have more targets 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
As an Aussie it blows my mind the craziness of guns and gun violence and their healthcare and controlling people with their basic healthcare rights 🤷♀️
213 mass shooting already this year.. where did you get that false information?
It seems debt collectors are the same everywhere. Just today there was an interview with some guy that took a loan here in Czech republic back in 90's, it was about 20 000 Czech crowns and after like 15 years he finally paid the loan that increased to 170 000 CZK. All legal by the way. He has received a letter from debt collector that assured him the loan has been paid but after several months the debt collector send another letter saying he owns like another 50 000 CZK because they somehow forgot to count those.
The most screwed up part about debt collections is that they can literally take you to court after they've bought your debt from a loan center violating the contractual agreement. So you have to take it seriously. Hurting your social credit is understandable; but the fact that they can sell the same debt multiple times hitting your credit multiple times over and sue you in a court of law that isn't even the people that loaned it to you should be illegal within itself.
@@MrSmexy702 Always ask them to send a statement of account (and always tell them you don't recognise the debt), 9 times out of 10 they will never do it because doing so would open themselves up to potential criminal liability (depending on how sketchy their process is for estimating the debt value). I went through this with 2 separate debt collection companies a decade ago and both of them ended up dragging it out and making me jump through hoops, only to write off the debt in the end without ever sending a statement of account. Just a letter that was essentially an NDA requesting I don't tell anyone else what happened lol...
If the guy has a paid in full letter from the debt collector then the debt collector can't by law, pursue him any more.
@@djvillan indeed, but he tried anyway.. They behave like that here. They are more like loan sharks than just mere collectors. My father was in debts and although they knew he has no money they visited him every week and went through all his stuff forcing him to pay up something.
@@MrSmexy702 Of course they can take you to court because you contractually still owe the debt and you have to repay it, including any accrued interest and legal fees incurred in collecting the debt.
Bad debt transfer and resale is 100% legal but only the shadiest of debt recovery/collection agencies would engage in that activity.
@ 5:42 It is not your job as a customer to ensure that employees are paid properly. That is the job of the employer. The tip is intended to be a bonus for the employee. Minimum wage + tip. That's the real meaning behind it. This topic really makes me angry because I have to realize more and more how antisocial the living and working conditions in the USA really are. If I had to make a list of the worst countries in the world, the US would be number 2, right after North Korea. Sorry for the hard words.
Maccas in Melbourne, Australia are paying 29$ an hour on casual atm!
So yeah thought I’d just throw that in.
Spectacular! Maccas in New Mexico starts at $13/Hr in 2022 for comparison. Keep in Mind Cost of living is Much lower in a state like New mexico as opposed to Big city like Melbourne
@@IWrocker And the US dollar is worth a lot more than the Ozzy dollar.
A few of my American friends still boil water in a pot or microwave I tell them I have a elecric kettle
We pay for water in Australia, the council calls it water rates..
Yep and they are so cheap it's almost not even worth charging.
the charge for the actual water is cheap, the service charges are pretty obscene
@@Ishlacorrin Depends on your council as each council sets their on rate. We are currently paying $4.20 per kilolitre.
In Sydney, it’s Sydney Water that charges for water, not the councils. When they built the desalination plant everyone who was covered by Sydney Water was paying for it, even if your location didn’t benefit from it during the drought.
Your Council ? where are you ? In SA the Government own SAWATER who maintain water and sewer pipes
The problem with direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising is that customers end up going into their Doctor's office and asking for medications that are wildly unsuitable for whatever condition they may or may not have (and can be deadly if used improperly). Then, when Doctors refuses to prescribe them, patients leave dispicable negative reviews for medical professionals who are doing exactly what they are supposed to do: look after your well-being!
That owning guns is appropriate. End of story.
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The only people who should be paid in tips are politicians.
Where I work everyone is required to take at a minimum of 2 weeks off each year (10 working days). Most will take it around Christmas so they can spend time with family and last Christmas we were asked to take 3-4 weeks, only because of COVID a lot of us were required to work to support the community so couldn't take time off for almost 2 years.
I also never did understand linking Health Insurance to your employer, if you had Universal Healthcare then your employer wouldn't be responsible and everyone could be guaranteed access to Healthcare.
"Everything is offensive these days!" hahahaha. I'm glad you were honest enought to say it. I like it.
The debt collector thing can be used in your favour, I've had this happen to me before in the past. They bought out a pretty small debt that I had with a bank that had gone out of business (only a few hundred) and then stacked a bunch of charges and interest on it over the space of a few years before dumping it on me. At that point they were trying to get around 2 grand... All I did was say "I don't recognise this debt, I would like to see a statement of account to see how you have estimated the value of the debt". They made me jump through all kinds of hoops to deter me, even going as far as asking me to post a letter to them with £1 in an envelope to cover the costs to "retrieve the archived records"... So I just did everything they asked, jumping through all the hoops for a few months and what happened in the end? No statement of account, but instead a letter informing me that they have decided to write off the debt as long as I don't tell anyone about what happened lmao...
Point is there was never any intention of sending me the details, they just wanted to scare and frustrate me to the point that I would just pay the entire fee without asking questions. I think they must have been doing something sketchy to reach that value of debt and obviously didn't want to send evidence over and open themselves up for a lawsuit.
I highly doubt that's what happened. The debt collection agency couldn't provide the statements because the bank went out of business and couldn't get access to them. However they could have easily printed a statement from the day they acquired/bought the debt and shown how much monthly interest had accrued, default charges, legal fees, etc over those few years.
@@djvillan They didn't supply any kind of statement whatsoever. I was asking for months before they decided to write off the debt. The only information I ever got was the total debt owed to them, after all charges and interest.
@@djvillan What legal fees? They bought a debt and made up numbers without any notification to the person. Ooooh, 'the debt accrued'. Hm, so why was the person not notified they have to pay you now upon receiving that debt? Mayhaps to cook the books?
I wonder.....how does it feel to know that America is not the greatest country in the world or the ideal democratic country for the rest of the world to follow ?
Well they still think owning guns is more important then peoples lives 👍
Yes
How are you
Where are you from corey
@@kashifsatti5568 Australia mate
@@coreyjohnston9195 do yourself a favour brother, don’t reply to this guy. 🤜🤛🇦🇺
I have 3 kids all 3 of them have had extra schooling to different degrees, a son qualified chef who earns $27 an hour, my daughters degree an early learning educator she earns $29.00 an hour and my youngest son a qualified carpenter who earns $24 an hour, they all get holiday and sick pay, and none of them owe a single cent for schooling, my son was in an horrific accident horse trod on his head he died twice then revived him he had a fractured skull and orbital bone, he had brain surgery to remove bits of bone from his brain, he was in a coma for 8 days with every machine on him beeping and every vein tapped, when he woke it was bad and he needed a lot of rehab occupational, physical,speech, neurological therapy’s, and dental (he lost teeth to), and we didn’t get a single bill it would of bankrupted us, i myself have an autoimmune disease and the medication is very expensive, but I only pay a portion of it luckily else I couldn’t afford to take it, and it’s the only stuff that helps, and I’m happy to be an Aussie, where we CAN turn on a tap and drink straight from it, it’s rare not to have running water, very happy to b an Aussie, America would of broken me in every way possible
I've heard the kettle thing a few times before. Not sure how widespread it is, but widespread enough that it memes from time to time.
The thing with the water in the microwave I‘ve seen myself a lot of times in hostels around the world, where they have a tiny kitchen to make a cup of tea or microwave your food. Most Americans use the microwave to heat water, all others use the kettle.
The flag flying thing in the yards of private citizens drives me crazy. Do you need to be reminded which country you are in? It comes across as aggressive. There's a fine line between patriotism and antagonism/ xenophobia.
The really funny thing is that it probably started out as a way for a company to sell more flags and also where the American pledge of allegiance comes from, America where you have to pay to show you like being american... i guess
There's a TH-cam channel of American and Canadian friends that compare their cultures and in one video they each drove 10 minutes from their home through their neighborhoods and counted flags. The Canadian got 5 and the American got 20. Before that the American didn't realize there were so many flags around. He didn't notice them.
I'm neither American nor British, but I can say that kettles are definitely good. You can use the boiled water for coffee, instant noodles, etc.
I don't know about other countries ,but here in the UK it's illigal not to pay minium wage and as far as Im aware it is one of the few laws here that is actualy implimented .As for tipping .thats not realy a ''thing'' in the UK at all.
Dosnt Everyone pay for water in the first world ?.
Here, only self employed people have ''do'' there own taxes for most its sorted out by employers .
To a Brit ,America seems like a money obbssed country a result of this is companys seems to scam the people that can least afford it as a part of life and it's become ''the norm''.
A education is not a guarentee of a job anywhere . we tend to to viue the ''educated '' as being lazy and having the lowest ammount of common sence of people in our population .Money cannot buy intelegence .
Even natives in the third world use a kettle . I feel like i should appollogise for the stupid English woman that thinks differentley ,she was very rude and thats most lightley a result of being educated as per my last comment .
If the US had a higher minimum wage, workers wouldn't have to hustle for tips. In Australia some casual cafès have a tip jar at the counter, where ppl often leave small change, but that's about it. Tipping is just not a thing.
When I did my University degree here in Australia it was free (except for student union fees). Poor bastards have to take a loan these days.
Same here, under the the Whitlam years.
:( you're lucky that you got to go for free. Wish I could have too.
“Stiffing” employees with no tipping, is probably something tourists to the Stated are ignorant about - from personal experience I tipped if food, service and ambience was great, just like I do in the UK. 🤷🏻♂️
Does tipping only apply to the food industry in the US? Would I need to tip at a servo (gas station) or if I go to the local corner shop to buy some milk. What if I go to the movies, do I need to tip to buy some M&Ms for the movie? I agree, it should not be the customers responsibility to ensure their staff are paid right.
It's mainly the food service industry and possibly in bars, from my limited (2 visits) experience.
Restaurants, diners, doormen, bellhop, valets n hotel/motel housekeepers
To the whole, advertising prescription drugs thing, as a Canadian, I have seen, in my youth the American prescription drug ads.
All they did was confuse me, they'd tell me the products name, show a few scenes of happy people, then say, "ask your Doctor if this product is right for you" then list a bunch of possible side effects.
Why was I confused? BC at no point did they ever tell you what the medication was supposed to do, what illness it was designed to combat. Luckily I cancelled my cable 14 years ago.
A VPN was almost essential for me when I lived in Sudan for 4 years. I had to use a VPN every time I bought something online or wanted to see things about any other country. But I agree they are advertised way too much compared to how usefull they are for normal people
It is also far more useful for Europeans than Americans as we are much more commonly interested in other cultures and want to watch Netflix shows from other countries. Americans don't tend to watch much stuff from outside of America so it makes sense they don't see any use at all for it.
@@TheHestya yuup. I be looking up shows to watch and then it says it's on netflix, go there and it's not. Bullshit honestly
@@thetoyodacar2264 For real
Why doesn't the advertising of Rx drugs not bother you ...? Please explain just how this is supposed to work..... Does Madison avenue know more about your health condition than your doctor...? You are just supposed to go in to your doctor because you saw an ad and DEMAND the doctor give you an Rx for that drug...? most times that same doctor gets a kickback from the drug company if he pushes a certain amount of drugs out his office door ...... AND THAT DOESN'T BOTHER YOU...?........ open your eyes & grow the hell up !
G'day, "fun" fact water heated in a microwave can "Explode" Be careful if you try doing this as it is easy to get scolded. There are some conditions that need to be met, but can be done without realising it.
"Trickle down economy" is actually "Trickle up economy"
0:40 I would go further: the scam is that healthcare is connected to your job
21:31 only 5 limited advantages:
- be able to choose a different country as you said.
- privacy: when it's encrypted it's still possible to see what you are connecting to (like website name), a bunch of US ISPs sell this data. A VPN provider has not been caught doing that, it would destroy their business model. However court orders have forced them to log data of a customer or more. Even if they claim they don't log or can't log anything. Only one company has shutdown over such a request: the Lavabit email provider. They told the court to f-them, because it was for the Snowden investigation.
- WiFi encryption isn't great, but much worse, it's easy to create a WiFi access point with the same name to fool your device to connect to it instead. You won't know you if are actually connected to the right WiFI access point
- investigations across borders are difficult to do, example: you get yourself a VPN by a Russian company and do illegal stuff through them. A US investigation might not be able to coordinate with Russia to force the company to log.
- when buying stuff online some webshop's prices can vary depending on the country/region you are from (obviously taxes and delivery charges is a different story).
Bonus: if you are using IPv6 instead of IPv4 and your operating system (Windows, Mac OS X/iOS, Linux/Android, etc.) does not have IPv6 Privacy extensions enabled then your IPv6 address might be partially the same in different networks (thus being able to track you like a cookie could). A VPN would masks that.
Go even further. The idea that you can only be healthy so long as someone makes a profit on it is a scam. Health insurance is a purely American concept which every other developed country in the world is disgusted by.
@@YouTaus it's more nuanced, private hospitals, doctors, etc. exist as well in pretty much all these other countries. And lots of these countries have entrepreneurs in the medical field. But the situation in the US is the worst.
I know lots of Americans who heat water in their microwave. I think the reason that they don't have kettles is that the electricity supply is 110V so it takes forever to boil water.
The VPN comes in handy for viewing other regions content especially in Australia
In Scotland water is free, we do have a lot, it is nicknamed council juice.🏴
It's not free: you still have to pay water rates. - The average Scottish Water household charge in 2020/21 was be £372 - around £1 a day.
10:38 What is written there about non consensus among tipped employees is making the argument about tips, when in reality it should be about minimum LIVING wage, with TIPPING optional on behalf of the customer. Great employees deserve tips, but before that, they deserve the minimum wage or better. The discussion is getting derailed by the tipping issue. Make minimum wages a standard, and let restaurants, businesses and/or customers define what constitutes a decent tip for good service.
I’m from California and I never knew servers in other parts of the country made below minimum wage until I moved out of state. As a server in my early working days, I’m so thankful I was able to make CA state minimum wage and not less. Idk how they do it, but this law needs to be changed.
I don't know how it is in the U.S., but in Australia your sewage is part of the water bill. The water component is the smallest part of the bill. People tend to think the whole bill is the cost of water. She is kind of correct about the kettles. Your 110V is not enough to boil water, so you couldn't use electric kettles. I believe you can get 220V now, so you can use them. In Australia we have 240V, so we have always had electric kettles.
it is enough to boil a kettle, it just tends to take longer as its 110V and the outlet is usually limited to 15A, so that equals 1650W where as here in Australia the grid is 240V at 10A which is 2400W so the water will boil a lot quicker.
From what I understand that is one of the reasons electric kettles did not become that common in the USA as it is a lot slower than boiling water on a gas stove or even an electric stove as they are usually higher power than an outlet can provide.
you can boil water at 12v, it just takes a lot more amps or a lot more time.
@@myopinion69420 here in the uk its 240v and 13amps per socket so we can just squeeze 3kw out and the water you get charged at both ends, is sewage very expensive to treat
@@myopinion69420 You just saved me writing just that, thanks LOL
I must admit, I didn't even know this before I bought a house. For renters it is just the water component and service to the property - the owner pays the largest expense, sewerage. My water bills used to be around $50 renting, but are now regularly $300 every quarter.
@@drew3030 yeah, ours are around the $280 mark, water is the smallest part by far, not sure why you wouldn't have to pay for water unless maybe she meant at a restaurant or something.
Tipping, health costs, gun control, workers rights....
I'm an Australian and I have friends from Ohio, Kentucky and New Orleans. None have kettles, they use stove or microwave.
Do you mean, just no electric kettles or do they use a pan on the stove? Thanks.
VPNs have become popular due to COVID and remote work, you can connect from your home to the place you work for as an extension of their private network. This of course is previously agreed by the company and the users.
The portion size thing you cant avoid. A small in the US is like a large/XL everywhere else.
I have literally seen 1 L of coke/drinks being an option for size. That is insane. Who drinks that much soda?
@@midnightkitchen8379 1L wouldn't even be the biggest size
The reason why electric kettles are not popular in American is because with 110v electricity it takes 6-7 mins to boil 1.7 litre whereas with 230v it only takes 2 mins.
The second ammendment and christianity.
@not today for what?
@not today from what?
@@macdac9861 From other people enjoying the 2nd amendment
@@alaingloster4405 how many times have you had to do that?
@not today name 1 example, certainly not when your baby’s are getting shot up! Baby killer’s, all 320 odd million of you!
Biggest scam easy .. health insurance.... its a joke and the quality of care is.... questionable. Not the worst Ive seen but deffently not the best.
Also kettles Ive seen those whistle kettles on the stove top. But electric kettles ... never Ive had Americans laugh at me when I described them ...... weird.
I work for an ISP. The guy talking about VPNs is correct. The only thing he missed is that they also slow down your connection speed. The only possible use they may have is if you connect to a public network (starbucks or maccas free wifi eg) which doesn't require a password to join.
The Kettle Thing: electric kettes are ubiquitous in British kitchens, they are the quickest way to heat up water to boiling for making tea, instant coffee, for cooking, whatever. It works that way becuase our National Grid electricity is supplied at 240V, plenty of power to get the water up to boiling very quickly. What many British people who see lack of kettles in US kitchens dont realise is that your electricity is supplied at typically 120v, nowhere near enough power to make an electric kettle efficient enough to boil water quickly.
They can still boil the water (edit: in electric kettles) in the states, just takes about a minute longer than our kettles.
20 years ago they didn't have electric kettles here. I went to Macy's and the lady gawped when I asked about one. I did find one in the entire store and it cost over $100. Now you can get them eaily but most people still tend to use stove top ones here.
THey had ekectric kettles and front loading washers way back in the 70's when I was a kid in the UK, Probably earlier.
The first electric kettles went on sale in the UK in 1893
100$ is wild. Should cost 20$ on average, let's say 10$ for a cheap one, or 50$ if you need something fancy-looking and have too much money.
11:37 I'm European but I'd guess the exact opposite... that women will get more and bigger tips than men... especially when young and good-looking...
Credit score... one of the most ridiculous and stoopid things... but as long as it makes money, it will not be changed...
American shops not showing final price on goods, and adding tax at the till. You think you have brought something cheap for $5 then you pay $6.
Jup. And dont get me started on the excuse of it being to complicated. They know what to add at when you are going to pay then the know what to add to the sticker price. Just another american scam to lie about price so you spend more at the store.
right. Except in the state of Montana. No sales tax. But the rest of the U.S. yeah that sucks.
How in hell can you call it a "minimum wage" when you allow some wage earners to earn less than it? That's a flat out contradiction in terms.
I got the feeling this "loud lady" made everyhing aboutthe "victimclasses"
I dont believe that Women making less tipp then men.
I would asume it is the opposite.
In Germany Women waitresses getting tipped a lot.
I would say the difference there might be...
This is about America. Not Germany.
I don't believe men get more tips than women, at least not here in Oz. When I was head barman in a hotel it was always the women who got the most tips and tipping here is usually only for exceptional service. I don't believe the women gave better service, they just played up to the men to get noticed.
VPNs:
They're not as useful as they think they are. Yes, privacy while on the internet is good. Getting around country codes for streaming services is useful. But as long as you have good antivirus protections on your device you'll be fine as long as you don't open emails from addresses you don't know.
The vast majority of US citizens do not even know about electric kettles because, generally, they are not sold there. The reason for this is because of the voltage of the electricity supplied. US voltage is 120 with 60Hz while in Britain and here in Australia it is 230v with 50Hz. Running an electric kettle in the US would take nearly twice as long as here or the UK! A stove-top kettle or pan can be faster but coffee or tea (or hot chocolate or cup'o'soup, etc...) are usually done in microwaves to save time.
12:00 Tipping!!!!
I hated the idea of HAVING to tip when I first started coming to the States in the 70s.
It sounded so unaustralian.
Thanks for explaining the real reason for leaving a tip, and why you should.
I also never knew it was allowed to pay someone below the MINIMUM wage.