There are weekly rents for certain types of workers, typically industrial workers. Some low key motels do weekly as well. However it's not the norm if you plan on long term living.
My first job, I was per hour and I received a check weekly. When I got a salaried position, I was paid bi-weekly and then they switched to monthly. The job I have now, I was paid bi-weekly but then they switched to twice a month. It saves 2 paychecks a year. (Bi weekly = 26 checks per year, twice a month = 24 checks a year)
As a payroll HR manager, I disagree. It depends on the employer or if you are hourly or salary. Weekly, biweekly , monthly or 1st/15th. I’ve run all the differences.
I really love my biweekly pay. I budget to live on just 2 paychecks per month so then twice a year it’s like a little bonus for yourself! One of those paychecks typically falls during the holiday season so that’s a nice perk.
@@Thehighfiberdiet Agreed - and some states have specific regulations - we have to pay our NY and RI hourly workers weekly (so we pay all NY/RI employees weekly), but the rest of the company is paid bi-weekly.
For some apartments, especially if they rent to a lot of short-term tenants, and they don't verify credit info, it can happen that rent is due weekly... I've never had it happen, but it can happen...
Not true. Mobile parks and low income housing and some other landlords still do this but it is not common. I rented a 1 bedroom house in central Indiana and paid weekly which sucked when there were 5 payments in a month because my rent was $125 more that month
“The snip” is a vasectomy in the US. We don’t call circumcision “the snip”. I was very confused when you started talking about boys getting vasectomies at birth. Lol
Ok so I have some AMAZING answers for why our bathroom stalls have all those gaps, coming straight from my friend who works in the industry. Many reasons... 1) Bathrooms are easier to clean with the gaps underneath the doors. The janitorial staff can hose down the whole floor in one go when cleaning. 2) It discourages drug use, sexual intercourse, and homeless people sleeping in the bathroom stalls. So it helps business make sure nothing shady is going on in their public restrooms. 3) It's cheaper to design & build... the partitions/divisions can be deployed universally no matter the size of the room, flatness of the floor, ceiling height, etc. So manufacturing companies can just have one design of bathroom stalls and sell them to any business. You're welcome ;) haha love you guys
That's so bad about the homeless people :( the US and Canada would rather build bathrooms like this and have homeless people sleep and die on the streets than help them. Sometimes I hate my country
It's about 35 cents a glass if you calculate the cost of the gas and soda at least that's what I came up with about 10 years ago. My question is why do restaurants charge $2-2.50 even for tea, and that's definitely the cheapest thing you can drink.
I just so happen to be watching The History Channel on 09/11: 102 minutes that changed America... The 1st tower fell, and the 2nd is about to fall within the next 5 minutes or so. Debris everywhere, "chaos" is the soup of the day!
@alex unger" Never Forget" that in my beautiful United States of America, people were just getting to work or were already there, going about their day. And suddenly, out of nowhere, two planes slam into both towers. Planes full of people!! A plane that killed everyone on board when it slammed into the ground at full speed! Thousands of my countrymen died that day. Unprovoked attacks. These were not military bases or soldiers that were bombed, these were just plain, ordinary people who were going about their way to make a living for their families. Little children in daycare were killed that day of unimaginable fear, pain, and ,sorrow!!!!!! Millions of people are suffering from PTSD because of that day. What a cowardly act!
@@karlamackey4675 don't forget the Pentagon where a plane filled with people hit the one side of the structure that was empty for renovations. Otherwise the death toll would be much higher! The plane was flying so fast it was like a ballistic missile; it knocked down one of those overhead "motorway" signs then when it hit the building only the nose cone was built robustly
@@edwardmiessner6502 You're right. I did fail to mention the Pentagon! I was so angry when I was commenting on the other post that I was seeing red! That's no excuse! I do apologize and thank you for bringing that to my attention! I didn't mean any disrespect. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Well, I know you can pay for it weekly at a hotel sort of suite, but yeah, we pay rent by the month. We have weekly pay, bi-weekly pay, twice a month pay which is not the same, and monthly pay. Government and teaching jobs primarily pay monthly. I hated it. I much prefer bi-weekly because 3 or 4 times a year you get 3 checks in a month!
And the only bi-weekly rent is mostly for Military people because they set it up on allotments when they get paid on the 1st and 15th. Weekly rent is usually extended stay places where out of town workers are staying while completing a job or really seedy motels.
Depends on the job. Some are weekly. Most are every 2 weeks. Most months that means 2 paychecks, a couple long months you’ll see 3 checks.. Most bills are monthly. Mortgage in general is monthly. But you can switch to every 2 weeks. Why would anyone do this? Because you can pay off your house quite a bit faster just switching to that. It’s less overall interest you end up paying. You do that with paying a little extra every month and you’ll end up mortgage free years sooner. Cut the cord can be a big money saver. Cut a few of those monthly bills as they can as up to a lot of money over time. Those on salary pay still in general get paid every 2 weeks also. They asked me if I wanted to do that and I said no!!! I’ll clock in and out as I end up working longer, sometimes come in on days I’m normally off or end up called in after after because some alarm went off. It happens more than you think. With salary, all that extra time I wouldn’t be paid extra, so no thanks.
I'm on disability now and I get paid once a month. That's not really all that bad. I get the same amount every month. I know exactly what my bills and rent add up to so then I know how much is left over to buy groceries and whatever else I need. I don't have to make payment arrangements anymore because I'm paying everything from one check.
I was on disability for probably a year or two several years ago, but at the time I was living in a very low-rent apartment with no bills. Living where I do now I just feel it would be so anxiety-producing. But I guess it’s as you said, you just have to learn to adjust your way of living to your situation and live within your means
@@johnp139 I've found that getting paid once a month saves me money. I can't over extend myself each pay period and overdraft my bank account. It saves me all of those unnecessary and expensive bank fees.
Here in America the most common ways of getting paid are weekly and bi-weekly. And lower income rentals usually that's weekly but in regular apartments or condos or homes you're looking at a monthly payment for rent or mortgage Edit: also I think it's a safety precaution to have the bottom of the bathroom stall open for 15 or so inches... prevents any Foul Play, prevents a child getting locked in accidentally..
Renting of a room in a very large house you may pay weekly.Those extended day places where some people live I believe they pay bi-weekly.But,Those are alternative living arrangements for certain individuals in particular situations.But of course apt.rentals,homes for rent and privately owned homes pay monthly.
One way to pay a little extra every year is to pay half your mortgage every two weeks. you will get 13 payments for the year. It can be helpful for budgeting too if you get paid bi-weekly
In my experience in the US, “cash only” places are much more common than “card only” places. Now due to COVID, more places have signs requesting card transactions, but not requiring them.
Yeah it's depends on what type of restaurants if it's a really great place maybe a 5stars type then yeah they get good salary but it's a fast food place then yeah they need tips!!!
I agree. Some cities, like Philly, were looking to make it illegal for places to operate cashless. I've been to a number of restaurants and take out places (all mom & pop operations) that were cash only.
To these snobbish two in the u.k., we in the u.s. love our hard cash for a good reason, we love our Freedom. It's one less control that the government have a hold on to track and control us. These two are so caught up in the system to realize that all these chips in our credit card, cell phones, passports aren't just there for speed and convenience. It's to get us ready to take the mark or chip that they will eventually want us to put in our body so as to know our every move - Revelation 13. Cash is king. Cash is privacy. Cash is freedom.
So is covid-19 but channels have been getting got for saying it, including medical advise and "doctor reacts to..." channels. But for some reason saying "the rona" doesn't count. Im not saying they're definitely gonna get demonetized for saying circumcision, but these days, why take the chance?
Payments are not taken at the table at restaurants in the U.S. because the process of paying or handling of money traditionally should have been handled discreetly. The process of paying was considered gauche. The main reason however that you don't pay tableside is that in America you tip wait staff. If the person is standing their waiting for your to put in your tip it creates an environment where determining the tip that you actually think the wait staff deserves is fraught with pressure.
I have also heard it that America was a first mover with Charge Cards, which at first had the magnetic stripe. As they became more popular in the rest of the world, the micro chip became the standard, but all these US Retailers had already invested in the card stripe reader, which isn't a portable machine that comes to your table. So they have been lagards in doing this because they'd have to purchase multiple portable card readers for the waitstaff to use. However, even when I visit Canada, a country very (very) similar to the US, they take your payment at the table there almost 100% of the time now.
@@bjdon99 They've had portable readers that take the stripe for a long time but generally it's just been built into the cash registers. Chips are pretty new here - last couple of years mostly. Mind you at the "breakfast"/"diner" type restaurants they often have you pay at the register when leaving versus your server taking the payment.
@@jimzecca3961 As someone who works in the CC industry, the reason USA is behind on contactless is because USA has far more CC's than europe. As you mention, we were basically where it all began. So when EMV came around (the "E" in EMV is "Europay"), forcing all the Issuers to change was fairly easy (far less places accepted CC's, so far fewer terminals to change out, far fewer cards to replace with the chip, etc). Those fancy cards cost quite a bit to create, and so for the USA, it was a big deal. It was sort of a chicken or the egg, why would banks reissue millions of cards, if no terminals were around to accept them? And why would terminal providers create new terminals, if there were no cards to use in them? The "Benefit" wasn't worth the cost for a very very long time. And of course, when EMV got to the USA, they made it far worse (Europe's is a bit simpler, less secure, etc)... Contactless EMV is a NIGHTMARE lol.
The most common answer to any question starting with “Why in the US do they...” is that someone found a way of making more profits for doing it that way.
@@DangerRussDayZ6533Love it or hate it... ya got to admit.. Capitalism Definitely drives technology forward..and as a person that works in Technology I appreciates that..
That's one thing that people like @Joel & Lia who are "adamantly" opposed to tipping is that if bars & restaurants eliminated tipping to pay a "living wage", it would be a **pay cut** for most people. It would be a **drastic** pay cut for me. I make $500-$600/night in tips. $15/hr × 10hrs = $150 ... they would be cutting my earnings by 75%!!
Not many people here get paid weekly and I've never heard of paying weekly rent. The most common is getting paid every two 2 weeks, and paying rent monthly.
All my credit cards have now sent me "contactless" cards this year. I put it in quotes because I've YET to find a place where they actually work, even the places that say they do.
As someone who lives iin the LA and Southern California area I have been through a number of earthquakes and the only time they mention a name is where the earthquake was centered in otherwords where it happened. But as for hurricanes as soon as they develop they give it a name
Yeah. If it's a big enough earthquake we name it by the place it was centered or the fault line. Our biggest one in Seattle in the last 20 years was the Nisqually Quake. FREAKED ME OUT!!!
@Rachel P yeah the people that go through them the most normally just say stuff like this is nothing remember that one in 08 or whatever year said big one hit
“Waiters get paid fairly here.” As a server in the US I can confidently tell you I make more money than the general manager of the restaurant. We make more money than pretty much any position in the restaurant. I managed a kitchen and left it for that server money.
A lady I worked with many years ago, was a server in a restaurant prior to working with me. On weekends she would make $200.00 in tips. That was more than her pay check was.
Yeah, owners should pay staff decent wages in the first place. Patrons pay enough without passing more costs onto them. In the UK, we give tips if there is great service or the staff member is very pleasant, not just because they have just served you a drink.
Yann L I certainly agree wages in the U.S need to be better for the working class It would just be a major pay cut to me. I make more off the tips system is all I’m trying to say. A lot of servers do. Don’t feel too bad for us lol
Tipping in the UK! I took a 2 week holiday through England, Wales and a little bit of Scotland a few years ago, knowing full well that USA style tipping was not ‘a thing’ there. But I could not stop myself! It is so ingrained in our US culture...especially as a former waitress/bartender. In a small pub in Brighton the bartender was just so wonderful, giving us lots of pointers, pouring great drinks, snapping pics, etc; I could not imagine not showing my appreciation with a gratuity. She was so sweet explaining to me how tipping was not a requirement at all and to not feel any obligation; but I could not NOT tip her!
I still tip when I'm there because I believe in showing a service worker that you appreciate their attention. If they are rude or don't do their job, I won't tip.
It's rare bills, rent, or mortgage payments are due more often than monthly. It's also rare to get paid weekly or monthly. Everywhere I have worked I got paid bi-weekly in the U.S.
In my experience, wages are paid every other Friday. Some retail companies pay their employees once a week on Friday. I have never worked at a company that paid out wage or salary just once a month.
Alex B - Define a lot. For the vast majority of student rentals in the US, rent is paid monthly. When I was a college student we paid monthly like everyone else, I’ve never known anyone that paid their rent weekly. That would have been very rare indeed.
America is quite advance, but we are also MASSIVE. As a result, it takes ages for certain technologies to be picked up everywhere. I didn't get broadband internet until just a few years ago, and I only live in a semi-rural area. As far as credit cards, they are a supremely mixed bag. For example, local stores in my area of Iowa have pretty much every system of payment between them. One store has swipe and sign, another a chip reader, and another the contactless tap. Most stores only update they credit card systems when the old one breaks down. We had a hardware store we frequent where we could not use our chip card for several years because they still have these really ancient readers at the checkout.
exactly this is the thing most foreigners don't understand is just how big the us is and tbh i don't blame them i mean the us is the 3rd biggest country in the world and when you compare it to say the uk for example it is gargantuan i think the us is something like 40 times the size of the uk so again I understand the misconception
It’s the same in Nebraska just worst we only have two actual cities most tows are rural so we don’t upgrade unless something breaks or we have money to burn
Where the heck do you live?? I live in the burbs in the Northeast and I have had broadband internet for well over 15 years. I have had a fiber optic cable for over ten years too.
I think it’s probably due to just being cheap in most instances. Maybe it’s a regulation in some areas (maybe...) but like doesn’t make sense. How you getting trapped in a bathroom stall?
I've heard that they're designed that way so that people will use them and GET OUT. They don't want people to feel at home and get comfortable. Use them and move on.
I agree that our public bathroom stalls are not private enough. I love when I go to an upscale restaurant restroom/bathroom that has a fully enclosed stall.
I think the naming of hurricanes is because of them taking time to get somewhere. You can prepare for a hurricane but on the west coast (region) earthquakes and fires (forest fires) also are named by the location after the fact. Like the CAMP fire that killed 85 people.
Well for hurricane in east coast it's so commons & so many of them that they have to named it as where's in Japan it's numbers & about earthquakes I don't ever heard of as being named unless it's a really big & major one!!!
I think that I remember those earthquake but california gets alots of them but I'm from Seattle & we had a major one about 10 yrs ago & ground wasn't shaking but like a ocean waves ground like I was surfing lol
After the fact earthquakes in the U.S. are named for the nearest place/town to the epicenter whereas hurricanes use alphabetical names preselected before hurricane season. If the hurricane is bad enough/does a lot of damage that name is retired and not used again. I would disagree that all Americans think earthquakes are normal. Californians maybe yes, but not all Americans. I was stationed 60 miles east of L.A. right next to the San Andreas and other fault lines. My first earthquake was the Whittier earthquake. In fact I did not notice the original earthquake while at work. The aftershocks the next night did wake me up which was a bit unsettling, especially on the top bunk. Even standing on the floor on the second floor of the barracks could not stand still. Fortunately my roommate was from Northern California. He said no big deal so went back to sleep.
I would have to say I have seen people glance in that gap. Maybe not walk up and gawk, but I've made eye contact with women waiting in a long line right outside the door. More than once. At concerts, sporting events.
Joseph Dominguez I thought they were talking about vasectomy. Circumcision is for cleanliness reasons, problems later in life for older men. There is less cervical cancer in women whose husband is circumsized.
@@henrytheastronaut it’s a completely unnecessary, cultural, cosmetic, and painful procedure done to unwilling baby boys. It takes away a functioning, natural piece of the penis, which contains a high concentration of sensory nerves. Look up the information for yourself. Any propaganda you have heard supporting it just does NOT justify the practice. The procedure has no place in modern society.
@Cameron Belanger yes, generally when you remove something it decreases the risk of something. Cutting out mammary glands at birth would drastically reduce breast cancer as well but nobody is advocatingbfor it bc it is cruel and barbaric. And, being cut doesn't mean your dick is clean. Also, ifbit refuces std's, then tell me why Europe has lower rates of infection than America? I have a hoody, a shower a day keeps stuff fresh downstairs. It's not like if i go 2hrs my dick is crusty with crud. That would literally take days and days and days to accumulate. Besides being barbaric, scars are not sexy and too many heads are dried and insensitive. Be kind, leave it as God/nature intended
It's so uncomfortable for the person using the toilet as it is for the person going to or from. It's like you have to pretend not to care. On an unrelated related note, ever make extra noise on purpose because you realize the person in the next stall is taking a dump and attempting to be discreet about it and you don't want to be caught in some awkward, silent, "I can hear you pooping" moment so you're like really loud with the toilet paper and not shy about making any noise while pulling up your pants? No? Only me? Yeahthatsoundsaboutright...
The bathroom stalls in my highschool were the worst I've ever seen. When you're standing up you could see straight over the top into the next stall. Super awkward and uncomfortable, but apparently it was done that way because a kid had an overdose in the bathroom a few years before that and nobody knew they were in the stall for a few hours
They took the doors off our stalls when I was in high school because people were smoking/doing drugs. Guys get used to it, because we all pee shoulder to shoulder with strangers anyway.
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 yeah the stalls in my school gym bathroom didn’t have doors. I never used the toilets at school for anything more than peeing though
I’m a teacher, and we get paid once a month. Here in NC, a few weeks ago, we experienced an earthquake and a hurricane, all in one week! It was CRAZY! 2020 just keeps on giving!
Amy Jones - I work for the NHS in the UK and there was a Spitfire Thank you flyover. I rushed outside to see it and broke my ankle really badly! I now have more metal in me than the Spitfire! It’s a crazy time all around the world. Stay safe x
there are too many earthquakes every day to name them all, however, the biggest ones, although not officially named usually are assigned popular names that everyone uses to refer to them
I've been through many quakes while living in Japan and California . The only quake I've been through that had a famous name given to it was the Northridge Quake .
I think they name hurricanes because hurricanes appear several days before they hit, and it's easier to refer to them with a name instead of referring to it in some other way.
In the us, we sacrifice privacy for security. We have those gaps in our stall doors to discourage drug use, sexual activities, and homeless people sleeping in the bathrooms. Another thing that we have is, whenever you make a call in the US, your call is monitored by the Federal Government. This is to monitor calls for terrorist plots.
Omg if I only got paid monthly I feel like I wouldn't survive. Lol A lot of us don't have savings for basic needs, we just buy what we need as soon as the money comes in! Lol and the bills are never due at the same time. I guess if we were paid monthly we'd learn to strategize on a monthly basis rather than spread everything out!
oh, no! getting paid monthly is the best! you get your bills all taken care of on the same day and the rest of your check is yours to do with as you please.
It’s so much better budgeting for monthly though! Because you’re paying everything monthly anyway! Save the money from 15th paycheck if you have a big bill on the 1st that that one check can’t handle.. etc. Does that make sense?
Most waiters in the US would not want a "living wage" and not have tips because they can make more (if they are good waiters) with the tips. Some waiters make a whole lot.
I would not wait tables for a living wage. It would no longer be worth it. I’m good at it but the burnout you go through is horrible. I average a higher wage waiting tables than working in ICU reading heart rhythms. Paid biweekly however, most servers take cash home daily. Pay rent monthly. 🎃
It depends where u work and the price of the food and liquor. If u work in a cheap restaurant then you have to work very hard and many more tables to get the same as an expensive place. Add to that if u have cheap customers or people who don't know better and tip u very little, or nothing. 15 to 20% of the bill is customary.
In the USA, restaurant servers can actually make way more than a living wage with tips! Someone I know makes over $50K per year working as a server with tips. There would be absolutely no way a server could earn that much with a standard living wage. No server in the US would ever go for a living wage. Without tipping, the quality of service would deteriorate to something awful like most other countries that don't tip! You won't be able to find a server when you need something and it would take forever to get your free refills.
I'd like to meet this person who can make that much money from being a waitstaff person. I've never seen anyone who was anything other than barely surviving and half starving from being part of a waitstaff yet.
@@jwb52z9 - I was a banker a major bank in the US, and this guy came in for an auto loan. He brought his paystubs and his tax returns, and YES, I was able to verify that he made over $50K as a server! It's up to you if you believe it or not. For me, I could care less if you don't because I know what I saw!
Jwb52z this is definitely a thing. I have multiple family members who make almost or over $1000 a week working in nice restaurant/bars. Just depends on the city or restaurant you’re working in.
Jwb52z My sister in-law makes SOOOOO much money serving! It’s insane. She even got a degree, but makes more serving than she would with it. I used to make great money serving too. It definitely depends on the restaurant and location.
@@jwb52z9 - Did you hear from a few viewers who verified that a server can make over $50K per year? Catherine Koon said she had multiple family members who made a $1000 per week. There are 52 weeks in a year x $1000, that's $52K per year! Any more smart ass comments?
Yup. I retired after 18 years in Amazon customer service. Direct deposit. If you don't have a bank account to get an ATM card that's refilled each payday.
Darn, I promised myself that I'd unsubscribe the next time I heard you say " I just can't stand it!" In regards to something about America. But, I didn't yet...just untapped the bell (notifications).
I too was paid on the 1st and the 15th at my former job. That was great in February when the pay checks were close together. I hated it though when there were five weeks in the month. I would end up having to go three weeks between pay checks. I actually like getting paid that way.,though.
Had a relative who took a restaurant payment slip and tore it into tiny pieces. He said if you don't, somebody can rearrange the bits into a copy and thus rob you. I informed him that the waiter took his card to the back and made a copy of it, so why would he go to the trouble of "rearranging the bits" when he had the whole thing in the back room to do with as he wished. But this was not persuasive, of course. Our family's favorite idiot.
Guys I appreciate that you want to talk about your sponsor, but between your ad and the two from TH-cam, of the first 6 minutes of play there was about 5:30 of ads.
Waitresses and waiters, while not making a necessarily "living wage," generally make pretty decent money for the hours that they work. I would say on average I've made anywhere from $20-$50 per shift waiting/bartending. Sometimes even more. It really isn't (or shouldn't be, at least) the responsibility of the customers to pay these high prices. But since many waitresses/waiters/bartenders come away each night with a decent amount of money... nobody complains about it. Also, due to the tipping system, restaurant workers actually get paid every single night that they work. In other words, you could come into work completely broke and leave with anywhere from $100-$500 in your pocket. As a poor college student, this has basically saved my ass the last 4 years lol
Something else I would add to this is that waiters and waitresses by law do get paid minimum wage by the employer if they don't make enough tip money to be equivalent to minimum wage. I often find people do not understand this from foreign countries. Not only that, but many people want to be waiters as you can make a lot of money doing so (and not pay taxes). In NYC if you work in fine dining you can make 100k.
Katie Caracappa Yes! It’s super illegal for restaurants to not pay their workers minimum wage if their tips don’t add up to at least $7.50 an hour (which I would say in most cases they do). 100k is a lot of money but it’s definitely possible in nice restaurants
20$ for (assuming a 4 hour shift) is 5$/hour or 10k/yr if you work 40 hours a week - well below the poverty line. Fine if you're a kid living off momma's dime but complete BS as an adult paying your own way. 50$ in 4 hours or $12.50 per hour is 25k per year, doable as a living wage, in some areas. Most of the restaurants I've been around as a worker your '4 hour' shift is actually closer to 5 though, plus you have no benefits - so call it 4$-10$ per hour in your example. It's ludicrous to say that no one complains - must not be long in the service industry if you haven't seen people get their lights turned off by slow seasons. RE: legal minimum wage - minimum wage is only ~$2 per hour for service staff federally. Some states make that rate higher, but on main it's really quite low - and well below the poverty line for adults working full time in the industry.
Or twice monthly. I like that system better, since recurring payments tend to be monthly, knowing that the 1st and the 15th are always payday is easier.
@@thexvault No. it isn't. Every two weeks is every two weeks. Usually Friday, so some months you get paid 3 times. (This year, Oct 2, 16, 30) 26 paychecks a year. Twice monthly is twice monthly, you always get paid twice a month usually the same days each month which will be different days of the week each month (Oct 1, 15). 24 paychecks a year. I get paid twice a month, my wife gets paid every 2 weeks, so yes both these schemes exist in the US, and yes they're different.
The bathroom thing is something I have a hard time getting especially as a guy. You just don't look in the gaps lol I've never experienced anyone peeping in
Our waitstaff actually make pretty good money with our tipping system. I know several that have degrees but chose to wait tables because they make more money than if they used their degree. The downside is most waitstaff don’t have health insurance or save for retirement not because the companies don’t offer it but the healthcare is usually more expensive than at a white collar job.
Actually they DO name earthquakes. The epicenter's nearest town is used. I was in the Northridge quake. Well, nearby in Hollywood just uphill from Frederick's of Hollywood.
I moved out of CA just before that one. My first one was the Whittier quake in '87. That was awful because I lived alone in Sherman Oaks (house-sitting for a friend while he was filming in Canada). I don't remember a whole lot of them after because I got used to them. Except the last one I can recall was the Big Bear one ('92 or '93)...it was about a 7.1 and went on far too long (and I was in O.C. by then).
The confusing part about names for earthquakes, is that since they are named for the epicenter's nearest town, there can be multiple earthquakes with the same name. There have been four earthquakes named "Eureka", spread out over about 80 years. With hurricanes, the names of particularly strong storms are retired, so we'll never have another Hurricane Katrina, Andrew, or Harvey.
I haven’t seen it mentioned, but in the US, when we say a guy got “snipped” it means he’s had a vasectomy. Same general area but drastically different procedures!!!
No, they’re referring to boys in the video because they’re referring to circumcision. So thankful that my generation is slowly catching on to the fact that circumcision is purely cosmetic.
@@brittneyjohnston1618 Yes, I know that is what they are discussing. I am sharing that if they talk to someone in the US about a guy getting "snipped", it refers to something different.
In England "the snip" generally refers to vasectomy. Also snipping wire, snipping pastry, snipping paper to make a colarge in school. It means making a small cut in anything. Hence Lia being polite about snipping of some poor kids foreskin.
It's funny how the 'tap' technology started in the US back in the late 90s with Mobil gas stations 'pay at the pump' key fob: wave it to the sensor and your card is debited. It never caught on for some reason - then the rest of the world ran with it. A lot of us have been using google/apple pay for long time. The issue is we have so MANY banks, credit unions, etc.... and it's difficult to standardize (although, most places now offer tap). Also, I find the 'pay at the table' with the machine rather tacky. Whenever I travel abroad and they bring that little - sometime noisy - card machine to the table spitting out a receipt at the table - it's just a little uncouth - especially at a fine dining establishment.
I had one too. I just thought it was cool at the time. I don’t see many Apple Pay has pumps these days. Once in a while. I also found the card machine being brought to the table an odd practice. I always enjoy countries without tipping.
The problem with tipping is that the vast majority of waiters/waitresses make WELL above minimum wage. They would actually make less money if tipping was eliminated.
When did this start? I have never met anyone working as a part of waitstaff who was above barely surviving unless the person had a second job and somehow managed with little sleep.
I worked in the restaurant industry for over 20 years both as a cook, a waiter and later in management. (when I went into management I ended up making less money initially). If a servers wage and claimed tips combined add up to less than minimum wage over the course of a pay period then the restaurant is legally required to make up the difference. Minimum wage is at most around $15hr in some areas. An average server makes more than this. A talented server makes MUCH more. When you combine this with the generally flexible scheduling that most servers enjoy then you start to understand why many people are happy in their job. Frankly a server who makes less than this normally is doing a poor job. Why would they want to fight for less money overall?
@@palisade32 exactly. I've tried explaining this on several forums. I worked as a server and I made what would average up to about $11-$15/hour and that was back in the mid 90's.. I would go in around 5pm and work until around 11p. Would bring in at least $70-$90 in tips a night. My paycheck that $2.13/hour was just weekly gas money
@@jwb52z9 Let's say you wait on 10 tables in two hours. If the average bill is $25, you may make about $40 in tips, or $20 per hour. But at the beginning or end of your shift, you may only get 5 tables, so $10 per hour in tips. However, if you work at a steak or seafood restaurant that serves cocktails, the average tab might be $150 per table and you might make $250 to $300 in tips for two hours, or $125 to $150 per hour. At the start and end of your shift, maybe only $70 per hour. Moral of the story: since tips are usually based on a percentage of the bill, try to get a job at an expensive restaurant. Work at Wendy's and your tip will be a free cheeseburger, fries and a small frosty for dinner.
The places in the USA that don't have the gaps in the stalls are like the really nice places (really nice/expensive stores/restaurants/etc). Trust me, Americans hate the public restrooms too. The part where you said that a lot of boys in the U.K. Don't get circumcised absolutely blows my mind. In America, our doctors strongly recommend circumcision because it keeps away infection and whatever, so to Americans, not being circumcised is gross.
I can reduce chance of HIV in low income people but if you wash & don't get an std you will never get an infection, I have never heard of anyone getting an infection there because of foreskin
Not true. Come to Texas where you can go to Bucee's (it's a gas station and almost like a department store) and they make sure to clean the bathrooms every 30 minutes. Bucee's doesn't allow 18-wheelers to come in because they don't want to attract lot lizards and their employees are treated and get paid well!
Love these videos. When paying - portable chip readers have just started (last 3 - 4 years) being widely used in the US. Many places still have large registers or pay terminals that have the card readers attached to it and can't be removed from the wall to go to the table. A typical restaurant will have maybe 5 terminals that all of the servers take turns using, to process payments from their multiple tables. Earthquakes - don't get named unless they are big enough since they happen very frequently (roughly a few times a month) but are mostly imperceptible to the general public, but picked up by our machines. An earthquake would generally have to cause major damage to get a name.
I have never heard the "they could lose your card" reason for not liking a waitress taking your card lol That is all they are doing! They are just taking it to the register and bringing back a receipt, you're not afraid they will lose your plate of food from the kitchen to the table right? I didn't realize this was odd in the UK, interesting. Also I am 22 and the whole time I have had a card I have used chip I have very very rarely been asked to swipe a card - only when a chip reader is broken.
@@kawkabon yeah I understand the scare about people copying your card I just ment that its not likely that a waitress will even set down your card, let alone lose it.
I've had my card stolen before by a waitress. So I am super leery. I would much prefer contactless. Places like Red Robin have a thing at the table you pay, so you dont have to wait or worry.
How the waiter put PIN numer of the card in the terminal? In my country when I pay I must authorise transaction with a PIN number (4 digits that only Iknow). With contactless card I must auhorize transaction over 25$ (100 PLN). If I don't authorize my bank doesn't proceed the transaction. That's why we pay at the table (portable terminal) or personally at the cash register.
In Florida we work up until the hurricane makes landfall if it’s a category 2 or less, we also have what’s called “hurricane parties” where we cook food and drink while watching the storm... with Hurricane Irma a few of my buddies and I went riding fourwheelers while it was storming
I live in the US. Hardly anyone gets paid weekly and the only people who pay their rent weekly are people who have to live in long term motel stays in less than nice motels. This is because they don't have his credit and the money for a deposit on an apartment. Only a few places have earthquakes so most of us are not used to them.
When I waited tables here in America, I made way more than a living wage in tips. It was the reason why I did that for a living. I think here in the US wait staff would be super pissed if you gave them a raise to living wage and then took away their tips. Especially in the really nice restaurants where they make insane amounts of money in tips if they are really good at it. Even working in a pancake house in the AM here I could make quite a bit in tips for a day and made more than I would have made at a regular job. Not everyone does, but if you are good at it and you have a great attitude and great customer service and stuff, you can rake in the $$$$.
I think you're right. The servers do not want minimum wage with no tip. I'm in California and the server wage is $11.00hr. That is at or more then what England calls a living wage.
I still disagree with our tip culture, because at the end of the day the business makes out because they get paid for the food and don't have pay their employees that much. Plus not all wait staff make a ton of tips depends on where you are. My wife worked in an affluent neighborhood and her experience was that the customers with more money tipped her less. It just me but i think it's the business's responsibility to pay their employees not the customer.
The thing I have realized that Europeans have a hard time grasping is how big America is. A lot of the things you mentioned are exclusive to certain states and cities. Logistically speaking it is very difficult to get the whole of the USA on the same page with anything. So Everything you mentioned is in America however it is not true everywhere in America.
Yes, this. English are very bad about comparing their tiny country, which is smaller than many of the states, to the whole of the US and this pair is perfect example of that.
I would point out that when I went to the UK, yes contactless payment was everywhere, but it seemed like there was a 30 pound limit on it, whereas here, I have never seen a price limit on contactless.
You can pay contactless over that limit, but then you have to enter the PIN numer to the terminal. It's in case someone steels your card and want to buy sth expensive or withdraw money from an ATM.
I've heard of someone whose card got switched with another customer at a restaurant and didn't notice until the end of the month when the bill came and had the wrong cities on it. He pulled out his card and realized it was the wrong name. Both guys had to call the credit card company and send the card in. I think. They may have had to contact the other customer to get the cards switched back.
Tanya Craig Well firstly, everyone should have a code of conduct because that is the right way to behave. Secondly, it has nothing to do with being British, I have no problem saying circumcised. Quite offensive to assume all British people are the same, when it’s clearly just their personalities that make them shy in regards to discussing circumcision.
Initially, I thought they were referring to a vasectomy. I've always called that procedure "snip snip". Then I heard Joel mention "at birth" to realize they were referring to circumcised. Either way ... I love J & L's innocence, but I always enjoy hearing some good old fashioned cussing! LOL
We had contactless cards in the US, but it seems to have gone away, possibly because of outcry from the security community about how easy it is to copy your card without it even leaving your pocket. Nowadays, Apple Pay and Android Pay have filled the gap.
I was in the UK and was in a restaurant with a British guy. I went to pay the bill and put 20% down for a tip and he freaked out and said NO that's WAY too much! lol. In the US I always tip 20% and more if the service is really good.
So you still give 20% for poor service? Tipping should be commensurate with the service provided, otherwise servers will realize that service doesn’t matter.
@@johnp139 I did not mean to imply that. I was focusing on the fact that 20% shocks people in the UK, but it is pretty standard for me here in the US.. However, if service is terrible I will NOT tip 20%.
- Hurricanes are named because they are forecast-able and are mentioned on the news several days in advance of the coming storm. Earthquakes aren't as easy to forecast. And once an earthquake strikes it is normally named after the town nearest the epicenter. - RE: paying your restaurant charges at the table. There are 88,000+ restaurants in the UK. There are 660,000+ restaurants in the US. It is very expensive for the card companies and/or restaurants to upgrade to handheld card readers. We will get there with portable card readers in restaurants but for now there is normally just one or two stationary card readers in a restaurant. The waiter has to take your card to the machine to run it. The UK and other European countries can roll-out new technology faster than the US solely because of our size. You can roll-out new technology in 12 months when it takes us years simply because of the volume involved. More card members, more card readers.
I tipped in Europe because I liked that I wasn’t constantly being bothered and annoyed. That I wasn’t getting pushed out the door to get the next tipping customer in. Your experience is just more relaxing in Europe
I will point out that almost everywhere in the US takes cards, however when I was in continental EU, there were SO many places including restaurants that did not take credit cards and only took cash. It was the weirdest thing.
I get paid bi-weekly. 1st & 15th of the month. I have my bills scheduled accordingly, so they are due at those times. Pretty normal. As far as Hurricanes... I survived Katrina. 😔. August 29, 2005. It was sooo bad. I love my Apple Watch, makes me a happy girl in Covid world. 👍🏼 There’s a law here in the US, that businesses can’t refuse cash.
That is not a federal law. It depends on your state or locality. Most states in the US do not have such a law and can indeed refuse cash. And, btw...being paid the 1st and 15th of the month is not bi-weekly. It is twice monthly. Twice monthly means you get 24 paychecks a year, while bi-weekly means 26 paychecks a year.
@@mandaleeross1325 Well, I don't know if I'm loads of fun...I suspect here are a few people who just think I'm just being pedantic. As a former teacher, I can't help it. Hope you weren't offended.
You don't get paid by-weekly if you get paid on 2 specific days a month you get paid bi-monthly. People who get paid bi-weekly get two checks a year more than those who are paid bi-monthly but their individuals checks are smaller to spread their yearly income over two additional pay periods if they are salaried. Bi-weekly is every other week. Typically, these are paid on Friday for most businesses in the U.S.
Right?! I suggested this to them as well. I also love how they don't allow 18 wheelers to come because they don't want to attract pavement princesses and lot lizards.
Weekly rent are hostels, hotels, motels or SRO’s (single resident occupancy) which is pretty much the same as a motel. Pays are received either weekly, semi monthly, Bi weekly or monthly.
Joel/Lia, I've worked in restaurants when I was young. Basically, if you are a good server, (waiter/waitress), and think of it as a sales position, selling the customer on you and your service, you'd rather get paid less, and work/earn, more by your hard work. Also, the hardworking servers don't claim their tips that are much over minimum wage, to avoid paying income tax on their tips. When minimum wage was $3.65/hr, (I'm old), many servers were making $150-$200 in a 5 hour shift. If you suck at service, you get out of the business.
I left the country for a couple of years. I left and credit cards were swipe only. Come back (and had to get a new card because of expiration) and I was confused when my card didn't work swiping. I had to have the person teach me how to insert my chip. I was like "sorry this is new tech for me" everyone was like "uhh this has been around for a couple years..."
Everyone overthinks the bathroom issue. The US stalls are the way the are because they always have been that way here and nobody really cares because they mostly do not know anything different. If you have lived with something like that since you were 5, you tend not to notice it. As more people travel internationally, it bothers more and more people, but probably never enough to really change. Weekly rent only happens at the very, very low end of the market. Monthly is customary. Cards here had strips longer and are just shifting to contactless (we have universally had chips for a while) for a variety of reasons including the fact that the US had a much deeper and broader adoption of cards using the earlier technology than Europe outside the UK. Europe was about 20 years behind the US in market penetration for credit cards, only hitting US levels reached in the 1970s in the 1990s. Due to US law, most of the risk for fraud losses because of the lower security strip cards falls on the card issuers who preferred to fraud losses to upgrading the network until the technology costs came down, so it took more time. The US had less incentive to invest in the infrastructure necessary for the marginal upgrade from stripe to chip than Europe which was still building out infrastructure when the chips became truly available.
Weekly rent payment isn’t the norm, any place I’ve ever heard of rent is payed monthly.
There are weekly rents for certain types of workers, typically industrial workers. Some low key motels do weekly as well. However it's not the norm if you plan on long term living.
Those who live in hotels like ExtendedStay America will pay weekly for their rent
Only landlords I've known to allow weekly (other than short term rentals) were in the hood.
When I hear weekly rent I think of a crappy SRO in a large city like New York.
Weekly rent is a thing in crappy motels where the residents are poor and often transient .
Most jobs in the USA get paid biweekly.
My first job, I was per hour and I received a check weekly. When I got a salaried position, I was paid bi-weekly and then they switched to monthly. The job I have now, I was paid bi-weekly but then they switched to twice a month. It saves 2 paychecks a year. (Bi weekly = 26 checks per year, twice a month = 24 checks a year)
As a payroll HR manager, I disagree. It depends on the employer or if you are hourly or salary. Weekly, biweekly , monthly or 1st/15th. I’ve run all the differences.
I really love my biweekly pay. I budget to live on just 2 paychecks per month so then twice a year it’s like a little bonus for yourself! One of those paychecks typically falls during the holiday season so that’s a nice perk.
@@Thehighfiberdiet Agreed - and some states have specific regulations - we have to pay our NY and RI hourly workers weekly (so we pay all NY/RI employees weekly), but the rest of the company is paid bi-weekly.
My sister's a prof, and she gets paid monthly. I mostly have been paid twice a month or every two weeks, though currently it's one a week.
Born and raised in the USA and I will never be used to public bathrooms in this country.
Same!
I hate it
I never understood why there were gaps and then found out that in other countries there are no gaps. Why can't we have that?
Marsh Mallow I’m guessing it’s because it’s cheaper
Its never bothered me honestly
The only time you pay rent weekly is if you're staying at an extended stay motel.
I've seen some really shady apartments that charge by the week.
For some apartments, especially if they rent to a lot of short-term tenants, and they don't verify credit info, it can happen that rent is due weekly... I've never had it happen, but it can happen...
@@corryunedited8154 LOL...Short time or long time?
Not true. Mobile parks and low income housing and some other landlords still do this but it is not common. I rented a 1 bedroom house in central Indiana and paid weekly which sucked when there were 5 payments in a month because my rent was $125 more that month
Not true there are many rentals that give the option of weekly or monthly
“The snip” is a vasectomy in the US. We don’t call circumcision “the snip”. I was very confused when you started talking about boys getting vasectomies at birth. Lol
I was too! Yeah, so @Joel & Lia be careful with that one.
No, I've heard it called that. Snip the tip, etc.
You are correct Beverly.
@@benlucas3625
snip is vasectomy
Nip the tip is circumcision
I know! I thought it was hilarious when she asked him "Have you had it?" and he was like "NO!". I was thinking , "He's too young for a vasectomy." LOL
Ok so I have some AMAZING answers for why our bathroom stalls have all those gaps, coming straight from my friend who works in the industry. Many reasons... 1) Bathrooms are easier to clean with the gaps underneath the doors. The janitorial staff can hose down the whole floor in one go when cleaning. 2) It discourages drug use, sexual intercourse, and homeless people sleeping in the bathroom stalls. So it helps business make sure nothing shady is going on in their public restrooms. 3) It's cheaper to design & build... the partitions/divisions can be deployed universally no matter the size of the room, flatness of the floor, ceiling height, etc. So manufacturing companies can just have one design of bathroom stalls and sell them to any business. You're welcome ;) haha love you guys
Number 3, now THAT I believe.
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Very interesting!
That's so bad about the homeless people :( the US and Canada would rather build bathrooms like this and have homeless people sleep and die on the streets than help them. Sometimes I hate my country
@@bradtruscott1510 You can always volunteer to help them.
I’m not sure why refills aren’t free in the UK, because fountain drinks are dirt cheap. Each glass only costs the restaurant a few cents.
So you drink less
@@vhc6600 Why do they care how much you drink if they're cheap?
It's about 35 cents a glass if you calculate the cost of the gas and soda at least that's what I came up with about 10 years ago. My question is why do restaurants charge $2-2.50 even for tea, and that's definitely the cheapest thing you can drink.
@@heidimarchant5438 They are a profit center.
I think it's cause staff in the UK get paid minimum wage (about £8 and hour) so I think the restaurants make that money back in drinks
May I just pay respect to all who lost their lives in 9/11 “never forget” thank you
I just so happen to be watching The History Channel on 09/11: 102 minutes that changed America...
The 1st tower fell, and the 2nd is about to fall within the next 5 minutes or so.
Debris everywhere, "chaos" is the soup of the day!
Anonymous I’m sorry for your loss
@alex unger" Never Forget" that in my beautiful United States of America, people were just getting to work or were already there, going about their day. And suddenly, out of nowhere, two planes slam into both towers. Planes full of people!! A plane that killed everyone on board when it slammed into the ground at full speed! Thousands of my countrymen died that day. Unprovoked attacks. These were not military bases or soldiers that were bombed, these were just plain, ordinary people who were going about their way to make a living for their families. Little children in daycare were killed that day of unimaginable fear, pain, and ,sorrow!!!!!! Millions of people are suffering from PTSD because of that day. What a cowardly act!
@@karlamackey4675 don't forget the Pentagon where a plane filled with people hit the one side of the structure that was empty for renovations. Otherwise the death toll would be much higher! The plane was flying so fast it was like a ballistic missile; it knocked down one of those overhead "motorway" signs then when it hit the building only the nose cone was built robustly
@@edwardmiessner6502 You're right. I did fail to mention the Pentagon! I was so angry when I was commenting on the other post that I was seeing red! That's no excuse! I do apologize and thank you for bringing that to my attention! I didn't mean any disrespect. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I am an American, and I have NEVER heard of someone paying weekly rent.
Paying rent weekly for a business space is fairly normal, but not for a residence, no.
Neither have i.
Go to Hialeah lol
Well, I know you can pay for it weekly at a hotel sort of suite, but yeah, we pay rent by the month. We have weekly pay, bi-weekly pay, twice a month pay which is not the same, and monthly pay. Government and teaching jobs primarily pay monthly. I hated it. I much prefer bi-weekly because 3 or 4 times a year you get 3 checks in a month!
At a hotel, the very old fashion type you can live in.
When we say "tap it" we arent calling it that we are telling you what to do
OMG!!! That is soo funny!
Pay is mostly bi-weekly or twice monthly.....bills are almost always monthly...including rent and mortgage
And the only bi-weekly rent is mostly for Military people because they set it up on allotments when they get paid on the 1st and 15th. Weekly rent is usually extended stay places where out of town workers are staying while completing a job or really seedy motels.
Many are paid weekly, and in some regions, weekly is overwhelmingly the norm.
@@betsybabf748 I get paid weekly and I love 💘 it!
Depends on the job. Some are weekly. Most are every 2 weeks. Most months that means 2 paychecks, a couple long months you’ll see 3 checks..
Most bills are monthly. Mortgage in general is monthly. But you can switch to every 2 weeks. Why would anyone do this? Because you can pay off your house quite a bit faster just switching to that. It’s less overall interest you end up paying. You do that with paying a little extra every month and you’ll end up mortgage free years sooner.
Cut the cord can be a big money saver. Cut a few of those monthly bills as they can as up to a lot of money over time.
Those on salary pay still in general get paid every 2 weeks also. They asked me if I wanted to do that and I said no!!! I’ll clock in and out as I end up working longer, sometimes come in on days I’m normally off or end up called in after after because some alarm went off. It happens more than you think. With salary, all that extra time I wouldn’t be paid extra, so no thanks.
I can’t imagine the anxiety I would feel only being paid once a month
I'm on disability now and I get paid once a month. That's not really all that bad. I get the same amount every month. I know exactly what my bills and rent add up to so then I know how much is left over to buy groceries and whatever else I need. I don't have to make payment arrangements anymore because I'm paying everything from one check.
I was on disability for probably a year or two several years ago, but at the time I was living in a very low-rent apartment with no bills. Living where I do now I just feel it would be so anxiety-producing. But I guess it’s as you said, you just have to learn to adjust your way of living to your situation and live within your means
Why, would this somehow cause your expenses to increase? You would still be getting the same total income.
John P when thinking logically about it you’re right. I think just the foreignness of the idea is what gets me
@@johnp139 I've found that getting paid once a month saves me money. I can't over extend myself each pay period and overdraft my bank account. It saves me all of those unnecessary and expensive bank fees.
Here in America the most common ways of getting paid are weekly and bi-weekly. And lower income rentals usually that's weekly but in regular apartments or condos or homes you're looking at a monthly payment for rent or mortgage
Edit: also I think it's a safety precaution to have the bottom of the bathroom stall open for 15 or so inches... prevents any Foul Play, prevents a child getting locked in accidentally..
Renting of a room in a very large house you may pay weekly.Those extended day places where some people live I believe they pay bi-weekly.But,Those are alternative living arrangements for certain individuals in particular situations.But of course apt.rentals,homes for rent and privately owned homes pay monthly.
@@Kim-427 renting a room within someone's house is not a normal renting situation.... that point you're up to the mercy of the homeowner
One way to pay a little extra every year is to pay half your mortgage every two weeks. you will get 13 payments for the year. It can be helpful for budgeting too if you get paid bi-weekly
Strawberry Red my mom used to tell me to stand there to cover it. To this day those open sides still bother me
In my experience in the US, “cash only” places are much more common than “card only” places. Now due to COVID, more places have signs requesting card transactions, but not requiring them.
Yeah it's depends on what type of restaurants if it's a really great place maybe a 5stars type then yeah they get good salary but it's a fast food place then yeah they need tips!!!
It’s actually illegal to not accept cash
I think it depends on what state as well.
I agree. Some cities, like Philly, were looking to make it illegal for places to operate cashless. I've been to a number of restaurants and take out places (all mom & pop operations) that were cash only.
To these snobbish two in the u.k., we in the u.s. love our hard cash for a good reason, we love our Freedom. It's one less control that the government have a hold on to track and control us. These two are so caught up in the system to realize that all these chips in our credit card, cell phones, passports aren't just there for speed and convenience. It's to get us ready to take the mark or chip that they will eventually want us to put in our body so as to know our every move - Revelation 13. Cash is king. Cash is privacy. Cash is freedom.
Its called circumcision, it isnt a bad word. Much better than 'the snip.'
It's called male genital mutilation
What ever you call it, the youtube algorithm might snipe the video's cash flow if you say it.
@@tokageki no l dont think so it's a medical term....
So is covid-19 but channels have been getting got for saying it, including medical advise and "doctor reacts to..." channels. But for some reason saying "the rona" doesn't count. Im not saying they're definitely gonna get demonetized for saying circumcision, but these days, why take the chance?
@@tokageki you must not be in the US...maybe niked in UK. Circumcision is common in the states.
Payments are not taken at the table at restaurants in the U.S. because the process of paying or handling of money traditionally should have been handled discreetly. The process of paying was considered gauche. The main reason however that you don't pay tableside is that in America you tip wait staff. If the person is standing their waiting for your to put in your tip it creates an environment where determining the tip that you actually think the wait staff deserves is fraught with pressure.
Great way of explaining the practice.
I have also heard it that America was a first mover with Charge Cards, which at first had the magnetic stripe. As they became more popular in the rest of the world, the micro chip became the standard, but all these US Retailers had already invested in the card stripe reader, which isn't a portable machine that comes to your table. So they have been lagards in doing this because they'd have to purchase multiple portable card readers for the waitstaff to use. However, even when I visit Canada, a country very (very) similar to the US, they take your payment at the table there almost 100% of the time now.
Plus we are just really trusting people.
@@bjdon99 They've had portable readers that take the stripe for a long time but generally it's just been built into the cash registers. Chips are pretty new here - last couple of years mostly. Mind you at the "breakfast"/"diner" type restaurants they often have you pay at the register when leaving versus your server taking the payment.
@@jimzecca3961 As someone who works in the CC industry, the reason USA is behind on contactless is because USA has far more CC's than europe. As you mention, we were basically where it all began. So when EMV came around (the "E" in EMV is "Europay"), forcing all the Issuers to change was fairly easy (far less places accepted CC's, so far fewer terminals to change out, far fewer cards to replace with the chip, etc). Those fancy cards cost quite a bit to create, and so for the USA, it was a big deal. It was sort of a chicken or the egg, why would banks reissue millions of cards, if no terminals were around to accept them? And why would terminal providers create new terminals, if there were no cards to use in them? The "Benefit" wasn't worth the cost for a very very long time. And of course, when EMV got to the USA, they made it far worse (Europe's is a bit simpler, less secure, etc)... Contactless EMV is a NIGHTMARE lol.
The most common answer to any question starting with “Why in the US do they...” is that someone found a way of making more profits for doing it that way.
Yep
Because capitalism.
@@businessrat9918 Yep, the reason we're all using a computer, and have internet, and the rest of the world followed suit!
@@DangerRussDayZ6533Love it or hate it... ya got to admit.. Capitalism Definitely drives technology forward..and as a person that works in Technology I appreciates that..
Sad, but deeply true...
My daughter is a bartender at an upscale restaurant and makes more money on tips than I do as a director at a 9-5.
That's one thing that people like @Joel & Lia who are "adamantly" opposed to tipping is that if bars & restaurants eliminated tipping to pay a "living wage", it would be a **pay cut** for most people. It would be a **drastic** pay cut for me. I make $500-$600/night in tips. $15/hr × 10hrs = $150 ... they would be cutting my earnings by 75%!!
I feel like people forget that the minimum wage here is 7 dollars an hour
@@gorndd I agree. For me, personally, it's like saying thank you for your service. I feel awful if I don't tip.
@@meetmeintheorchard111 depends on the state. In New York State it will hit $12.50/hr in December 2020.
@@christopherlamitie3506 yep but they were talking in a general "United States" fashion
Not many people here get paid weekly and I've never heard of paying weekly rent. The most common is getting paid every two 2 weeks, and paying rent monthly.
Yea weekly rent is only in a few Cities, like Las Vegas for example, where there are "weekly apartments" which are more like a hotel
@@stevengold In N.C. alot of jobs get paid weekly and I love it
All my credit cards have now sent me "contactless" cards this year. I put it in quotes because I've YET to find a place where they actually work, even the places that say they do.
there are literally thousands of earthquakes every year in America (not all are felt;tremors) not enough names.
As someone who lives iin the LA and Southern California area I have been through a number of earthquakes and the only time they mention a name is where the earthquake was centered in otherwords where it happened. But as for hurricanes as soon as they develop they give it a name
Meli Garrett we just had an earthquake here in New Jersey.
Yeah. If it's a big enough earthquake we name it by the place it was centered or the fault line. Our biggest one in Seattle in the last 20 years was the Nisqually Quake. FREAKED ME OUT!!!
@Rachel P yeah the people that go through them the most normally just say stuff like this is nothing remember that one in 08 or whatever year said big one hit
There are literally a thousand earthquakes every MONTH in Alaska.
I would say America is ahead in tech breakthroughs, but definitely behind in tech infrastructure
Made in China.
Basically
“Waiters get paid fairly here.”
As a server in the US I can confidently tell you I make more money than the general manager of the restaurant. We make more money than pretty much any position in the restaurant.
I managed a kitchen and left it for that server money.
A lady I worked with many years ago, was a server in a restaurant prior to working with me. On weekends she would make $200.00 in tips. That was more than her pay check was.
Karla Mackey yep. Sounds about right!
Yeah, owners should pay staff decent wages in the first place. Patrons pay enough without passing more costs onto them. In the UK, we give tips if there is great service or the staff member is very pleasant, not just because they have just served you a drink.
Yann L I certainly agree wages in the U.S need to be better for the working class It would just be a major pay cut to me.
I make more off the tips system is all I’m trying to say. A lot of servers do. Don’t feel too bad for us lol
@@loaf3629 I wasn't. I was thinking more of the customer, to be honest, hehe 😉
Tipping in the UK! I took a 2 week holiday through England, Wales and a little bit of Scotland a few years ago, knowing full well that USA style tipping was not ‘a thing’ there. But I could not stop myself! It is so ingrained in our US culture...especially as a former waitress/bartender. In a small pub in Brighton the bartender was just so wonderful, giving us lots of pointers, pouring great drinks, snapping pics, etc; I could not imagine not showing my appreciation with a gratuity. She was so sweet explaining to me how tipping was not a requirement at all and to not feel any obligation; but I could not NOT tip her!
I still tip when I'm there because I believe in showing a service worker that you appreciate their attention. If they are rude or don't do their job, I won't tip.
It's rare bills, rent, or mortgage payments are due more often than monthly. It's also rare to get paid weekly or monthly. Everywhere I have worked I got paid bi-weekly in the U.S.
Same. My husband gets paid weekly but that's rare for sure
In my experience, wages are paid every other Friday. Some retail companies pay their employees once a week on Friday. I have never worked at a company that paid out wage or salary just once a month.
I’ve never ever heard of rent being paid weekly. That would be extremely rare in the US, it’s not even worth mentioning, it’s so out of the ordinary.
Weekly rent? Clearly they are misinformed.
I've heard of it being paid hourly : ]
ahdoeknogh - Yeah for “working girls”
Don't say that. When I was in University there were a lot of student rentals where you paid weekly.
Alex B - Define a lot. For the vast majority of student rentals in the US, rent is paid monthly. When I was a college student we paid monthly like everyone else, I’ve never known anyone that paid their rent weekly. That would have been very rare indeed.
America is quite advance, but we are also MASSIVE. As a result, it takes ages for certain technologies to be picked up everywhere. I didn't get broadband internet until just a few years ago, and I only live in a semi-rural area. As far as credit cards, they are a supremely mixed bag. For example, local stores in my area of Iowa have pretty much every system of payment between them. One store has swipe and sign, another a chip reader, and another the contactless tap. Most stores only update they credit card systems when the old one breaks down. We had a hardware store we frequent where we could not use our chip card for several years because they still have these really ancient readers at the checkout.
exactly this is the thing most foreigners don't understand is just how big the us is and tbh i don't blame them i mean the us is the 3rd biggest country in the world and when you compare it to say the uk for example it is gargantuan i think the us is something like 40 times the size of the uk so again I understand the misconception
@@jessiestienstra6350 On a map, the UK is about the same size as if you combined Iowa with Minnesota. Very much dwarfed by the rest of the country.
It’s the same in Nebraska just worst we only have two actual cities most tows are rural so we don’t upgrade unless something breaks or we have money to burn
I was going to say the same thing i take longer to roll out here becuz the US is big
Where the heck do you live?? I live in the burbs in the Northeast and I have had broadband internet for well over 15 years. I have had a fiber optic cable for over ten years too.
I believe the bathroom stall thing is due to regulations in place to “escape” if you get locked in or if there are safety emergencies
I think it’s probably due to just being cheap in most instances. Maybe it’s a regulation in some areas (maybe...) but like doesn’t make sense. How you getting trapped in a bathroom stall?
I've heard that they're designed that way so that people will use them and GET OUT. They don't want people to feel at home and get comfortable. Use them and move on.
It is also because they are cheaper to install and maintain. Business are cheap only fancy or upscale places have full privacy stalls.
Cleaning is easier
I agree that our public bathroom stalls are not private enough. I love when I go to an upscale restaurant restroom/bathroom that has a fully enclosed stall.
They do name earthquakes if they are large enough. Northridge in Los Angeles, or Loma Prieta in the bay area in 1989
I think the naming of hurricanes is because of them taking time to get somewhere. You can prepare for a hurricane but on the west coast (region) earthquakes and fires (forest fires) also are named by the location after the fact. Like the CAMP fire that killed 85 people.
Well for hurricane in east coast it's so commons & so many of them that they have to named it as where's in Japan it's numbers & about earthquakes I don't ever heard of as being named unless it's a really big & major one!!!
June 28,1992 Landers 7.3. Three hours later, Big Bear 6.5!You could hear the earthquakes coming. I am 3rd gen. Californian and it freaked me out.
I think that I remember those earthquake but california gets alots of them but I'm from Seattle & we had a major one about 10 yrs ago & ground wasn't shaking but like a ocean waves ground like I was surfing lol
After the fact earthquakes in the U.S. are named for the nearest place/town to the epicenter whereas hurricanes use alphabetical names preselected before hurricane season. If the hurricane is bad enough/does a lot of damage that name is retired and not used again. I would disagree that all Americans think earthquakes are normal. Californians maybe yes, but not all Americans. I was stationed 60 miles east of L.A. right next to the San Andreas and other fault lines. My first earthquake was the Whittier earthquake. In fact I did not notice the original earthquake while at work. The aftershocks the next night did wake me up which was a bit unsettling, especially on the top bunk. Even standing on the floor on the second floor of the barracks could not stand still. Fortunately my roommate was from Northern California. He said no big deal so went back to sleep.
#3. NO ONE LOOKS. And besides, not all the bathrooms are like that.
I would have to say I have seen people glance in that gap. Maybe not walk up and gawk, but I've made eye contact with women waiting in a long line right outside the door. More than once. At concerts, sporting events.
I guess men and women are different.
Jolette Lima I’d rather take my chances haha
It's time for them to get over the bathrooms. It's not a big deal.
Exactly! We learn from an early age not to look! It isn't that hard.
The word is called circumcised and not the snip
Snip snip usually refers to a vasectemy!
'Nip the Tip'. YIKES😬
Joseph Dominguez I thought they were talking about vasectomy.
Circumcision is for cleanliness reasons, problems later in life for older men. There is less
cervical cancer in women whose husband is circumsized.
@@annieb823 Yep, and lots of bacteria with the uncircumcised. Unhealthy.
The terms “cut” and “uncut” are used as well
When you said “the snip” the first thing I thought of was a vasectomy! It’s a circumcision baby boys have when they are born.
Which they shouldn’t have done when they’re born
@@guthixisdead why
@@henrytheastronaut it’s a completely unnecessary, cultural, cosmetic, and painful procedure done to unwilling baby boys. It takes away a functioning, natural piece of the penis, which contains a high concentration of sensory nerves. Look up the information for yourself. Any propaganda you have heard supporting it just does NOT justify the practice. The procedure has no place in modern society.
It's called a shower, it does the job. And labias produce much more smegma than a foreskin, so i guess by your reasoning fgm isn't bad either right?
@Cameron Belanger yes, generally when you remove something it decreases the risk of something. Cutting out mammary glands at birth would drastically reduce breast cancer as well but nobody is advocatingbfor it bc it is cruel and barbaric. And, being cut doesn't mean your dick is clean. Also, ifbit refuces std's, then tell me why Europe has lower rates of infection than America? I have a hoody, a shower a day keeps stuff fresh downstairs. It's not like if i go 2hrs my dick is crusty with crud. That would literally take days and days and days to accumulate. Besides being barbaric, scars are not sexy and too many heads are dried and insensitive. Be kind, leave it as God/nature intended
Waiters in the US usually are the ones making more money than the rest of the staff and sometimes the manager through tips.
Well, who looks under or over a stall? Only weirdos & perverts looks through the gaps--
Yes, and there are plenty of those out there, which is why there shouldn't be any gaps!
It's so uncomfortable for the person using the toilet as it is for the person going to or from. It's like you have to pretend not to care.
On an unrelated related note, ever make extra noise on purpose because you realize the person in the next stall is taking a dump and attempting to be discreet about it and you don't want to be caught in some awkward, silent, "I can hear you pooping" moment so you're like really loud with the toilet paper and not shy about making any noise while pulling up your pants? No? Only me? Yeahthatsoundsaboutright...
Amy E. Courtesy flush 😅
@@tans3015 It's a bodily function and you're not in an art gallery. Do your business and be done.
True 😂 the gaps aren’t a big deal because it’s common decency to not look 😂
"pay packet" made me think of Are You Being Served lol.
Thank you Mr. Grace
Earthquake, hurricanes AND killer tornadoes!
Akoilady And large fires.
Not as bad as those killer Tomatoes
Or the ridiculous rubarb
@@docmarmalade5224 yes. It's terrible. My daughter is living in Portland. The air quality is considered hazardous.
You can get paid weekly Bi weekly monthly, In some cases daily
Living in Oklahoma we worry about tornadoes My rule is don't kiss off God It worked well for me
The bathroom stalls in my highschool were the worst I've ever seen. When you're standing up you could see straight over the top into the next stall. Super awkward and uncomfortable, but apparently it was done that way because a kid had an overdose in the bathroom a few years before that and nobody knew they were in the stall for a few hours
They took the doors off our stalls when I was in high school because people were smoking/doing drugs. Guys get used to it, because we all pee shoulder to shoulder with strangers anyway.
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 yeah the stalls in my school gym bathroom didn’t have doors.
I never used the toilets at school for anything more than peeing though
I’m a teacher, and we get paid once a month.
Here in NC, a few weeks ago, we experienced an earthquake and a hurricane, all in one week! It was CRAZY! 2020 just keeps on giving!
Amy Jones - I work for the NHS in the UK and there was a Spitfire Thank you flyover. I rushed outside to see it and broke my ankle really badly! I now have more metal in me than the Spitfire! It’s a crazy time all around the world. Stay safe x
@@lt1107 oh NO! How awful! Hope you’re healing quickly!
Amy Jones - Thank you, I’m getting there, got my own kind of lockdown now 🤕
Really hope you're both doing well now, as a fellow NC resident
Jen S - Thank you. Fingers crossed that they find a vaccine soon. Stay safe in the meantime.
You know you can just say the word Circumcision. Everyone will understand.
JOEL: there is no September 31!!
I was just about to say this.
'Thirty days hath September , April June and November'
30 days hath September except for with Joel, who keeps all the 31st to himself.
LOL
Maybe there is in the UK, those people can be weird... ;-)
there are too many earthquakes every day to name them all, however, the biggest ones, although not officially named usually are assigned popular names that everyone uses to refer to them
In the Seattle area, we had a 6.8 earthquake in February 2001. It was named the Nisqualy earthquake.
The smaller earthquakes are not named. No point.
I've been through many quakes while living in Japan and California . The only quake I've been through that had a famous name given to it was the Northridge Quake .
I think they name hurricanes because hurricanes appear several days before they hit, and it's easier to refer to them with a name instead of referring to it in some other way.
@@christophergrove8636 I think hurricanes get a name when the reach a certain intensity level (or category).
@@victorwaddell6530 THAT one was badAZZ...then the Lander's quake in 94....geez
In the us, we sacrifice privacy for security. We have those gaps in our stall doors to discourage drug use, sexual activities, and homeless people sleeping in the bathrooms. Another thing that we have is, whenever you make a call in the US, your call is monitored by the Federal Government. This is to monitor calls for terrorist plots.
Omg if I only got paid monthly I feel like I wouldn't survive. Lol A lot of us don't have savings for basic needs, we just buy what we need as soon as the money comes in! Lol and the bills are never due at the same time. I guess if we were paid monthly we'd learn to strategize on a monthly basis rather than spread everything out!
oh, no! getting paid monthly is the best! you get your bills all taken care of on the same day and the rest of your check is yours to do with as you please.
Get on the Dave Ramsey plan. Changed my life!
It’s so much better budgeting for monthly though! Because you’re paying everything monthly anyway! Save the money from 15th paycheck if you have a big bill on the 1st that that one check can’t handle.. etc. Does that make sense?
If you have disability you only get paid once a month. It's really frustrating.
Most waiters in the US would not want a "living wage" and not have tips because they can make more (if they are good waiters) with the tips. Some waiters make a whole lot.
I would not wait tables for a living wage. It would no longer be worth it. I’m good at it but the burnout you go through is horrible. I average a higher wage waiting tables than working in ICU reading heart rhythms. Paid biweekly however, most servers take cash home daily. Pay rent monthly. 🎃
It depends where u work and the price of the food and liquor. If u work in a cheap restaurant then you have to work very hard and many more tables to get the same as an expensive place. Add to that if u have cheap customers or people who don't know better and tip u very little, or nothing. 15 to 20% of the bill is customary.
You are right. some waiters can make 300 in tips in just one night.
tigergreg8 and some make even more ...I have friends that make well over 6 figures are a waiter. I myself paid for college in NYC by waiting tables.
@@quaesimpson2042 👍
In the USA, restaurant servers can actually make way more than a living wage with tips! Someone I know makes over $50K per year working as a server with tips. There would be absolutely no way a server could earn that much with a standard living wage. No server in the US would ever go for a living wage. Without tipping, the quality of service would deteriorate to something awful like most other countries that don't tip! You won't be able to find a server when you need something and it would take forever to get your free refills.
I'd like to meet this person who can make that much money from being a waitstaff person. I've never seen anyone who was anything other than barely surviving and half starving from being part of a waitstaff yet.
@@jwb52z9 - I was a banker a major bank in the US, and this guy came in for an auto loan. He brought his paystubs and his tax returns, and YES, I was able to verify that he made over $50K as a server! It's up to you if you believe it or not. For me, I could care less if you don't because I know what I saw!
Jwb52z this is definitely a thing. I have multiple family members who make almost or over $1000 a week working in nice restaurant/bars. Just depends on the city or restaurant you’re working in.
Jwb52z My sister in-law makes SOOOOO much money serving! It’s insane. She even got a degree, but makes more serving than she would with it. I used to make great money serving too. It definitely depends on the restaurant and location.
@@jwb52z9 - Did you hear from a few viewers who verified that a server can make over $50K per year? Catherine Koon said she had multiple family members who made a $1000 per week. There are 52 weeks in a year x $1000, that's $52K per year! Any more smart ass comments?
My son is paid weekly at amazon. My husband is paid every other Friday. My father pays his employees on the 1st and 15th. All three are normal.
Yup. I retired after 18 years in Amazon customer service. Direct deposit. If you don't have a bank account to get an ATM card that's refilled each payday.
Darn, I promised myself that I'd unsubscribe the next time I heard you say " I just can't stand it!" In regards to something about America. But, I didn't yet...just untapped the bell (notifications).
I teach at a university and get paid monthly. It was quite an adjustment to get used to managing your finances differently.
@@PapaLynn1 I would imagine that would really take getting used to. I think Id have a really hard time making the money last.
I too was paid on the 1st and the 15th at my former job. That was great in February when the pay checks were close together. I hated it though when there were five weeks in the month. I would end up having to go three weeks between pay checks. I actually like getting paid that way.,though.
Had a relative who took a restaurant payment slip and tore it into tiny pieces. He said if you don't, somebody can rearrange the bits into a copy and thus rob you. I informed him that the waiter took his card to the back and made a copy of it, so why would he go to the trouble of "rearranging the bits" when he had the whole thing in the back room to do with as he wished. But this was not persuasive, of course. Our family's favorite idiot.
Guys I appreciate that you want to talk about your sponsor, but between your ad and the two from TH-cam, of the first 6 minutes of play there was about 5:30 of ads.
And a little too much chit chat.
Glad to see you both alive and well 🙏🏽
Waitresses and waiters, while not making a necessarily "living wage," generally make pretty decent money for the hours that they work. I would say on average I've made anywhere from $20-$50 per shift waiting/bartending. Sometimes even more. It really isn't (or shouldn't be, at least) the responsibility of the customers to pay these high prices. But since many waitresses/waiters/bartenders come away each night with a decent amount of money... nobody complains about it. Also, due to the tipping system, restaurant workers actually get paid every single night that they work. In other words, you could come into work completely broke and leave with anywhere from $100-$500 in your pocket. As a poor college student, this has basically saved my ass the last 4 years lol
Something else I would add to this is that waiters and waitresses by law do get paid minimum wage by the employer if they don't make enough tip money to be equivalent to minimum wage. I often find people do not understand this from foreign countries. Not only that, but many people want to be waiters as you can make a lot of money doing so (and not pay taxes). In NYC if you work in fine dining you can make 100k.
Katie Caracappa Yes! It’s super illegal for restaurants to not pay their workers minimum wage if their tips don’t add up to at least $7.50 an hour (which I would say in most cases they do). 100k is a lot of money but it’s definitely possible in nice restaurants
20$ for (assuming a 4 hour shift) is 5$/hour or 10k/yr if you work 40 hours a week - well below the poverty line. Fine if you're a kid living off momma's dime but complete BS as an adult paying your own way. 50$ in 4 hours or $12.50 per hour is 25k per year, doable as a living wage, in some areas. Most of the restaurants I've been around as a worker your '4 hour' shift is actually closer to 5 though, plus you have no benefits - so call it 4$-10$ per hour in your example. It's ludicrous to say that no one complains - must not be long in the service industry if you haven't seen people get their lights turned off by slow seasons. RE: legal minimum wage - minimum wage is only ~$2 per hour for service staff federally. Some states make that rate higher, but on main it's really quite low - and well below the poverty line for adults working full time in the industry.
Here in the USA getting paid every two weeks is the norm
Or twice monthly. I like that system better, since recurring payments tend to be monthly, knowing that the 1st and the 15th are always payday is easier.
@@SuprousOxide every two weeks is twice monthly...
@@thexvault No. it isn't. Every two weeks is every two weeks. Usually Friday, so some months you get paid 3 times. (This year, Oct 2, 16, 30) 26 paychecks a year.
Twice monthly is twice monthly, you always get paid twice a month usually the same days each month which will be different days of the week each month (Oct 1, 15). 24 paychecks a year.
I get paid twice a month, my wife gets paid every 2 weeks, so yes both these schemes exist in the US, and yes they're different.
The bathroom thing is something I have a hard time getting especially as a guy. You just don't look in the gaps lol I've never experienced anyone peeping in
Our waitstaff actually make pretty good money with our tipping system. I know several that have degrees but chose to wait tables because they make more money than if they used their degree. The downside is most waitstaff don’t have health insurance or save for retirement not because the companies don’t offer it but the healthcare is usually more expensive than at a white collar job.
Actually they DO name earthquakes. The epicenter's nearest town is used. I was in the Northridge quake. Well, nearby in Hollywood just uphill from Frederick's of Hollywood.
I moved out of CA just before that one. My first one was the Whittier quake in '87. That was awful because I lived alone in Sherman Oaks (house-sitting for a friend while he was filming in Canada). I don't remember a whole lot of them after because I got used to them. Except the last one I can recall was the Big Bear one ('92 or '93)...it was about a 7.1 and went on far too long (and I was in O.C. by then).
The confusing part about names for earthquakes, is that since they are named for the epicenter's nearest town, there can be multiple earthquakes with the same name. There have been four earthquakes named "Eureka", spread out over about 80 years. With hurricanes, the names of particularly strong storms are retired, so we'll never have another Hurricane Katrina, Andrew, or Harvey.
True, but only for the big ones. There are thousands of small quakes every year that go unnamed.
Shame it wasn't named the Fredrick's of Hollywood quake.
@@txlady1049 I noticed that about Eureka. I guess they have to add the 'XY year.
Earthquakes are identified by the location. Hurricanes affect large areas (not localized) so they've adopted the practice of giving them names.
You can't summon the courage to say, circumcision? Oy vey.
I haven’t seen it mentioned, but in the US, when we say a guy got “snipped” it means he’s had a vasectomy. Same general area but drastically different procedures!!!
No, they’re referring to boys in the video because they’re referring to circumcision. So thankful that my generation is slowly catching on to the fact that circumcision is purely cosmetic.
@@brittneyjohnston1618 Yes, I know that is what they are discussing. I am sharing that if they talk to someone in the US about a guy getting "snipped", it refers to something different.
@joycelina for an adult male, yes. For an infant male it would be a circumcision.
In England "the snip" generally refers to vasectomy. Also snipping wire, snipping pastry, snipping paper to make a colarge in school. It means making a small cut in anything. Hence Lia being polite about snipping of some poor kids foreskin.
Public toilets in America/USA is called a restroom aka ladies/mens room, in the home it's a bathroom.
I like getting paid twice a month because it keeps me from running out of money and having to go a long while before getting paid.
But you get paid the same regardless.
It's funny how the 'tap' technology started in the US back in the late 90s with Mobil gas stations 'pay at the pump' key fob: wave it to the sensor and your card is debited. It never caught on for some reason - then the rest of the world ran with it. A lot of us have been using google/apple pay for long time. The issue is we have so MANY banks, credit unions, etc.... and it's difficult to standardize (although, most places now offer tap). Also, I find the 'pay at the table' with the machine rather tacky. Whenever I travel abroad and they bring that little - sometime noisy - card machine to the table spitting out a receipt at the table - it's just a little uncouth - especially at a fine dining establishment.
I feel so old knowing what you mean by having had a Mobile key fob 🤦♀️
I had one too. I just thought it was cool at the time. I don’t see many Apple Pay has pumps these days. Once in a while.
I also found the card machine being brought to the table an odd practice. I always enjoy countries without tipping.
The problem with tipping is that the vast majority of waiters/waitresses make WELL above minimum wage. They would actually make less money if tipping was eliminated.
When did this start? I have never met anyone working as a part of waitstaff who was above barely surviving unless the person had a second job and somehow managed with little sleep.
Waitresses/Waiters should fight for a liveable wage. If you don't care enough about your money why should I pay for your salary.
I worked in the restaurant industry for over 20 years both as a cook, a waiter and later in management. (when I went into management I ended up making less money initially). If a servers wage and claimed tips combined add up to less than minimum wage over the course of a pay period then the restaurant is legally required to make up the difference. Minimum wage is at most around $15hr in some areas. An average server makes more than this. A talented server makes MUCH more. When you combine this with the generally flexible scheduling that most servers enjoy then you start to understand why many people are happy in their job. Frankly a server who makes less than this normally is doing a poor job. Why would they want to fight for less money overall?
@@palisade32 exactly. I've tried explaining this on several forums. I worked as a server and I made what would average up to about $11-$15/hour and that was back in the mid 90's.. I would go in around 5pm and work until around 11p. Would bring in at least $70-$90 in tips a night. My paycheck that $2.13/hour was just weekly gas money
@@jwb52z9 Let's say you wait on 10 tables in two hours. If the average bill is $25, you may make about $40 in tips, or $20 per hour. But at the beginning or end of your shift, you may only get 5 tables, so $10 per hour in tips. However, if you work at a steak or seafood restaurant that serves cocktails, the average tab might be $150 per table and you might make $250 to $300 in tips for two hours, or $125 to $150 per hour. At the start and end of your shift, maybe only $70 per hour. Moral of the story: since tips are usually based on a percentage of the bill, try to get a job at an expensive restaurant. Work at Wendy's and your tip will be a free cheeseburger, fries and a small frosty for dinner.
The places in the USA that don't have the gaps in the stalls are like the really nice places (really nice/expensive stores/restaurants/etc). Trust me, Americans hate the public restrooms too. The part where you said that a lot of boys in the U.K. Don't get circumcised absolutely blows my mind. In America, our doctors strongly recommend circumcision because it keeps away infection and whatever, so to Americans, not being circumcised is gross.
Gross is a understatement...even for the woman. In my younger years I had one experience with a uncircumcised man...it was horrid and gross.
I can reduce chance of HIV in low income people but if you wash & don't get an std you will never get an infection, I have never heard of anyone getting an infection there because of foreskin
@@CarriUSA Do they not have showers there?
Not true. Come to Texas where you can go to Bucee's (it's a gas station and almost like a department store) and they make sure to clean the bathrooms every 30 minutes. Bucee's doesn't allow 18-wheelers to come in because they don't want to attract lot lizards and their employees are treated and get paid well!
Carriusa, i am a nurse, let me tell you, my foreskin is cleaner than your labia, esp in old age.
Love these videos.
When paying - portable chip readers have just started (last 3 - 4 years) being widely used in the US. Many places still have large registers or pay terminals that have the card readers attached to it and can't be removed from the wall to go to the table. A typical restaurant will have maybe 5 terminals that all of the servers take turns using, to process payments from their multiple tables.
Earthquakes - don't get named unless they are big enough since they happen very frequently (roughly a few times a month) but are mostly imperceptible to the general public, but picked up by our machines. An earthquake would generally have to cause major damage to get a name.
Hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires and mudslides. In California we say we have three seasons - earthquake, mudslide and fire season.
And pollution, which led someone to suggest that the only things wrong with California are earth, water, fire and air.
@@dadoctah also, every product made causes cancer in California
I have never heard the "they could lose your card" reason for not liking a waitress taking your card lol That is all they are doing! They are just taking it to the register and bringing back a receipt, you're not afraid they will lose your plate of food from the kitchen to the table right? I didn't realize this was odd in the UK, interesting.
Also I am 22 and the whole time I have had a card I have used chip I have very very rarely been asked to swipe a card - only when a chip reader is broken.
The thing is, if anyone copies your card details that will do a lot more damage than losing out on a plate of food.
@@kawkabon yeah I understand the scare about people copying your card I just ment that its not likely that a waitress will even set down your card, let alone lose it.
I’ve literally never seen this “contactless” card they talk about. I feel like such a hick😅😅😅
I've had my card stolen before by a waitress. So I am super leery. I would much prefer contactless. Places like Red Robin have a thing at the table you pay, so you dont have to wait or worry.
How the waiter put PIN numer of the card in the terminal? In my country when I pay I must authorise transaction with a PIN number (4 digits that only Iknow). With contactless card I must auhorize transaction over 25$ (100 PLN). If I don't authorize my bank doesn't proceed the transaction. That's why we pay at the table (portable terminal) or personally at the cash register.
The gaps in the bathroom doors kept getting wider over the years.
Podesta and Epstein's friends in power want the gaps in the bathroom doors wider.
So it WASN'T my imagination!
Finally confirming Joel isn’t snipped. Couldn’t be happier.
hahahah!
In Florida we work up until the hurricane makes landfall if it’s a category 2 or less, we also have what’s called “hurricane parties” where we cook food and drink while watching the storm... with Hurricane Irma a few of my buddies and I went riding fourwheelers while it was storming
Only in Florida will there be "hurricane parties." At this point it's practically like a yearly vacation with how frequent they are!
my primary school bathrooms didn’t have stall doors for the toilets-could always be worse
Exactly. Elementary schools here never have doors on the stalls
Where do you live???
Houston, TX. Public schools in the city aren’t as nice as the suburbs haha
I live in the US. Hardly anyone gets paid weekly and the only people who pay their rent weekly are people who have to live in long term motel stays in less than nice motels. This is because they don't have his credit and the money for a deposit on an apartment. Only a few places have earthquakes so most of us are not used to them.
Not true to either. Lots of people get paid every week and there are lots of weekly rentals for business, vacation, etc. Some are very nice.
I've only had one job that paid bi-weekly, all others were weekly; in fact, most of the people i know get paid weekly
the Bureau of Labor Statistics says about 31% of private companies pay weekly
When I waited tables here in America, I made way more than a living wage in tips. It was the reason why I did that for a living. I think here in the US wait staff would be super pissed if you gave them a raise to living wage and then took away their tips. Especially in the really nice restaurants where they make insane amounts of money in tips if they are really good at it. Even working in a pancake house in the AM here I could make quite a bit in tips for a day and made more than I would have made at a regular job. Not everyone does, but if you are good at it and you have a great attitude and great customer service and stuff, you can rake in the $$$$.
I think you're right. The servers do not want minimum wage with no tip. I'm in California and the server wage is $11.00hr. That is at or more then what England calls a living wage.
I still disagree with our tip culture, because at the end of the day the business makes out because they get paid for the food and don't have pay their employees that much. Plus not all wait staff make a ton of tips depends on where you are. My wife worked in an affluent neighborhood and her experience was that the customers with more money tipped her less. It just me but i think it's the business's responsibility to pay their employees not the customer.
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I do think they are legally required to compensate if the server makes less than minimum wage in tips.
The thing I have realized that Europeans have a hard time grasping is how big America is. A lot of the things you mentioned are exclusive to certain states and cities. Logistically speaking it is very difficult to get the whole of the USA on the same page with anything. So Everything you mentioned is in America however it is not true everywhere in America.
Yes, this. English are very bad about comparing their tiny country, which is smaller than many of the states, to the whole of the US and this pair is perfect example of that.
I would point out that when I went to the UK, yes contactless payment was everywhere, but it seemed like there was a 30 pound limit on it, whereas here, I have never seen a price limit on contactless.
You can pay contactless over that limit, but then you have to enter the PIN numer to the terminal. It's in case someone steels your card and want to buy sth expensive or withdraw money from an ATM.
I've heard of someone whose card got switched with another customer at a restaurant and didn't notice until the end of the month when the bill came and had the wrong cities on it. He pulled out his card and realized it was the wrong name. Both guys had to call the credit card company and send the card in. I think. They may have had to contact the other customer to get the cards switched back.
This is why my parents always taught me to check to see my own name was on my card when it was returned to me!
I have a card that has a fairly unique image, and that helps a lot.
Many years ago I had my card switched at a restaurant, but I noticed it right away and got my correct card back.
I'm embarrassed that I had to rewind six times before I figured out they were saying contactless and not contact list 😂😂😂
We are so used to our contactless here (UK) i think we just take it for granted that everyone knows what we're talking about 😁
Oh my gosh! I thought they were saying contact list. I was a bit confused as to why they would call it that 🤣🤣 contactless makes much more sense!!!
Did they really get embarrassed to say circumcised? Wow
I know, can't believe it, but you know British people have a code of conduct in public.
Tanya Craig Well firstly, everyone should have a code of conduct because that is the right way to behave. Secondly, it has nothing to do with being British, I have no problem saying circumcised. Quite offensive to assume all British people are the same, when it’s clearly just their personalities that make them shy in regards to discussing circumcision.
Initially, I thought they were referring to a vasectomy. I've always called that procedure "snip snip". Then I heard Joel mention "at birth" to realize they were referring to circumcised. Either way ... I love J & L's innocence, but I always enjoy hearing some good old fashioned cussing! LOL
It's probably that they don't want the video getting demonitized.
We had contactless cards in the US, but it seems to have gone away, possibly because of outcry from the security community about how easy it is to copy your card without it even leaving your pocket. Nowadays, Apple Pay and Android Pay have filled the gap.
Most hourly jobs in America pay bi weekly which is twice a month. If you're on a salary it's monthly.
I was in the UK and was in a restaurant with a British guy. I went to pay the bill and put 20% down for a tip and he freaked out and said NO that's WAY too much! lol. In the US I always tip 20% and more if the service is really good.
So you still give 20% for poor service? Tipping should be commensurate with the service provided, otherwise servers will realize that service doesn’t matter.
@@johnp139 I did not mean to imply that. I was focusing on the fact that 20% shocks people in the UK, but it is pretty standard for me here in the US.. However, if service is terrible I will NOT tip 20%.
- Hurricanes are named because they are forecast-able and are mentioned on the news several days in advance of the coming storm. Earthquakes aren't as easy to forecast. And once an earthquake strikes it is normally named after the town nearest the epicenter.
- RE: paying your restaurant charges at the table. There are 88,000+ restaurants in the UK. There are 660,000+ restaurants in the US. It is very expensive for the card companies and/or restaurants to upgrade to handheld card readers. We will get there with portable card readers in restaurants but for now there is normally just one or two stationary card readers in a restaurant. The waiter has to take your card to the machine to run it. The UK and other European countries can roll-out new technology faster than the US solely because of our size. You can roll-out new technology in 12 months when it takes us years simply because of the volume involved. More card members, more card readers.
earthquakes are named after the location or epicenter along with the date - hurricanes move
Y'all should do a collab with "Lost in the Pond"
The bathroom stall gaps are there as a safety feature in the event someone is knocked out/dead or hurt and to see who is in the stall
I tipped in Europe because I liked that I wasn’t constantly being bothered and annoyed. That I wasn’t getting pushed out the door to get the next tipping customer in. Your experience is just more relaxing in Europe
Great just what America needs, more frivolous lawsuits.
I'd take a lot more frivolous lawsuits if we can get rid of the epidemic of mandatory arbitration cutting into worker and consumer rights.
#2 should include tornados.
I am 17 and I have never felt an earthquake yet but my area of the United States doesn't get many anyways.
I will point out that almost everywhere in the US takes cards, however when I was in continental EU, there were SO many places including restaurants that did not take credit cards and only took cash. It was the weirdest thing.
You can be paid weekly in London as well. I’m from France and I remember it surprised me so much back then.
I get paid bi-weekly. 1st & 15th of the month. I have my bills scheduled accordingly, so they are due at those times. Pretty normal.
As far as Hurricanes... I survived Katrina. 😔. August 29, 2005. It was sooo bad.
I love my Apple Watch, makes me a happy girl in Covid world. 👍🏼
There’s a law here in the US, that businesses can’t refuse cash.
That is not a federal law. It depends on your state or locality. Most states in the US do not have such a law and can indeed refuse cash.
And, btw...being paid the 1st and 15th of the month is not bi-weekly. It is twice monthly. Twice monthly means you get 24 paychecks a year, while bi-weekly means 26 paychecks a year.
Jim True it’s law where I live so there’s that. I think it’s cute that you felt the need to “correct” me. I bet you are loads of fun. 🙄
@@mandaleeross1325 Well, I don't know if I'm loads of fun...I suspect here are a few people who just think I'm just being pedantic. As a former teacher, I can't help it. Hope you weren't offended.
You don't get paid by-weekly if you get paid on 2 specific days a month you get paid bi-monthly. People who get paid bi-weekly get two checks a year more than those who are paid bi-monthly but their individuals checks are smaller to spread their yearly income over two additional pay periods if they are salaried. Bi-weekly is every other week. Typically, these are paid on Friday for most businesses in the U.S.
an6wall2 So sweet of you to feel the need to “correct” me too! Awww. So cute! 🥰
You all would love the restrooms in buccees. They’re tile stalls with fully latched doors.
Right?! I suggested this to them as well. I also love how they don't allow 18 wheelers to come because they don't want to attract pavement princesses and lot lizards.
Thanks for the info on Fair Shake. That sounds like a really valuable service. Is 31 Sep the same as 1 Oct?
What's with the commercials??
Weekly rent are hostels, hotels, motels or SRO’s (single resident occupancy) which is pretty much the same as a motel. Pays are received either weekly, semi monthly, Bi weekly or monthly.
Joel/Lia, I've worked in restaurants when I was young. Basically, if you are a good server, (waiter/waitress), and think of it as a sales position, selling the customer on you and your service, you'd rather get paid less, and work/earn, more by your hard work. Also, the hardworking servers don't claim their tips that are much over minimum wage, to avoid paying income tax on their tips. When minimum wage was $3.65/hr, (I'm old), many servers were making $150-$200 in a 5 hour shift. If you suck at service, you get out of the business.
When you said “the snip” I thought vasectomy not circumcision 😆🤣 🤭
Contactless? I don’t even know what you’re talking about 😅
I left the country for a couple of years. I left and credit cards were swipe only. Come back (and had to get a new card because of expiration) and I was confused when my card didn't work swiping.
I had to have the person teach me how to insert my chip. I was like "sorry this is new tech for me" everyone was like "uhh this has been around for a couple years..."
Everyone overthinks the bathroom issue. The US stalls are the way the are because they always have been that way here and nobody really cares because they mostly do not know anything different. If you have lived with something like that since you were 5, you tend not to notice it. As more people travel internationally, it bothers more and more people, but probably never enough to really change. Weekly rent only happens at the very, very low end of the market. Monthly is customary. Cards here had strips longer and are just shifting to contactless (we have universally had chips for a while) for a variety of reasons including the fact that the US had a much deeper and broader adoption of cards using the earlier technology than Europe outside the UK. Europe was about 20 years behind the US in market penetration for credit cards, only hitting US levels reached in the 1970s in the 1990s. Due to US law, most of the risk for fraud losses because of the lower security strip cards falls on the card issuers who preferred to fraud losses to upgrading the network until the technology costs came down, so it took more time. The US had less incentive to invest in the infrastructure necessary for the marginal upgrade from stripe to chip than Europe which was still building out infrastructure when the chips became truly available.
Are you nuts... Nobody in the US gets paid monthly. Just about everyone gets paid every two weeks
@@LIL-MAN_theOG , they said monthly rent is normal, not monthly paycheck.
About the public bathroom issue, I imagine most Americans dislike them or if they don’t they’re most likely complacent. Which is not a good thing.
Pay can be weekly, semi monthly, biweekly or monthly. Just depends on what your employer chooses.
We do get paid weekly but any government funded job including teachers get paid monthly