uberrice

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shirley you cant be serious!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get how people go abroad and don’t just get a local sim. In most countries, a travel sim is something between 20 and 40 bucks. In my opinion, that’s pretty essential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wages grow at record rate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know. I’m Swiss, so a lot of this inflation is very evident to me.

  In 2022, 1 CHF was around 0.8GBP. Now, in 2023, 1 CHF is around 0.9GBP.

  Guess what, that 8% pay rise was lower than inflation. 8% on top of 0.8 is only 0.864.

  Without any more pay in Switzerland, I got an effective raise higher than these ‘great’ 8% in GB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, that was my point.

  Americans for some reason love this 'low low price of x$ (+tax +tip +service charge +fuck you charge) thing. Here in Switzerland, it’s all in the price. Menu says 40 bucks, you pay 40 bucks. Tips are very voluntary and usually just a “round up” -> total is 57 - let’s make it 60.

  My wife works in a restaurant and gets around 3.7k a month - the tips she gets add up to around 300-700, depending on the month. In the store she works, tips get handled as a pool where everyone gets their monthly share depending on hours worked (serving staff and kitchen) - so total tips x person hours / total hours by everyone.

  It’s still a low wage (I make around than double she does, but then again I’m an electrical engineer), but it is very livable - I lived on a lower wage alone comfortably when I was studying and only working 50%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What i meant is that, in a theoretical mathematically sound world, to support higher wages, you need higher prices. The service charge shouldn’t be put as a ‘bonus salary’ - basically the ‘service charge’ in most countries is included in the price of the food, and is paid out as the hourly wage to staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s basically the way it works. Here it’s just ‘transparent’.

  Want to pay workers more - food gets more expensive. It’s the same thing with America not adding sales tax to the sticker price. When I get something for 2 bucks in Europe, it’s 2 bucks including the vat. In America, it’s 2 bucks before vat.

  But yeah, it’s probably not properly implemented and just a scheme to get more money out of people.