Highly recommend finding a bike to shorten the walking portions of your commute!

Woodberry Kitchen and Foodshed in general does this constantly, amongst other shady payment practices. A lot of beloved places around town get away with it because they are beloved, just based of my experiences and opinion.

Order from Nepal House and sometimes the owner and famous Nepali singer Prem Raja Mahat will deliver your food. He's super nice.

The question is whether the employer uses the product of an interview to profit. For example, a 12 hour take home programming test is shitty, but a 12 hour take home test for a fake job where the employer uses the code in production is criminal. Usually it's the former, and ppl get conspiratorial and think it's the latter (doing the latter doesn't tend to even work well, since someone still has to debug and support the code).

Eff that - out the restaurant. This crap goes too long, too far in the industry and crap needs to end, period.

But someone else mentioned it earlier - an invoice could be a step in that direction, but your friend will most likely not see that money and court fees may be way more than what the services rendered were. Second option is Labor board to report them, third option would be letting the local councilmember who oversees the area covering the restaurant also know.

If he thinks he has enough info to take it up in a legal action, I'd be happy to help. I'm just about to wrap up law school and can ask friends to see what pro bono resources are available to connect your friend with.

The video I saw looked like really aggressive driving. Like the grey car was changing lanes and the white one wasn’t giving them space but they came over anyway. Neither person wanted to give up an inch. Looked like they’re both at fault to me.

It’s more and more common on the beltway: you put on your blinker and the person next to you speeds up to close the gap.

This is the reason why so many ppl quit the hospitality industry en mass. As someone who worked in the industry for 15yrs this is not uncommon. I worked many “training” shifts that were unpaid. It sucks! I would encourage your friend to keep applying. He will land somewhere soon.

I would create an invoice using whatever the fmv is of the services rendered and reach out to management/owners. If that doesn’t work after a few tries, reach out to the dept of labor. I just think it’s the chef that should have to suffer, not the entire restaurant.

Edit: just noticed Sally O’s is hiring a sous. OP’s friend should apply. Seems like a great place to work plus they’re on their way to making their own little empire - aka great opportunity for advancement.

People usually just play with their friends.

That’s my strangers friend we’re talking about!

They charge $14 for celery soup. They’ll be ight. We shall wait for the verdict of the situation being properly handled if not…bombs away.

But also you don’t think My strangers friend will get paid. You also don’t think ownership knows about this shitty act.

What would be a good course of action for stranger friend to take and a good response from establishment?

The EPA was eviscerated during the Trump admin, and was literally turned into an anti-environmental regulation agency.

It's not as easy to put something back together as it is to break it. We have no real reason to trust the viability of the EPA in carrying out its mission at this point.

Hiring for any job that pays more than 40k will take 3-4 steps, and likely 2-6 weeks.

To become a software engineer, I completed over 100 hours of “take home” assignments. This is very common and an acceptable way to see if people are not entirely full of shit.

And not to be the dickhead, but a huge chunk of people in hospitality are full of shit.

I go to Nordstrom Rack and look for sunglasses with polarized lenses. Usually designer with polarized lenses can be had for between $50-75.

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You/your friend should know better than to expect ethics from the hospitality industry.

Assuming a line cook makes 20 an hour, which is high, that means your “friend” is owed $180 bucks. Closer to $140 after taxes.

Youll likely spend more time in this thread than your friend did at work, and neither of you will ever be compensated.

Fact is, hospitality is toxic and this is a $180 sign of gratitude that they don’t have to work for that EC.

I have been, several times, to G&M recently and have never been disappointed. Always good service, when I have been, and not noisy.

I heard the word chemicals on tv! How can our so called leaders allow this to happen!!!

What restaurant? Also have him try Cindy Lou’s fishouse. It’s In Canopy hotel part of Hilton in harbor east. A working interview or stage he should be paid minimum wage at least

I forgot to add. In the mid 80s , when I bought my first city home. I went through a non-profit (Neighborhood Housing). They as with several housing non profits, were trying to stabilize neighborhoods and entice people wanting a fixer-upper for a low price to move in. I secured a nice duplex on a dead end street. I could have gone through Neighbood for a loan and they would help organize a 2nd mortgage with a lending institution. But the state had a program (CDA?) where I was able to secure a mortgage as a first time home buyer and one for a city house, at a reasonable rate.

It was a great house in a very mixed neighborhood. But as the city started to demolish the high rise projects, the neighborhood was flooded with many poor people in a fragile neighborhood, who needed many social support services, but got thrown to the slumlords who were gobbling up the fixer upper houses.

Beaver Dam needs a top-off.

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Thanks u/_brobeans_! Can people just show up and join an existing team?

Believe mizu sushi by Patterson Park does this

Yes. It’s because he told me, and I believe him 100%. In the several years I’ve known him to be many things, but a liar is not one of them. He’s at times irritatingly honest.

That said, I know the point you seem intent on making, so feel free to run with it.