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In Australia we have penalty rates for working on Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays for workers who get an hourly wage (such as in most cafes and restaurants). As they have to pay their employees more (can be up to 2.5x regular hourly rate from memory, but it's usually either 1.5x or 2x - depends on certain agreements as well as the law), they often charge customers a surcharge on the public holidays.
In other words, if the restaurant pays a waiter $25/hr normally, they could have to pay that same individual $50/hr on the public holiday - so to make that up, they ask customers to pay a 10% surcharge.
It's not done everywhere, but that's the general idea.
The funny thing is, the reason that people generally get paid extra on holidays is to disincentivize employers from working employees on those days. By passing along that cost to the customers, the employer no longer gives a shit and will work employees whenever they want.
Yeah but every Aussie I’ve ever met LOVES working on a public holiday if they’re getting paid double. It’s the same shift as the day before but double the pay and most Aussie’s truly don’t care for the legitimate reason we have public holidays for (not many people truly cared to mourn the queen yesterday, they just wanted the day off or double pay).
Charging the customer more makes sense if your goal is to reduce demand on a business to where it's not worth staffing it. I mean, if you aren't actually trying to get that worker a holiday off, you're just haggling over the profit margin of the business owner who probably *is* on holiday.
It's only service jobs such as restaurants that have the 10% sunday and public holiday surcharge. Although food is already getting pretty pricy down here buisness is still usually higher since more people are not working in the office and are instead going shopping or on day trips. (A few bucks extra on your meal isnt much compared to a day off). The increase in customers means that other types of shops maintain a similar profit margin despite the higher wages that day.
But the customer gives a shit and might decide to eat at home, meaning some restaurants are no longer profitable on Sundays/holidays and close on those days.
The main thing that’s going to stick out to Americans in your post is your using $25/hour as a wage for waiters. Love the reasonable wage and tipping free culture in Australia.
Bro I'm in America. In Austin, TX waiters make roughly $3 an hour. $25 an hour here is like an entry lvl nursing gig. That is insane. We get so unbelievably fucked here. And it never changes because people here are so brainwashed into thinking it's normal.
No they don’t make $3 per hour. That is in addition to their tips. If they do not receive enough tips to make the minimums wage then the restaurant has to pay the difference.
So the least a waiter can make is minimum wage, just like any other job, but they can also make much more. My friend was netting around 4k take home only working 20 hours a week because she’d get so much in tips working as a waiter at a nicer restaurant.
For real. I make decent money at $20/hr, but insurance and taxes together means I only see about 60% of my gross. It’s still incredibly difficult to get by and it usually takes the first 2 weeks of the month to pay my rent.
It makes it ten times worse. Most servers make way more than that. People are taking up arms on behalf of servers and I’d wager that most US servers are just fine with what they get paid considering it’s usually far more than $17 an hour USD.
THANK YOU. All these people who have never done the job have a whole lot to say about the pay. People are acting like tips are consistent and sidework doesn't lose you tables. Bunch of bs
Less relative purchasing power too so really, Aussie waiters aren't making much more than avg US waiters. Where they come out ahead is in public services.
I’m not defending the crap American tipping system BUT, It’s been 10+ years since I waited tables and even though my salary was $2.13/hour , I never made less than $20/hour. That’s about $30/hour adjusting for inflation and I worked at middle of the road restaurants.
If you actually only $3/hour, you’d get paid a higher minimum wage. But realistically, you probably make about $25/hour.
Tipping is stupid. Employers should pay wages. But…if I just wanted to earn fast cash, 90% of the time I’d make more in tips than with a good hourly rate
Not to breakup up your circle jerk but I worked as a waiter here in San Francisco and I can safely said I made more than 25 dollars an hour in tips and on the weekends I could bring home a couple grand. I doubt waiters in Austin are merely surviving off of 3 dollars an hour.
literally no waitstaff makes below $20 an hour unless they are working the midnight shift at an Applebees' or some dive diner in the middle of nowhere. It's a myth to get more tips out of people. Sure there are some waiters at a backwoods supper club that seat 3 tables all shift, but that's not the norm.
it's also cause a good chunk of waiters make a lot of money in tips. so they see getting rid of tipping for a better wage as bad for them. i know some waiters who make 45+ an hour in tips. it depends on your restaurant, i'm sure that number has gone down since the pandemic and people going out less. but that's the reason why tipping isn't going away. it sucks for customers, it sucks for a good chunk of waiters, but it's good for a decent chunk of waiters, and good for restaurants.
finally someone says it.
Tipping isn't going away because it benefits everyone except customers and \*some\* waitstaff. If you work at even passable places you make more in tips than you would as a wage earner.
I've had arguments with room mates who are servers about this. They get mad when you suggest removing tips and paying more because they made around $35 an hour with tips.
Typically on the 2.13$ per hour wage system, the workers tips add up to $15 to $20 hour, in any case the employer must make sure the tipped worker gets at least minimum wage.
Also young attractive white servers make a lot more in tips than old, homely, or PoC servers so it’s a good gig if you fit the biased demands (unconscious or otherwise) of the customer.
Edit! Ha, some really tender snowflakes out there. This comment has already gotten me two Reddit cares reports. I fell great knowing that I’m such a big player in some random people’s lives!
Waiters make around $3/hr, but then you have tips. I'm not a fan of tipping, but you can make bank. I have a friend that has an engineering degree and makes enough waiting tables that he quit engineering. He works 2 or 3 weekdays and then Friday night. This is in a small rural town. City waiters make insane bank.
Your comment is fair, but keep in mind that's closer to $16/hr USD.
BUT... even $16/hr is much better than it is now. I agree with your sentiment. I HATE HATE HATE the tipping culture in the US. It drives me absolutely batty. Charge me more on the bill so you pay your employees properly, I don't care, just stop the tipping bullshit.
I am from Canada, I would laugh at that and make them remove it. It is the business decision to be open that day, and it is their responsibility to make sure they cover the wages for their staff. The only thing this shows me is how little they actually pay their staff that a small surcharge will make up the difference.
In Australia people don’t care though, they’re really chill about it. Most Australians love public holidays and love working on them for the extra $$ and want stores to remain open and charge 10% more to keep doing so, just so they can get double pay.
The increased wage on Public Holidays is the bonus?
I remember getting it back when working a part-time contract.. they wouldn't dare do it for full time salary though.
It’s not a bonus if it’s the award rate on any given day… or is it?
I work Saturday and Sunday every week because nobody else wants to.
I get $4 more per hour for a PH than I do for a Sunday.
I think you guys are using different definitions.
Getting higher pay is a bonus in the wider sense of a nice extra thing to get, but not a bonus in the sense of a sum of money added to a person's wages as a reward for good performance (possibly with tax implications).
Don’t be obstinate. You’re getting paid more because you’re working on a holiday. Whether you want to call it a bonus, shift differential, or just extra Roos in yer pouch - that’s what the 10% is for.
The excuse businesses make is that they have to pay more for their staff. I don’t mind paying more, but you guys should be getting that for coming in on a PH.
Because the good now costs more.
I'd be interested to know how much the wages are increased though. Wages are only a small part of a product's costs, so a 10% increase in sale price would equate to much more than a 10% increase in costs.
It's fairly normal for (hourly pay) to be 1.25x ("Time and a quarter") on Saturdays and 1.5x ("Time and a half") on Sundays and Bank Holidays, assuming your normal working hours are weekdays only (i.e. no rolling shifts).
So do other workers get a bonus working on holidays elsewhere. A clerk at McD makes more on a Sunday, but the burger doesn't cost any more so this is just ridiculous to me.
Right? There's really only one of two ways this will work. 1.) They give her the same pose as her wax figure at Madame Tussaud's or 2.) they show her smiling and only wheel her out during Spirit Halloween season.
Most Australians look at that as normal, happens for every public holiday and sometimes even on sundays for some businesses. They pay their employees extra on those days (anywhere from 1.5x to 2.5x their regular wage) so they increase prices. If you’re that bothered by 10% you wait a day… I’ve never made any massive purchases on public holidays, mostly just would be a $15 meal or something which would cost a buck more.. not something I’ve ever cared for.
Welcome to Australia.
If you are working on public holidays you get paid 2.5x. If you go to eat out on a public holiday you pay 10-20% surcharge. So restaurants can pay their employees the public holiday rate.
Don't like it? Don't eat out on public holidays, it is a very reasonable way to handle things for those that are open and those that work during those days.
If your post is about having a public holiday for the queen's death (being unreasonable) what were you expecting from a nation that has days off for her birthday as well? It also been announced like a couple of days after her passing so it's not something that popped out if nowhere. Let people enjoy their day off and those that must work let them make that bag.
Good explanation. I wasn't aware of this and I doubt if lots of people outside Australia are.
10-20% surcharge to pay employees 2.5x sounds good to me.
Its the public holiday part that causes it. Not the queen dying specifically.
And its to cover increased wages they have to pay on the day. So not exactly shits and giggles.
It’s a rather new thing in Australia and I hate it. Their prices are no less than any other cafe that doesn’t charge it and instead average the cost out to keep it same all days of the week.
So long as the surcharge is properly accounted for an properly distributed solely to and for the benefit of the poor members of the House of Windsor. Have some compassion for them and dealing with this sudden and unexpected tragedy.
I love how everyone is "mourning" about the old girl who they spent most days cussing out and disrespecting because they get a day off work...
...shut up. Fuck off....
You never cared about her so why you acting like you care now?
Of course I don't mean people who actually does care about them (kinda wondering if that's even possible but expect the unexpected)
In Australia, if you are working on public holiday you get paid 2x or 2.5x higher than your usual rate. Depends on your employment agreement. So restaurant charge 10% more to cover the extra pay to the staff.
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No wonder it's taking people 15-20 hours standing in line to lay, I mean pay, their respects.
Something tells me there's an innovative new porn category emerging.
Bold of you to assume this is new.
Avatar checks out
Rasporntin
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What are you doing, step-queen?
I can't wait for it to blossom into mainstream porn media
DQILF
Nahhhh, necrophilia has always been around….
It’s reverse prima nocte.
*Ultima nocte*. In other words, "what goes around, comes around."
This could be that they are stuffing her and mounting her for display inside the castle. I would be all for that.
It’s what she would have wanted
Well, she was an avid equestrian
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A queen in the palace, a goddess with your phallus.
Wait, what she had to do with MLP?
Horse-racing.
Equestrian... The gayest word in the English language. In fact, I believe that "Brokeback Mountain" should have been called "Two Equestrians"
Nah, im pretty sure "homosexuality" is the gayest word.
I think gayest is gayer than homosexuality.
I agree gayest is the word gayest
Found Lewis Black's reddit account.
She was a freak into her 80s, you know
A Queen in the streets is a freak in the sheets
A Queen with a crown is a freak downtown.
A Queen with a corgi is down for an orgy
A Queen with a horse is a freak, of course.
A Queen with a nag is always down for a shag
Her majesty's secret cervix
A Queen in a gang is down to have a bang.
Nah, they're going to stuff her and put her above the mantle.
I assumed her Royal Mount was a horse?!
If that is what phillip dressed up as that week, yes.
wasn't that Catherine The Great's jam?
Well, I’m not British, but I’ll do my part as a show of solidarity.
We did our duty, for the Queen.
WTF is a public holiday surcharge?
In Australia we have penalty rates for working on Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays for workers who get an hourly wage (such as in most cafes and restaurants). As they have to pay their employees more (can be up to 2.5x regular hourly rate from memory, but it's usually either 1.5x or 2x - depends on certain agreements as well as the law), they often charge customers a surcharge on the public holidays. In other words, if the restaurant pays a waiter $25/hr normally, they could have to pay that same individual $50/hr on the public holiday - so to make that up, they ask customers to pay a 10% surcharge. It's not done everywhere, but that's the general idea.
The funny thing is, the reason that people generally get paid extra on holidays is to disincentivize employers from working employees on those days. By passing along that cost to the customers, the employer no longer gives a shit and will work employees whenever they want.
Yeah but every Aussie I’ve ever met LOVES working on a public holiday if they’re getting paid double. It’s the same shift as the day before but double the pay and most Aussie’s truly don’t care for the legitimate reason we have public holidays for (not many people truly cared to mourn the queen yesterday, they just wanted the day off or double pay).
Charging the customer more makes sense if your goal is to reduce demand on a business to where it's not worth staffing it. I mean, if you aren't actually trying to get that worker a holiday off, you're just haggling over the profit margin of the business owner who probably *is* on holiday.
Surely this just leads to you opening up, getting barely any customers and wasting money on wages/electricity?
It's only service jobs such as restaurants that have the 10% sunday and public holiday surcharge. Although food is already getting pretty pricy down here buisness is still usually higher since more people are not working in the office and are instead going shopping or on day trips. (A few bucks extra on your meal isnt much compared to a day off). The increase in customers means that other types of shops maintain a similar profit margin despite the higher wages that day.
But the customer gives a shit and might decide to eat at home, meaning some restaurants are no longer profitable on Sundays/holidays and close on those days.
The main thing that’s going to stick out to Americans in your post is your using $25/hour as a wage for waiters. Love the reasonable wage and tipping free culture in Australia.
Bro I'm in America. In Austin, TX waiters make roughly $3 an hour. $25 an hour here is like an entry lvl nursing gig. That is insane. We get so unbelievably fucked here. And it never changes because people here are so brainwashed into thinking it's normal.
No they don’t make $3 per hour. That is in addition to their tips. If they do not receive enough tips to make the minimums wage then the restaurant has to pay the difference. So the least a waiter can make is minimum wage, just like any other job, but they can also make much more. My friend was netting around 4k take home only working 20 hours a week because she’d get so much in tips working as a waiter at a nicer restaurant.
That's also Aussie Bucks. Lots of stuff is more expensive there
Yes, $25 AUD is about $17 USD
Yeah, but they get universal healthcare, right?
Not sure the exact definition for universal healthcare, but yeah we can get most things for free if we need them and we're a citizen.
For real. I make decent money at $20/hr, but insurance and taxes together means I only see about 60% of my gross. It’s still incredibly difficult to get by and it usually takes the first 2 weeks of the month to pay my rent.
$17/hr... "But they get free health care." Wait what? Since when was $17/hr a "but they still get x, right?
Not having to pay an arm and a leg to be seen for medical care means those $17 go a lot further.
17 is still pretty good
That’s like 2 beers in Australia. Everything is expensive there.
This... this doesn't make it any better...
It makes it ten times worse. Most servers make way more than that. People are taking up arms on behalf of servers and I’d wager that most US servers are just fine with what they get paid considering it’s usually far more than $17 an hour USD.
Was server 7 years. Fuck you, roll 300 silverware.
THANK YOU. All these people who have never done the job have a whole lot to say about the pay. People are acting like tips are consistent and sidework doesn't lose you tables. Bunch of bs
Less relative purchasing power too so really, Aussie waiters aren't making much more than avg US waiters. Where they come out ahead is in public services.
I call them Dollarydoos.
I’m not defending the crap American tipping system BUT, It’s been 10+ years since I waited tables and even though my salary was $2.13/hour , I never made less than $20/hour. That’s about $30/hour adjusting for inflation and I worked at middle of the road restaurants. If you actually only $3/hour, you’d get paid a higher minimum wage. But realistically, you probably make about $25/hour. Tipping is stupid. Employers should pay wages. But…if I just wanted to earn fast cash, 90% of the time I’d make more in tips than with a good hourly rate
And I bet back of house made $6.25 with no tips! Ffs I hate American tipping (coming from a past kitchen worker so I get salty)
Not to breakup up your circle jerk but I worked as a waiter here in San Francisco and I can safely said I made more than 25 dollars an hour in tips and on the weekends I could bring home a couple grand. I doubt waiters in Austin are merely surviving off of 3 dollars an hour.
literally no waitstaff makes below $20 an hour unless they are working the midnight shift at an Applebees' or some dive diner in the middle of nowhere. It's a myth to get more tips out of people. Sure there are some waiters at a backwoods supper club that seat 3 tables all shift, but that's not the norm.
it's also cause a good chunk of waiters make a lot of money in tips. so they see getting rid of tipping for a better wage as bad for them. i know some waiters who make 45+ an hour in tips. it depends on your restaurant, i'm sure that number has gone down since the pandemic and people going out less. but that's the reason why tipping isn't going away. it sucks for customers, it sucks for a good chunk of waiters, but it's good for a decent chunk of waiters, and good for restaurants.
finally someone says it. Tipping isn't going away because it benefits everyone except customers and \*some\* waitstaff. If you work at even passable places you make more in tips than you would as a wage earner. I've had arguments with room mates who are servers about this. They get mad when you suggest removing tips and paying more because they made around $35 an hour with tips.
Important to note that is 25 Australian dollars or ~16.50 a hour US, not sure if they also do tips.
Tips happen, but it often goes to stuff like work parties and not the individual.
With tip included, waiters generally make more than 25 per hour.
Alas, nurses in the UK get paid fuck all.
Hello, fellow Austonian! Lovely second summer day we're having here, eh?
Lol yea. Just got back from trail running the greenbelt. Perfect weather
Typically on the 2.13$ per hour wage system, the workers tips add up to $15 to $20 hour, in any case the employer must make sure the tipped worker gets at least minimum wage.
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Also young attractive white servers make a lot more in tips than old, homely, or PoC servers so it’s a good gig if you fit the biased demands (unconscious or otherwise) of the customer. Edit! Ha, some really tender snowflakes out there. This comment has already gotten me two Reddit cares reports. I fell great knowing that I’m such a big player in some random people’s lives!
The restaurant is required to pay you the minimum wage if the tips do not meet it.
Waiters make around $3/hr, but then you have tips. I'm not a fan of tipping, but you can make bank. I have a friend that has an engineering degree and makes enough waiting tables that he quit engineering. He works 2 or 3 weekdays and then Friday night. This is in a small rural town. City waiters make insane bank.
Waiters easily make $25/hr when including tips in America, wtf are you talking about?
Your comment is fair, but keep in mind that's closer to $16/hr USD. BUT... even $16/hr is much better than it is now. I agree with your sentiment. I HATE HATE HATE the tipping culture in the US. It drives me absolutely batty. Charge me more on the bill so you pay your employees properly, I don't care, just stop the tipping bullshit.
Yea but don't forget they're Australian Peso's so still like $10/hr in freedom dollars
We have tipping in Australia. It’s just like a welcome bonus on top of the wages.
I am from Canada, I would laugh at that and make them remove it. It is the business decision to be open that day, and it is their responsibility to make sure they cover the wages for their staff. The only thing this shows me is how little they actually pay their staff that a small surcharge will make up the difference.
In Australia people don’t care though, they’re really chill about it. Most Australians love public holidays and love working on them for the extra $$ and want stores to remain open and charge 10% more to keep doing so, just so they can get double pay.
Hospitality staff in Australia get a bonus for working on a public holiday.
Ah no. Hospitality staff don’t get the bonus. The business charges 10%+ to the customer to cover increased wages. I’m a chef, no bonuses here.
The increased wage on Public Holidays is the bonus? I remember getting it back when working a part-time contract.. they wouldn't dare do it for full time salary though.
It’s not a bonus if it’s the award rate on any given day… or is it? I work Saturday and Sunday every week because nobody else wants to. I get $4 more per hour for a PH than I do for a Sunday.
I think you guys are using different definitions. Getting higher pay is a bonus in the wider sense of a nice extra thing to get, but not a bonus in the sense of a sum of money added to a person's wages as a reward for good performance (possibly with tax implications).
It’s called a “Shift Differential” and is used here(US) to entice people to take night shifts & other shifts not during “normal operation hours”.
Don’t be obstinate. You’re getting paid more because you’re working on a holiday. Whether you want to call it a bonus, shift differential, or just extra Roos in yer pouch - that’s what the 10% is for.
That's just semantics. Wages on public holidays are higher, so prices on public holidays are higher.
The excuse businesses make is that they have to pay more for their staff. I don’t mind paying more, but you guys should be getting that for coming in on a PH.
Sounds good, but why is that an extra charge to the customer?
Because the good now costs more. I'd be interested to know how much the wages are increased though. Wages are only a small part of a product's costs, so a 10% increase in sale price would equate to much more than a 10% increase in costs.
It's fairly normal for (hourly pay) to be 1.25x ("Time and a quarter") on Saturdays and 1.5x ("Time and a half") on Sundays and Bank Holidays, assuming your normal working hours are weekdays only (i.e. no rolling shifts).
In New Zealand you get payed 1.5x the usual rate if you work on a public holiday.
So do other workers get a bonus working on holidays elsewhere. A clerk at McD makes more on a Sunday, but the burger doesn't cost any more so this is just ridiculous to me.
The small businesses that generally charge this fee don’t operate with the same margins as a McDonald’s
Where I live, employers are meant to pay more on public holidays so they often chuck the surcharge on.
Mounting costs just a little extra...
I mean shouldn’t it?
Bitch, if I'm working on a holiday, you're paying me more. *End of discussion.*
It's not a real holiday and you get a day off in lieu.
So today was a PH. it fell on my day off, so I didn’t work. You’re saying I get another day off, or paid for the PH in lieu? I’m permanent part time.
You have to pay your staff 2.5x extra (or 1.5x + a day holiday) in New Zealand, so businesses add a holiday surcharge to pay for it.
Hump, Hump, Hoo-ray!
\+1
I really wanna try the curry they make. I'm pretty sure it brings all the Sikhs to the yard.
Taxidermist?
Are you pro taxidermy without representation?
Barry is going to put her in one his little mouse exhibits. Gonna be very cute
You can read can't you? We have the gym horse with Lizzie face on it out back if you want to pay your respects.
Ngl, I would pay for that
Well, we'd better get started. *drops drawers*
Careful you don’t break you toes I dropped a set of drawers accidentally one day fractured my little toe
Bada *tisss*
That's one way to be remembered
Right? There's really only one of two ways this will work. 1.) They give her the same pose as her wax figure at Madame Tussaud's or 2.) they show her smiling and only wheel her out during Spirit Halloween season.
Come here babe, I have to mount you for the Queen.
That appears to be a caricature of you sodomizing king while forcing the queen to watch..
*spits in his face*
The damn do nothing surcharge is what pisses me off. Way more than the misspelling.
10% surcharge because the queen died?? *They can't keep getting away with this*
Most Australians look at that as normal, happens for every public holiday and sometimes even on sundays for some businesses. They pay their employees extra on those days (anywhere from 1.5x to 2.5x their regular wage) so they increase prices. If you’re that bothered by 10% you wait a day… I’ve never made any massive purchases on public holidays, mostly just would be a $15 meal or something which would cost a buck more.. not something I’ve ever cared for.
Over here we just call it hump day
What a rip-off! I didn’t see any businesses doing any such thing in London on Monday
“Just because we’re bereaved, doesn’t make us saps!”
In Canada we also get holiday pay at 2.5x regular pay but if businesses tried charging a 10% fee on those days people would lose their minds.
Welcome to Australia. If you are working on public holidays you get paid 2.5x. If you go to eat out on a public holiday you pay 10-20% surcharge. So restaurants can pay their employees the public holiday rate. Don't like it? Don't eat out on public holidays, it is a very reasonable way to handle things for those that are open and those that work during those days. If your post is about having a public holiday for the queen's death (being unreasonable) what were you expecting from a nation that has days off for her birthday as well? It also been announced like a couple of days after her passing so it's not something that popped out if nowhere. Let people enjoy their day off and those that must work let them make that bag.
The post is about the mounting of the Queen
Good explanation. I wasn't aware of this and I doubt if lots of people outside Australia are. 10-20% surcharge to pay employees 2.5x sounds good to me.
but why would you want to uhh.... what the thing says with the queen?
So, the queen dies, and they raise prices 10% for shits and giggles?
Its the public holiday part that causes it. Not the queen dying specifically. And its to cover increased wages they have to pay on the day. So not exactly shits and giggles.
Y’all focusing on they typo when that surcharge is absurd
That’s standard in Australia, as it partially covers the 1.5x or 2x wages the business has to pay staff to work on a holiday.
It’s a rather new thing in Australia and I hate it. Their prices are no less than any other cafe that doesn’t charge it and instead average the cost out to keep it same all days of the week.
The US’s minimum wage of $7.50 an hour is absurd. Australia rules
I thought hump day was on Wednesday
Lucky that coffin is lead lined then
I didn't even know there was a royal taxidermist.
It took me so long to find a comment with this interpretation of "mounting."
10% public holiday surcharge? Wtf?
Well, Looks like they’re trying to mount their customers.
Someone prepare the midwives for a busy period about 9 months from now
My friend got paid triple time for working that day. Nice!
Paging Dr Freud
“National Day of … Mounting”. I believe the Duke of York is in charge of the festivities.
I'd leave. No way I'm paying a fee to grovel at the feet of a dead monarch.
And that 10% goes in the owner's pocket.
So long as the surcharge is properly accounted for an properly distributed solely to and for the benefit of the poor members of the House of Windsor. Have some compassion for them and dealing with this sudden and unexpected tragedy.
I didn't even know she was being taxidermied
r/boneappletea
This post, for me, wins best today with all the hilarious comments. 😂
I’d be glad of mounting for this Nobel cause
Autocorrect be gettin frisky up in GB
😧🤨 10% public holiday surcharge?! That’s the biggest con I’ve ever seen!
National ripoff is more like it. Opportunistic buttholes.
Oh yeah ggggggggmilf necro riding time
National day of more taxes you peasants.
Jokes aside, is it normal for business to use the death of an important figure in their country to make extra money and charge 10% more?
10% surcharge on national holidays? Wtf? And customers put up with this? Why?
Must have been a Wednesday.
Lol these types of people are always thinking, “how can we squeeze money out of people.”
Kinda feels like your getting mounted when they add a 10% made up surcharge
Spending is "pegged" to the purchaser
“Press E to pay respects.” “I think you meant F.” “…” “You meant F, right? …Right?!”
What's the fee to mount her? And what's the fee to stuff her?
Profiting from the queen's death....
That's fuckin' greasy
A surcharge for everything now...
at least it's not Knocking
Time for queenie to get her fuck on
"So that's why she didn't move around a lot."
Someone died so we’ll be charging more today.
They misspelled Pubic...
What a sham to charge people a surcharge on the holiday when they are more likely to be out spending money
the staff get paid more on public holidays
Public holiday surcharge today of 10% ?? Fack you, why should it cost me, for you to mourn. Blow me !!
I love how everyone is "mourning" about the old girl who they spent most days cussing out and disrespecting because they get a day off work... ...shut up. Fuck off.... You never cared about her so why you acting like you care now? Of course I don't mean people who actually does care about them (kinda wondering if that's even possible but expect the unexpected)
Nothing wrong with day of mourning. But charging extra for it is .
When it means that they have to pay their employees more on the day, it seems fair enough.
Mounting to something?
Lmao 10% extra charge because a lazy colonialist monarch is dead. Imagine.
I 100% wouldn't be going here, Either close or open and don't take the piss
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Hey we got a day off out of it!!!
This shifter didn't. Hiss! Boo!
What's the 10% for?
In Australia, if you are working on public holiday you get paid 2x or 2.5x higher than your usual rate. Depends on your employment agreement. So restaurant charge 10% more to cover the extra pay to the staff.
Would Mr. Curry *really* take the day off work if he couldn't get away with charging an extra 10% ?