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    Default Bankers insulting waitress tip incites class warfare

    Unfortunately the actual story isn't as dramatic as the story title, but...

    Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at the True Food Kitchen restaurant in Newport Beach, California.

    To add insult to injury the word "tip" was circled on the receipt, and the banker wrote "get a real job" on the bill.
    Stories like this really make me want to see a wave of mob violence against the wealthy

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending...164624882.html

    edit Oh shit this was already posted in chit chat. Disregard then.
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    Read about this this morning. Sometimes you just wanna see these people hanging from lamp posts. This is one of those times.
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    Mega-ultra a$$wipe
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    Read about this this morning. Sometimes you just wanna see these people hanging from lamp posts. This is one of those times.
    I've posted it before and I have a feeling I'll post it again:

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    Rich banker is a humongous douchebag with an overly inflated ego? Say it ain't so!
    YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS
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    Rich banker is a humongous douchebag with an overly inflated ego? Say it ain't so!
    Sounds like an adam sandler movie.
    You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror...
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    finally a news comments section that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out
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    Hoax:

    Follow Up of the Day: After that receipt allegedly attributed to a cheapskate banker with a disdain for the 99% began to make the rounds, The Smoking Gun thought it smelled a rat, so it picked up the phone and called True Food Kitchen in Newport Beach and inquired after the veracity of the bill.

    Turns out, it’s not so much real as not real in the slightest.

    According to a restaurant spox, the receipt has been quite heavily doctored. The original total, said Jami Reagan, was $33.54, not $133.54, and the tip was a generous $7 and change.

    As you might have guessed, the incendiary “get a real job” was not scribbled on the original statement either.

    As for “Future Ex Banker” — the banker’s alleged subordinate and the person responsible for bringing the receipt to the Internet’s attention — well, they’ve disappeared without a trace.

    Could the restaurant be covering for the banker? Could “Future Ex Banker” have gone into hiding for fear of being unmasked and subsequently castigated by their superiors? Or perhaps, as Occam’s razor dictates, this is merely just another Internet hoax in a long list of Internet hoaxes.
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    This "person" should have had the life beaten out of him, on the the spot.
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    What a ****.
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    But the story itself is simultaneously so uninteresting and self-validating!
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    What a selfish capitalist pig
    Yes, we want to make your wife a radical feminist lesbian, we want to forcibly gay marry you to a leatherclad bear, we want to send your kids into white slavery at the court of a black communist dictator, we want to paint your church red with the blood of christian babies, we want to set fire to your ikea and your SUV, we want to rape your labrador with the broken pieces of your white picketed fence.

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    That disgusts me!

    I think that it should be equal pay, no matter what kind of job you have.

    I waitress or a janitor can be more bussy than a capitalist that doesn't do shit!
    This is also just my opinion, if you tell me that Im wrong, then you are wrong
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    Again, its a fake story... See my post above
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    Unfortunately the actual story isn't as dramatic as the story title, but...



    Stories like this really make me want to see a wave of mob violence against the wealthy

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending...164624882.html

    edit Oh shit this was already posted in chit chat. Disregard then.
    Read about this this morning. Sometimes you just wanna see these people hanging from lamp posts. This is one of those times.
    finally a news comments section that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out
    Again, its a fake story... See my post above

    Ladies and gentlemen, I reiterate the point that I made a few threads ago.

    It is not a practical sentiment to hate the rich, or to look for little examples of their arrogance to fuel your desire to struggle against them.

    This incident had it been true wouldn't have "ignited class warfare" as the fire of class war has been burning so long as private property has been in existence.

    Stay focused, stay calm, and know that the rich create a terrible system, but it is more important to focus on getting rid of the bastards than hating them.
    “How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
    "In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped." MLK
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    If I was a waiter, and someone gave me that receipt, I would beat them up!
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    Again, its a fake story... See my post above
    Sorry, but people just want some belief-validating things to scream at like a mob.
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    The fact that the story so quickly went "viral" reflects the very real anger people fell against the ruling class. Wages are very low in service sector jobs and employees are faced with a lot of abuse both from bosses and arrogant customers. The fact that somebody got so much mileage out of a photoshopped story does say something.This reminds me of the airplane attendent, faced with abuse who openned the emergency exit and left the airplane with a few beers. This got a lot of public support.
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    If I was a waiter, and someone gave me that receipt, I would beat them up!
    That is a strong thing to say, but most workers can't just throw away their job and usually put up with shit.
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    Wouldn't have it been cool if the restaurant actually broke out into class warfare. "Workers, take out your guns!" lol

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