Board Room in VA or DC

"Best of" exhibit on through March 12, includes some b&w, at Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria: https://www.multipleexposuresgallery.com/

At the National Portrait Gallery, part Ii of "I Dream a World," Brian Lanker's portraits of Black women leaders, artists, and innovators - a really wonderful collection, just amazing portraits and subjects: https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/i-dream-world-part-2

Service fees that aren’t going to staff are absurd and make no sense- the food is already marked up to make profit.

I’ve been to one restaurant (Pizza Paradiso) that has started incorporating an automatic 20% service fee that goes entirely to the staff. Besides having signs and notes about it around the restaurant, when you go to pay the suggested tips are something like 3% 5% and 7%, in case you want to throw a little something extra that goes directly to that server for outstanding service.

You have to take a training for the lab at large before you get access to the specific intro classes.

If a restaurant has a service fee, then that is the tip 😂✌️

I was wondering if it was related! That was my initial thought.

I think this is just showing how we should expect service fees that don't go to the waitstaff have an effect on the experience: negatively. I've been to a few places that have the service charge that explicitly calls it out as going wholly to the staff and I haven't seen a difference between those and ones that don't have a service fee where I'd be expected to tip normally.

Of course, this whole sorting process is only going to become more clusterfucked and it's the public and the service employees at these shitty spots that will suffer.

That’s simply not true. The websites for Cap Police and NPS Police even reference reaching them via 911.

DCs office of unified communications gets the 911 call and then depending where it is, routes the NPS, the Cap Police etc to the scene.

They used the S for Silver Springs

The upside down flags signify “America is in Distress”. A few Democrats did it during the Trump presidency so now the Trumpers are doing it. Doesn’t appear to be anything online that they would be protesting

DCPS lost a young and very beloved teacher unexpectedly this week. Some flags were at half mast as a result. I don't know if this would be related.

silence gremlin.

The wage doesn’t start to gradually increase until May through, IIRC, 2027.

Can you decline a service fee? And ask them to go back and re do the check?

It’s a hot ticket. But you’ll get a official ticket instead of getting scammed

Interested to know as well, my 25% Irish butt isn’t getting on a plane to ORD/MDW for chicagos festivities.

Oof. The OP plus the thread is very telling of a problem we have here in America.

hahaha

Snowless winters were not uncommon in NC. And that was less than 250 miles south of DC.

r/onejob

I'm not spending that kind of cash on an hour house. Give me something more permanent.

National Gallery of Art is having an exhibition on photography from Britain from the 70’s and 80’s, some of which appear to be in black and white. Might be of interest to him. https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2023/this-is-britain-photos.html

Love sticky fingers but if this is true I’ll just skip it.

An elaborate ruse fo sure.

This also happens on Metrobus and Ride On.

I don't see the problem. There is, after all, only one Massachusett Avenue here. It's like attorneys general or passersby.