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webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 7 Oct 08

My wife has been a waitress at the same place for about 26 years or more now. We rely solely on the tips she recieves for our bills and to live off of. Now this incident happened recently. She had a table and their bill was a...

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montyortiz I'm not sure why tipping is such a big issue for some people. I think it's rude and just plain mean spirited and outright ignorant to not tip or not tip accordingly. Now I know the days of 15% hard and fast are gone, but that doesn't mean it's ok to just leave...

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montyortiz @montyortiz (11) • United States 7 Oct 08

Recently, the south east region of Texas was devastated by Hurricane Ike. Many thousands of homes were damaged, hundreds completely destroyed, dozens of people "confirmed" dead and hundreds "missing", the quotations notate my...

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montyortiz Well I'm glad your sister has had a good experience. I'm not trying to say it is all bad, but I want to get it out there that there are a lot of problems. I don't expect it to all be taken care of right away either. As for Katy, FEMA actually set up,...

7 Oct 08

bdugas @bdugas (3578) • United States 13 Sep 08

Did you stay up and watch the coverage on Hurricane Ike? Was you in the watch area. I stayed up and watched as I am from Louisiana and have gone through several,Katrina being the last I knew what this town was going through. I...

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montyortiz I too am in Houston, Deer Park actually. We were actually some of the lucky ones, our electricity was only out for 3 days. My mother-in-law did not have power for 2 weeks, yes 14 days, and that's not the worst of it. Thousands are still without power or...

7 Oct 08

montyortiz @montyortiz (11) • United States 7 Oct 08

Recently, the south east region of Texas was devastated by Hurricane Ike. Many thousands of homes were damaged, hundreds completely destroyed, dozens of people "confirmed" dead and hundreds "missing", the quotations notate my...

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whywiki @whywiki (6066) • Canada 6 Oct 08

I work with this guy and his girlfriend and he gave notice last week. He has no job lined up he is just tired of this one. He plans to rest for a few weeks then look for a better job. In the meantime the girlfriend works full time...

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montyortiz Generally speaking I have never quit a job without having something lined up to start right away after my notice is up. Except in one case. This was without a doubt the worst job I have ever worked. It was my first job after college, I took it with great...

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sditty82 @sditty82 (1) • United States 29 Sep 08

Hello! i am a 26 yr. old mother of 2 toddlers that works a full time job outside of the home. I have a daycare situation that drives me nuts and gas prices that are too high and just keep going up. So I spend alot of time on the...

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montyortiz I work on the weekends so I have just recently started looking into opportunities for online work. What I have found are thousands of scams. Basically as it has been said, NEVER PAY FOR WORK. Many sites promise big money but nothing legit can be that easy,...

6 Oct 08

mayrah @mayrah (1144) • United States 6 Oct 08

Success is attainment of something we desired or attempted. It is a victory at a cause of tremendous effort and sacrifice. It is also enduring pain and disappointment and continue to strive despite failures at first attempt. In...

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montyortiz In my life, I have had a lot of trouble figuring out how to be successful. As it turns out I am really good at a lot of things but I could never get to the level of success that I wanted. One day, not literally, I figured out that the main reason for my lack...

6 Oct 08

dragon54u @dragon54u (31634) • United States 5 Oct 08

My 15 yr old great nephew does NOT know how to write cursive! They don't teach it in school except as applied to a signature. He prints EVERYTHING! This is disturbing to me. Working carefully on good cursive handwriting...

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montyortiz My daughter is currently in 7th grade and there are quite a few problems I have noticed about how they are teaching these days. As for the cursive, she actually was taught and still uses cursive on a daily basis, perhaps it has to do more with the actual...

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