You know, all those high schooler mixologists. With their own portable bars. Totally reasonable you guys, c'mon help 'em out!
Classic !choosingbeggars@lemmy.world behavior.
Do we have an insanepeoplefacebook community? This also belongs there if it exists on lemmy
!insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world
I think she's got them confused with kids that have a lemonade stand.
Well that's a dead community. Last update was 2 years ago
Lemmy has a dead community for everything!
Some say the APIpocalypse refugees were… optimistic.
Signed, moderator of !cad@lemmy.world and former mod of several OG kbin magazines.
It's for a church honey. NEXT!
Omg what was this from?
Church lady asking for a ride for 20 people to some event. Everyone kept giving her suggestions and each one was met with a flippant, “That’s not enough for 20 NEXT!”.
Why do so many people want slaves
Slaves aren't free! You have to buy them upfront and then provide food and housing.
This person wants magic.
True, they want volunteers or interns.
When you view other human beings as transactions, then slavery is no different than a coupon.
There's lots of high school mixologists I'm sure.
Is pouring a bottle of everclear into a gallon of Hawaiian punch mixology?
I did pretty well.
“I can make a screwdriver… or anything with soda.”
"You are magnanimously permitted to not keep the free work you did a secret."
As a wedding caterer for 10+ years, I feel like OP owes ME money for having to read such a stupid request
I would like to reply with 8 fake profiles and assure that we will be there, then just not show up.
I used to be a videographer. Mostly weddings, and a few very small indie films. I eventually transitioned out of that and into a more stable career, but I've got 10+ years of experience.
A couple of years ago, knowing this, a buddy asked me if I'd be willing to film his friends' live comedy sketch show. It's a guy I've known since high school, so I figured I'd cut him a deal: I'd do it for $25/hr, 4-hour minimum. He responded, "What if I made you some lasagna instead?"
So that show went unfilmed.
I did a bunch of free wedding photography and portraits and stuff for friends and family when I was in college. I stopped when I started getting referred to people who weren't my friends who also expected free work out of me and then acted like I was the asshole when I refused.
My wife used to be a cosmologist, she did very well for herself but it was hard on her health doing it professionally for so long.
When we moved away, instead of building new clientele from scratch, which is hard. She took the opportunity to change careers into finance.
She still does hair on the side, for friends and family.
But we had to make a rule now that it's family only, because honestly that's like 15 heads, counting only the family geographically close enough to make it viable, and that keeps her busy enough as it is.
She does it for free, out of love, and obligation. Though most the family is pretty good about insisting they pay her the market rate, and being very thankful. She's a great cosmologist.
She'd like to add in a couple friends here and there, again she likes to be helpful, but it quickly snowballs into more and more demands with less and less appreciation, even with close friends. And with less close friends, or just acquaintances, people start getting really offended when she legitimately has to turn them down.
They refuse to understand she's busy enough as it is, and even if they're paying top dollar(which they never do), she doesn't want to do a side hustle that big. She just wants to do family, and some select friends.
So now we have a rule, family only. Period. Only her best, oldest friends, basically family, does she do their hair.
Everyone else, even if she wouldn't mind doing some of them occasionally, get a blanket no. Family only. Because people can't be chill.
That stops most people from being offended, and takes pressure off her having to explain the nuance.
She doesn't have to explain why friend B can have hair done, but not them. Because friend B isn't getting it either. Nobody is. Family only.
I didn't know that cosmology was such a hairy field.
I have a personal stance on doing professional work for friends.
If they offer to pay me for my services, they get discounts and maybe even a few freebies. If they ask for me to do it for free, they pay full price forever.
I'll also proactively offer free work for friends sometimes when it looks like they could really use it, with the understanding they're getting "much better than amateur, but nowhere near my best" when it comes to quality.
I’d do it for $25/hr, 4-hour minimum.
That sounds cheap as fuck, isn't that cheap as fuck? And he didn't even go for that?
Yes, it is bonkers cheap. Like, unbelievably cheap. Even when I was first starting out, $300 for a shoot was my floor. But I'd been friends with this guy since forever and wanted to help him out.
Edit: autocorrects and typos
When I was in high school I had an acquaintance who made white Russians. He had a travel case specifically for all the ingredients and the glassware to match. Couldn't make any other drink to save his life. The white Russians were acceptable.
Couldn't make any other drink to save his life.
That’s just, like, your opinion, man!
I wonder how much he's "tipping" these 7(!) people he's asked to work for free at his daughter's party. I do like the boldness of the ask though, not like asking one-by-one "hey is there a DJ who might be ok working for tips?" but "is there an entire event company out there willing to do this for no cost?"
You and your friends sign up for this job. Day of, all of you either don't show, show but then leave partway, or do such a terrible job that they send you home.
Do it for free on the promise for a tip afterward.
You get a dollar! And you get a dollar! Everyone gets a dollar!
Everyone knows there will be no tip.
I’m sure she will tip a good 25% on the $0 invoice
just ballparking here, but that looks like at least $1000 she's trying to cheat a bunch of kids out of.
The moment they said mixologist, that post became a criminal offense.
Hi, as a fine art photographer, I would love to shoot this mediocre bullshit event for negative money cause I’m spending gas and bringing some of my assistants with me.
"unskilled labor" but done by young people so I don't have to actually pay.
Society is way to comfortable with ageism such as this - a teen should have the same pay as an "adult" working the same job.
That is sooo NextDoor. com.
This is sarcastic, right?
High schooler mixologist?
They know how to mix beer with more beer, and that's about it.
Untrue!
Also rum with cola and vodka with juice! Though perhaps not in the US
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