The alleged toilet gap is for the purposes of cleaning, sanitation and emergeny access for medical and fire personel. The gap on the hinge side of the door is maybe 5mm. One has to be a real nunce to see anything.
I find it funny that original video is Canadian and is talking about the bathroom and other things in America because many things on this list also take place in Canada as well.
In the USA, the drinking age was lowered to 18 when the age to vote was. Experience over the next few years showed the drinking age change was a mistake and it was returned to 21.
Funny I do the opposite. I tip based on service. I don’t penalize the waiter for the cook. Vacation days and lunch break depends on the employer. My job you can opt for 1/2hr or 1hr lunch which adds an extra 30 minutes to the work day. I get 24 vacation days( we max out at 26days based on years of service)and 11 sick days plus national holidays.
I undertipped my waiter yesterday because of slow service. Probably was largely the kitchen's fault, but even bringing drinks or taking our order in the first place was slow. And the waiter didn't even acknowledge the slow service. Normally a waiter would give you a "sorry, we're slow, the food will be ready soon", or a "Here's your food, sorry for the wait, the kitchen's backed up..." Plus, I think people at the next table arrived after us and finished their meal before we were served....
Great job! I enjoyed your perspective on the info in the video Here’s a few comments on what they said in the video… Obsessed is the wrong word; we hold our military in high regard for everything they do for us and we make sure they know it. And it’s not so much anti military as anti war. As far as working more, yeah that’s true but a lot of people that work instead of taking vacation do it because they need the money more than time off. If you get two weeks paid vacation but you work those two weeks then you get the vacation pay plus pay for the time you worked (hourly workers not salaried). I believe the four day work week they were talking about was 4 ten or twelve hour days instead of 5 eight hour days. I would love that. Talking with strangers, oh yes we definitely do that. I have had sooooo many interest conversations with strangers. Until recently, I had no idea that people in other countries didn’t do that nearly as much as we do. A relative of mine had emergency surgery and stayed a week in the hospital and it ended up being over $100,000 because the hospital wasn’t “in network”! I had an emergency that even with insurance ended up costing over $3,000 and I was only there 3 hrs.
Wow thank you so much for your comment! Yes in the uk we can’t work and take our holiday pay so it’s either take the holiday that you get paid for or loose it! Hospital bills are crazy and I’m sorry to hear it puts people in debt!
Regardless of what you call the country, 100% of humans call the people who live in it, Americans. There is no other country where the people there would respond, "America" when asked where they are from. The country has a very long name. We abbreviate it the same way we do China, or any other country with a long name. This is not a complicated concept folks.
Taxes.....the UK does the same thing as the USA, it's just you can't see what the tax amount is because they add it in already. Which means your government can tax whatever they want and you wouldn't know. Our tax amount is printed on each receipt.
I never understood why the people who make the original video say "thi k are normal" of course it's normal for Americans it's like things all countries do that seem weird to another country.
You misunderstood. You will absolutely be asked for an ID if you look under 40, that doesn't mean you can't buy alcohol before you look 40. You just have to prove your age. There is no rule that you have to tip here either. It's a myth that you are required to tip. It is still based on service, and is only expected by entitled servers. Minimum wage for workers that get tips is $2 less, but earning $13 an hour wages plus tips a waitress or waiter is earning around $25-$40 an hour at least. They are far from struggling unlike what these videos try to convince you of. Shoes inside is very personal. I don't want people getting their nasty foot bacteria on my floor. I don't know why people think it's cleaner to take off shoes, just lay down on a carpet in a shoeless house, you will want to vomit from the nasty foot odor imbeded in the carpet that will never come out. Anything from a shoe can be cleaned, you can't get that foot odor out. Vacation days, sick days, etc are completely dependent on the company's policy. The most annoying thing I heard a visitor talk about was this French girl on UA-cam who freaked out next to one of our cops because he had his side arm where it's supposed to be. She pretty much made 90% of her American viewers hate her because of her saying "I went please don't shoot me, I didn't do any". Most Ambulances that do charge, do soft billing they won't pursue payment and it won't affect your credit. In fact in some states it is illegal for a medical bill to affect your credit rating.
Thank you so much for a detailed response! In central London police carry guns… in no way do I think they are about to shoot me . But yes very interesting what you say about tips and yes I fully agree about shoes in the house
Wages are different depending on the job. Waiters and waitresses get paid less but with the tips they make much more money. My friend works as a waiter and he makes great money each night. He works half the year in NY and spends the other half in his native nation. Waiters prefer tipping because they make so much more money and the public likes tipping because restaurants can keep their meal prices lower.
About tips - the federal government sets a minimum wage of $7.25/ hour, but for jobs like waitstaff where tips are expected the federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13/ hour. Each state can choose to set a higher minimum for businesses in their state; the highest state minimum is $17 in Washington DC ($8 tipped minimum). The highest tipped minimum is $16.28 in Washington State (same as the regular minimum). Businesses can of course choose to pay their staff what they choose, as long as it is at least the minimum.
I don't know why the bathroom stalls have large space under door.. but as a mom I loved it because my kids would sometimes lock themselves in. BUT why are Europeans obsessed with peaking into the small cracks? Just helps to know it's occupied, because door latches ALWAYS mess up. We own 4 guns.. kept in a gun safe. Yes, I watched Dr. Who, but stopped when they made dr who a woman.. to me it was woke nonsense. Yes hospital and medical bills are high.. but folks with no money NEVER die at the door of a hospital if they can't pay, and if you don't have the money almost every state has medicaid option.. SO.. if a person has Medicaid for a Dr bill.. they may only have to pay 10$.. but most times they don't even pay that. BUT then the rest of folks who do have insurance, or pay out on their own because they aren't literally poor.. have to cover the amount on their bills and that's why cost of things like a pain pill is ten times the cost when provided in a hospital than if bought at the drug store. The Covid mess really showed how Money is what's really behind things. Lots of corruption.
Most 4 day proposals incorporate longer work days. 5 days at 8 hrs is the same as 4 days at 10. It reduces commuting, and possibly encourages staggered 7 day operations, creating more jobs and increasing productivity. It doesn't work for everyone, theres already plenty of jobs outside the norm, but 40hrs in 5 days is considered the standard full-time in the US.
This was fun, yes, we are a chatty bunch, we speak to strangers alot, I go to a large chain pharmacy here and haven't had a prescription filled in years. I get best deals on cosmetics, soaps, greeting cards, and snacks, yes, it's odd to hear. Thank you for the video and commentary, so much fun watching the channel grow, also, hoping for more oversimplified soon? Anything you choose would be good.
Typical pharmacy items un US are milk, bread, snacks (chips salsa), ice cream, sports drinks, can or bottle soda, yogurt, other simple stuff like that. Sometimes apples and oranges.
Tipping is important! The waitstaff in sit-down restaurants pay their rent and household bills with their tips. BTW, about the date format...you guys say it this way, 5th of February but we say it February 5th. I hope this helps clear up some things!
There is a recent push to go to a 32 hour week. Making the same salary as you would have for 4 days. My kids already work 32 hour week and have full benefits. It won't pass. But there are companies that do 4 day work weeks at 10 hours a day.
Tipped minimum is around $3 an hour. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Many states and municipalities have a much higher minimum wage. Here in my state of Maryland it is at least $15 an hour.
Service employees that usually get tips are paid less than minimum wage. Its one of the only industries in US that it is allowed. Thats why we tip atleast 15% to waitier/waitresses becuz it is their income. Tip 20 or even 25% if they do an excellent job. I personally think this makes service a lot better and the employee works for their money. Its gotten crazy recently with baristas wanting tips at drive thru. Or people at subway having a tip jar. My opinion if you already get minimum wage and you agreed to it when you took job then you're doing your job and no tip. If you are a waiter/waitress and do a good job you getting a 20% tip.
that is genuinely the dumbest shit i have ever heard. the gap is all around the door... literally, ALL sides of the door. the issue is rarely exclusively the bottom of the door being too high,
In the US we have a lot of cars and driving can be quite a long distance so I think that is why. We used to drink long before that though at parties. We live 15 miles from town but we live in the country here and we are over three hundred miles away from Detroit. Btw if you ever come to the United States hit us up and we will take you out to the range, we have taken many of our friends from other countries out to the range and they loved it.
I assumed the gap under the door is to make easier to mop without opening the doors. The gap between the door and the wall is just to allow shodddy workmanship.
We call the CVS/Walgreens store itself a "Drug Store", and it has all assortments of products. The pharmacy is the counter in the back that sells prescription drugs. Many full fledged grocery stores also have a pharmacy department.
Thank you, most everyone calls the U.S. America not just Americans, though I always remember a couple English women refering to the U.S. as the States.
The gap between the door and the floor is for ventilation. The other is a safety feature in case of a medical emergency, paramedics cnn crawl underneath and open the door from the inside. Also it's ahuge social taboo to peak through the gap while someone is in the stall.
The gap isn't usually that terrible; you have to really be trying to look to see anything. Although I've definitely been in a few that were badly put together & the bottom of the door was uncomfortably close to the top of the toilet. Pharmacies are like convenience stores with large drug and grooming sections. About drinking, you have to look 40 to not get carded when you buy alcohol. I work a 6:30pm to 6am with a two 20 min breaks and a 30min break. I get 80 hours of pto a year which if I don't use will get paid out to me after the new year (40 hours max). Other than that my job gives you points if your pto isn't approved (only 1 person in the department can be off at a time). You get 9 points & you're fired; they go away exactly 1 year after you got the point. Tax is determined by not only the federal gov. but also the state, county & city, which use the taxes as described in the video for different things. People in each area take part in voting to decide whether or not to fund different things or how much to fund them.
The US doesn't have any laws requiring paid time off for holidays, sickness, or vacations. Some states like California do have minimum paid sicks days (I believe it's 3), but that's rare (might be only CA?). However, most office jobs and larger companies offer paid leave. The standard office job gives 10 days vacation and 5 days sick with several paid holidays (i.e. Christmas, etc.). My current job gives 10 paid holidays, 15 paid vacation days, and 10 paid sick days. That's on the high end for a lot of companies.
Typical work week is 5 - 8 hour days. 15 minute morning break. 30 minute lunch. 15 minute afternoon break. If you're a salaried employee, it's usually an hour lunch. In upper management its more of when you feel like it but you will usually be working late and some weekends depending on the position. I work in Petroleum Engineering so 80 hours a week is typical. Also, get 2 weeks paid vacation and 12 holidays. So 22 days total.
Okay, I know they call them pharmacies, but they're actually supermarkets that have a pharmacy. You will also find smaller pharmacies, but that varies depending on where you live.
@nickjreacts Yes, really. Most of us call it the US or United States. And so many foreigners want to cry about people calling it America when it's usually foreigners calling it America. 😂
I my own experience, I say ( and hear others say) the month then the day when talking about a date. For example, if I friend asked when is your birthday I'd say May 11th. Hearing someone say a date like the 11th of May just sounds wrong. The only date I say it that way is the 4th of July, and to be fair most of us here think of the holiday when using it and not the date July 4th. I don't know if that is because we write it that way or we write it that way because that is the way we say it.
A pharmacy is where we can buy often subpar or expired items, for only twice the price. Seriously, nobody expects to buy anything but drugs there, you just end up making an impulse purchase walking around the store, waiting for your script to get filled.
The name America was derived from the first name of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), who was the first European to discover the mouth of the Amazon and the first to write that the land described by Christopher Columbus as the first European in the course of the transatlantic voyages was not India or Asia, but rather a continent in its own right. When the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller was working on a new edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, his colleague, the poet Matthias Ringmann, had just read Vespucci's travelogues and mistakenly believed him to be the discoverer of the New World. Ringmann wrote the pamphlet accompanying the map drawn by Waldseemüller, which was published together with it on April 25, 1507 under the title Cosmographiae Introductio.
The server wage is not true in all states. Here in Nevada restaurant employees get the federal minimum wage of 7.25/hour. Plus tips. No restaurant server is ever want to go to a fixed wage. They would lose money. Many restaurant servers make between $100-200 a shift(usually 6 hours) just in tips alone. Plus base wages. And TIP is an acronymn. To Insure Proptness. People are more motivated to give good service. Unlike on the continent. You ever been to France????
As far as medical bills and insurance, alot of it has to do with regulatory holes, yes there's government health insurance, but it doesn't cover everything, so you need a supplement with it from a government approved list. Should these regulatory holes be fixed? Yes, is it going to happen anytime soon? Doubt it, because, if the problem is fixed then it could take away from government sponcered anything.
The legal drinking age was raised to 21 due to the percentage of alcohol related incidents (deaths, crime and violence) of that age group (18 -21) and the outcry of the public demanding the local, state and federal governments to do something about it (only because no one wanted to admit that they had failed as a parent to teach their child how to be a responsible drinker). Really doesn't have anything to do with whether you are old enough to vote in elections but rather how one handles "responsibility"..... A lot of people get "Rights" mixed up with "Privileges". We have a "right" to vote and have a say in our elections, but having a drivers license is a "privilege". If we are irresponsible drivers, the privilege to have a license can be taken away, whether you're 18, 21 or 30... And as far as medicinal adverts every where, if you have to pay for it yourself then you have every "right" to know everything there is about what you are paying for, the good, the bad and the ugly and the "right" to choose which medicine you want. It's like buying a car. If the one that's being shown to you doesn't tick all the boxes for you, you have every "right" to go check out a different model !!!
@@arnodobler1096 Yes, we do have to register first and the reasons for that are many but basically it's used to determine high and low voter turn out in each precinct, where a candidate would choose to centralize their campaigns, helps in polling and pre-election predictions, which political party holds the popular vote, blah, blah, blah....the list goes on. In my opinion, (and skip all the crap about "why") it just tells you what areas across the country are more Democrat, Republican or third party. It lets the candidates at every level of government know where they are most popular and where they are not. In some states, you can pre-register at 16 and 17 years old. And yes, when you are in prison, you loose some basic rights and one of them are the right to vote in local, state and federal elections. Allowing those on parole to vote is determined by each state and that is changing slowly but surely, There are now, many states that allow a person on parole to vote and more states are in the process of doing the same. I think it's another outdated rule that will soon not exist in the near future. The Constitution actually does not state anywhere or even imply that voting is a right, it only states the rules of electoral process. Each state governs their own perspective elections at every level. Each state decides who is eligible to vote. This is where "registering to vote" comes in...that can determine if you live in a "Red state" or a "Blue state". Sorry this is such a long reply but I'm just trying to give you a super simplified answer to your question. I'll have to say though, I'm 63 years old and have been a registered voter since I was old enough to be one and I've NEVER been asked to show my registration card before I vote....so I'm pretty sure that there are and have been AND will be people voting in elections at every level of government that are not registered to do so. When that happens, you run into issues like our last presidential election. For example, you have 35,000 registered voters in one district. Every one registers by their political party choice. So when you have one party holding the majority of those registered, it's predicted that the running candidate in that party will be the popular vote for that district. But when the votes come and are counted, you have 45,000 ballots and now the other guy comes out as the winner....because there are 10,000 people that voted for the other guy but didn't register beforehand. It just opens up all kinds of controversy. It's just, in the long run, better to follow the rules, register and vote.....there's enough BS to wade through doing the whole election process, better to not add to it. Hope this gives you some sort of answer to your question...!
@@clm9336 Thank you for the detailed answer! Do we agree that some reforms are needed to bring the US electoral system into the 21st century? Greetings 🙋♂
The stats on this video are pure bullshit. There are plenty of gov't peograms that to provide inexpensive ir free healthcare programs like medicaid and medicare. And we have choices in or healthcare unlike the UK or Canada. In fact many Candians come to the US to get things like MRIs and cardiac pricedures that you get put on a waiting list in countries with "free" healthcare I could schedule an MRI tomorrow which is Monday and be finished with the test in a few days. Canada sometimes a six month waiting list.
About free refills, sometimes the cul cost more than the fountain drink. As for minimum wage, it is possible to pay less than minimum wage. One way is to hire as a contractor and nit an employee. Another way is waiters. Sometimes they can be paid less because they are expected to earn more than minimum wage with tips. I think its a rip off for the gaed working waiters and waitresses.
Personally I was 18 once and Teenagers will drive drunk and get into cars with drunk drivers and many have died and killed others in the process so drink at home and the life you save maybe your own and DUIs down look good on your record
Do europeans not have phones? The inability to do as you Brits call it "maths"? Just google the damn tax rates. And the tax is a seperate line item on the reciept. State sales taxes rarely exceed 7%. Excise taxes are only on certain items like tires.
The alleged toilet gap is for the purposes of cleaning, sanitation and emergeny access for medical and fire personel.
The gap on the hinge side of the door is maybe 5mm. One has to be a real nunce to see anything.
I find it funny that original video is Canadian and is talking about the bathroom and other things in America because many things on this list also take place in Canada as well.
In the USA, the drinking age was lowered to 18 when the age to vote was. Experience over the next few years showed the drinking age change was a mistake and it was returned to 21.
Define "mistake".
Just a tip man. Most Americans consider Watch Mojo a joke of a channel. It's a lot of left wing biased, dated,, inaccurate bollocks.
Funny I do the opposite. I tip based on service. I don’t penalize the waiter for the cook.
Vacation days and lunch break depends on the employer. My job you can opt for 1/2hr or 1hr lunch which adds an extra 30 minutes to the work day. I get 24 vacation days( we max out at 26days based on years of service)and 11 sick days plus national holidays.
I can understand that
I undertipped my waiter yesterday because of slow service. Probably was largely the kitchen's fault, but even bringing drinks or taking our order in the first place was slow. And the waiter didn't even acknowledge the slow service. Normally a waiter would give you a "sorry, we're slow, the food will be ready soon", or a "Here's your food, sorry for the wait, the kitchen's backed up..."
Plus, I think people at the next table arrived after us and finished their meal before we were served....
I said the said the pledge of allegiance to our flag in every grade . Great video & love your channel 👍
Thank you
Great job! I enjoyed your perspective on the info in the video
Here’s a few comments on what they said in the video…
Obsessed is the wrong word; we hold our military in high regard for everything they do for us and we make sure they know it. And it’s not so much anti military as anti war.
As far as working more, yeah that’s true but a lot of people that work instead of taking vacation do it because they need the money more than time off. If you get two weeks paid vacation but you work those two weeks then you get the vacation pay plus pay for the time you worked (hourly workers not salaried).
I believe the four day work week they were talking about was 4 ten or twelve hour days instead of 5 eight hour days. I would love that.
Talking with strangers, oh yes we definitely do that. I have had sooooo many interest conversations with strangers. Until recently, I had no idea that people in other countries didn’t do that nearly as much as we do.
A relative of mine had emergency surgery and stayed a week in the hospital and it ended up being over $100,000 because the hospital wasn’t “in network”!
I had an emergency that even with insurance ended up costing over $3,000 and I was only there 3 hrs.
Wow thank you so much for your comment! Yes in the uk we can’t work and take our holiday pay so it’s either take the holiday that you get paid for or loose it! Hospital bills are crazy and I’m sorry to hear it puts people in debt!
Regardless of what you call the country, 100% of humans call the people who live in it, Americans. There is no other country where the people there would respond, "America" when asked where they are from. The country has a very long name. We abbreviate it the same way we do China, or any other country with a long name. This is not a complicated concept folks.
Taxes.....the UK does the same thing as the USA, it's just you can't see what the tax amount is because they add it in already. Which means your government can tax whatever they want and you wouldn't know. Our tax amount is printed on each receipt.
Lol
Why does the customer have to do the math?
Here in Europe, the gross price, the VAT and the net price are shown on the price tag and the invoice.
I never understood why the people who make the original video say "thi k are normal" of course it's normal for Americans it's like things all countries do that seem weird to another country.
You misunderstood. You will absolutely be asked for an ID if you look under 40, that doesn't mean you can't buy alcohol before you look 40. You just have to prove your age.
There is no rule that you have to tip here either. It's a myth that you are required to tip. It is still based on service, and is only expected by entitled servers. Minimum wage for workers that get tips is $2 less, but earning $13 an hour wages plus tips a waitress or waiter is earning around $25-$40 an hour at least. They are far from struggling unlike what these videos try to convince you of.
Shoes inside is very personal. I don't want people getting their nasty foot bacteria on my floor. I don't know why people think it's cleaner to take off shoes, just lay down on a carpet in a shoeless house, you will want to vomit from the nasty foot odor imbeded in the carpet that will never come out. Anything from a shoe can be cleaned, you can't get that foot odor out.
Vacation days, sick days, etc are completely dependent on the company's policy.
The most annoying thing I heard a visitor talk about was this French girl on UA-cam who freaked out next to one of our cops because he had his side arm where it's supposed to be. She pretty much made 90% of her American viewers hate her because of her saying "I went please don't shoot me, I didn't do any".
Most Ambulances that do charge, do soft billing they won't pursue payment and it won't affect your credit. In fact in some states it is illegal for a medical bill to affect your credit rating.
Thank you so much for a detailed response! In central London police carry guns… in no way do I think they are about to shoot me . But yes very interesting what you say about tips and yes I fully agree about shoes in the house
It is common for large parties (usually 6 or 8+) to have a 20% tip applied automatically
Wages are different depending on the job. Waiters and waitresses get paid less but with the tips they make much more money. My friend works as a waiter and he makes great money each night. He works half the year in NY and spends the other half in his native nation. Waiters prefer tipping because they make so much more money and the public likes tipping because restaurants can keep their meal prices lower.
About tips - the federal government sets a minimum wage of $7.25/ hour, but for jobs like waitstaff where tips are expected the federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13/ hour. Each state can choose to set a higher minimum for businesses in their state; the highest state minimum is $17 in Washington DC ($8 tipped minimum). The highest tipped minimum is $16.28 in Washington State (same as the regular minimum). Businesses can of course choose to pay their staff what they choose, as long as it is at least the minimum.
I don't know why the bathroom stalls have large space under door.. but as a mom I loved it because my kids would sometimes lock themselves in. BUT why are Europeans obsessed with peaking into the small cracks? Just helps to know it's occupied, because door latches ALWAYS mess up. We own 4 guns.. kept in a gun safe. Yes, I watched Dr. Who, but stopped when they made dr who a woman.. to me it was woke nonsense. Yes hospital and medical bills are high.. but folks with no money NEVER die at the door of a hospital if they can't pay, and if you don't have the money almost every state has medicaid option.. SO.. if a person has Medicaid for a Dr bill.. they may only have to pay 10$.. but most times they don't even pay that. BUT then the rest of folks who do have insurance, or pay out on their own because they aren't literally poor.. have to cover the amount on their bills and that's why cost of things like a pain pill is ten times the cost when provided in a hospital than if bought at the drug store. The Covid mess really showed how Money is what's really behind things. Lots of corruption.
In the USA you cannot be forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance, even as a child in school. However, there is a lot of pressure to conform in school.
Most 4 day proposals incorporate longer work days. 5 days at 8 hrs is the same as 4 days at 10. It reduces commuting, and possibly encourages staggered 7 day operations, creating more jobs and increasing productivity.
It doesn't work for everyone, theres already plenty of jobs outside the norm, but 40hrs in 5 days is considered the standard full-time in the US.
This was fun, yes, we are a chatty bunch, we speak to strangers alot, I go to a large chain pharmacy here and haven't had a prescription filled in years. I get best deals on cosmetics, soaps, greeting cards, and snacks, yes, it's odd to hear. Thank you for the video and commentary, so much fun watching the channel grow, also, hoping for more oversimplified soon? Anything you choose would be good.
Typical pharmacy items un US are milk, bread, snacks (chips salsa), ice cream, sports drinks, can or bottle soda, yogurt, other simple stuff like that. Sometimes apples and oranges.
Tipping is important! The waitstaff in sit-down restaurants pay their rent and household
bills with their tips. BTW, about the date format...you guys say it this way, 5th of February
but we say it February 5th. I hope this helps clear up some things!
Thank you for your comment
Local sales Tax (Counry or Township)
State Tax
Important note: these are voted on by the people in those areas
There is a recent push to go to a 32 hour week. Making the same salary as you would have for 4 days. My kids already work 32 hour week and have full benefits. It won't pass. But there are companies that do 4 day work weeks at 10 hours a day.
Oh wow 32 hours would be counted as part time work in the UK
30 mins for lunch. 20 days of paid leave per year.
Wow! We get a hour paid and 28 days leave
there is no official paid vacation required@@nickjreacts but the standard is 10 business days (or two work weeks)
Wow that’s surprising
Tipped minimum is around $3 an hour. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Many states and municipalities have a much higher minimum wage. Here in my state of Maryland it is at least $15 an hour.
One of the reason we have such stringent alcohol laws is to prevent the kind of binge drinking disasters you see in those UK Doorman videos.
Like Spring Break in the US?
They work 4 ten hour days. Instead of 5 eight hour days.
Lunch breaks are normally 30-60 mins, unpaid.
Service employees that usually get tips are paid less than minimum wage. Its one of the only industries in US that it is allowed. Thats why we tip atleast 15% to waitier/waitresses becuz it is their income. Tip 20 or even 25% if they do an excellent job. I personally think this makes service a lot better and the employee works for their money. Its gotten crazy recently with baristas wanting tips at drive thru. Or people at subway having a tip jar. My opinion if you already get minimum wage and you agreed to it when you took job then you're doing your job and no tip. If you are a waiter/waitress and do a good job you getting a 20% tip.
The door gap makes it easy to mop the floor. 🤷🏼♀️
Haha is that true?
@nickjreacts Also, no one is looking. Plus, you can just see shoes and socks.
@@nickjreacts Yes, it's literally the reason for them.
that is genuinely the dumbest shit i have ever heard. the gap is all around the door... literally, ALL sides of the door. the issue is rarely exclusively the bottom of the door being too high,
When I first moved out on my own I bought red solo cups and reused them because they were cheap and I was poor.
It’s a smart move! I have used throw away paper plates before because it saves washing up
In the US we have a lot of cars and driving can be quite a long distance so I think that is why. We used to drink long before that though at parties. We live 15 miles from town but we live in the country here and we are over three hundred miles away from Detroit. Btw if you ever come to the United States hit us up and we will take you out to the range, we have taken many of our friends from other countries out to the range and they loved it.
Wow thank you for the comment! I’m hoping to get over to the US soon
Engineers must learn both metric and the old English systems and be able to convert from one to the other quickly.
Sounds challenging
I assumed the gap under the door is to make easier to mop without opening the doors.
The gap between the door and the wall is just to allow shodddy workmanship.
We call the CVS/Walgreens store itself a "Drug Store", and it has all assortments of products. The pharmacy is the counter in the back that sells prescription drugs. Many full fledged grocery stores also have a pharmacy department.
Thank you, most everyone calls the U.S. America not just Americans, though I always remember a couple English women refering to the U.S. as the States.
The gap between the door and the floor is for ventilation. The other is a safety feature in case of a medical emergency, paramedics cnn crawl underneath and open the door from the inside. Also it's ahuge social taboo to peak through the gap while someone is in the stall.
The gap isn't usually that terrible; you have to really be trying to look to see anything. Although I've definitely been in a few that were badly put together & the bottom of the door was uncomfortably close to the top of the toilet.
Pharmacies are like convenience stores with large drug and grooming sections.
About drinking, you have to look 40 to not get carded when you buy alcohol.
I work a 6:30pm to 6am with a two 20 min breaks and a 30min break. I get 80 hours of pto a year which if I don't use will get paid out to me after the new year (40 hours max). Other than that my job gives you points if your pto isn't approved (only 1 person in the department can be off at a time). You get 9 points & you're fired; they go away exactly 1 year after you got the point.
Tax is determined by not only the federal gov. but also the state, county & city, which use the taxes as described in the video for different things. People in each area take part in voting to decide whether or not to fund different things or how much to fund them.
The US doesn't have any laws requiring paid time off for holidays, sickness, or vacations. Some states like California do have minimum paid sicks days (I believe it's 3), but that's rare (might be only CA?). However, most office jobs and larger companies offer paid leave. The standard office job gives 10 days vacation and 5 days sick with several paid holidays (i.e. Christmas, etc.). My current job gives 10 paid holidays, 15 paid vacation days, and 10 paid sick days. That's on the high end for a lot of companies.
I'm so sorry,that's terrible
😢sad
Typical work week is 5 - 8 hour days. 15 minute morning break. 30 minute lunch. 15 minute afternoon break. If you're a salaried employee, it's usually an hour lunch. In upper management its more of when you feel like it but you will usually be working late and some weekends depending on the position. I work in Petroleum Engineering so 80 hours a week is typical. Also, get 2 weeks paid vacation and 12 holidays. So 22 days total.
Okay, I know they call them pharmacies, but they're actually supermarkets that have a pharmacy. You will also find smaller pharmacies, but that varies depending on where you live.
Oh so really a supermarket
@nickjreacts Yeah, as long as it has a pharmacy in it, they call it a pharmacy. But it is really a mini-market with a pharmacy, essentially.
I frequently worked over 70 hours a week, but I think the four day work week means longer hours over the four days so you still get the same income...
I don't know ANY American that refers to our country as "America" most of us say the US
Oh really? We do in the uk but that’s interesting for you to say that
Yep, I tried to warn this guy that most of the things on this list are a lie and probably made by a european.
@nickjreacts Yes, really. Most of us call it the US or United States. And so many foreigners want to cry about people calling it America when it's usually foreigners calling it America. 😂
I dunno. Where I am from its split between US and America. Depends on situation its used in.
I call my country America, in fact, the only time I use U.S. is in a formal setting.
I my own experience, I say ( and hear others say) the month then the day when talking about a date. For example, if I friend asked when is your birthday I'd say May 11th. Hearing someone say a date like the 11th of May just sounds wrong. The only date I say it that way is the 4th of July, and to be fair most of us here think of the holiday when using it and not the date July 4th. I don't know if that is because we write it that way or we write it that way because that is the way we say it.
If you ever have a job dealing with documents ir records the American date order is far superior
A pharmacy is where we can buy often subpar or expired items, for only twice the price. Seriously, nobody expects to buy anything but drugs there, you just end up making an impulse purchase walking around the store, waiting for your script to get filled.
The colonials were considered by Britain as "America" before 1700.
The name America was derived from the first name of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), who was the first European to discover the mouth of the Amazon and the first to write that the land described by Christopher Columbus as the first European in the course of the transatlantic voyages was not India or Asia, but rather a continent in its own right.
When the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller was working on a new edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, his colleague, the poet Matthias Ringmann, had just read Vespucci's travelogues and mistakenly believed him to be the discoverer of the New World. Ringmann wrote the pamphlet accompanying the map drawn by Waldseemüller, which was published together with it on April 25, 1507 under the title Cosmographiae Introductio.
The server wage is not true in all states. Here in Nevada restaurant employees get the federal minimum wage of 7.25/hour.
Plus tips.
No restaurant server is ever want to go to a fixed wage. They would lose money. Many restaurant servers make between $100-200 a shift(usually 6 hours) just in tips alone. Plus base wages. And TIP is an acronymn. To Insure Proptness.
People are more motivated to give good service. Unlike on the continent. You ever been to France????
As far as medical bills and insurance, alot of it has to do with regulatory holes, yes there's government health insurance, but it doesn't cover everything, so you need a supplement with it from a government approved list. Should these regulatory holes be fixed? Yes, is it going to happen anytime soon? Doubt it, because, if the problem is fixed then it could take away from government sponcered anything.
The interesting/quirky/amusing military stuff is over on the channel "The Fat Electrician"..
I will check that out
She chides us for calling ourselves Americans but she is doing the same thing!
The legal drinking age was raised to 21 due to the percentage of alcohol related incidents (deaths, crime and violence) of that age group (18 -21) and the outcry of the public demanding the local, state and federal governments to do something about it (only because no one wanted to admit that they had failed as a parent to teach their child how to be a responsible drinker). Really doesn't have anything to do with whether you are old enough to vote in elections but rather how one handles "responsibility"..... A lot of people get "Rights" mixed up with "Privileges". We have a "right" to vote and have a say in our elections, but having a drivers license is a "privilege". If we are irresponsible drivers, the privilege to have a license can be taken away, whether you're 18, 21 or 30... And as far as medicinal adverts every where, if you have to pay for it yourself then you have every "right" to know everything there is about what you are paying for, the good, the bad and the ugly and the "right" to choose which medicine you want. It's like buying a car. If the one that's being shown to you doesn't tick all the boxes for you, you have every "right" to go check out a different model !!!
Don't you have to register first, and don't people in prison or on parole lose the right to vote in the USA?
@@arnodobler1096 Yes, we do have to register first and the reasons for that are many but basically it's used to determine high and low voter turn out in each precinct, where a candidate would choose to centralize their campaigns, helps in polling and pre-election predictions, which political party holds the popular vote, blah, blah, blah....the list goes on. In my opinion, (and skip all the crap about "why") it just tells you what areas across the country are more Democrat, Republican or third party. It lets the candidates at every level of government know where they are most popular and where they are not. In some states, you can pre-register at 16 and 17 years old. And yes, when you are in prison, you loose some basic rights and one of them are the right to vote in local, state and federal elections. Allowing those on parole to vote is determined by each state and that is changing slowly but surely, There are now, many states that allow a person on parole to vote and more states are in the process of doing the same. I think it's another outdated rule that will soon not exist in the near future. The Constitution actually does not state anywhere or even imply that voting is a right, it only states the rules of electoral process. Each state governs their own perspective elections at every level. Each state decides who is eligible to vote. This is where "registering to vote" comes in...that can determine if you live in a "Red state" or a "Blue state". Sorry this is such a long reply but I'm just trying to give you a super simplified answer to your question. I'll have to say though, I'm 63 years old and have been a registered voter since I was old enough to be one and I've NEVER been asked to show my registration card before I vote....so I'm pretty sure that there are and have been AND will be people voting in elections at every level of government that are not registered to do so. When that happens, you run into issues like our last presidential election. For example, you have 35,000 registered voters in one district. Every one registers by their political party choice. So when you have one party holding the majority of those registered, it's predicted that the running candidate in that party will be the popular vote for that district. But when the votes come and are counted, you have 45,000 ballots and now the other guy comes out as the winner....because there are 10,000 people that voted for the other guy but didn't register beforehand. It just opens up all kinds of controversy. It's just, in the long run, better to follow the rules, register and vote.....there's enough BS to wade through doing the whole election process, better to not add to it. Hope this gives you some sort of answer to your question...!
@@clm9336 Thank you for the detailed answer!
Do we agree that some reforms are needed to bring the US electoral system into the 21st century?
Greetings 🙋♂
@@arnodobler1096 ABSOLUTELY !!
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The stats on this video are pure bullshit. There are plenty of gov't peograms that to provide inexpensive ir free healthcare programs like medicaid and medicare.
And we have choices in or healthcare unlike the UK or Canada. In fact many Candians come to the US to get things like MRIs and cardiac pricedures that you get put on a waiting list in countries with "free" healthcare
I could schedule an MRI tomorrow which is Monday and be finished with the test in a few days. Canada sometimes a six month waiting list.
😂😂😂
And US Americans go to Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, ... for treatments! 🤷♂
Look where the US HC system ranks worldwide in a country comparison!🤔
What you just stated are dumb political talking points none of which are true.
About free refills, sometimes the cul cost more than the fountain drink.
As for minimum wage, it is possible to pay less than minimum wage. One way is to hire as a contractor and nit an employee. Another way is waiters. Sometimes they can be paid less because they are expected to earn more than minimum wage with tips. I think its a rip off for the gaed working waiters and waitresses.
Personally I was 18 once and Teenagers will drive drunk and get into cars with drunk drivers and many have died and killed others in the process so drink at home and the life you save maybe your own and DUIs down look good on your record
If it stops drink driving then it’s good
Latest stat is 1.86 guns per citizen. Not every citizen has a gun. Some have way too many lol but on average alot yea
Only 40to 47% of the population own guns.
We're America because we're not the United States of North America. We're the United States Of America. So....
I always call it the US
Do europeans not have phones? The inability to do as you Brits call it "maths"? Just google the damn tax rates. And the tax is a seperate line item on the reciept. State sales taxes rarely exceed 7%.
Excise taxes are only on certain items like tires.
Why does the customer have to do this?
Here in Europe, the gross price, the VAT and the net price are shown on the price tag and the bill.
I don't agree with the whole America thing and I never did I'm a United States Citizen not just someone from a Continent
I never looked at it that way