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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Went to the Jersey Shore last summer, stopped to pump my own gas without even thinking about. Some potato shaped bald guy in a blue jumpsuit comes outta the store yelling "what the hell are youz doing?!" I say back "what does it look like I'm doing?!" "loving TOURISTS gently caress YOUZ!" he yelled as he stomped back inside, his face turning red. I actually worked at a gas station, and the irony is people out of state dont know how to NOT pump their own gas. They're like "I just... sit in the car??" If someone got out of their car a certain way I would look at the plate if I needed to explain to them new jersey is full-service only. One time it was at night and a guy looked really spooked that I approached him, and he drove off without getting gas; I just imagined him going to the next exit and having the same thing happen
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PinheadSlim posted:Think of how much burning the average New Jersyan would damage the environment, who knows what kind of horrible chemical fire it might start. You'd probably at bare minimum need that poo poo they put out burning Tesla batteries with. I love checking my GIS data and seeing what horrible chemicals are in the spine of NJ. It rocks.
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I've never been to a Costco in New Jersey or Oregon, what's that like? Do they just not have mega long rows of gas pumps? Something inside me wants to imagine a dozen well compensated Costco employees pumping my gas and washing my windows.
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Aug 8, 2023 20:20
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Did anyone ever figure out if you're supposed to tip the gas pump guy? Every time I'm in New Jersey and have to get gas I never know if I should and always give the dude five bucks.
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Decedent posted:I've never been to a Costco in New Jersey or Oregon, what's that like? Do they just not have mega long rows of gas pumps? They just dont have gas stations, there will inevitably be 5 gas stations nearby. Maybe this is part of why they didnt get rid of the rule, because those places will affect local jobs and business.
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Aug 8, 2023 20:26
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Biff Rockgroin posted:Did anyone ever figure out if you're supposed to tip the gas pump guy? This never happens normally, but my friend used to work the station on as many holidays as possible because people would generously tip on those days, partially because they felt bad for you
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Aug 8, 2023 20:27
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Biff Rockgroin posted:Did anyone ever figure out if you're supposed to tip the gas pump guy? I'm not tipping for something I can do in 49 other states and the district of Columbia.
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Aug 8, 2023 20:30
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Pontificating rear end posted:They just dont have gas stations, there will inevitably be 5 gas stations nearby. Maybe this is part of why they didnt get rid of the rule, because those places will affect local jobs and business. Costco 100% has gas stations in NJ. https://abc7ny.com/costco-gas-stations-new-jersey/12019703/ https://nj1015.com/njs-epic-stupidity-on-full-display-in-costco-gas-situation-opinion/ https://patch.com/new-jersey/summit/gas-all-nj-could-force-costco-sell-gas-everyone And yes they have attendants. 
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Aug 8, 2023 20:37
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The Costcos in Oregon are also keeping the attendants too. I will be employing them. Thank you marketplace of ideas.
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Aug 8, 2023 20:43
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Oregon, Friday August 4th 2023.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Costco 100% has gas stations in NJ. New Jersey truly is the promised land.
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Aug 8, 2023 20:46
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Attendants have gotten a little weird since this started coming down the pipeline. I gave the dude 15 seconds yesterday and he didn't even bother to get up or even look at me so I pumped it myself. I remember reading comments on news articles when this first started and some people were losing their poo poo "I can't pump my own gas! I'll end up smelling like gasoline all day!"
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I feel like each state should have its own mundane, arbitrary thing that people aren't allowed to do themselves. Like in Georgia you can't mow your own lawn, you have to hire a professional gardener, and in Nevada it's illegal to wash your own clothing so everything is done in fully staffed laundromats or something.
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Aug 8, 2023 20:56
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Doesn't NV already have a solicitation law in Vegas despite prostitution being legal in the state itself? As in it's illegal within Clark County proper and if some schmuck asks around on the strip about where they can hire a date they can theoretically get busted for it?
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Devils Affricate posted:I feel like each state should have its own mundane, arbitrary thing that people aren't allowed to do themselves. Like in Georgia you can't mow your own lawn, you have to hire a professional gardener, and in Nevada it's illegal to wash your own clothing so everything is done in fully staffed laundromats or something. In Nevada, jerking off is illegal and requires a professional.
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Aug 8, 2023 21:14
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In new Jersey do they have attendants to pull your pants down and wipe your rear end in the bathrooms
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Farg posted:In new Jersey do they have attendants to pull your pants down and wipe your rear end in the bathrooms it's a dangerous job where you get exposed to deadly fumes and pathogens that you only want trained people doing
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some poor person posted:In new Jersey do they have attendants to pull your pants down and wipe your rear end in the bathrooms
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Nocheez posted:I'm not tipping for something I can do in 49 other states and the district of Columbia. nobody in the history of gas stations has tipped an attendant. unlike food service workers, they're paid at least min wage.
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MrQwerty posted:it's a dangerous job where you get exposed to deadly fumes and pathogens that you only want trained people doing the local nerws in OR recently had several segments about "how to pump gas safely" and it was as fuckin hilarious as you'd imagine
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Buce posted:nobody in the history of gas stations has tipped an attendant. unlike food service workers, they're paid at least min wage. I did as a dumb foreigner because I was told that I'm a monster if I don't tip everyone
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Aug 8, 2023 21:48
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In Indiana there was a chain of full service gas stations that lasted to around the 2010s. They were always just a little bit more expensive to get gas at and they were always dead unless the weather was bad, and then the lines were too long for me to bother.
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Aug 8, 2023 22:18
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I just hate how gas stations are playing ads at the pump now, sometimes you can't even mute'em and it sucks big time
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Buce posted:the local nerws in OR recently had several segments about "how to pump gas safely" and it was as fuckin hilarious as you'd imagine I mean I get it. I've literally never pumped gas before in my life. I mean I can probably do it just fine but there's a bunch of old people who have been here 80 years who have zero clue.
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Aug 8, 2023 22:24
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Can't pump your own gas, how are you supposed to give some for your car, then some for yourself and back and forth
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Cassette Moodcore posted:Can't pump your own gas, how are you supposed to give some for your car, then some for yourself and back and forth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFzeX-k1_E
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Biff Rockgroin posted:Did anyone ever figure out if you're supposed to tip the gas pump guy?
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I trust this will slow down the NJ folk coming to Maine. Also, GASOLINE FIGHT!!!!
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Agent Escalus posted:Doesn't NV already have a solicitation law in Vegas despite prostitution being legal in the state itself? As in it's illegal within Clark County proper and if some schmuck asks around on the strip about where they can hire a date they can theoretically get busted for it? It's county specific. You'd have to drive to the Love Ranch like an hour away or something. Up north it's the same. In Reno you have to drive like 40 minutes east or south. The Bunny Ranch is about 5 minutes from the state capitol.
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every time I attempt to fill my own gas I succumb to an intense delusion where the ghost of saddam hussein has burst forth from the pump like a mad djinn spitting the venom of a cobra and cursing our great nation 
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Aug 8, 2023 23:11
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You can teach people to pump gas, but you can't teach people how to pull into a car wash with tire guides.
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I've spent 8 years combined living in NJ and OR, and I prefer to pump my own gas.
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On no less than five occasions, I've helped somebody pump gas from New Jersey that was from the exact town I'm from but in a different state the time
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I have to travel to (very) rural eastern Oregon for work, and there is no one worse to talk to than a rural eastern Oregon gas station attendant. I'm thrilled to have to make small talk with one fewer chud on my upcoming drives to Oregon.
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eSports Chaebol posted:how about instead of eliminating a bunch of jobs new jersey decides to join the other 49 states in legalizing left turns? you could make it illegal to wipe your own rear end and mandate attendants for that and call yourself a job creator too, but then some well-intentioned citizens might mix the too and self-pump some fuel into your rear end e: poo poo, farg already made that joke dervival fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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Biff Rockgroin posted:Did anyone ever figure out if you're supposed to tip the gas pump guy? Pontificating rear end posted:This never happens normally, but my friend used to work the station on as many holidays as possible because people would generously tip on those days, partially because they felt bad for you I spent half a year working for a gas station that had two pumps self serve, two pumps we'll do it for you and tips were pretty common. That being said this was in WA so not a full service being customary state, people were going out of their way to get someone else to pump their gas, very much expect tips are going to be more common in that situation.
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I hear in Europe you don't have to tip the guy who wipes your rear end
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PinheadSlim posted:I hear in Europe you don't have to tip the guy who wipes your rear end They don't even tip in Europe bro!
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PinheadSlim posted:I hear in Europe you don't have to tip the guy who wipes your rear end He puts the tip in your rear end mon ami
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Buce posted:nobody in the history of gas stations has tipped an attendant. unlike food service workers, they're paid at least min wage. Waiters have to get paid at least minimum wage too, unless their tips make up for it. Were you under the impression that someone could get paid $2/hr or whatever even when they're not pulling in tips?
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