Secrets of the City

I would call it “Chino Ironic.”

I hate that place, but what the hell did they do that was so bad as to warrant this kind of punishment?

The ruling says that the restaurant must hire a Spanish-speaking ombudsman to hear any future concerns, set up a hot line for complaints and train managers on discrimination laws

Jesus.

There must have been some egregious violations of decorum @ Chino…otherwise, I’m surprised parasole settled…on the one hand, they may have been frightened by the prospect of the Latino workers @ their other restaurants walking off the job, but on the other hand they have set a bad precedent as in “what’s to stop employees @ their other places from seeking the same kind of settlement?”"

Um, Wayne, they mention that just a couple more paragraphs in:

According to the report, employees alleged discrimination against Hispanic workers, saying the restaurant subjected them to harassment and then fired two workers who organized a meeting to take complaints to the company.

Given the crap that normally goes on in restaurant kitchens though, I wonder what constitutes harassment?

yeah, that’s what I meant, rich. seriously what could have been so above and beyond the normal antics to warrant something like this?

or is it just the restaurant equivalent of that lady who’s obsessed with lifetime fitness and on a personal crusade? are there some workers got their panties in a bunch and drag this out into court?

drug*

Well, canning the meeting organizers tends to go against most labor laws that I know of. And I’ve heard some odd stories come out of that place.

Granted, most of them involve middle aged men hitting on animal print wearing discount eye candy.

But hey, they serve a decent guinea pig…

dragged

Strib has an updated report.

dragged

»» Submitted by English major at 10:26 AM on May 2

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
ok, fine.
I’m not really awake yet today.

I swear that I have better english skills than most math people.

Well, canning the meeting organizers tends to go against most labor laws that I know of. And I’ve heard some odd stories come out of that place.

Granted, most of them involve middle aged men hitting on animal print wearing discount eye candy.

Do you work in the AG’s office or have you just heard that through the grapevine?

“drug*”

Trying to figure out if this is an endorsement, an excuse, or an aspirational exclamation.

“I hate that place, but what the hell did they do that was so bad as to warrant this kind of punishment?“

Legal Tip Of The Day: If you’re going to routinely mistreat your lowest-paid, least-skilled workers, call them horrible names, fire them for any perception of “lack of respect”, make it obvious to them that you wish you could hire monkeys but monkeys get paid too much and so you’re stuck with your workers, and just generally be an ass to your workforce, you need to make sure that that low-skill, low-pay group is racially mixed, because, while it may be legal to be an ass of an employer, you’re on shakier ground when you’re an ass to a group of employees who share a racial grouping. The racial grouping gets you in front of a jury, and jurys hate asses.

Which? The odd stories about labor practices there? Or the predatory habits of middle aged men?

juries might hate asses, but not so Sir-Mix-a-Lot.

This is why I no longer work in food service…I got tired of pretending I was cool with blatant sexual harassment…

I beg to differ. Sir Mix-A-Lot never claimed to like asses in general. Only a specific subset of the ass universe.

This is why I no longer work in food service…I got tired of pretending I was cool with blatant sexual harassment…

May I subtly sexually harass you?

… but at least a total of THREE GRAND per employee should make everything right.

More subtle is the racism that keeps people of certain migrant nationalities busing tables, while others, who speak no better English, wait tables.

Wayne- I’m down…

“I beg to differ. Sir Mix-A-Lot never claimed to like asses in general. Only a specific subset of the ass universe.”

“Cosmo ain’t got nothin’ to do with my selection. 36-24-36? Ha ha, only if she’s 5′3″.”

Sir-Mix-a-Lot is very subset specific.

On the subject of Sir Mixalot and his preference for steatopygian asses, I don’t know how many of you folk have seen the quislibet translation of Baby Got Back into Latin and then literally translated back again into English. It’s quite entertaining.

“mehercle!
(By Hercules!)
Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt!
(Rebecca, behold! Such large buttocks she has!)”

…and so on.
De clunibus magnis amandis oratio

Finally! Sir Mixalot gets the academic respect he so richly deserves.

Oh mah gawd Becky!

My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hon.

(That part always gets stuck in my head.)

This is why I no longer work in food service…I got tired of pretending I was cool with blatant sexual harassment…

Whereas the sexually-charged attention from my coworkers is the only reason I enjoy working in a restaurant.

Wayne- I’m down…

oh snap!

I don’t think your co-workers look like my past co-workers, Alexis…

I want to hear Tom weigh in on the latin hip hop phenomenon.

And I want to hear some of this “subtle sexual harassment” you promised Alie.

Me too…I’m hard up…

Wayne, if you can’t do anything with that set up, I think we’ll all give you up as a lost cause.

Well then, someone better myspace me and set up a time to be subtly harassed.

Rawr…

speaking of public transportation….aliecat wants a one way ticket for a ride on the Wayne Train

You ignored the Donald Miller geek for seventeen years, now you want to ride the Ronnie Miller express!

I actually have a NYC Subway shirt for the W Train that I wear sometimes. I used to make a lot of wayne train jokes, but I haven’t had the heart to in a while.

HAHAHA! I’ll be laughing about that all day…

holy crap, adult. is playing first ave tonight!

I had no idea they were even touring again!

you can laugh your way from brooklyn to queens

sonuvabitch, the W is only a local that doesn’t go to brooklyn like the N and R… I thought my shirt says brooklyn to queens, though?

when did they change that? Did they change it at all or am I just imagining things?

AH-hah! I’m not insane, the W used to go to brooklyn as late as 2002. I feel better.

I’m still giggling about it…heehee!

it used to go to coney island

yeah, that’s right

coney island.

“holy crap, adult. is playing first ave tonight!

I had no idea they were even touring again!“

Nope, too subtle. You have to actually ask her or it doesn’t count.

G Rote, you are my new hero. I haven’t thought of that movie in ages!

(It’s Can’t Buy Me Love, FYI)

Everyone here knows, the Wayne Train don’t go nowheres!

Oh that wasn’t specifically targeted at anyone. It was just a generalized exclaimation of my excitement.

I couldn’t go anyways, I’m already booked to go to the Chatterbox for musical bingo

In spite of their legit hometown street cred, I just never got into Adult.

the OG Wayne The Train is playing @ Lee’s Liquor Lounge on June 15…if you love Hank Williams like I do, you need to be there.

for what!?

A DJ spins songs from a bingo card. You win cheezy prizes and get to go home smelling like french fries. It’s hella fun…

Oh that wasn’t specifically targeted at anyone. It was just a generalized exclaimation of my excitement.

Really? I thought you were happy to see me.

holy crap, that sounds awesome!

and kevin, I thought we could never be in the same room at the same time or we would react violently like matter and antimatter and possibly destroy the city or the entire universe?

And a significant percentage of the Mpls-St. Paul blog community makes an appearance. The ones who matter, anyway.

Aww, thanks rich…

I’m mildly entertained by the tought of wayne sweating out jucy lucys french fries and beer on his bike ride home from the chatterbox.

yeah it’s kind of a haul. I’ve never had a jucy lucy though.

you should have seen me cruising home from the local last week. I swear I’ve never gotten through downtown so fast before.

Wait, you can’t get a jucy lucy at the Chatterbox!

hopes and dreams, shattered daily.

I was just gonna say that, but you can get one at Matt’s which is just up the street on Cedar and 35th…it would be on your way back to DT…

Oh, and anyone’s welcome to drop in on us on wednesday nights if you feel like playing bingo…

Amber won’t let me.

Rich, are you her roommate?

I’m going to adult. tonight anyway, so not this week.
maybe sometime this summer, though!

I am indeed.

My powers of deduction are uncanny…

my powers of seduction …

Oh, Wayne…haha!

Sorry, guys, but “is that a frog in your pocket, or is it just a generalized exclamation of your excitement” doesn’t have that same ring to it.

isn’t chatterbox 3.2 also?

wed nite = Como Park softball league + Gabe’s.

Um, Wednesday night is America’s Next Top Model. How can you people even think of going anywhere when Tyra is on TV telling skinny bitches to be fierce?

it’s not broadcast in HD

total dealbreaker

because if I’m going to look at skinny drugged out girls, I want them to be HIDEF.

Hipsters don’t do 3.2 — Chatterbox has real beer.

… and everyone knows the best Juicy Lucys are at the 5*8.

*duck*

because if I’m going to look at skinny drugged out girls, I want them to be HIDEF.

um, have you seen Nicola Kuperas lately?

I’d rather see drugged out girls in the flesh at the Deuce…but that’s just me…haha…

Alie, I am in awe. You’re a Holmes for the hipster set.

Wayne, the elipses just won’t cut it.

The 5*8 isn’t seedy enough.

How can you people even think of going anywhere when Tyra is on TV telling skinny bitches to be fierce?

Bwahaha!

Had my first Jucy Lucy at The Cardinal last weekend. Awful. I can do better at home.

Oh, and we never get there until after 8…plenty of time to watch Tyra and her fivehead

As long as you’re making time for Tyra. The fivehead holds you hostage!

um, have you seen Nicola Kuperas lately?

my point exactly!
real life is pretty hidef too.

I’d rather see drugged out girls in the flesh at the Deuce…but that’s just me…haha…

Wait, like the working man’s strip club my neighbour always talks about?

Wayne, the elipses just won’t cut it.

Why not? I wanted to leave it open to interpretation. Plus I’m still not sure if they’re amazing or nonexistent. I’m going to be positive and go with awe-inspiring, though.

Tyra ‘you get vaseline and you get vaseline and you get vaseline mwarrrrrgh’ Banks? That Tyra Banks?

Has she calmed down any?

You can’t sexually harass someone with elipses. Unless you can pair it with a creepily lecherous stare. And possibly top it off with some lewd tongue movement. And if you’re doing that, you’ll need to post the video.

The Cardinal…such a prime location and no booze + shite food = no thanks. I do love that couple on public access, but otherwise the cardinal holds nothing for me.

((richg))

Her shining moment on the Tyra show was when she told the world to KISS [HER] FAT ASS! in response to being called “fat” by some gossip website.

Yeah, I read about that and admired her moxie. But I still associate her more with thrashing in the toils of apparent demonic possession while holding a diamante-studded jar of petroleum jelly.

But Josie, I notice that your observation felicitously closes multiple loops in this thread back around to both Sir Mixalot and also the issue of harassment (in this case, in the media).

Therefore, I declare this thread’s dolphin to be well and truly greased (with Vaseline, presumably).

Yes, wayne, that strip club…prettiest single working moms and tatted up chicks I ever seen…

Thanks rich, I try!

From Chino to the Double Deuce in 74 posts…not bad.

PS. The “fierce” comment was a gem.

I’ll never go to any local restaurant, cafe, or bar that hires illegal immigrants from Mexico. Even Chino Latino in uptown.

So…you never go out?

zing!

Yay! My first one!

That was…wait for it…fierce!

I was always amazed by the sexual banter between co-workers when I worked in restaurants. I knew that if we were in “the real world” it would never fly. The only time anyone ever said anything about it in my nine years in restaurants was when a very religious woman made a huge fuss about a gay man saying something about someone’s butt. The statement itself was quite innocuous relative to a hundred other things said that evening, I’m sure, but you know…

Also, Parasole can bite me. I met a bunch of immigrants, both legal and not, in various restaurants and most of them were ten times the people that half of my U.S.-born co-workers were. They were hard workers, too.

Now they ride my bus on their way to their second or third jobs. Ah, the American Dream…

Yes, wayne, that strip club…prettiest single working moms and tatted up chicks I ever seen…

take me sometime?

I met a bunch of immigrants, both legal and not, in various restaurants and most of them were ten times the people that half of my U.S.-born co-workers were. They were hard workers, too.

agreed…the stereotype of Mexicans as lazy is so far off base that it would be funny if it weren’t just plain bigoted.

Is Big G ok with restaurants that hire illegal Salvadorans or Chinese???…he seems to be biased against just Mexicans.

Is Big G ok with restaurants that hire illegal Salvadorans or Chinese???…he seems to be biased against just Mexicans.

Typical liberal response by grote: anyone who is against illegal aliens in this country must be either bigoted or racist.

Talk about ad homin attacks by those that refuse to acknowledge that illegal immigration is becoming a serious, yet, growing epidemic in this country. The border with Mexico down south needs to be either closed or have tighter enforcements by the INS; we can’t just allow people to come here and proclaim themselves as American citizens in which they have to violate the law and abuse the system for their own gain.

we can’t just allow people to come here and proclaim themselves as American citizens in which they have to violate the law and abuse the system for their own gain.

Like the pilgrims and the English did when they stole the land from the Native Americans?

Oh, and illegals aren’t just in the kitchen, they fix our roofs, mow our grass, stock shelves at Walmart, butcher and pack meat, and serve us sushi (this I know from personal experience). So if you don’t want to support illegal immigrants in America, you’re gonna have to live off the grid, my friend…

And wayne, yeah, we’ll sit in the front row…

aliecat + wayne at the double-deuce?

wayne, don’t screw this up. we’re counting on you.

Wayne, look for the sign that says “22nd Ave. Station” It is on University, halfway between the 331 and Stasius. Be careful riding on University, the lanes are pretty narrow and there are cars parked along the route. Not the most bike friendly route in town, but you are an experienced urban rider.

Unlike aliecat, I can’t comment on the, er, entertainment inside the joint. I used to live near there, so I know the neighborhood pretty well.

Yeah, in NE I usually skip University if I can, but I’m not too afraid of it. At least the pavement is in decent shape!

And wayne, yeah, we’ll sit in the front row…
»» Submitted by »»» aliecat at 12:41 AM on May 3

Alright, let’s pick a date and time then!

“ . . . and most of them were ten times the people that half of my U.S.-born co-workers were.“

God, I hate math.

So, they were twenty times each US-born? Or is it five times?

No, wait, we can’t solve for X unless we know how many US-born co-workers you have! That’s it!

Bad news for those who still support the illegal immigration issue on this thread: your buddy Chirac just gotten the pink slip in France this week.

Man, he was pissed about it too. I took him out bowling yesterday in the hopes that it would take his mind off it, but he got outrageously drunk on Zima and started a fight with a guy named “Rick” after he said that Citroen was superior to General Motors. He’ll get over it.

What’s less apparent is how an electoral decision in France is problem for people who “support the illegal immigration issue” in the United States, whoever they are. Must be one of those Chaos Theory things.

1. It’s not like Sarkozy took out Chirac.
2. I predict riots of some sort in a year or two.

Big G is dumber than a bag of hammers.