Ending the year with a bang! How do you feel about splitting tips?
Ending the year with a bang! How do you feel about splitting tips?
No. Are you sure? Yeah, no, no, I will not forget that.
Marcus:Well, yeah, no, I know. You know,
William Jeffery:I'm so prepared. I am. Subject matter.
Marcus:I'm not yet.
William Jeffery:I'm not. But I'm ready to take on the challenge. Right. It's all this all about embracing new challenges. Yeah, that isn't new channel.
Marcus:That is back. We'll keep that we'll talk about that one. Maybe another time. But since you know, it's it's, I guess we're getting ready for the new year. You I see your themes on here. Where's where's that money come from? And why don't have one it says coach will. Oh, what's happening?
William Jeffery:You have wood? Do you participate in the AWA? Why? So soccer program? No, no, I don't. Well, you know, that's how you get one of these if you are. Is this a new year? I didn't start it. I finished it. You don't get mugs for starting? mugs for finish? Oh, well, lugs are for closers.
Marcus:Let's start off the podcast correctly. Who are you in?
William Jeffery:Where are you from? My name is head coach will and I am the head coach of the Sherman Oaks kicker kids, okay. Named by my
Marcus:son. Your son named them the kicker kids?
William Jeffery:Well, I've looked up like kids soccer name teams. And there was like three of them was like the dragons. The there was something like funny about soccer, kicker kids and something else. And I was like, oh, all of these are pretty cool like that kicker kid kids when it's kind of weird, but he'll probably pick dragons or something. And sure enough, kicker kids. And then no one else responded to the email. So the team was named Yeah, your kids were born
Marcus:head coach will have the Sherman Oaks kicker kids. Yeah. Region. 33. All right. Okay. Awesome. Host of head above boxy. You are
William Jeffery:Oh, yes. Yeah, that is, I guess my day job. I also do that when I'm not, you know, taking five year olds to the World Cup.
Marcus:Ah, well, I'm your favorite. Finding myself Republic. I don't know what I am. But I'm your co host, Marcus. And
William Jeffery:I guess I don't think you make enough money to be Republican. No, no, yeah.
Marcus:Well, the show doesn't pay me enough.
William Jeffery:I keep housings I know that you don't make enough money to be a Republican.
Marcus:Hey, I appreciate it.
William Jeffery:I mean, it's just I get all the you get our most our most our most important IOU is what you get a lot of debt right right. It's okay you got to write yours in Times Roman on the computer everybody else just we use you know old fashioned
Marcus:speaking of why you drop your intro I got some questions because I found that the holiday item you got me it's on much paycheck stone as a deductible. I don't know why you guys are charging me for it. But like I
William Jeffery:said, it's it's it is the we use the computer for yours. So you know when someone's gonna pay for that paper. And like I said, we're in debt. So you know, we we tried to tell you to get direct deposit but if you want to check then you got to pay for to check but who cares about the environment right kill the tree so you can have a paper check. I get it. I understand. I'm going to go plant a tree so Marcus can have a paper check. I'll be right back. Turns out you can't plant trees in the winter. Oh, yet another IOU starting the year off right in debt. Like a true American.
Marcus:Thanks I aim to please anywho so you being a coach so you're not just the soccer coach you ended that I got axed earlier or email earlier about you being the coach again so you yeah so saving your time the
William Jeffery:the soccer kids are one of the I don't know who all was involved but they the last game of the season was like a month or so ago. And at the lake like we got the trophy that the game trophies out. And one of the moms was like we have a gift for you. But it's not ready yet. It arrives on Monday or something so I'm dropping it off when it's ready. And I was like oh well that's fine. You have to get me anything like it was you know as much five year olds all I did was try to keep them on the field and make sure my fell on their face and if they did these two backups Oh, so beret I wasn't expecting anything. So they finally it finally came. I don't know week or so later. And it was one of those super fancy, like overly expensive mugs with coach will engrave On the front ah so it is rivaling my head above hypocrisy mug ah for deskspace I see you have both of them up here I'm currently using both which isn't coaching in my space but anyway the Yeti is working is like a thermos or like a water water heater it keeps the tea warm tea and both I do so it keeps the tea warm and the Yeti cup for like ever for the first time you're gonna burn my whole mouth. I poured like super hot water made the tea let it sit for like five minutes as I normally would do like any open glass made cup and I sipped it and it burned like the first layer of my whole mouth out because they use like NASA wings to make these things that sounds
Marcus:like a lawsuit so you are now healed now for this new year coming up you're just KY so Coach again so the
William Jeffery:soccer kids are a part of like the extra curricular crew right? They go to another school but they like they do little league together. They do all kinds of other stuff together. Like during
Marcus:the, like 20 years being famous or some sort
William Jeffery:during the Dark Ages of 2020. They like did a pod together back when that was the thing that that's how they ended up playing soccer because they'd had like a SOCCER GUY come in, like train them. I think it's still they don't want to be in a house because we can go anywhere else. But anyway, they do a lot of extracurriculars together. So they got us to go to literally get to get to play some sort of softball, I think, which I have nothing to do with cuz I've never played any bass balls. I've never played a stick involved. Sport before no soccer. I mean, no. No hockey, no lacrosse, Oh, no. Cricket, no baseball, no, no that. So they're gonna play but I'll just you know, I get to finally be a parent and just cheer and yell and get things wrong. Like, oh, be a touchdown, eight points and all that stuff. So
Marcus:what are they moving to?
William Jeffery:So that starts at some point where, you know, it's New Year and offseason, technically, of all things okay. But when they they're supposed to start Little League, and then they also I would always tell them at the soccer games that like, you know, I just, you know, I want the kids to have fun, it's more about effort than it is about winning, you know, it's been five years. There's still you know, getting their legs under them. I'm more of a basketball guy anyway. So this is you know, let's just, you know, have fun. So they I guess they kept hearing that and they're like, Oh, well there's basketball signups right. Oh, they got us like all information to sign the kids up for basketball, which I was totally okay with just letting them play basketball, right? Five and six. I have what some would call high expectations for basketball players and it might be a little early to introduce them to my standards. But um, you know, I'm totally willing to try right like if the kids and sane
Marcus:person allowed you to coach a bunch of kids in one of the most passionate sports that you're like known to be passionate about
William Jeffery:this is the thing the mom gave me the mug set my wife a message like hey would will be interested in coaching basketball. And then so that's that's how that was more likely.
Marcus:She's not the one to put you up to because if so, I would like to retract my insane
William Jeffery:No, no, she just she she just received the message and I don't think she really cares one way or the other way. Okay, if I had a coach or not, but I told him the same thing I did like for soccer. Like I'll do it if they need somebody to coach and like, at least this sport. I know. You know, when you're offsides, if you will, because that's the one thing I never understood about soccer. Someone's always offsides. Even like in professional soccer, they did all sides all the time. Like I don't Why do you guys have that rule? Someone's always breaking
Marcus:you're supposed to leave before the ball is once the balls kick. But to me
William Jeffery:like that's like 12 travels being called every game. It's like guys, you know, you should just it should be a rule that is easy to abide by. The rules are not supposed to be what's challenging about the game.
Marcus:So you guys got past soccer and now yes, yeah, watch for
William Jeffery:well, so that's what the this is like I've been promoted to like rectly and that's different. So I didn't like AI's anyway. So it's like Co Op sport kind of thing where they everybody volunteered the rest of volunteers the people that run it are volunteers it's all volunteer right? So that's it's it's easier to be a coach because the expectations are much lower especially at this age. REC is different not that the expectations are like wildly higher just the process is different because it's through the park is through the city. I don't know that I didn't think that they would need as many volunteers they have a set amount of teams because you know funding is always low or whatever. But so I thought that like and then on the application to or put the kids in you can check a box to volunteer like you don't even you couldn't like say that you'll be a coach you could just say like you're willing to help out or whatever. Gotcha. So we checked that box they got the information on like all the background check in that take a don't put a kid in the headlock classes. All that foolishness, none of my soccer credentials carried over right? It's like going from JUCO to like State College right? I only have to credit carried over and I had to take math all over again. So I have to go and get screened and all that stuff. I started that process and I was like, Wait, I didn't hear anything. And then lo and behold, like, I don't know, a week or two ago, I get a call and a voicemail like garbled it's such calling from the park. Yes, this is about basketball. And like I almost deleted it because I thought it was scam likely. And then I checked like the shout out to the iPhone, and that's gonna make people angry iPhone, Android. But like they you know, they can say read out the voicemails Android doesn't. I understand that. But I have an iPhone. So I'm shouting out well, I have not even
Marcus:this Android. Marcus. Gotcha, please. Yes, Android
William Jeffery:is very good at interrupting people. So as I was saying, to Apple, the voicemail transcribing feature because it like it read out. It's Ronnie from the park. This is regarding basketballs and like, Okay, this is actually a person. And I looked at the number it was local. It wasn't from like China or Houston or some random place. And anyway, so they call it left me a message. I didn't see it until the following morning. Cuz shout out to Apple for some reason I keep getting my voicemails like six hours later sponsored
Unknown:by Apple. No, no, please,
William Jeffery:did we be in even more debt? Because you get sponsored, you still got to pay for stuff, you just get to use their logo.
Marcus:So you figured out that it was actually a legit call?
William Jeffery:I did. So I called him back the next day, because I didn't get the message until the following night when I was looking for work. The girl that answered the phone didn't know what I was talking about. She just gave me like a bunch of random information about basketball that happens at the park. You know, they got basketball from five to 15. So I was just like, Thanks, lady. I'll call back. Right? I'll call back later, try to get like later in the afternoon because a guy called me around one or two, I call first thing in the morning, because I was trying to you know, I was excited when he was about. And as I call later around, when the guy calls me, he'll be back at work. I call back a few days later, and I'd forgotten about it. And he knew he was a little bit more familiar, but didn't know exactly what was going on. It was because the girl that I spoke to previously said that there was a draft that was one of the tidbit of useful information that I got out of her. Yeah, for five year olds. And I was like, Are you sure that's for this age group? Like, maybe that's wrong? And like my wife was like, yeah, no, I don't think that's for them. They're so young. And then she read my notes. And I wrote like, I think mighty mites or something like that. That's like, what they call their age group. She's like, I don't know, maybe you do have to go to this draft, because that's what they're called. So I called back and spoke to somebody a little bit more informed. And they were like, yeah, there is a draft, but it's more. So we're like, it's a coaches meeting. They talk about the rules and the process. And they pretty much just group the kids up with who they want to be grouped with, like, if there's a group of kids that know each other, they'll put them on the same team, like different age kids work play. Now. It's like, it's cawwed, I think five and six year olds, so the kids, both of the kids can play on the same team, thank God. Otherwise, I'd have three basketball teams right now. But so I call back I talked to him, he tells me what the draft is and are more so the meeting, and he makes it first he makes it seem like they may not need me as a head coach. He's like, Well, do you want to head coach or be an assistant coach, like what you want to do? I'm like, I just want to help. Like, if you guys have coaches, I'm not demanding to be a head coach. I'm not trying to take them to like, you know, the five year old finals or anything like that. I'm just trying to help. Understand, are you really not not yet they got they got a couple of years before that gear kicks in. I'm gonna let them live for a little bit. Okay. So I told him and he was like, okay, cool. I think we might have four coaches already. But if that's the case, then I'll just put you down as an assistant for somebody. And I'm like, Yeah, whatever. That's cool. I'll fetch balls. But you know, you get towels, whatever, make cups of Gatorade. I don't know, whatever you need me to do. So he puts me on the longest hold ever. Like we're all on hold longer than I spoke to him. And I was just I was like, I started texting my wife on hold. And I was like, I'm about to hang up on this property. He's got 30 more seconds. And then you know, the SpongeBob meme four hours later. And right as I'm out of like, for real for a hold up, hang up. This time, he comes back like hey, sorry for the wait, I forgot. You know, it's like going on here. And then I realized it is the park. It's the city. He's probably the only person working and it's probably 400 people in there. Ask him 1000 Questions about homeless people come on, come to find out. They didn't know for sure. When the draft was I thought it was the day that I was calling. And it hadn't. It was it was later in the week. So I got that information. And I was like, and I'm guessing I'll get a call later in the week to let me know like, which team that I'll be, you know, helping out with or what I'll be doing is like, oh, no, you're likely just be coaching. I was like, wait, what? Keep that same energy man. What happened to the dude that put me on hold? It was like y'all have coaches and you just need someone to fetch. I want to be a gopher, right. So that I now am the coach for the kids team. Oh gratulations.
Marcus:So well,
William Jeffery:yeah, yeah.
Marcus:Well allow that because I've seen you play basketball. You're very intense. There's the you speak about basketball. And then there's the you in basketball mode.
William Jeffery:I mean, I have to hope that I can rely on my ability to compartmentalize because I do understand i There I am walking in as like eyes wide open as possible understanding that you have to look at the game differently as a like player versus coach. It's a totally different perspective. And you know, you got to look at the team as a whole and everybody's different motivations and you know, like it's
Marcus:a new you for this upcoming year. Look at
William Jeffery:all about new challenges. And definitely, it is definitely a new challenge. I have zero years experience in coaching like I've played my whole life, but I've never been I've never coached a team before. You know how long with the whiteboard and I was
Marcus:gonna say like, How long before you like, get frustrated, grabbed the ball and show the kids how to do it?
William Jeffery:It depends on that depends on them. Like if they are down and listen, then I might never have to do that. But if they want you know if they're gonna challenge my ability to instruct them that I will have to make an example out of someone like the middle school kids and not a middle school child on earth that I can't be a challenge late now High School. I'm not I'm not that bold. High school kids out there little scary, but junior high that they're still growing, right? Like if anything else, I'll just grown man them to death. I without a shadow of I don't care if it's one of them eight foot tall, Weird Science Experiment kids, because they're always just skin draped on skeleton, right? So I'll just push his head under the rim and Les can't block it if he's out of bounds.
Marcus:So what else is happening this year, or this upcoming year?
William Jeffery:So we went to the children's they have like they go to Catholic school have like a recital or they say and like it was great. So they do get broken up into two shows. It's I think the the little kids first through third or something like that. And the eighth graders like run the show for the kids and it wasn't cute. They sang little songs within they got like red and green towels had little hand motions and they did the bell thing are you like there's like a giant xylophone. Kids got different notes. That's cool. Um, so I went to that. And as I was leaving after the kids were finished, the athletic director of the school approached me who I had had a few conversations with about basketball where and he asked me to coach I believe the seventh grade boys soccer team. He already told me, No, no, I have a five and six year old COVID rec team. And now I also have a seventh grade Catholic school team.
Marcus:Why are you coaching two teams?
William Jeffery:Because I attended the recital and coach asked me to his brother working at Catholic school. So that's it was I got hit with the trifecta of like things that I support as black blue, or going to school. He's the athletic director, they got him doing PE Co Op they do all kinds of stuff. He signed up for desk he's out on the yard 90% of time. So black goo right I'm gonna help him off the string to just that he he played I think up through college Okay, so you know I got respect for it. It's tough to make it that far in basketball. You know, I it's it's doubly hard to make the league but like to make it past high school basketball and on any like on any semi professional level is impressive. And it shows you know, dedication and love for the game. Right? Like that's, that's the kind of person those are the kinds of people that I like, right like I love basketball. He clearly loves or at one point he loved basketball. And when you know so we could talk basketball. We talked basketball a couple of times, like alright, he likes hoops. I like hoops. He is black dude working in school, too. Now we've checked two boxes so and then third come to find out the the coach of like the older team, I guess the 787 beat I don't know exactly all the details yet. Start later in the year, but he doesn't particularly care for the other coaching style. And he would like to, you know, help beat I guess the team that I'm supposed to coach is the team. He wants to help to beat that team. So I'm like, Alright, so you want me you want to help? You know, you want to provide some come up? It's for the jerk coach above us. You're black. And you know, you're a legit Hooper, and you work at my kids school. How could I say no, there was no point was that, you know, the only con is that it's going to take up a whole bunch of time. I have no idea what I'm doing. And I'm terrified. But other than that it's a win win right
Marcus:before like they can you as a coach like what if you guys went on like a Oh, seven?
William Jeffery:I don't know. I Yeah. So I don't know what the expectation I don't know if I just signed on like to like a Laker type organization, right? If we don't get a championship within like the first half of the season, then I'm fired. You're fired. Or if it's I don't know, like the Boston where they'll just let me experiment and we could have the best team on paper and they don't care about the results for as long as possible.
Marcus:I mean, there's so many questions that I don't have Since I was like what if it continues like what if it just keeps what?
William Jeffery:He did say that he was like, if you like it and you know works out there's opportunity for you to grow as a girl. So I have zero years experience. I have one that a why so season under my belt, people always ask and none of them credentials carried over. I gotta get fingerprinted. And you know, don't push kids down the stairs videoed, again.
Marcus:I'm sorry. Before I make my question or point, there's a don't push kids down.
William Jeffery:You gotta watch the, you know, you've never had like, the work video and yeah, like you don't slap her on the button when she walks by, don't tell dirty jokes, right? Don't threaten your boss with you know, physical violence, right? Do when if you see a cash register open? Do you a take all the money out? Ignore it, see, set the building on fire or see close? Or close it right like those? Sure, well, you know, I maybe this can work for you. Because clearly they have different standards. But at any rate, you have to take one of those video courses to ensure that you're not going to abuse your children in any way. So
Marcus:in this video, typically it shows an adult pushing your child down now.
William Jeffery:It's just common sense that like, children, and you're not a psychopath, and you should know these things. And like, for me, I get it. Like they have it to weed out the psychopaths but like, I feel like they shouldn't be taken into it. Like how did they get the link? Oh, who thought that the psychopath should be the coach in the first place, right? A lot of this far. Like why? Why do I have to do this, you should have a vetting process. I just I just felt like my a while so credentials. And it wasn't like I coached a wire. So 47 years ago, I season just ended. I literally just dealt with the kids on the team. That's the only reason I'm here is because the soccer mom was like, asked me, maybe that's it. She had asked me I only have the one team, maybe
Marcus:they only check once and then like they're like, well, he passed and that's good. They don't check anywhere in between, like, that time like periodic check.
William Jeffery:I just feel like I should have been like, I just finished a YSL and they'd like look that up some kind of way. Like, oh, yeah, and he didn't, you know, beat any of the children to death, he should be fine.
Marcus:Basketball is a different beast.
William Jeffery:It is it is this is gonna be difficult for me. But you know, they say in order to succeed, you got to exist just outside your comfort zone. And we have stepped back and in thoroughly into my comfort zone. will be okay, that's fine. You know, one of the teams will be fine, right? I got a 5050 chance. I'm sorry, I have nothing new happening. Like what does it work for the five year old? My work for the seven. The thing is, I don't even know how old seven. I got to see what these people are capable of. I gotta get like medical clearance. How many laps are they allowed to run? How many pushups can you do? You know, how long can I make them shoot free throws? These are questions that I have, you know, normal coach questions, right?
Marcus:I don't use a normal coach questions.
William Jeffery:You got to know you know what the threshold is. So you can set the baseline there and build from there. But this is what you're capable of. So now we can make you better.
Marcus:Alright, so um, Oh, excellent. coaching strategies. I kind of skimmed over I know it's part of the office.
William Jeffery:There will be your first problem I read it every day. Okay.
Marcus:Is there any exaggerating Is there anything else new popping off new traditions new thing? I
William Jeffery:don't have time for new things. I have to whole basketball team right plus a podcast and work and I still have to do thank you for I didn't see I didn't even get to finish my list. Oh, that's how long it is. But you know, I That's That's enough. I'm not taking on anything else. I hope I don't think at this time capital interclass. I honestly that's funny. You say that. I want to get Jamison new one my mom mentioned that there's one over on her side of the hill. She knows somebody somewhere something like it always makes me think of the Bob burger episode. Like am I gonna have to fight a Brazilian man with a pony? Because I have a bad knee. And if he gets me in the bad knee I'm saying I won't I mean, I won't put myself like I drink a lot of water right? Regular but it's good. I don't want to have to find a Brazilian because I have these kids to coach I can't come limp into practice because I got beat up by dance and Ninja like that. Anyway I said these are the things I got to think about like in first I just didn't want embarrassed by something from my kids not got a whole two set of teams. I can't embarrass myself in front of this. It's a whole nother standard of living I have to get accustomed to you know new year new me. I'm going to be in well the head coach got this month to prove it. Better than my double insert I'm telling you know it takes cut a hole in a NASA wing and then they just made a plastic lid and put it on top. I feel like I could throw this thing in the space and it would come back intact.
Marcus:So just a second way it probably would it would float out there with that damn Tesla.
William Jeffery:I'm pretty sure this is like the mug they gave hope
Marcus:so, but you saying New Year new mentality and things
William Jeffery:such as your new me take the weight loss challenge so you can work out for a month and a half.
Marcus:You heard about that Arkansas woman right that waitress that got a $4,000 tip. I guess there's gonna be new her or New Year New her because she's gonna find a new job next year.
William Jeffery:Oh, man, I hope she hadn't wasted on that gym membership then because they don't need all $4,000. Like, I can be her yearly. And they get fired at the beginning of the semester.
Marcus:So someone showed up. Someone name wise, I don't know their last name. I didn't look too much into the story. But we know
William Jeffery:what she was fired for. Like, what did they share the tip? Oh, was that like they wrote on the tip? Share with the like, cook the pasta share. And that's that part of the instructions? Is that the employee manual?
Marcus:Tip is not just for her. Oh, who
William Jeffery:did they give it to?
Marcus:They gave it to the waitress but it's supposed to be shared with like, the staff, man. You got why?
William Jeffery:If it had been$5 He's supposed to give everybody 38 cents on you know,
Marcus:I'm pretty sure it's totaled up.
William Jeffery:Let's see, that's, that's cool. That's the issue. I have like, issue. Because if it was a normal tip, you don't split normal tips, whoever waits table gets the $3. But
Marcus:I don't know how it goes. I sit
William Jeffery:like I feel like at places at like, at restaurants where you have servers, right? The tip is for the server. Okay? I'm at like, at like a food service for like a bagel shop like a Jamba Juice, you get tips there, those are split up amongst the crew because it's not an individual server. Everybody worked equally on you know, providing you said beverage. But the tip is for the service that you received from your servers to ensure prompt service is not tip everybody involved in the meal, the greeter the door, man, the cook the baker, the SU shit, like you can't, now I run the restaurant, like I didn't buy shares, I just wanted an entree and him to bring my food out while it was hot. Here's an extra 20 bucks for the person that is responsible for bringing out your food. In this example, for this figurative person that I am using, they get $5 from me, I don't market Bitcoin, none of that $5. But Tim Yes, money bag, Tim $20.60 or whatever, right. But that's for the server to ensure that this or that was doesn't mean that you're ensuring after it's already happened, but it's, I guess, to ensure next time, but it's for the server and the service that they provide, you know, wine list and and sometimes they got like, you know, prepare the entree, right? Like they don't like compliment the chef. If that's what he gets, he can my compliments to the chef, he doesn't get a tip. No, cuz he makes more than the server. That's why you tip the server because they get their wage is based on tips. The chef went to the court on blue school, you know, soups and things. So he's got a bag of knives and a fent fancy hat and a whole crew of people he's in charge. This dude's not in charge anything. He's in charge of napkins, and he's got to wear an apron. And everybody yells at him all the time. Don't let him forget the ranch, like he or she earn that 4k Forgetting shit. Oh, and for however long she works here like that's That is why the server gets it because at the bottom of the service turn totem pole. And that's what their salary is. That's why they make minimum wage minimum wage when designed for them. But it's that's why they be a little because they factor in the amount that they get, like they get taxed on tips. Notice
Marcus:it's true. Well, the amount of the actual service was$7,700 was the admin space would
William Jeffery:why. So that's how much food costs for us for the year for the whole family. Well, you know, they had one meal that cost a Honda Accord,
Marcus:then probably assuming, but they had a lot they you know, it depends on what year but yeah, right. So basically what ended up happening is they the restaurant had the X so they
William Jeffery:will know it isn't a chord because with the tip there was $11,000
Marcus:Well, yeah, when you put it down. It serves for about 32 people. That makes okay that makes more sense and they felt like the entire the person that dropped it. The tip was a Mr. Well
William Jeffery:you can run up 7k At Benihana for 32 people I don't even have I mean shouldn't go into Chili's. And they said that everybody that $5 meals,
Marcus:all staff worked hard so hard that night for party, they felt like that tip should have been for everyone.
William Jeffery:Right? That specific one because of the dollar amount. And that's unfair, especially for her to lose her job. Because if it had been any other normal, it would have been $100. Nobody would like some one person would have, you know, been salty, but nobody would lost their job, right? Like the food have been cold, like they'd done something petty for a week. But nobody would have been we wouldn't be talking about it, but because it was in the $1,000 range. Now all where's my part? You know, where's my piece, right? You get the same amount you got off the last tip. That's, to me, that's fair. Like I get it. It's not like every every day up until that point, the cook made twice as much as the server,
Marcus:I got you. The company policy of oven intapp, the co owner of the Molly and Mullins diner,
William Jeffery:mom like the drug.
Marcus:The owners told the post that the restaurant normally takes cuts of servers, credit card tips to divvy among other employees, but servers get to keep cash tips in their entirety. for large parties, the restaurant decides how to handle the policy or how to handle the tip case by case basis.
William Jeffery:I mean, well, if that's the policy, then she's bound by the policy that sucks. But that, then that's all her you know, for not knowing the policy. But I think it's unfair, because any other time they don't split the tip, I feel like it's only because it's so you know, otherwise, there they are so much at the bottom of the totem pole otherwise, like this is the one win that it's like hitting the lottery and having to shit like it's like, if you take an Uber to 711 to buy a lottery ticket and having to split the lottery winnings with the Uber driver because they drove you there. Right What I you know, all the other times I lost, right? Like you didn't pay for half the lottery ticket. Like for all the times that the server went and gave great service, everybody worked super hard. And they didn't tip like you didn't supplement the lack of tip with the, you know, the more hourly wage that you make than me, you're not like what here's an extra $20 Because they didn't tip you. And we all worked hard. Like that didn't happen. Keep that same energy, right? Like because this one time I hit the lottery. Now I gotta share it with the whole staff. I quit you can't fire me. I'm walking out to the
Marcus:speaking of lottery. Let's just say you had a tradition of giving away Scratchers
William Jeffery:for we do and will out thanks for the wife My family didn't but the first Christmas that we spent in in Ohio right before I got deathly sick. We did the the scratcher things and it's like they've been doing forever because we do it. We've been doing it now for a few years. I like it's fun. We are Oh, and like nine years running in like the family couple, we I think we have a total of $17 over seven years. 412 lottery tickets, the ROI is terrible. So somebody should have won $100 At least by now
Marcus:you give someone a ticket and you hit the jackpot or paid or whatever the word is or phrases. They don't want to split it with you. Is that the end of the friendship family.
William Jeffery:That's family. That's messed up. Because, you know, I think there's sort of an understanding amongst family that if somebody wins, like you don't We don't have to split it all evenly. We all get broke off a little silo silo Sam Sam, you can't just you know, just take it because we all been taking the animals as a family and like the I feel like the ticket buying circulates is not always the same always come from the same place. And that's always running joke. Like if I hit it big, you know, buy your car or whatever, you know, and whatever it is like something just some sort of reasonable gesture. If you buy me a bag of socks, I'm gonna punch you in the face. Just let it be known now any family members that listen to the podcast, if you guys hit the jackpot and I get them same Hanes socks, you get these hands for Christmas. That's what you get and mittens off. But I don't think that would happen. I trust my family. But I think that's different. Right like that. It's and we're not in a it's not a daily job. Like it's not part of of what we do every day. How do we make a living you know, it's it's a it's a one off that we all kind of you know, pitch in for it's like a potluck gift almost right? Like we all kind of pitch in we also participate. So if anybody wins big, then you'll share a little bit right? Like you get the lion's share of course because it's your car and That's how winning works. But we all expect you know, like if you get 10k I expect $200 to like buy me a pair of Jordans or something right and other than that if that's fine but if they just but that's the thing if they don't if they're just like I went out when I win and you know they keep it I don't know that me personally I'm a holding against them. Like I understand if people are mad they do but I just I got to basketball teams because I don't care I can't think about it that long. I just I'm new year new me I'm not I'm over it. Yeah, you can't hold on to stuff like that, right? Like, is it messed up? Sure. But, you know, I feel like you know, whatever you believe in, it'll work itself out, right? Like, that's messed up on a whole bunch of levels. So we'll see how that goes for you. Right? Like, generally when you selfish, especially when you get when you get money or wins that way, and you're selfish about it usually doesn't go very well for you for very long. So, you know, I take that out you on it, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't think too much about it. I'm like, Okay, well, that's cool,
Marcus:too. So, um, as we get ready to land is great.
William Jeffery:Family. Everybody's got that one uncle you hope don't win? Because you know, that's exactly how to nothing he'll be on an island. So no, it'd be broken six months? Yeah.
Marcus:Um, so I think I was thinking about your basketball
William Jeffery:team. And the one I didn't know it's gonna get told me and I was
Marcus:thinking, this team will need to look stylish when they're not wearing just their jersey. You know what they could
William Jeffery:be wearing? Right? They're all getting head above baggy T shirts for practice. For warm ups. I might have to come out with a sweat suit. You never know. We might have to have a whole athletic line now. You know, a full time coach of multiple basketball
Marcus:jerseys come to me, can you get your logo on?
William Jeffery:It could be a sponsor for the amazing, that would be dope. They do the league and done it. Right. You got the one places small
Marcus:patch right here. If you're gonna be like, what is that patch?
William Jeffery:Right? You'll have to tune in and find out. I don't know, I have to talk to the Archdiocese. I don't know who run sports. So it's a weird, I don't understand the hierarchy of sports and Catholics. I don't even know what Yeah, so we'll say it's gonna be a massive learning experience. But if, if I learned nothing from I don't know, I don't even think it's like a year by year thing. I just feel like I have a, a reinvigorated, you know, belief or, or, or buy into the idea of, of existing, you know, right outside your comfort zone. And a good way to do that is to accept any and all reasonable, you know, opportunities that come across your desk, like a lot of times you know, something simple come across your desk and like oh, that sounds cool. Like I don't have time or how am I gonna make it work or I would love to do that but just say yes, and see what happens like worst case scenario, it doesn't work out and like you now know for a fact that you truly do not have time or you didn't like as much as you did as you thought you did. But if you don't, then it'll you know, it's always gonna weigh on you like oh man, I wish I'd done that. And then the next time you know, it's the same excuse and then like you get in the habit of just you know, that's how you become you end up in a rut you're just you get in the habit of making the excuse that the current the status quo is is so demanding that I can do nothing else. And I think that moving forward and this year I'm going to try to embrace the idea of just you know, saying a little bit more Yes, I did it in my 20s and I had one of the funnest years of my life followed by several several mistakes you got to learn and when ease up off the throttle of the yes like is one of them you know, there's do not too many blanket statements in life that just work all the time. It's all about balance and I just sort of yes to everything and it was fun for about a year and then it all came crashing down. So you know within reason obviously right? Like you can't you don't want to book yourself silly to where you know you can't there's no time to sleep breathe you know see your family and your loved ones but I think that you know for especially for those of us you know dads parents moms those of us with with full time jobs and and full time humans it's very easy to get into the status quo right? So you know every now and then going along Yes Right? And people are like hey you want to you know, do you want to go rock climbing Do you want to do this thing you want to try this thing? Yeah sure. Why not? You know worst case scenario you've like you will you will far be the last parent and or responsible adult to make a plan that they want to do something and not be able to do it because I don't think gets in the way right and that's that's worst case scenario somebody's afraid of course unless it is missing an episode in which case you know then you gotta cancel because you don't want to you know, miss the new hotness, but you know, episodes are short so as long as anything can wait 30 minutes you got the time listen to the episode and then go out there and conquer the world. And don't and don't make it a realize resolution thing. Keep that same energy throughout the whole year. You don't want to you don't want to be the gym person. That's been $20 a month to go to the gym in January. That just, you know, keep just don't don't make it a thing. Just Just do it. Don't don't No no dog and pony show. No, no resolution song and dance just a few more yeses and see what happens. I'll be here to guide you through the essence on doing the same thing. Until next time, keep your head above poxy hoodies on and your and your your mugs full and get yourself a coach mug. These yetis are gonna know I wonder if they need a podcast. Shout out yet They do they carry those at Target. Maybe I get like a three team deal going here the Yeti target sponsorship? No. I don't know if I want apple. They sell expensive. I really just don't I don't think they pay. I think they just charge you less when you buy things. That's how all that will deals work. That's how the sales work the Black Friday sale no tax on your MacBook. Alright. Thank you for listening to my apple rant. And I would take this motion. I need to do that.