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Waiters Serve Payback to Stingy Tippers
By Betsy Schiffman AP Business Writer
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006

Outside Looking In

Or why my customer service skills are best served from a call center, where the only thing I have to control is my voice, because my facial expressions are dead give-away. I'd like to give spoiled yuppies a few hard whacks on their behinds before I send them off to torture someone else who works in one of the service industries.

And the following stories are examples of why immigration IS an issue that needs to be dealt with.

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Hispanic immigrant laborers testify about US police harassment
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006
By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press Writer

(AP) - WHITE PLAINS, New York-Hispanic immigrant day laborers suing a U.S. village over alleged harassment testified Tuesday that intimidation by police officers has often prevented them from obtaining work on the streets.