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Discounts for employees in the states widely differ. With Taylor owning his store, he might very well have given 80% off. When I worked in restaurants (would have been 90s) I got 50% off meals. When I worked retail, it was generally 20% off as an hourly employee, 40% off as a manager. But my daughter works part-time in retail now, and gets 50% off (very popular clothing store).
Kirstie Brote
2024-07-25 17:50:21 +0000 UTCAs someone who was always luke-warm on Logan, I find I'm kinda falling in love with him on this rewatch! LOL! He knows how to negotiate the world that Rory has always had access to, but because of her mom, thought wasn't "hers." Emily and Richard are constantly trying to shove Rory into that world, and its always so awkward and gross. But now, here's comes Logan, her charming and cute tour guide, to show her how to navigate it. I'm seeing more layers to this storytelling now (and have the benefit of knowing what happens). The push-pull of Stars Hollow and the moneyed world Lorelei ran away from...
Kirstie Brote
2024-07-25 17:46:52 +0000 UTCSometimes I can justify Emily and Richard's actions; occasionally I even side with them over Lorelai. Not this time. I don't object to the party, but they did two things that are not okay: they overdressed her (should not have had the jewellery), and they should have invited a roughly equal number of Yale families with daughters. Presumably they did a third thing wrong that we didn't see, which is advertise the party to everyone else as a 'come and try to win our granddaughter's heart' event. The thing that really lights my blue touch paper here though is Emily's comment to Lorelai 'it's too late for you'. Really shows how incredibly childish this 'suitable man' schtick of theirs is, that they can look down on a 36-year-old's romantic choices the same as a 20-year-old's. I like Logan quite a lot more in this episode than in the last one. The 'sub-party' idea is inspired - it's not thought of nearly often enough that it's okay not to hang out and/or play nice with everyone at a party, especially an insidious-motive one like this one. It's a genuinely wholesome way to say 'this whole societal concept is ridiculous and I don't have to put up with it', as opposed to the 'aren't setups stupid, wanna make out?'-type line tried on by the guy Logan scared off (which was also tried by the drink-driving putz Trevor last season). Emily and Richard's goal here was to ply Rory with any number of snooty male suitors, so it's essentially a Crisis of Infinite Jerks. I don't know if it's common in the US, or was back then, but Dean seriously gets an 80% staff discount?! Makes me feel better about Taylor, and advances Stars Hollow's wholesomeness quotient. In my place of work we get 10% and occasionally 20% on certain items for a few days. That's it. Zack thinks going to Hell isn't rock and roll? Perhaps he's not into AC/DC. In one of Terry Pratchett's novels ('Carpe Jugulum'), there's a town called Escrow, which I think is meant as a reference to the unfinalised agreement between the town and their guests.
Ed Green
2024-07-24 23:20:37 +0000 UTC
