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12-31-21 20:55 #14753
Posts: 705Cascadas prices
They have rip off scheme too with the deposit for overnight stays. During my last trip after Thanksgiving they did it twice. Paid the $30 deposit and received just $25-$26 back. I should of contested but the first time I recognized this was already back across the border and the 2nd time downstairs waiting for the shuttle. They try to clip you any phucking way they can.
They had better enjoy the surplus of weekend mongers now while they can with Asian countries shut down and restricted due to COVID. Have to think more discounts offered once world eventually opens fully back up and mongers that typically go elsewhere stop coming to TJ. I think the Dominican Republic is open up for travel and mongering now.
I'm looking very closely at moving to Mexico sometime the back half of 2022 to focus on my small business while reducing my overhead. Would love TJ but there are more affordable options down country or maybe even outskirts of CDMX.
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12-31-21 19:36 #14752
Posts: 3266Originally Posted by Travv [View Original Post]
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12-31-21 19:33 #14751
Posts: 3266Originally Posted by SpeedToys [View Original Post]
Some places get away from having to pay stripper / dancers by saying they are artistic performers and charge them for "stage time" for their performances.
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12-31-21 19:22 #14750
Posts: 432Originally Posted by CaptainSolo [View Original Post]
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12-31-21 08:56 #14749
Posts: 6533Mexico's Minimum Wage. Northern Border Zone
For 2021 it was about $12 per day, increase to $13 for 2022.
I understand HK will not pay people working tip-based jobs, like meseros, hotel room attendants, bathroom attendants, valet parking. Instead those people have to pay HK for their jobs to earn tips, which can be a lot more than minimum wages. The hustling meseros can make $100-200 tips on busy nights. It's a damn good job in Mexico. Looks like HK treats putas as independent contractors. They are not completely independent but have pretty flexible work schedule, have to follow work rules, but are unpaid. Strippers are paid 500 pesos for 3 performances. They survive entirely on selling sex, fichas and tips.
That system would have problems reporting legal payroll and got HK into troubles.
It's not an outrageous practice. In California minimum wage for tip workers is $1.26 an hour. Read news articles that Hooters girls complained bitterly they make so little with this low min wage when guys don't tip.
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12-31-21 06:55 #14748
Posts: 573Originally Posted by CaptainSolo [View Original Post]
G.
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12-31-21 05:58 #14747
Posts: 2422Failure to keep the books in a high cash environment. Gee wiz. I sure hope the Cartels aren't using HK to launder money. Yeah, I'm sure it was an accident.
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12-31-21 05:11 #14746
Posts: 432Originally Posted by BunterHiden [View Original Post]
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12-31-21 05:10 #14745
Posts: 432I figure they will be out from under a $800 K US fine, in about two weeks of fichas, bottles, and customer beers.
Just fichas, and conservatively they make $7/ ea profit on them. That's onlt 3800 bottles a night.
Then you get $600 bottles that cost $50. And that number goes _way_ down.
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12-31-21 04:58 #14744
Posts: 657Water Meter Bribes. . .
Read somewhere that a lot of big businesses in Tijuana were paying off employees of the municipal water utility to short their water meter reads and billings and this had been going on for years. Now the government is going after these businesses for the underpaid water bills accumulated over many years. . . Think it was to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars lost to Tijuana municipality for these big businesses over many years. . . Wonder if any hotels or clubs got back billed recently?
Originally Posted by ClownDays [View Original Post]
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12-31-21 01:00 #14743
Posts: 157Originally Posted by Sol12 [View Original Post]
This article's says they got hit with a $16 MM peso fine. The headline says it was for hiring underage people, although there's no details in the article that actually detail what the infractions were, they just cite general labor violations.
https://www.el-mexicano.com.mx/Notic...s-al-Hong-Kong
This one offers more details. Basically it says that they ran afoul of a bunch of accounting and regulatory compliance issues, like keeping payroll receipts, not paying out required bonuses, not paying their utility bills (in Mexico the Government owns the utilities) and a bunch of other stuff like that. It doesn't say how far back this thing goes, and I don't care to look up the actual statement from the state Government, but a fine this big probably means that it goes back a long time or that the state Government thinks that they are making so much money, that they can take a hit like this and be completely fine.
De acuerdo al secretario del Trabajo, la empresa incurri en una serie de incumplimientos de obligaciones laborales; por ejemplo, que los empleados y sus familias no cuentan con seguridad social, adems de que la compaa no pudo demostrar comprobantes de pago de nmina, aguinaldo, vacaciones, prima vacacional, prima dominical, pago de utilidades, entre otros.
I doubt they were knowingly hiring underage dancers, at least knowingly. My guess is that it's a bunch of the errand boys, dish washers, cleaning people, etc, because that's actually very common in Mexico. The inability to provide payroll records, probably is the biggest hint that's the case, because the girls are all supposed to have health cards, and just about every Government transaction in Mexico requires your National ID. They were probably hiring foreigners to do shit jobs, which is why they can't produce any payroll documentation, since it would be illegal to hire them in the first place.
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12-30-21 22:56 #14742
Posts: 749Originally Posted by Sol12 [View Original Post]
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12-30-21 21:04 #14741
Posts: 85Not the same Cecilia
Originally Posted by CaptainSolo [View Original Post]
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12-30-21 14:02 #14740
Posts: 1099Fines
Originally Posted by BlackThought [View Original Post]
Next time I'm down I'll be sure to ask about it since I missed it in the Tijuana paper.
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12-30-21 06:00 #14739
Posts: 6533LAX's Global Entry machines
When I came back to LAX mid December, there were about a dozen Global Entry machines sit empty in an area next to the regular US Immigration lines, with about 400 people waiting.
The Immigration woman asked if I had Global Entry and told me to go to a machine, take down hat and mask for a picture. The machine quickly took a pic, and flashed an "all clear" message on the screen. It all happened automatically and silently without my input. I was used to the old GE machines where you had to scan in your passport and finger prints. This new machine did everything by itself quickly. Looked like it read the RFID info from the card in my wallet, pulled up my data including facial features, took a pic of my face and did a facial recognition routine, may be even a quick sniff of my hairy crotch hehe and decided a pass / fail. I went through US Imm and Customs in less than 30 sec, no human check, no luggage Xray.
Facial recognition technology may have made great progresses, but my face definitely looks a lot older since I first applied for GE 8 years ago. Still don't know how they can verify facial features reliably. Would hate to see my shifty brother in law steal my GE card and smuggle some shit hehe.
Not sure if SENTRI would work at airports. Some bros should check it out.