Unpopular opinion: salon owners should cap commission at 50% max

I've been doing hair for 7 years now and I keep going back and forth on this. Last month my boss at Salon Bliss in Austin bumped my commission from 45% to 55% but then raised my booth rental fee by $200 to balance it out. Three years ago I worked at a place that capped everyone at 50% but offered health insurance and paid training days. Which setup actually works better for stylists in the long run? Has anyone else had good or bad experiences with either model?

Question about how I misread a brake adjustment for 5 years

So I was working on a Miconic 10 controller last week and a senior mechanic watched me set the brake gap on a machine room less elevator. He asked why I was leaving a 0.020 inch gap on both sides. I told him that's what I always did. He laughed and said the manual calls for a 0.010 gap on the trailing side only. I pulled up the manual on my phone and sure enough he was right. I had been reading the diagram wrong since I started in 2019. Has anyone else found a basic adjustment they messed up for years?

Still dont get why everyone covers their AC units in the winter

Last November my neighbor wrapped his whole outdoor unit in a tarp and bungee cords. Ive been a mail carrier for 15 years now and I see this every fall. But the manual for my 3 year old Trane says specifically not to cover it. Moisture gets trapped, rust forms, mice nest under it anyway. I left mine uncovered through 3 Vermont winters now and it still runs fine. My neighbor had to replace his condenser fan motor last spring after the cover held moisture against the coils. Who actually benefits from covering these things?

That time a senior drafter told me to stop using a scale ruler for everything

Guy named Pete at my last firm said I was wasting time scaling off prints instead of reading dimensions, so I tried his way for a week and caught two errors I would have missed on a $50k job in downtown Austin, anyone else ever get called out for a bad habit that actually saved them?

So I finally tried weighing my flour instead of scooping

For years I just used the scoop and sweep method with my measuring cups, and my cookies were always a bit off. Last week I got a cheap kitchen scale for $15 and weighed out 120 grams of flour for a batch of chocolate chip cookies instead of using the cup. The difference was crazy. The dough looked right from the start, not too dry or sticky. They baked up perfectly thick and chewy, not flat and crispy like my old ones. My roommate even asked what I did different. I feel dumb for not trying this sooner. Has anyone else had a simple switch like this that fixed a long-running baking problem?

PSA: I think the 'forge welding is always a nightmare' talk is overblown

I used to struggle with it for years, getting maybe 1 good weld out of 5 tries. Then I spent a solid month just practicing on scrap mild steel, focusing only on heat and flux control. Now, after that focused practice, my success rate is more like 4 out of 5. The biggest change was ignoring the 'get it white hot' advice and instead watching for a specific, bright yellow sparkle on the steel's surface. Has anyone else found that the common wisdom on forge temp for welding is just plain wrong?

Had to pick between my mom's original meatloaf recipe and my aunt's 'improved' version for my son's birthday dinner.

I went with my mom's old recipe using a full pound of ground chuck and a quarter cup of ketchup in the glaze, and the whole table went quiet for a minute because it tasted exactly like my childhood, so has anyone else had to make a tough call between two family recipes that felt like picking sides?

Bought a $30 voice recorder to catch my boss's instructions, ended up with way more than I bargained for.

I always thought stacking 20 photos was enough for deep sky stuff

I mean, I'd been doing that for like a year and my Andromeda shots were always kinda noisy. Last month I saw a post where someone stacked 80 frames for the Orion Nebula and the difference was crazy. So I tried it on my own rig, spending a whole night just on the Pleiades. I took 90 two-minute subs instead of my usual 20. The final image after stacking in DeepSkyStacker was so much smoother, the background was way darker. It's a huge time commitment but it actually works. Has anyone else pushed past 50 frames and noticed a real drop-off in improvement?

Update: My car battery died at a gas station in Boise and a stranger's help turned into a real argument

My alternator gave out last Tuesday at the Chevron on Broadway, and this guy named Dave jumped my car. We got talking and he insisted chance meetings are always 'fate' or 'meant to be.' I told him straight up I think that's nonsense, it's just random luck and being decent. We went back and forth for like 15 minutes while my car charged. Anyone else get into it with someone over the meaning of a random help?