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I just stopped going to places or using services that expect me to tip. I hate the idea of tipping.
Cook at home, we don't want you there anyways.
**Gosh I didn't realize Lemmy was so full of broke assholes hell bent on taking money out of service employees pockets. Very working class of you guys!
LMFAO. I love people like you... If you demand everyone stay home... You know what will happen? You won't have customers in the restaurant. Which leads to less tables, which leads to less wait staff needed. You will simply lose your job. So not only do you not get tips... but you won't even get your minimum wages.
Congrats you're ruining it yourself!
Bro I work 50 hours a week. If my place closes, another one will open. I've worked at at least 15 different places since I've been 18. We hate you and resent you for walking in the door, regardless of tipping.
Literally, just stay home. If you can't afford to tip, or don't want to, just stay home.
We hate you and resent you for walking in the door, regardless of tipping.
This is the reason you've worked at 15 difference places. You're shit at your job and keep getting fired. It's not anyone's fault except your own that you hate the world. You should hate your boss for paying you like shit... But instead you're peddling the tip-mentality here so that your wages go up much higher than any reasonable job with your skillset should pay. But right! You hate "us", the ones that keep your ass afloat and able to pay rent.
If my place closes
It's not yours.
Literally, just stay home. If you can’t afford to tip, or don’t want to, just stay home.
Very classist thing to say, no? If someone is poor or simply down for the week and just needs to get some food, fuck them right? They're not allowed to get food from "your" establishment cause they can't afford your 50% tip ransom!
Bro I work 50 hours a week
Join the club. I done 168 hours per week... Where's my tip for deploying to Afghanistan? Even separated from the military at this point there's weeks I put in 60-80 hours at the expense of my family. I don't demand a tip. Raw hours means nothing. Shit you're reading my content. You can tip me at bc1qtg5zxzuact47zvsaguns97swn4w3u8qatchgzl for simply talking to me.
Thank you for your service.
Now could you please just tip your waitress for your chicken tendies next time you're out? I mean it's what, $6?
I'm sorry you've commented on my comment. I demand a tip. Otherwise I'll spin up lemmy instances that will troll your account and downvote everything you post (spit in your food, make you wait for your food, serve your food cold, make whatever analogy you want here).
See how absurd this premise is? Get mad at your boss, not me. I didn't hire you.
I'm not defending tipping. It's unnecessary and overcomplicated. I'm defending the wait staff that didn't make the rules but have to rely on them to live.
You can't hate it all you want, but until we're ready to actually change it at a core level, the bill the waitress hands you shouldn't be where you try to make your point.
You are literally defending tipping and saying people should tip. Get a grip.
Did a waitress laugh at you when you asked for her phone number or something? You seem extra worked up about this.
So i see a handful of players here, the customers, the servers, the employer and maybe politicians. Who do you think should wake up one morning and decide not good enough, the system needs to change and I am going to do something about it?
Probably one of the people in positions of authority who are paid to make such decisions. I gotta work a morning shift today, should I ask them if today is the day?
Got bad news for you
Bro at least send him like ten bucks or something. Buddy went to fucking Afghanistan. I bet you've gotten bigger tips for bringing some lukewarm plates of food you didn't even make to a table 32ft away. And I'm sure you were appreciative of those customers and felt they were doing the right thing, correct?
So, here's your chance, do the right thing! Send the $10 to the address they provided. If you do and they post confirmation, I'll legit tip 100% on the next meal I go out for.
Hey at least it's transparent since anyone can check the wallet address. So you don't need to wait for me to post a confirmation (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1qtg5zxzuact47zvsaguns97swn4w3u8qatchgzl). More transparency than we're getting in this discussion from "career wait staff" who likely get way more than minimum wages and still get tied up in knots that people don't pay enough in tips (rather than demanding better pay from their bosses). I wonder if these people would be okay making their tips publicly known at the time that people leave the tip... eg, on the check it tells you how much tips your server collected for the night so far and on average for a given pay period). I mean, if it's being left to me to pay someone's wages, I should have a right to know how much they've collected right?
But seriously. I don't need the money. I do well enough for myself and have no-one but myself to blame if I don't take home enough money for my family in a given pay period. I generated the address to prove a silly point.
I'm not saying you need the money, just that he should give it to you as he would expect you to do for him if the situation was the other way around.
He won't though. Leeches like that only take from others.
Yeah I suspected that was your intent. But can't always attribute tone to text. I'm just trying to prove the point and I think you get it spot on. Demanding tips from or hating/resenting your customers because they choose not to tip you is just nasty behavior when they should ultimately be mad at the person who hires/pays them. This behavior that this lemmite espouse here in the attempt to justify tipping is exactly why I don't like tipping at all.
The military thing is in the same vein, everyone always claims that the military members don't get enough for what they do... So when you put tipping in that context to... Where's mine? That logic fails outright... and everyone knows it. So why keep it floating for wait staff?
Leeches like that only take from others.
Saying this while demanding a sub-minimum wage worker send money to someone who presumably has permanent access to healthcare due to military service (and also admits they are paid well) is peak internet.
who presumably has permanent access to healthcare due to military service
This would only be true if I hold 100% disability. For any other percentage I could only use VA healthcare for service related disabilities. And this all assumes I hold a disability at all.
I'm well paid, because I worked hard to start my company and gain the contracts I have.
Here’s my for you tip: don’t behave towards food service workers in a way that will get your food spat in.
Or do, I’m not a cop.
Your employers sure love us though, since they invite us in with open arms every single time. And we always, always, pay them then the full price they asked for. We have a great relationship in which we both benefit. Their business adds value to the community and I want to support them, and so I do. And they thank me for it. And I get a delicious cheeseburger.
So no, I'm not staying home and you can't do a fucking thing about it. If I happen to walk into your place of work, you will serve me with a smile on your face the entire time too. It's pretty fucked up and I can't understand why you do it to yourself. I did for a few years and am thankful everyday I left for greener pastures. You could too.
To be fair to them, losing the $2 an hour of their actual base pay is hardly a threat. For them, the customers that don't tip are nothing but extra work that they won't get paid for. So yeah, they'd probably rather be unemployed than put up with a busy restaurant for next to no pay.
The tipping situation is busted and I would love to see a more normal compensation picture for the restaurant industry as literally every other industry. However as things are now, the restaurant workers are just downright boned if no tips, and they have essentially nothing to work for if there are no tips.
taking money out of service employees pockets
Doesn't your employer pay your wage?
Alot of states in the US have like the opposite of pro rated minimum wage where they actually are paid less than minimum wage because they earn tips.
So like a waitress earns $2.75/hour as opposed to $10/hour because she might make that up in tips within the hour. That's the thought anyways.
So what happens if they don't make any tips? Surely they still need to make the legal minimum wage?
I look at it as Actual price = menu price + lowest suggested tip + $5 tip awkwardness penalty. So a place near me has a $12 lunch-size sub sandwich that's really good. But they ask for a 15% tip. So rather than just never eat at my favorite sandwich spot, I regard it as a $18.80 lunch and only buy it on rare occasions or when my company is paying.
You tip a fastfood?
If I'm getting it to go, no tip. Or just the tip.
Same. I multiply any restaurant price by 4/3 to account for taxes, fees, and tips when determining if I want to go.
Taxes and fees should included in the price, in civilised countries anyway. That sounds like such a pain.
They are included in the price in civilized countries. It is only a very very limited number of places where you can't hand a cashier $5 to pay for something literally labelled $5 and then walk out.
I think the guy you replied to is from the US.
Thanks for subsidizing my $12 sandwiches I guess lol. That sure helps me out! Don't think it helps the servers much in the long run though.
Going anyway and just not tipping is also a completely acceptable and legally protected option. Sort of like saying 'no thank you' to the grocery store check out person asking for charity donations or if you would like to sign up for the store credit card.
Again, it's optional. So people can also say 'yes' if they want and that's cool too I guess. Although tipping is inherently harmful to the server's baseline wage which is a bit problematic, if people want to tip they can and no one is stopping them. And I won't give them shit about it unless they specifically inquire about it. Since the whole thing is 'optional' after all I let them make their own decisions and if tipping gives them a nice release of serotonin or dopamine or something that makes them feel better, who am I to take that from them.
Just don’t eat out if you don’t want to tip. Tipping culture is fucked but servers are just as victimized as customers.
No thank you.
Going anyway and just not tipping is also a completely acceptable and legally protected option.
It's legal, but not tipping at a restaurant is cheap. It's also legal for them to ban you from the restaurant, which will probably happen if you give them a diatribe against tipping.
not tipping at a restaurant is cheap
If you actually believe this then they've already got to you. This is Stockholm Syndrome, or the Sunk Cost Fallacy, or good old peer pressure.
While they could definitely ban me and I'd have no problem with that at all, they won't... because the owners have no incentive to ban me. They make the exact same amount from me whether I tip or not.
I guess if someone went on a big rant that disturbed other customers and caused a loss of sales they may ban them. But otherwise, just quietly playing your bill and leaving, no...not getting banned lol.