AthenaAwakened
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Tipping is not required and if you get bad service, you'd be a fool to tip for that.
HOWEVER,
We allow this thing called a "tip wage" of $2.13.
The wage is based on customers tipping (which they are not required to do) enough to make up an actual wage of no less than $7.25, the federal minimum wage.
So customers are expected to pay the restaurant's employees.
When you go to the doctor, you aren't expected to pay her nurses.
When you go to the bank, you aren't expected to pay the tellers.
When you call the plumber, you are expected to pay her helper.
So why are we paying Olive Garden's wait staff?
Now before you kill me, I tip. I tip because I know without tips, rents don't get paid.
But I should not HAVE to tip. HAVING to tip feels less like an expression of thanks and more like a jack.
So in addition to tipping, I lobby lawmakers for a thriving wage for all workers, and expanding unions in all workplaces.
That way, if I tip or how much I tip is not dependent on how guilty I feel but how truly grateful I feel.
And servers don't have to "jump Jim Crow" trying to cajole two bucks out of beastly customers acting like jackasses.
So what do you think? Should the tip wage continue? What does tipping say about how we feel about labor?
HOWEVER,
We allow this thing called a "tip wage" of $2.13.
The wage is based on customers tipping (which they are not required to do) enough to make up an actual wage of no less than $7.25, the federal minimum wage.
So customers are expected to pay the restaurant's employees.
When you go to the doctor, you aren't expected to pay her nurses.
When you go to the bank, you aren't expected to pay the tellers.
When you call the plumber, you are expected to pay her helper.
So why are we paying Olive Garden's wait staff?
Now before you kill me, I tip. I tip because I know without tips, rents don't get paid.
But I should not HAVE to tip. HAVING to tip feels less like an expression of thanks and more like a jack.
So in addition to tipping, I lobby lawmakers for a thriving wage for all workers, and expanding unions in all workplaces.
That way, if I tip or how much I tip is not dependent on how guilty I feel but how truly grateful I feel.
And servers don't have to "jump Jim Crow" trying to cajole two bucks out of beastly customers acting like jackasses.
So what do you think? Should the tip wage continue? What does tipping say about how we feel about labor?