purplejabberwocky:

thehats:

penguinfaery:

stfusexists:

As much I’d like to reward a server for a job well done, there are many times (in fact most of the time) when I literally cannot afford it.

I’m currently an unemployed student, so whatever money I have is from student loans or money my parents gave me. If I eat out, it…

WTF.

The tip is part of a meal at a sit down restaurant. If you don’t have the money for the tip, you don’t have the money for the meal. If you are so broke you can’t tip, go to fast food, go to a grocery store, go to one of the MANY OTHER OPTIONS where you can get food without tipping. 

I am a broke college student also, who can’t cook for shit. But I don’t screw other people over for it. Being poor doesn’t mean putting out other poor people (And I have never met a wait person who couldn’t use the extra $5)

I agree with this in states with a below-minimum server wage. In states where servers earn general minimum wage or higher, though, I don’t feel so strongly about it. Here in WA, I earned more/hour before tips as a server than I’m earning now as an auditor.

… This is an extremely weird post for me to read, just because we don’t tip here in Australia. Yes, there are some places who have jars and such out for tips, but in my experience, in the vast majority of places, tipping is neither expected nor required.

If servers rely so much on tips then I get, academically, why you’d have to require tips in terms of a social expectation. That said, the outright scandalisation and rage directed towards those in this post who don’t tip is almost frightening from my perspective. We don’t tip. We don’t need to. And if I went to America, I’m sure I would forget every single time, whether I can afford to tip or not.

In some states, the minimum wage for servers is as low as $2.13/hr. To put that in serious perspective: That’s enough to pay their state and federal tax withholdings on their expected income and no more. They might take home a paycheck of $40 for two week’s full-time work. Servers in those states depend wholly upon tips for their actual income.

It’s a broken system. Employers are allowed to run their businesses, governing their employees as they wish without actually paying them, leaving the servers’ income dependent on the mood or forgetfulness of every customer.

http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

penguinfaery:

stfusexists:

As much I’d like to reward a server for a job well done, there are many times (in fact most of the time) when I literally cannot afford it.

I’m currently an unemployed student, so whatever money I have is from student loans or money my parents gave me. If I eat out, it…

WTF.

The tip is part of a meal at a sit down restaurant. If you don’t have the money for the tip, you don’t have the money for the meal. If you are so broke you can’t tip, go to fast food, go to a grocery store, go to one of the MANY OTHER OPTIONS where you can get food without tipping. 

I am a broke college student also, who can’t cook for shit. But I don’t screw other people over for it. Being poor doesn’t mean putting out other poor people (And I have never met a wait person who couldn’t use the extra $5)

I agree with this in states with a below-minimum server wage. In states where servers earn general minimum wage or higher, though, I don’t feel so strongly about it. Here in WA, I earned more/hour before tips as a server than I’m earning now as an auditor.

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