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A tax on people-pleasing (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I want to share my perspective on this as someone who works for tips.

I don't like tips in theory, but I'd be below the poverty line without tips so I really appreciate them. I also enjoy that they act as a mechanism to adjust my wage to the work I'm actually doing; I produce much more value as an employee on a busy day than when it's dead, and without tips I'd make the same amount despite working much more.

I think realistically, unless we also massively adjust how the labour economy works, eliminating tipping would make profits higher for owners and make service industry workers poorer.

Like I'd gladly trade my tips for universal basic income, I would not trade my tips for poverty wages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wow what a massive adjustment to the labor economy that you give money to the workers what model on earth has something that advanced except every other nation almost on the planet that is not hyper capitalist class war pigs

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The one good thing about tipping is that it goes 100% to the actual worker standing in front of you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alright peeps, who is going to break the news to this person?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, it's kinda true.

Some places do tip sharing, but not most (though most have some sort of tipping out to the back of house staff,) and obviously you pay taxes on tips.

But I think the sentiment was that it's not lining the pockets of the business owner, which is true.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

the sentiment was that it's not lining the pockets of the business owner, which is true.

You have a lot of trust in these owners for one... They steal from workers regularly

But even if assume they are not outright stealing.

I ain't fucking tipping back of the house. Parasites turned tipping into full blown wahe subsidies for their shiti operations and I got a problem with that.

Hence I why I tip cash. Fuck the owner. It is not my obligation to pay for his staff while having zero input on how staffing is being done.

So, any tip that doesn't go to the server is theft imho

I don't understand why the normie is so willing to accept these clown schemes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I adjusted my tip to 10%. Yep they don't pay tax, so I adjusted accordingly

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol... How is this a meme.

Anyway, just avoid joints that need tipping. Fuck the restaurant industry and their fucking owners. I am done with that shite

Tipping amount goes up and quality of food and service down

Then they act indignant when three dudes need the check separate 🤡

WTF am I tipoing for, asshole?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyway, just avoid joints that need tipping.

That was always encouraged. If you don't want to tip, don't eat at restaurants in places where tipping is relied upon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I tip cash so the server doesn't need to share the tip with anyone when I do go out...

Remember folks this is an adversarial arrangement, fuck the owner 🐸

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

A tip a lot because jobs where you get tipped suck and I want to support workers in those situations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I still struggle with tipping on to go orders. I usually keep that at around 10% but sometimes I feel like even that much shouldn’t be warranted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It doesn't even make sense to do it then, but sometimes I cave to the pressure.

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