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Tipping culture is stupid, but that doesn't mean you get to fuck over workers by refusing the tips they rely on. If you want to fight that fight, take it up with the business or your legislator, ya cheap asshole.
Restaurant owners everywhere would be so happy to know you think the customers are the ones fucking over the workers
Do you imagine that the people refusing to pay tips aren't fucking over the workers, or do you believe that because customers are fucking over workers, the restaurant owners can't be fucking over the workers too?
It doesn't matter - either take is transparently stupid.
I believe it is on the owners to provide fair wages to workers. When the plumber, electrician, mechanic, sales rep, or whoever else tells you they don't make a livable wage, you're going to feel it is your responsibility to tip them too?
If you don't want to tip people that can't otherwise make minimum wage, use restaurants that pay minimum wage. You don't get to steal those workers' labour because the restaurateurs and legislators have failed them.
Others industries have to pay minimum wage - your contribution isn't factored into their base requirements for survival. This is a silly comparison. Do I support an increase in minimum wages? Abso-fucking-lutely - but electricians aren't routinely being paid less than $3/hr.
You recognize that restauratuers and legislators are the ones failing workers, yet you attribute the lost wages to the paying customer. What can we as paying customers do to fail the workers so that you recognize restauratuers and legislators as being responsible for their fair wages?
are you allergic to believing that two things can be true at once
If you fail to tip them, you've failed them too. It's not complex.
You argument absolves the restaurateurs if consistently applied because the legislators failed them upstream (that's not to speak of absolving the legislators because of the voters) - I'm saying the legislators failed them, then the restaurateurs failed them, then the people that refused to tip them failed them. There's not a single point of failure, but that doesn't mean it's OK for you to decide to be the ultimate point of failure.
oof another internet user who thinks two things can’t be true at once 💔
“yeah i know i slashed your tires but at least i’m not as bad as the oil and motor lobbies that make it so you’re reliant on your car to fucking commute to work and not starve, you should be grateful next time” — that’s how you sound 🫶
Ayup. I live in a non-tipping country, but in the US, well....
It's an arsehole tax
If you don't think restaurant managers deal with customers than all I can say is I'm so happy for you for never having to work in that industry lol. All of the other people you named also have customers they deal with except maybe the cook. Logistics company is the farmer's customer, restaurant owner is logistics company's customer, etc. All of said customers can also be arseholes.
Managers mostly placate and throw their waitstaff under the bus.
And no, logistics companies do not deal with the restaurant patron, the fuck are you on
I didn't say restaurant patron. Usually there is an employee or even the owner (what i said in my previous reply - not patron) of a restaurant that has to order and receive ingredients and other equipment to run the business. Suppliers also have employees that negotiate and coordinate deliveries with these restaurant staff. In this specific situation, the restaurant managers/owners are the customers of their suppliers.
So you're saying the restaurant owners should give the suppliers a good tip if they're polite and efficient? Nuance is hard
Not saying they should more than I'm asking why they shouldn't
Because being polite and accommodating to people who are being shitty to you isn't important for those jobs.
And i wasn't talking about logistics customers. I was very clearly talking about the restaurant customer, whom the waiter deals with.
So why should only restaurant customers tip? Why should only waiters expect tips?
Jesus christ dude, let it go.
You know why tipping is a thing in the US, and as I clearly stated, I don't live in a tipping country
Me too - though I've lived in both.
Choosing to frequent a business that you know underpays their workers, where you know those workers rely on tips to survive, then choosing to take their labour and not pay for that labour isn't an arsehole tax - it's an arsehole subsidy, and it's the workers footing the bill.
I think workers should be paid enough to live comfortably without relying on tips, and that they should be a nice, but entirely unnecessary option - but you don't get to steal workers' labour just because you disagree with tipping.
An arsehole tax that you don't need to pay if you are an arsehole?
How would that work?