You agreed to a wage when you took the position and make the choice to maintain that with your employer, but its everyone else's responsibility to fix it?
deadtom
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The business owner didn't even play a direct part in any of this.
Yeah they just make more money because the server and the employer made an agreement whereby the server takes less from the employer and expects more from the customer in return.
Totally not involved at all... just how they want you to think of the situation.
Are you sure about that?
https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/
After the Constitution was amended in the wake of the Civil War, slavery was ended as an institution but those who were freed from bondage were still limited in their choices. Many who did not end up sharecropping worked in menial positions, such as servants, waiters, barbers and railroad porters. These were pretty much the only occupations available to them. For restaurant workers and railroad porters, there was a catch: many employers would not actually pay these workers, under the condition that guests would offer a small tip instead.
“These industries demanded the right to basically continue slavery with a $0 wage and tip,” Jayaraman says.
Servers want the status quo because they make more money expecting the rest of us to pay 20-30% markup as a tip with the risk of getting stiffed from time to time. Let them demand whatever they feel is a compensatory wage for their time just like the rest of us. They were fine when the scales tipped their way.
IMO servers sold themselves down the river because it allowed them to make more money than back of house staff. Now that everyone is getting tired of this shit it's the responsibility of the customer to negotiate them a better position? Laughable.
As someone that worked the kitchen and made less than servers while doing as much if not more work, hard pass. Servers are just mad people are getting tired of this shit and they can't easily double or triple what the person that actually made the food makes.
There are very few situations where, in my opinion, an eye for an eye would be appropriate. This is one of those situations.
When you are given authority over someone else's life you should be panicked over the idea of causing them significant harm understanding if you do, it will be revisited upon you. For many a prison sentence is a death sentence because of their keepers aren't interested in maintaining life as much as they are maintaining absolute authority and control.
I don't expect that you have all the beliefs that right wing media paints democrats as.
Is it because they are well documented liars?
When Fox News successfully argued in court that no reasonable person would believe the content presented in Tucker Carlson's production was factual or true, and was instead just entertainment, did that give you pause? Are you a reasonable person? If you've believed any of their programming Fox doesn't think you are.
Or can I assume you don't know about it because Right Wing media doesn't cover any deficiencies of the conservative machine unless they've gotten out of line, and are instead just fascist cheerleaders willing to say anything for power? Ends justify the means afterall...
Are you a Republican?
Tell me friend, do you support:
Child marraige predominantly expressed through older men marrying young girls with whom they can legally rape? (I don't believe a child can consent, do you?)
Child labor, "the children are our future" but also we should steal their prime growth years so meat packing plants can find more meat for the grinders and not have to pay living wages.
Dissolution of the department of education to kill public education in America
Starving school children of low income families, many of which only get their highest quality meal at school
Unchecked capitalism resulting in an ever widening gap between the ultra rich and the rest of us, such that many are being priced out of any semblance of the lie that is the "American Dream" exploding the number of homeless?
Do you look down on the unhoused as just lazy entitled people who would surely squander any support on drugs, rather than your fellow Americans who are suffering hard times, mental illness, or both?
What about just flat out lawlessness, where one party is disinterested in enforcing laws against their party members and make threats of violence and civil war against any attempts by others to fairly apply the law? And instead they indicate an eagerness to lock up their political enemies despite being unable to bring any evidence of crimes?
Genuinely curious because you seem to be able to understand the current reality, but you cling to an ideal that i would guess has left you behind long ago.
It isn't physically addictive, but it can be mentally so. Your body isn't going to start eating itself if you don't get it, but you will probably feel anxious and maybe feel cravings if you break the habit though.
On a trip to Singapore and surprisingly not having as much issue as I thought based on my normal consumption. Gonna be fun to see how it goes when I get back.
"We're TOTALLY going to start policing ourselves one day. Just you wait and see. When? This year isn't good we have an election coming up and we need to make sure the American people can weigh in on this very important matter [so we can see if Republicans will overthrow democracy and we can move on from this without change. Clarence's mom ain't paying rent and I got "baseball tickets" ill need another "small" loan for...]."
He should be given the longest sentence he tried to foist on an innocent. Marijuana convictions get longer time than this sack of shit did for actually ruining multiple lives.
Its funny how schizophrenic your posts are from thread to thread.
Go get a better job if you're unhappy with the responsibility of fighting for your earnings as a server. If nobody chooses to work serving jobs... then restaurants would have to do something more to compensate to bring in servers. Instead servers like the status quo because they make more money by culturally shaming people into donating to them.
Quit. Find better employment. Go be a cook, though they don't usually make as much as servers despite actually making the food. Funny how that works.
Just not by the server though right? It's the customers responsibility to manage the terms of employment for the hapless server in your scenario?