• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Ahh yes, verge of a recession, but there’s enough money to patronize a sit down restaurant where it’s well known that the owner pays their staff starvation wages. Fuck your server!

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      10 months ago

      Yeah… If you can’t afford the tip, then you can’t afford the meal. If you’re morally opposed to tipping culture, then don’t give money to the restaurants who rely on tipping.

      Not tipping at a restaurant isn’t some revolutionary act, it’s just being a dick to workers. Waiters aren’t some sort of class betrayer, they’re just another worker being screwed over by management.

      I don’t like tipping culture either, but at the end of the week that waiter is still going to have to pay rent.

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          10 months ago

          So I need to stop using a service because of the way they treat their workers?

          Yes, it’s pretty easy to find a restaurant with self service.

          Tell me, do you use Amazon? Walmart? Do you eat McDonald’s? Or Dunkin donuts?

          No, I don’t. Most vendors on Walmart or Amazon have their own stores online with the same pricing, and I don’t eat fast food.

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          10 months ago

          Fuck yes you entitled douche!

          If you are morally opposed to how a service treats its workers and you still use the service, you’re aren’t actually morally opposed, you’re just an asshole virtue signaler.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, if you’re not tipping, you’re not fucking over the owner. You’re not railing against the tipping system. You’re just fucking over your server. Which makes you a dick.

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        10 months ago

        If everyone stopped tipping, the wait staff would demand more money, or leave. The owner would have to pay more to employees.

        So yeah, not tipping is fucking over the waiter, unless everyone stopped tipping. Then that would fuck over the owner.

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          10 months ago

          And then you would pay more for your meal, bringing it up to the same price as you paid before with the tip. Except probably the servers would make less money. People seem to overlook the fact that servers actually tend to make pretty good money in comparison to jobs with similar qualifications (although there’s a bunch of caveats on that).

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            10 months ago

            And then there would be fewer patrons because the higher price is not optional. Staff would be cut, and eventually the restaurant would downsize or close. Servers that make good money are the exception, and that is due to tips.

            If tips weren’t an issue. The meme would be irrelevant and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

            Let’s no go halfway; have customers pay the full salaries of all employees, including benefits. See how ridiculous that sounds.

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          10 months ago

          The “Fuck your server” At the end implies the preceding statement is about the server and it’s a bit jarring to read if it’s not.

          Fuck your server, “Fuck your server”, or Fuck your server /s would have been more clear.

          While the sarcasm is clear in your head when you write it, it’s often lost if you don’t denote it in some way. That’s why /s became a thing.