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Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul
Yes I am replaceable, damn near everybody is. I never said I wasn't. But less replaceable than someone who fills drinks and brings plates. I mean ANYONE can do that.
And I rarely drink and never go to bars, so no I don't tip at bars.
It's not "taking advantage" of anything. You're already paying for it. The price is there, I paid for it. The employee has a contract and a wage, he's getting paid. What the problem is?
And most places give +%!*$+ service whether you tip or not, and many people tip whether they get good service or not because they feel bad for the employees, so the system is screwed all around. Meanwhile the owners are grinning all the way to the bank because they have found a way to save like 75% of the wage they would normally have to pay employees by using a guilt trip based system to throw it onto the customers, who they're obviously already charging a premium for whatever it is they provide.
It's not like if I give you a big tip AFTER eating, that's going to allow you to go back in time and have given me my food faster. If you had that kind of ability, you wouldn't be working in a +%$@$*@ restaurant.
When I was in Europe, nobody ever tipped and they still had service 100x better than in the US, even with the language barrier.
When your job requires fill drinks, carry food point a to point then yes that's about 2 bucks an hour worth of brain power.
When you're a doctor and performing a life or death surgery, and there are a relatively limited number of you and it took you an extra 6-8yrs of college to develop such skill, then yes you deserve to be sonning everybody else in the salary department.
That was good for a laugh...