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.
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
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.
The one good thing about tipping is that it goes 100% to the actual worker standing in front of you.
Alright peeps, who is going to break the news to this person?!
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.
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