• unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Until we end tipping culture, tip your servers.

    If everyone continues to tip by default, then I believe this will delay or prevent an end to the culture. If servers don’t have an issue with tipping (because everyone does so), then there is less reason to support change.

    If one person doesn’t tip:

    You’re just an asshole.

    If a large majority doesn’t tip:

    Maybe there is a problem with tipping by default?

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      That’s not how anything works. If you want change, you need to vote for it. You’re not going to change the entire economic structure of the whole restaurant industry by being a selfish asshole. You’re just punishing the people who handle your food and making life harder for everyone.

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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      If the large majority doesn’t tip, wait staff will become homeless. That’s the only “message” you’re sending. Restaurant owners won’t care in the slightest.

      Don’t patronize organizations that don’t pay their employees. This is the message, you’re claiming you want to send. You have to take money away from the people who set the policy, not the worker who has to live under the policy. Find restaurants that refuse tips and spend your money there. (Or just don’t go out.)

      Until we end tipping, tip your servers.

        • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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          9 hours ago

          Are you advocating for no more servers? Or are you suggesting that only the desperate should do the job? Or is your point that someone who chooses to be victimized by society should simply accept their rung on the ladder?

        • KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          9 hours ago

          They do, their alternatives are being homeless, or working at another company that’s very likely managed the exact same way.

          The lack of a social safety net or sufficient welfare, empowers exploitative labour conditions.

        • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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          9 hours ago

          Restaurants are the backstop for a lot of people that have nowhere else to work. They aren’t worried about a spotty background check, they won’t run a drug screening, they just care that you show up on time.