Imagine being this proud about being this much of an asshole. Imagine thinking that wanting to get tipped is “millennial entitlement“ instead of literally the only fucking way that waitresses make money. What the hell dude? He doesn’t say anything about her being a rude server. What did she do to deserve you treating her like shit?
Why does not leaving a tip imply he treated her like a piece of excrement?
Why are tips the only way servers make money?
Why are servers the only service industry to expect a tip?
While I was never a server, I did work in the service industry.
In university, I pumped gas. For 3 very long years, +40 or -40, i was out there pumping gas. No one paid a tip, neither did I expect one, my employer paid me a wage that I agreed to and If I didn’t like my job, I was free to quit.
If the issue is substandard wages, then why frequent an establishment that under pays their employees? Why work there unless the expectation that we, the public, will pay them more. If it’s about being served, then shall we tip fast food workers? Coffee shop employees? How about your plumber or mail carrier?
So again, why does not tipping make a person a jerk. Isn’t the real jerk the employer who refuses to pay extra because they know that you will pay more so they don’t have to?
Dude, most servers literally make about two dollars an hour without tips. The restaurant industry is unique in that way (technically the restaurants are supposed to make up the difference if their servers don’t get tipped but plenty of wait staff will tell you it doesn’t always work out that way). I agree it’s very shitty way to run the business and it should change (in Europe for example most people don’t tip at restaurants because the servers are making at least minimum wage). It’s pretty common knowledge that waitresses do not get paid outside of tips so if you know this and decide not to tip then you are, in fact, an asshole.
Not only do I always tip my wait staff, but as much as possible I tip in cash. Sometimes I even leave a note stating that this is a monetary gift rather than a tip and therefore does not need to be reported as income because fuck taxes.
one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math
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Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.
Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.
Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?
Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.
apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office
this is the phone. he apparently was in the middle of a meeting with the department the other day and got annoyed so he pressed a button, said “I have to take this” and left
But Amazon’s lease agreements require restaurants to stay open late into the night. Some restaurants have tried to close early because they found they couldn’t generate enough business at night to justify the cost of staying open. Marination co-owner Roz Edison asked Amazon to allow the restaurant to close on Sundays because business drops 50-60% on weekends. Amazon denied the request.Some former restaurant employees told The Seattle Times that Amazon security guards micromanage shops and track when they close. One restaurant owner likened Amazon to “Big Brother,” a claim Amazon has pushed back on.
Amazon security guards?
Did they do a Robocop with their own privatized police force?
Nope! I’ve actually worked Amazon Security before. They contract out to companies like G4S and Securitas.
It’s a brutal post. You’re watched like a hawk and the slightest breach of policy or protocol gets you fired nearly instantly. I recall one guard getting dropped after 6 years of employment with no complaints or write ups because they gave an employee a hug on their birthday (at the employees request; they knew each other outside of work).
It surprises me not in the slightest that if Amazon had contractual obligations such as this they would make it standard procedure to track and report. Normally I’d say “okay, so just don’t work for a company that does shit you don’t like” but since you’re a contractor it isn’t that simple- Amazon isn’t your employer and you dont always get the most say over which site you’re assigned to.
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