So now we’re victim blaming? “These lazy waiters need to get off their asses and attack the means for making rent without a union or support system of any kind!”
Dude come on. You keep dancing around this. I am talking about a standard-fare bar, what everyone considers them to be. Generally a dedicated space that serves alcohol with a year-round license. The last sentence you wrote is clearly what I am talking about. So yes, you do tip at bars for a beer.
The point is, did a bartender exert any more effort pulling out a beer and popping a bottle cap and handing it to you then somebody who made you a coffee?
Tipping at coffee shops is pretty culturally standard. I understand why you do not, but I am only trying to point out that whenever we start saying “I tip these people but not those people,” when clearly they all work a job that depends on tips to make it work, you’re just being inconsistent and are punishing one group arbitrarily over another.
If there is a massive mobilization effort for enough people to stop tipping collectively I'd be on board but that doesn't exist. So the people refusing to tip yet continuing to frequent these establishments while claiming moral highground are just hurting hard working people. I hate tip culture too but to not participate on an individual basis is inherently selfish once you understand how the system works.
Comb this thread. Find one acceptable comment explaining why they refuse to tip and how their actions help in the slightest. I agree the burden shouldn't be on us but the solution isn't to turn it around on other victims of this system.
All I'm reading is a sad attempt to create moral highground where there is none. Once again, I know you aren't so naive, so narrow-minded, as to believe that your not tipping someone is doing literally anything good. No way you believe it is helping to end tipping culture/improve wages. I know you don't believe that.
I don't disagree with anything you said. What i take issue with is people using it as justification for not tipping as if it somehow improves working conditions for those who depend on them.
Do you think by not tipping you are improving the lives of those who depend on tips for their income? Do you think that by not tipping you are hurting the employer/ending tipping culture?
Please point to where I ever said I support tipping culture. Because I can show you several comments where I explicitly said I don't. I'm saying your "protest" is ineffective and selfish.
But most people don’t so your individual effort without any effort to bring more people on board is you pretending that you’re somehow hurting employers, which you aren’t.
Complaining about tipping culture and then giving money to the people who perpetuate it while shafting employees making $2.15/hr in an effort to end it is truly insane.
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