Sometimes it's fun to randomly tip a bunch of twenties. Just for reactions and shit.
I didn't say I agreed with it. But that is how it is.
possum mentioned the loophole that was supposed to have been designed to protect the waitstaff. But try taking your employer to court over shortchanging your paycheck by $50 or $100. It takes years and employers know it. It's so easy to fire an employee and then refuse to give them a reference in the US. The employers have all the power.
Canada's a little better. Our labour laws are a little kinder. But waitstaff still make crap money. I think it recently went up to $9/hour, which is not enough to live on. Minimum is $11. Rent on a small 1 bedroom apartment in a mid sized city is about $800 + anywhere from $80 to $150/ month in utilities. Toronto rents are double that.
Refusing to tip over here is somewhere between selfish and cruel. I can see why some waitstaff spit in people's food when the people are being cheap assholes.
I tip. On principle.
Wait staff make 2/3 of minimum wage here and smthg like 1/4 of minimum in the US. Those scenes in Million Dollar Baby where the girl had to pinch her customers' half eaten food bc she couldn't afford her groceries and her gym membership were truth. Wait staff are that poor without their tips.
If I have enough money to go out and spend $50 or $60 on a meal I could cook at home for $5, I can tip 15%. Otherwise, I have no business going to a restaurant in the first place. I even tip 10% for mediocre service bc waitstaff have horrid jobs.
People who have the money to eat out but are too cheap to tip are just selfish assholes.
If you want to prove a point 'on principle' cook your own fuckin meals, you entitled fuckwads.
Isn't the entire point of minimum wage that it's the minimum an employer can pay their staff?
In Ireland, the minimum wage is something like €8 an hour, for any sort of work and it has to exclude tips, overtime etc etc. It's illegal for an employer to inflate their workers wages with tips.
I find it incredible that countries as wealthy as the U.S. and Canada would have different laws. There seems no point in a mandatory minimum wage if an employer doesn't actually have to pay it.
(Seems suspiciously like indentured servitude, except the "New World" is the next socioeconomic tier).
No. It's about dying a brutal death rather than quietly stealing back what's been taken from me. Most people simply agree that they'd rather steal than die.
Fortune cookie say: "You can save face or you can save ass."
Damn... I can lie and steal and skirt the issue like a politician and still have my face and my ass when I'm done xD