It should be remembered that tipping is a nebulous system based on loose social constructs (Is “standard” these days 10%, 15%, or 20%? If I use a gift card should I tip on the original price per item, or tip the difference betwen the regular price and the discount, or whichever is larger? In groups of 6 or more do I tip on top of the automatic gratuity?) and guilt (But their wages are so low!). The average adult is capable of writing down a food order, giving it to someone else to cook, and carrying the meal back to the table, so stop acting like tipped positions are in any way skilled labor.
If you find yourself unable to negotiate for fair wages with the person who actually employs you, and depending on the kindness of strangers for rewarding you to do a simple task is unacceptable perhaps you should develop a skill set that would allow you to escape both those situations.
You feel entitled to great food at a cheap price? You feel offended by high prices set by management, so you take out your frustration on a worker who can’t change those prices. You probably know they are paid well below America’s already shamefully low minimum wage. You probably know they work hard for their tips, and depend on them to feed their family.
But it’s more fun to punish the staff if you don’t like the prices in the restaurant you chose to visit. Here’s an idea: you can part with even less money by not eating out. Those greedy waiters you stiffed last week will probably be sorry to see you go, but hey, it’s their own fault for not being investment bankers.
It’s kind of a dickish attitude to imply that people who do simple jobs don’t deserve a living wage.
I have a masters degree but I used to work alongside garbage truck drivers and sewer workers. Just because I developed a different skill set doesn’t mean I think they deserve less respect (or even necessarily less wages) than I do.
Complains about doing the job he has been hired to do “This sandwich takes time to make” AND complains that he has lots of customers “There was a line forming”
Mentions tips in any way to the customer. This alone would be a fire-able offense at most of the restaurants I’ve worked at.
Then complains on a world wide media outlet about the customers, calling them out by name.
and I’m supposed to feel sorry for him? What exactly did he do right in this situation? Glass, Lewis and Co. might be completely staffed by huge assholes, but this guy is the architect of his own downfall.
Where is this written down and established as fact? Who is the governing body who decided it?
Some would say, and I’ve heard it from servers and regular old people too, that if the tip would be less than the regular cost of the meal you should just tip to make up the difference.
that aside, what if it was a coupon and the service was “bad”. What if the service was mediocre? What if the order came out wrong? Was it the servers fault or the kitchens? What if the server noticed the order was wrong, had the kitchen fix it, but forgot to inform me and I believed it was simply taking forever to get my meal? Was the kitchen properly staffed that night? Was the dining room? How could those effect my perception of the quality of service?
Why is it up to me to decide how much a person should be earning based on a five to ten minute interaction when I do not have the necessary information to evaluate their performance, nor do I have the inclination to do so as I just wanted a fucking hamburger. Tipping is dumb
I can’t believe (or maybe I can, since there are so many cheap bas____ds in the world) that people are shocked at the idea of tipping the people who make your meal at a food truck! Do any of you skinflints think that these people are making a living wage? The other food trucks should refuse service to the cheap idiots at Glass, Lewis & Co. until THEY issue an apology and cough up a few bucks.
That’s gross. Seriously. Was it supposed to be witty? It wasn’t.
Tip or don’t tip, but do you have to be insulting? I think it’s beneath a person - self-demeaning - to ask why they weren’t tipped, but I’m lucky not to have to work for tips. Either way, just be a damn human being about it.
a $170 order at a food truck, where other orders had to be finessed and put on hold? There is customer-service going on there.
This IS a situation where tipping is called for in the first place. In the second place – don’t be a dick. In the third place – bring your own d**n lunch next time.
But but but that would be… socialism! All the wonderful CEO’s would flee to bastions of true freedom like… well you know, the bastions. Then our poor corporations would have to make do with second-tier CEO’s who didn’t attend the very best schools and marry into important families.
Example: I made the mistake of dining at a sit-down deli in midtown Manhattan recently. It was a convenient location, but I’d forgotten how absolutely insultingly overpriced and mediocre the place was. (It’s deli food for wealthy tourists who don’t know what they’re doing. Not Carnegie.) But by the time I’d remembered, hell, we’d been seated, the show we were seeing down the street was in an hour, so we made do and will vote with our dollars by not making the repeat mistake of returning to that place.
To be honest, the menu made my blood boil. I’m a lifelong New Yorker, I know what things cost, and I found the prices just gross for the quality and portion sizes offered.
But we sure as hell tipped the waitstaff the standard 20%. They didn’t set the prices. They weren’t the dummies who said, “Hey, let’s eat at XXXX because it’s down the street from the theater!” That would be me.
I never implied any such thing. I pointed out the plain truth that low skill jobs will always command low wages as low skill jobs are easy to fill.
And as for “deserving”, no one deserves anything. Your presence on earth does not entitle you to one jot. It behooves us to make sure that are fellow citizens are compensated properly for the value the provide, but that is a far cry from deserving a fair wage.
Hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone work for a wage lower than what is needed to supply them and their families with appropriate food, housing and medicine.
You seem to be completely and utterly out of touch with actual human existence, and may be living in a world consisting of dogmatic absolutes. It’s too bad the rest of the world can’t afford to live there, too. A lot of suffering would be avoided.
OTOH, they identified themselves as employees of the Company X.
Much in the same way that some person that happens to work for Food Truck X sent a tweet about the lack of tipping on an order from a group of people from Company X.
But, yeah, somewhat. As has been pointed out elsewhere, individual was painting all of Company X with a broad-brush, while not seeming to realize that his actions did the same for Food Truck X.
Those mine workers. They KNEW there was the possibility of black lung when they were hired. They KNEW there could be cave-ins that would trap them for week. And the KNEW they would only get paid in script redeemable only at the company store.
And yet they complain about the job they were hired to do, mention those conditions in any way to the public customers, and complain on a world wide media outlet!
