27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Anybody who has worked in a service industry can tell you stuff like this is common. (Although this is sort of above and beyond vileness). Aside from the ‘idelogical opposition to tipping’ strategy, another common tip avoidance strategy I find particularly loathsome is the ‘effusive verbal praise instead of a tip’ tip.
Seriously. If you’re speaking with a waiter at any restaurant where a meal costs less than $100, then they’re likely making less than minimum wage. Kind words don’t pay rent.
We have some upscale restaurants as part of the business I work for. It’s like average $50 a meal. The waitstaff still make less than minimum, and dog help you if the accounting and payroll software goes on the fritz for a day. The only people who make better than minimum are the event coordinators, the managers, and the head chef and sous chef.
There’s a recipe for snails very like that which involves tomatoes, stock, vegetables, spices and garlic made into a hot, tasty soup. Then you take out the snails, look at them, put them in the garden and eat the soup.
(we used to have a house with a limestone wall around much of the garden that hosted vast numbers of snails, and as we were 100% organic once a year a local organisation would collect our snails and sell them as street food for charity. I never, ever ate one.)
I’m sure even some Australians moralize to the waitstaff the way some Americans do. We didn’t exactly invent talking down to working people… although Americans are an outlier on the religiosity/wealth curve, so specifically religious moralizing is probably more likely to occur in America. Classist moralizing happens everywhere, though.
Really? You’ve never heard the old “if you worked hard like me you wouldn’t be stuck in this shitty job” line? I was pretty sure classist moralizing occurred everywhere, even if religious moralizing is far more common in the US.
