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DrTautology ,

Unfucking believable. Not a single mention of the actual problem in that article. Not a single mention of who is to blame.

Moghul ,

Humans are dumb as fuck. Reddit was full of people mad at moderators for protesting Reddit’s api changes just a few weeks ago.

Rakonat ,

Dollars to donuts most of those were probably bots

Moghul ,

Nah, people are absolutely dumb enough to call the mods childish losers for standing up for themselves.

PlanetOfOrd ,

What is the actual problem that’s not mentioned?

DrTautology , (edited )

Billion dollar companies can pay their employees $2 an hour…

PlanetOfOrd ,

Why do you think they do this?

DrTautology ,

Because they’re greedy and it’s legal…

SCB ,

No it’s because customers are happier this way and the service staff makes more than they would otherwise, in a way that responds to inflationary pressures.

DrTautology ,

Not only is this untrue, but it is disingenuous. I suggest you do more research about tipping and service wages in general.

SCB ,

It is absolutely true and I worked as a server for a decade, and still have friends working tipped jobs.

CoderKat ,

I disagree that customers are happier. People constantly complain about tipping. Those people are clearly not happy. Much of the world doesn’t do the tipping model, so it doesn’t seem like it is worthwhile for quality of service.

I do agree that staff are happier because they on average would make more (at least more than the paltry minimum wage most states have). But it comes at the cost of taking advantage of customers (basically trying to guilt trip them into paying more). I don’t support such business practices. Not to mention it’s not actually fair pay. You’re not actually being paid for quality of service. You’re paid for how much they like you, which leads to racial and gender pay disparities.

And the real winner? The business that gets to pay pennies to wait staff. They could incorporate the average tip into their prices and maintain the same pay. But they don’t want to. They want to advertise low prices so that they can get the full value from low tippers. They often even outright push mandatory tipping with auto gratuities, which is peak sleazeball behavior.

SCB ,

People only complain about tipping online. In the real world, that doesn’t happen.

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