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Does anybody else find this non stop begging for tips out of control? I live in California. The least an employee can be paid is the state minimum wage of $12 an hour.
On January 1, 2020 it goes up to $13 an hour. Yet every where I go there's a tip jar. I begrudgingly tip waitresses 15%, but that's it. It's not rocket science.
I refuse to tip anybody else. If you don't like your job, get a different one. If you don't like your wages, talk to your employer, not me. If you made a bad career choice, I'm sorry.
Um, the issue arises when retirement income is less (sometimes significantly less) than one's working income. Which is, I daresay, more the norm than the exception.
"Fixed income" is irrelevant. "Smaller, fixed income" is absolutely relevant.
Does anybody else find this non stop begging for tips out of control? I live in California.
I'm sorry you live in California. My sympathy.
Here goes another contentious tip thread, in which participants bash each other amid accusations of "Cheapskate!" and nothing is ever settled.
The easy way to avoid seeing tip jars is to prepare food at home. Notice how supermarket checkers never ask to be tipped?
I'm the world's worst cook but even I can make quesadillas and reheat soup from Whole Foods. We have cut back on eating out quite a bit in the last few months. Now it's mostly reserved for social occasions.
Restaurant wages have always been much, much lower than other jobs. That is why tipping has always been expected. Does CA require $12 or $13 per hour for restaurant workers?
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Lots of 'tip jars' for counter help in Seattle ($15 / hr minimum wage)
"Seattle Freeze" culture, so customer interactions / service is totally non-existent, it's unknown in that culture.
Wait staff makes certain you know how much they hate serving you.
30 second transactions, what is the appropriate tip amount?
Many places here in CA will help you out by including the tip in the bill.
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