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Seems like this strategy helps the worse workers and the ones who get the least amount of tips. Any thoughts on this? I would think individuals keeping their own tips would encourage everyone to be better at their job, what say you?
considering how attractive a wait staff is, they get tipped larger as well. Is it fair? At least pooling it, divvies it up
plus, I thought low paid workers like the communal sharing of money from the government. This is same thing except it affects them as well and not some imagined "rich" guy to tax
considering how attractive a wait staff is, they get tipped larger as well. Is it fair? At least pooling it, divvies it up
plus, I thought low paid workers like the communal sharing of money from the government. This is same thing except it affects them as well and not some imagined "rich" guy to tax
Pretty true on the second part.
Working in the point of sale business.. I don't overly have a dog in the fight, just have to program for alot of it.
Tip pooling I disagree with.. Tip SHARING.. With the bussers or cooking staff.. I can understand more. 10% or so of servers tips go to the folks who don't collect tips.
The one that totally blows my mind is where servers are expected to give part of their tips back to the store to cover credit card processing costs. Normally this is around 1 to 1.5%.
And that's totally legal.. Even in California. I sat there when I was told about this telling people they were full of crap.. There was no way that was legal. Sure enough.. it is.
I think it depends. I thought it was a good thing when I worked as a slot machine cashier at a casino. Some shifts or areas of the casino are better for tips. With the tip pooling, there wasn't the animosity or fighting over different areas or shifts, etc. All tips were collected until payday, then calculated at a per hour amount, with that amount added to our hourly wages for that pay period.
I ended up transferring to a different department where we kept our own tips, and it was frustrating. This was the "cage" or the bank where people would cash checks, and also cash out large amounts of chips, etc. It was weird how some people got more tips for doing the same exact job, whether they were friendlier or not.
For instance, if a teller was Chinese, the Chinese patrons would wait to go to him and tip him really well. Same with Filipinos. Or if a teller was a young, pretty woman, etc. There was no special service being given to customers. We were just lined up at windows doing the same job. For some reason this department let the cashiers keep their own tips, where the slot department pooled theirs.
In my experience, there were a lot more hard feelings between employees in the "cage," than in slots, where the tips were pooled. In that department, when your fellow slot cashier got a huge tip, we'd all celebrate, because we all got to share them.
I don't think it's always fair, but overall, I think it works out better to pool the tips.
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bus boys rarely get tips and they probably work hard.
This.
When I worked in a restaurant the waitresses were supposed to share their tips with the busboys who kept their sections clean. Only a few of the waitresses ever did that and the ones that kept the tips to themselves with the ones that demanded the most from the busboys. So I can see the point in having share tips .
When I worked in a restaurant the waitresses were supposed to share their tips with the busboys who kept their sections clean. Only a few of the waitresses ever did that and the ones that kept the tips to themselves with the ones that demanded the most from the busboys. So I can see the point in having share tips .
some places the bus boys won't clean tables of people who don't share tips.. hard to be a waitress and get tipped yourself if you have no clean tables in your area, or if it is done slowly, always the last section to get done, etc
There is really not that much of a relationship between working hard and getting tips. Most people leave a certain percentage unless the service is either horrific or unbelievable, and it usually isn't either one of those things, even if you work hard or don't work hard. So tip sharing or pooling is fair because it removes the vagaries of who got assigned what table, which is just chance and not really fair.
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