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Blogs > MulleenofMelb > An exploration

Should you tip?  

MulleenofMelb 58M
2282 posts
4/19/2018 6:23 am

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4/23/2018 1:03 am
Should you tip?

Should you tip?
Should you tip?
why use the carrot without the whip
if every interaction a mandatory tip produces
then to mercantile behaviour every interaction reduces
wouldn't life for all be better if
the customer a living could not server stiff
by the server earning a fair wage
so be no need if no tip for rage
the tip become again a compliment
a praise for good service in the moment
as a tip was once meant to be
not standard but complimentary
instead of living on tips which customer pay
a reasonable living wage to cover cost of day
for the customer in the end pays the same amount
does not need to look at bill and percentage count
wonder if in each exchange positive karma gain
or if tip insufficient leave someone else in pain
make it not a question of how much to be tipped
instead all staff with a living wage be equipped
a wage which can pay the bills and for food
a wage to enable the lowest paid to feel good
not a wage dependent on mechanical charity
for that is a life on tips with dreadful clarity
if not enough is earned from tips no escape
for the wage inadequate to through life scrape
a tipping economy means one must ingratiate to earn
the tips for efforts a wage should fairly return
is it time to believe tips as pay are done
people instead a fair daily wage always earn.

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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/23/2018 12:05 am

 If it is good friendly service, I often tip with "be nice to your mother"....a reasonable and good life tip.......the serving staff seem less enamored of this form of humour
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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/23/2018 12:04 am
    Quoting gensan50:
    depends on the service and if tip is already included on the bill. I will also ask the waiter or waitress how she gets her tips, if they are shared with the dish washer ect and so on
must make for an interesting conversation (honestly) to see the micro relationships you tip does, or does not, foster in a place which takes tips.....I mean if you get great food, and the dishes/cutlery/glassware is all sparkling, and yet the waiting staff are slow and obnoxious.....should you withhold or minimise your tip, as only one component of the "serving team" is awry??

thanks for the comment.
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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/23/2018 12:01 am
    Quoting Jagermann78:
    Now a days gratuity is automatically being added to the check in many restaurants. It was only after a few checks I realized this. Automatically tipping 20% and they left the little tip line on the receipt and I gave an additional 15%. I am not angry about that. I just pay more attention now.

    No, what chaps my ass is that (unless it has changed since I worked in food service) federal wage laws say you can pay a server less than minimum wage because they receive tips. Since I am seeing this post I assume it is still that way. So that gives the manager the chance to bring in another underpaid worker (bus boy) and the server has to split the tips. Two for the price of one. Guests see more people moving about and subconsciously eat faster and leave sooner.
from previous reading I think that law may still be in place if not at a federal level, definitely at a state level in place......it does seem to be cheating the customer to give the impression of better service, by greater exploitation of those doing the serving.....

...and how they are divided, and who gets the tips. always appeared to me to be an area easily corrupted.
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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/22/2018 11:58 pm
    Quoting  :
a $20.00 tip of sorts

Now I wonder what a $20.00 tip of sorts is? Was the tip in the form of some barter goods? a twenty dollar silver piece glued to the floor? Or a twenty dollar bill left unintentionally behind?

In the "States" I did see those wash room attendants and their tip trays, and steered well clear, never knowing what the going rate was, is, for taking a tinkle; having to show a strong constitution till I found an unattended facility!
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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/22/2018 11:54 pm

 looking at your profile pic, i now wondering if you thought I meant "giving the tip" or "giving a tip", however I am sure in a situation where you are dining out you mean the latter.

thanks for the comment!
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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/22/2018 11:47 pm
    Quoting Johnsfolly:
    I have worked for tips before and you get educated on people and their whims. It's worth the experience. For me, if I get good service I'll leave a good tip, bad or indifferent service I might leave something but not much of anything. You give me exceptional service I've been known to leave quite a bit over 20%.
do you tip when the tip is noted as "already included in the bill"?

and would you tip less, if you knew the servers were getting a stated livable wage?

this whole almost compulsory tipping relationship, to an observer, looks challenging!
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sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
4/19/2018 8:14 pm

 I always tip
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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/19/2018 7:21 pm
    Quoting TicklePlease:
    Goodness... aiming for another highly charged comment section again I see! Exciting!

    *getspopcorn

    (personally I think there should be a fair wage paid for fair work, employees of any business shouldn't have to rely on the whims or cultural norms of their customers to make a living.)
I am as transparent as celofan...

and what you said
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Jagermann78 45M

4/19/2018 8:35 am

 Now a days gratuity is automatically being added to the check in many restaurants. It was only after a few checks I realized this. Automatically tipping 20% and they left the little tip line on the receipt and I gave an additional 15%. I am not angry about that. I just pay more attention now.

No, what chaps my ass is that (unless it has changed since I worked in food service) federal wage laws say you can pay a server less than minimum wage because they receive tips. Since I am seeing this post I assume it is still that way. So that gives the manager the chance to bring in another underpaid worker (bus boy) and the server has to split the tips. Two for the price of one. Guests see more people moving about and subconsciously eat faster and leave sooner.
J.


MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
4/19/2018 6:31 am

 the question in an economy
going cashless where the electronic change
will not form as tips
how then do the servers earn
a fair wage for their work in return.
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TicklePlease 56F  
13851 posts
4/19/2018 6:30 am

 Goodness... aiming for another highly charged comment section again I see! Exciting!

*getspopcorn

(personally I think there should be a fair wage paid for fair work, employees of any business shouldn't have to rely on the whims or cultural norms of their customers to make a living.)


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