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> They have a crappy job and low pay. Dealing with the stress of computer generated everchanging schedules, rude customers, and management that treats you like

by 67726e 9y ago

> They have a crappy job and low pay. Dealing with the stress of computer generated everchanging schedules, rude customers, and management that treats you like a child is bad enough. When you couple that with barley making enough to survive, it's a pretty tough existence (realitive to my own). It's possible to make quite a nice living working F&B, a customer service job, in a tourist town. Don't just assume everyone working a role is beneath you and living some kind of shit existence.

learc83 9y ago
It has nothing to do with them being beneath me. Their are people making a nice living in every industry. The overwhelming majority of service workers do not. There's a possibility that my middle-aged waitress is independently wealthy and just doing this for fun, that doesn't stop me from leaving a $100 at Christmas time. It's not because I think I'm better than her, it's because in all likelihood, I've been just a bit luckier than her financialy.
- maccard 9y ago
  > It's not because I think I'm better than her, it's because in all likelihood, I've been just a bit luckier than her financialy. This is exactly what people here are talking about. The $100 tip shouldn't have anything to do with you being luckier financially, it should be a gesture of appreciation. A $100 tip isn't a gesture of appreciation normally, it's a gesture of "I am more fortunate than you, but I take pity on you so here you are."
  - ido 9y ago
    Solidarity with people less fortunate than you in not patronizing...social solidarity is a good thing.
  - iamacynic 9y ago
    so not only are you passing judgment on an act of goodwill, you are manufacturing the fundamental motivation and putting it into someone else's head as well. that's called projection. you surely would have come across that in all your pop psych and pop philosophy reading that you are obviously doing lately, right?
  - Dylan16807 9y ago
    Sharing money because you have more of it is not judgemental or saying someone is beneath you. Why would you think that?

by 67726e 9y ago

learc83 9y ago

It has nothing to do with them being beneath me. Their are people making a nice living in every industry. The overwhelming majority of service workers do not. There's a possibility that my middle-aged waitress is independently wealthy and just doing this for fun, that doesn't stop me from leaving a $100 at Christmas time. It's not because I think I'm better than her, it's because in all likelihood, I've been just a bit luckier than her financialy.

maccard 9y ago
> It's not because I think I'm better than her, it's because in all likelihood, I've been just a bit luckier than her financialy. This is exactly what people here are talking about. The $100 tip shouldn't have anything to do with you being luckier financially, it should be a gesture of appreciation. A $100 tip isn't a gesture of appreciation normally, it's a gesture of "I am more fortunate than you, but I take pity on you so here you are."
- ido 9y ago
  Solidarity with people less fortunate than you in not patronizing...social solidarity is a good thing.
- iamacynic 9y ago
  so not only are you passing judgment on an act of goodwill, you are manufacturing the fundamental motivation and putting it into someone else's head as well. that's called projection. you surely would have come across that in all your pop psych and pop philosophy reading that you are obviously doing lately, right?
- Dylan16807 9y ago
  Sharing money because you have more of it is not judgemental or saying someone is beneath you. Why would you think that?