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Imagine if every coder was paid below minimum wage and depended on tips in every paycheck... it assumes a default that the employee needs a daily threat of puni
by ilkan 7y ago
Imagine if every coder was paid below minimum wage and depended on tips in every paycheck... it assumes a default that the employee needs a daily threat of punishment from moody strangers to do acceptable work. Not a fun environment.
- glofish 7y agoit is not a good analogy, you can't immediately tell that a piece of code is good or bad. If you could tell that in 10 minutes, if you could separate a good coder from bad just like that, tipping would improve coding as well. Tipping is not about moody strangers, the vast majority of people eating at restaurants are normal people with normal, predictable and reasonably benevolent behaviors. People will tip if the service is at least average. Won't tip when the service or food is bad. What better way is there to tell how your business is doing? As many others in this thread pointed out, both waiters and customers like tipping. The minority that hates it has various misconceptions about both how it works, what it does to salaries etc read a few very salient replies in this thread.