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We need to normalize tipping a flat rate. Forget percentages and tip $2 (or whatever) per hour per diner no matter where you are.
by ukoki 3y ago
We need to normalize tipping a flat rate.
Forget percentages and tip $2 (or whatever) per hour per diner no matter where you are.
- iamdamian 3y agoWe also need to normalize not tipping in most situations (outside of restaurants) and instead force employers to pay a reasonable wage to their employees. I, as a customer, should not have to take on the mental or emotional burden of deciding an employee's compensation every time I buy something.
- lockhouse 3y agoWe should normalize employees seeking a different job if their current employer doesn’t adequately compensate them. Retail and service industry jobs were never intended to be a long term career that you support a family with. They were meant to be summer jobs for children or a way to get side money for college students.
- birdyrooster 3y agoI don’t see the difference between a service industry job and a job for a college graduate. If you work, you get paid adequately to live. I think it’s pretty simple. Colleges pump out a bunch of useless graduates that can’t find work so I don’t think you model works anymore. These service jobs for better or worse are what most college graduates are finding and there is nothing they did wrong. We shouldn’t punish people for macro conditions.
- lockhouse 3y agoIt’s about investment in your education. Service industry jobs take a couple hours at most to learn, which makes you very replaceable. Higher paying jobs usually involve something that makes you harder to replace. For jobs that require college education, that’s several years of school in a high demand field. Most of the college students getting service jobs chose their major poorly. For other high paying jobs there’s a willingness to do work that is hazardous or very unpleasant.
- stcroixx 3y agoPaid to live where? Does this financial support only apply to me or also to my kids? Rather than have students research and understand employment potential in a given field before investing in that field, you would instead encourage them to ignore that and depend on an alternate career in the service industry to pay for living expenses?
- ttfkam 3y agoNo, they were intended for non-white folks back in the day and were 100% considered long term. Tipping culture was a direct response of the 13th Amendment. Over time, especially when communities were racially exclusionary, that cheap labor came from the young instead of people of color. "Retail and service jobs were never intended to be a long term career that you support your family with" only became the predominant thought AFTER young white college students started joint their ranks, which is fairly recent—post World War 2 with the Baby Boomer generation.
- latexr 3y ago> We need to normalize tipping a flat rate. You¹ need to normalise paying people a living wage and eliminating tips altogether. It is absurd that businesses rake in profits and on top of that pressure customers to directly cover employee costs, who have to live with the permanent anxiety of not knowing it they’ll make enough to live that month. It’s more bonkers than listing all prices without tax, but not as crazy as all the tax breaks given to rich people. The USA has an insane and unhealthy relationship with money. ¹ Forgive the “you” but “we” doesn’t apply universally in this context. Where I live (not the USA) people acquire goods and services by paying the establishment which in turn pays its employees.