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There are lots of instances in which it is in fact your responsibility to pay the staff and if you choose to ignore that fact and stiff them that's on you

• highwaylights 2y ago
  I do tip, but is this perspective really helping the people that live off their tips? You don’t feel the need to tip the people stacking shelves at Walmart or the Amazon driver. In almost any other job we reasonably expect that someone’s compensation is between them and their employer and that the state should be making sure they’re protected from exploitatively low income. Why are waiting staff a special case? People have worse jobs that come without tips and it doesn’t seem to bother anybody. Those tips are expected now and irrelevant to service so it’s also just helping employers get away with paying those staff members less, so it’s really just subsidizing restaurants and cafes at this point.
• ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
  > There are lots of instances in which it is in fact your responsibility to pay the staff I'm not aware of this, but then the U.S. has a different tipping culture to elsewhere. Have you got any examples? Also, if it's your responsibility to pay the staff, do you also get the right to dictate how they do their job (within reason)?
• vasco 2y ago
  If you didn't employ them you don't have to pay their salary, or even know how to start to evaluate what that would be.
• 71bw 2y ago
  > There are lots of instances in which it is in fact your responsibility to pay the staff For example?
• itsoktocry 2y ago
  >There are lots of instances in which it is in fact your responsibility to pay the staff Name one (let alone "lots").