I always tip well because it's just good karma, but it's still sort of a dumb bullshit thing they managed to set up.
At some point one group of bosses managed to convince people to pay their people for them separately. It's win/win for the bosses. They don't need to even pay their people minimum wage, and they can advertise bullshit prices that aren't actually the price you pay for a thing.
Imagine if we just started doing that everywhere -- water treatment plants stop paying their people and you're expected to pay 20% of your water bill to them. Car dealerships stop paying their salesmen and you're expected to pay another 20% on top of the price of your car. You're at the grocery store and they stop paying cashiers and you're expected to give another 20%.
It gets pretty absurd pretty quickly, and it isn't like you get more control over the person for paying the bulk of their wage -- if it comes up as a battle between the customer and the boss, the boss still wins because of that 2 bucks an hour they're paying.
All that being said, you can't act as if the world is what you'd like it to be, you need to act as if the world is what it is, and it's a dick move not to pay your server just because you think their boss should be and they're not.
At some point one group of bosses managed to convince people to pay their people for them separately. It's win/win for the bosses. They don't need to even pay their people minimum wage, and they can advertise bullshit prices that aren't actually the price you pay for a thing.
Imagine if we just started doing that everywhere -- water treatment plants stop paying their people and you're expected to pay 20% of your water bill to them. Car dealerships stop paying their salesmen and you're expected to pay another 20% on top of the price of your car. You're at the grocery store and they stop paying cashiers and you're expected to give another 20%.
It gets pretty absurd pretty quickly, and it isn't like you get more control over the person for paying the bulk of their wage -- if it comes up as a battle between the customer and the boss, the boss still wins because of that 2 bucks an hour they're paying.
All that being said, you can't act as if the world is what you'd like it to be, you need to act as if the world is what it is, and it's a dick move not to pay your server just because you think their boss should be and they're not.
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