Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty

Re:Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Pov... by tyingq on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:58PM (#25353931)

I'd say it's okay not to tip, so long as you tell the person who would have received it your intentions, in advance. Only fair they adjust accordingly.

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Re:Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Pov... by cmdshiftf4 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:09PM (#25354878)

>Only fair they adjust accordingly.

Er, not serve? Or a degraded service which entails what? Begrudging looks?

Always a chuckle to behold America's fetish for tipping.

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Re:Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Pov... by tyingq on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:18PM (#25354943)

I get why someone wouldn't like it. But it's not a battle you can fight at that scale. The wait staff get paid $2.13 an hour. They feel the pain, not the business or the American fetish meisters.

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Re:Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Pov... by cmdshiftf4 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:37PM (#25355032)

You're right and it would need collective action to rectify, and even then you'd encounter some not insignificant amount of those in the service industry who'd loathe a fair minimum wage in lieu of relying on tips as they'd see it as crippling their income.

How it should be and how it is are immensely detached, I think we can all agree on.

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