Re:Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips
by efwfwef on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:27PM
(#26029402)
> you're just screwing over some random person
Their employers is screwing them over, not me. I am not.
You want to force me to tip you? Make it mandatory then.
Re:Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips
by leetcrew on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:42PM
(#26030134)
no one said anything about forcing and I don't currently work as a server. I'm strongly suggesting that not tipping doesn't make the point you think it does, and it definitely doesn't help that particular service worker. you're not pressuring the owner to change shit. you're sending home a low income employee with less than they reasonably expected to make off serving you dinner. servers who routinely complain about low/no tips tend to get fired (it's taken as a proxy for poor performance), not given a raise.
also this ties into something that a lot of people don't seem to take into account when arguing for abolishing tipping. servers tend to like tipping. they don't enjoy the behavioral pressure, but they generally believe (correctly or not) that they make more money with tipping than they would in a counterfactual world without.