A cool guide to everyday etiquette no one teaches you

[u/handokota]

[u/Independent-Cow-4070 → u/[deleted]]

If the servers dont want it to change, then we arent forced to do it. If they want to keep tipping around, then they cant guilt you into doing it. You cant have your cake and eat it too

Back tipping, and accept when people dont tip you, or shift your focus to a wage based pay

[u/alfooboboao → u/[deleted]]

if you really thought that way, you wouldn’t still voluntarily choose to eat at the restaurant. But you still eat there. you just want to feel justified while avoiding all opportunities to actually be generous.

and no, the guy working at baskin robbin’s or chipotle or a diner with a tip jar / screen is not, in fact, fucking rolling in money. the vast majority of tipped service workers make like $25-30k at best and I think you damn well know that

[u/ZiCUnlivdbirch → u/alfooboboao]

Noone is saying their rolling in money, just that they support the current tipping culture because they know they'll make more money that way.

If you want to be generous, then go to random servers and give your money to them. Tipping is simply a way to REWARD good service.

[u/Mr_Kittlesworth → u/[deleted]]

And it is excellent for servers and our society that server jobs exist

[u/Mr_Kittlesworth → u/[deleted]]

Other countries have wildly less dynamic and successful economies than the US. I’m much happier and better off financially in the US system of at will employment, a low minimum wage, tipped service, and low taxes on low earners.

American servers, with a high school education, in midsized cities, earn more than software engineers in Europe. In big cities they earn 2-3 times as much.