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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Tips are usually pooled with the others that did the "work" you approve of.

You seem really cool anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Lemmy:

It's all about class solidarity!

Also Lemmy: Unless the minimum wage exploited employee is a cashier, in which case fuck'em.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Bosses are legally required to make up the difference to minimum wage if a tipped employee doesn't get enough tips.

If I tip a cashier, then we're taking money away from the working class to give to the working class, which means there's no net change. But if I refuse to tip, the boss has to make up the difference and the working class gets money from the capital class.

Therefore tipping is class treachery. You're depriving the workers of chances to take money from the bourgeois.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

When the cashier has a union and strikes, I won't cross the line. Otherwise, get over it! Spit in my food if you have too.

I'm dealing with my own workers rights problems, I can't take on everyone else's at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Context is king: that cashier sees none of those tips because you used your debit card and the 'tip' goes directly into the corporations bank account.

Loblaws already has a fat enough margin with the gouging, they don't need any extra boosts from my just-about-broke ass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does Bob Loblaws Law Blog have to say about it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Tune in next week on the rural juror to find out!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Well, that's what cash is for, and also that is usually not how it works. I'm sure it is how it works somewhere but by and large (like 99%) the servers/cashiers/drivers get paid out for those tips, sometimes having to split them, sometimes with taxes taken out already, but they do get it.

Not saying you have to tip, if you feel they don't deserve any kindness then by all means fuck em, but they do usually get the tips despite what you may think.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Servers have an established expectation of relying on tips to get a living wage, and often earn less than the minimum wage otherwise. The same is not true for cashiers. Maybe they should be paid more, but that should not be done by creating more reliance on tips to subsidize low wages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's good to remember that no social media platform is a monolith of opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Fair.

It still seems like this post is getting far more support, and less pushback, than I would expect given the support I've seen for anti-capitalist, anti-work, "class consciousness", posts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

You should never be afraid to not tip. It is optional.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are legitimate reasons to not tip someone. Being a cashier typically does not necessarily obligate someone to tip you. Lots of times people will say "keep the change" at a fast food restaurant and the workers take home maybe $10 each on a busy shift, but that isn't really tipping.

If you hate legitimate "tipping culture" so much, stop making it the minimum wage earner's problem that they work for a shitty employer and start boycotting places that refuse to pay their workers a living wage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fucking everywhere does this now. Are we boycotting everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

If you have principles, yes.

Sorry that activism is inconvenient sometimes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Australia doesn't do tips. I think they're saying move to Australia or you're a class traitor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

People who moralize tipping are fucking scum. Tip or don't. Preferably don't. Don't make a long list of BS rules when and how much you'll tip. Don't go off your gut either; because that's how you end up subconsciously tipping in ways that are passively racist and sexist. Flat amount.

Tip the same amount no matter what, even if that amount is zero.

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