o.pwuaioc wrote:Are they paid less than minimum wage?
Why the hell are they even allowed to use this cop out?
Because that's the way the world works.
This is honestly the first I've ever heard of this. My family previously owned 3 Sizzlers (00' - 06') and payed every employee the minimum wage and gave gifts at Christmas. Even in hard times the employee's were payed California's minimum wage. Whoever does this must either be a REAL cheapskate or going through real really bad times.
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oxymoron wrote:Why the hell are they even allowed to use this cop out?
Because that's the way the world works.
This is honestly the first I've ever heard of this. My family previously owned 3 Sizzlers (00' - 06') and payed every employee the minimum wage and gave gifts at Christmas. Even in hard times the employee's were payed California's minimum wage. Whoever does this must either be a REAL cheapskate or going through real really bad times. I also love you response. I guess when the African slaves use to ask why they were enslaved the proper answer would have been "Because that's the way the world works".
How dare you compare African salves to restaurant goers tipping. Have you no shame?
oxymoron wrote:I guess when the African slaves use to ask why they were enslaved the proper answer would have been "Because that's the way the world works". You can't just chalk everything up as "Because that's the way the world works".
My understanding of the whole tipping thing is that it's an archaic way of payment from dozens of years ago, that pretty much has no place in modern society, but for one reason or another hasn't been expelled yet and most places use it to their advantage to under pay employees. At the same time, at high end restaurants, employees can end up making a killing on tips. But in the big picture this is a rather small percentage of people, and the big piece of the pie is going to be your standard people at diners or Olive Gardens making very little.
We are almost definitely better off doing away with the tipping thing and just making it a standard wage position, but who knows if that will ever happen. In the current generation of server jobs being many peoples main option in this generation though, it needs to happen more than ever.
