TIPS

[Miriel]

Y'all are also really focused on tips for waiters and servers, but the tipping phenomenon has spread FAR beyond that. These days you're expected to tip for EVERYTHING. Tip for getting your hair cut, tip for the people who change out your bed sheets at a hotel, tip for taxi drivers, tip for manicures, etc.

It has nothing to do with class in my opinion. Tipping a lot all the time just means you either have a lot of disposable income or you just don't really care all that much about saving the money that you do have.

I think from now on, I'll do tips the way edczxcvbnm does it, cause at least that makes some sort of sense. Tipping by percentage is just so silly to me. Carrying out a plate of lobster shouldn't earn you more money than carrying out a grilled cheese sandwich.

[Big D]

I like that the minimum wage is a legal matter in my country. If the boss is too cheap to pay minimum wage, then he's not just a prick, he's breaking the law.

I work in a high-stress, high-pressure job with a big workload and a lot riding on the decisions I make. But I'm ethically obligated not to accept gifts of any kind, except in extremely rare circumstances. And even then, I won't get to keep any of it for myself...

[Meat Puppet]

I used to work as a waiter and I never got any tips. I suppose it was just the area... too many artsy-types and musicians, I guess. The only two people at the place that I ever saw get any tips was this one little Argentinian gal and this really psychedelic bearded fellow named Paul.
Paul wasn’t actually a waiter as much as he was some sort a currency transferring operative, but I guess he did talk a spiel or eight to the customer. Man, that guy could go on. He was always talking about Sundays for some reason. I think he talked so much ’cause he wasn’t too smooth with the register itself, and I guess he was trying to smooth over his fumblings or whatever. I recall the boss and an odd employee or two complaining about his retardation behind his back, but I always thought he was a swell enough guy. Oh, I could go on forever.