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[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Which weirdly often doesn’t happen because of self tip reporting (as it’s been explained to me in the past. ) Apparently there is a motivation or pressure to not accurately self report tips for tax reasons, and it often results in servers not getting that difference if they should on slow or low tip shifts.

We seem to have let a really dumb system get ingrained into our restaurants

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yup, the way this works for restaurant table servers is something like this:

A. Declare your tips and come in under the minimum wage. Employer pays the difference.

B. Don't declare your tips, and employer pays minimum wage. Employer (and potentially IRS) also calls bullshit on this.

C. Employer looks the other way on B.

D. Employer is a freaking unicorn and pays a livable wage.

Most of the time, the only viable answer is A, but never declare all your tips. That and you make sure that nobody spots you doing this.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Its a racist system, so they didnt have to pay the emancipated slaves who were working in the industry.