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Yeah, not paying a tip cause you think the worker deserves a living wage definitely fucks the worker over, rather than the business. So there might be righteous anger, but it's directed at the one you're trying to help.
It will sound brutal, but they are stupid to living with this system. Imagine all costumer facing jobs to be depended by tips. Like tech support, cashiers, shop assistants, baristas, and every worker you meet as a consumer.
Tips was about extra for elegance and nice service. I know living wages are shit, and that's why it became a norm all over the world. But it is something extra, so the worker can have pleasure, not to get through life.
For servers in the US specifically it's not true that it's something extra, it's become an expected part of their compensation structure. They have a special, lower minimum wage they're allowed to be paid. (If tips don't cover the difference between that and minimum wage, they still have to be paid minimum wage.)
Sorry, on this parenthetical, for non-Americans, can you clarify?
Servers are paid less than minimum wage, but if they don’t get tips enough to cover the delta, they are paid minimum wage?
So does it go to the employer to cover your wage, address tips reported for tax, etc? Are there any repercussions if a server is consistently not tipped? Can they fire you?
Maybe tip workers shouldn't have been fighting for tax less tips, and should have fought for a real wage?
I know so many tipped workers who fight to be able to guilt customers into paying their bills instead of just having a real wage. And they're going to find out that people aren't going to keep paying more and more guilt money to servers. I remember when 15% was the norm, and now people are saying it's 20, and fuck that.
Only in the short term
Unfortunately, most servers are in the class of workers whose economic activity exists entirely in the short term. Without proper organization and unity in action, short term disruptions could have fatal implications.
They should organize
Nah, it's better to guilt customers into paying your bills, for some reason.
Nice "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" impression. What's next, the homeless should just stop being homeless?
You're right! Organization is impossible, so workers should keep being exploited.