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Yes, but also this image is fake.
Very common around here. Everyone is anti-AI but they will happily jump on an AI image if it suits their views.
I mean, sure but Texas, Utah, North Carolina, Wyoming, and South Carolina accept the federal minimum wage for tipped employees of $2.13. I would argue that's the point, fake image or not. The implication being, if YOU don't tip then their wage for their work is valued at $2.13 an hour.
That's not how the tipped minimum wage works - it's even more arcane and convoluted than that! If you don't tip, then their wage is the local minimum, it's only reduced to where $2.13 plus their tips exceed the local minimum (so if you tip $2, and the local minimum wage is $15, they would make $13 at minimum wage (all the places with a $15 minimum I know of have banned this bullshit)) and as you pointed out, in 45/50 states that's been to some small or large extent rejected. If that sounds like it would make accounting really hard, you win uh... well we're out of candy so your prize is depression. Congrats!
It's a ridiculous system that should be abolished - but nearly all the criticism in these comments is treating it as though the exaggerated entitled behavior in the image is real - when nobody has actually behaved that way. If you think it's simply a meme that's fine, but it's presented as being an image from a real event, and that's what people need to be aware of.
And beside all that - why are we comfortable accepting AI content when it reinforces our positions, but reject it otherwise?
Yeah, go ahead and tell your boss to actually adjust your hours because a table stiffed and watch your hours magically get cut. The math is easy, take your $2.13 and don't complain or you'll get the back tables by the kitchen and then only get scheduled for 20 hours next week.
Mmmhm. So when you file your taxes, this is checked for. It's fairly easy to confirm compliance from the taxes info your boss files + the tips you're 100% extremely dutifully reporting, especially if you do something like automatic withholding (as I understand it a colossal pain for a tipped position unless you're in one of the many states that has passed rules to make the process less absurd). This is why it's important to report things like tips, because it's the #1 way bosses like that are caught.
Of course the economic reality discourages people from actually doing that, and thus we carve out yet more niche to stack exploitation in.