Originally Posted by DaJoka004
Yall disgust me. Like I said before, always help out the little people. Bartenders are definitely not caking like somebody on the last page said.
And whose fault is that then? If Chili's is allowed to pay you 3$ an hour and make you give a portion of it to the busboy and you accepted that job, why isthe consumer at some moral obligation to atone for that? Talk to your boss, who is saving about 60-75% per employee versus paying you a normal minimum wage bytrying to defer the burden onto the consumers via some illogical guilt trip ideaology.
Just looking at Oklahoma numbers, 2.50$ versus 7.50$, let's assume you work 50hr weeks which isn't uncommon at all. 2.50$an hr x 50 hrs in a week x 52weeks in a yr= $6,500 7.50$ an hr x 50 hrs in a week x 52 weeks in a yr= $19,500 or a whole 66.6% more.
This is of course ignoring the other service industries where the employees do make regular minimum wage + salaries and still have their hands out for a tiplike doormen, delivery men, cab driver, bus drivers (especially at the airport), the "stand by your bag of food that someone worked feverishly to put in astyrofoam box AND a plastic bag for you and hand it to you when you arrive" person, amongst others.
Maybe you guys should go on strike, it'd do both sides some good. The service industry people would realize how infinitely replacable and menial their jobsare when they see themselves being replaced by underaged scabs with no dropoff in quality and therefore stop feeling entitled, and then come back more gratefuland maybe do a better job, and then perhaps get more tips or employers feel more like they should pay you appriopriately.
What about the service industries who actually provide a service that the consumer is, himself, unable or unwilling to do on their own and therefore forced topay a premium for. Let's take car problems for example. You pay a mechanic however much because you don't know what the hell is going on in there ordon't want to be bothered with it if you do, so there's a level of difficulty or a real skill there the consumer doesn't possess and therefore paysa person who does.
You guys work a soda machine. There's a picture of a Sprite logo and a button underneath it which you depress with the cup and then dispenses Sprite. Ifsomehow you guys all of a sudden didn't exist, I could figure that out and still get me some damn soda. I mean it's great you grabbed the bottle out ofthe fridge AND poored it in a cup for me and all, ppreciate it bro *head nod,* but I really could have done that myself. Other service areas where I lack thedesire and/or the expertise to handle myself, I'd be more for tipping them and have less of a problem really, because going back to the car example, if itweren't for you I'd be @+## outta luck. My 5 yr old neice could fill up a cup of soda and bring it to me, or write things down on a peice of paper andtake it to a cook.