DC waitress overwhelmed by message, tip left by Trump supporters

[Volterra_90]

sc94597 said:

vivster said:

Tipping is supporting greedy restaurant owners.

 

V-r0cK said:

This.

 

Volterra_90 said:

Tbh, I've never understood the tip culture. It allows restaurant owners to underpay their employees and make them live with just tips. I don't think that's fair at all.

 

VGPolyglot said:

We so desperately need a socialist revolution. As long as the power disparity is as it is less fortunate people will always be exploited.

Obligatory non-Americans missing the point of the thread.

 

Anyway, to humor you guys -- my mother preferred working tip jobs as a bartender and waitress because it kept her under the welfare cutoffs income-wise. Many waiting staff feel the same. It is mandated that if tips don't make up the difference between the nominal wage and the federal minimum wage the employer pays the difference. So regardless the absolute minimum is the same as everybody else and in many cases waiting staff can make much more than that through tips.

I'm not trying to downplay the gesture. I know that tip culture is very prominent in the US, so I think it's honestly a cool thing to do. I just don't think it's fair that greedy employers can get away with that. Taking advantage of that tip culture and keep al the profits for them, which happens. But, well, is a cultural thing, I just can't understand how it works, so if people in the US are happy with that... fair enough.