maleficent

Tipping and begging are different things. The tip jars in Starbucks and places such as that aren't tips for performance, it's begging. Hey you have 40 cents in change, throw it in. Starbucks employees are not minimum wage employees, from all I have read they get decent benefits, begging for tips is inappropriate.

I have no problem tipping the cab driver extra when we're stuck in traffic, I have no problem tipping the waitress for serving my meal, if I were ever to go to a McDonalds, no way would I tip the counter person, the local deli that makes my sandwich the way I like it, doesn't get tips, why should Starbucks?

I bartended my way thru college, and made damn good money at it, I also worked my butt off. My salary paid me to lug a keg of beer up a rickety staircase, my salary paid me to get the customer their first drink. I remembered the people who tipped, and they maybe got a little more in their glass, they got a little more attention, they maybe even got free drinks. Tips were for service. Not for doing my job.

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