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Lasereth · 01-29-2008, 06:34 PM

GOOD GOD what a collection of assholes in this thread.

1. Waiters and waitresses make $2.50 an hour on average. Tips are their PAY. Tips aren't a privilege. They are how the person lives. Good tipping is a privilege, but helping the person REACH MINIMUM WAGE shouldn't be something that needs to be debated by a genuinely kind person.

2. I like all the people complaining about their food coming out wrong or taking forever so the server gets no tip. Think about it: does your waitress make your fucking food? No, they don't. As a matter of fact, <I>they have no control over when it is ready</I>. So you leaving a bad tip because your food came out late solves nothing. Talk to the manager and get a discount but don't fuck over your server for something beyond their control. If the food comes out wrong (OH GOD MY SANDWICH HAS PICKLES, NO TIP!!!!!!), do you think maybe the waiter placed the pickles on to spite you? Or someone in the kitchen screwed up? Again, not leaving a tip or leaving a shitty tip is hurting the wait staff for something the kitchen fucked up.

I was a at a restaurant once with my friends. We ordered our food and sure enough it took a damn hour for it to come out. All my friends kept rolling their eyes and saying "no tip for her." I stared at them and said, "why are you not leaving a tip?" "Uhh...it's been an hour." I replied: "What does that have to do with the waiter?" They looked at me dumbfounded. They all left a tip after that. I asked the waitress what was going on. 2 cooks and 2 waitresses didn't show up for work so it was literally 2 people running the entire restaurant. Yep, my friends were about to screw the waitress over for something beyond her control.

I <B>firmly</B> believe that if you ever treat a waiter or waitress rudely, talk to them like they're your bitch, yell at them, or skip their tip for one of the above, you're a closet asshole whether you want to admit it or not. You could create a universal law based on it. If you're rude to a waitress, you're an asshole, no exceptions.

01-29-2008, 06:34 PM	#120 (permalink)
Lasereth Knight of the Old Republic Location: Winston-Salem, NC	GOOD GOD what a collection of assholes in this thread. 1. Waiters and waitresses make $2.50 an hour on average. Tips are their PAY. Tips aren't a privilege. They are how the person lives. Good tipping is a privilege, but helping the person REACH MINIMUM WAGE shouldn't be something that needs to be debated by a genuinely kind person. 2. I like all the people complaining about their food coming out wrong or taking forever so the server gets no tip. Think about it: does your waitress make your fucking food? No, they don't. As a matter of fact, <I>they have no control over when it is ready</I>. So you leaving a bad tip because your food came out late solves nothing. Talk to the manager and get a discount but don't fuck over your server for something beyond their control. If the food comes out wrong (OH GOD MY SANDWICH HAS PICKLES, NO TIP!!!!!!), do you think maybe the waiter placed the pickles on to spite you? Or someone in the kitchen screwed up? Again, not leaving a tip or leaving a shitty tip is hurting the wait staff for something the kitchen fucked up. I was a at a restaurant once with my friends. We ordered our food and sure enough it took a damn hour for it to come out. All my friends kept rolling their eyes and saying "no tip for her." I stared at them and said, "why are you not leaving a tip?" "Uhh...it's been an hour." I replied: "What does that have to do with the waiter?" They looked at me dumbfounded. They all left a tip after that. I asked the waitress what was going on. 2 cooks and 2 waitresses didn't show up for work so it was literally 2 people running the entire restaurant. Yep, my friends were about to screw the waitress over for something beyond her control. I <B>firmly</B> believe that if you ever treat a waiter or waitress rudely, talk to them like they're your bitch, yell at them, or skip their tip for one of the above, you're a closet asshole whether you want to admit it or not. You could create a universal law based on it. If you're rude to a waitress, you're an asshole, no exceptions.