tipping

always good when the reddit internet can exercise its hatred of christianity and its sublimated racism while also claiming to be on the side of little guy in the service industry

Mandatory tips are dumb

Even on smaller, 8-person tables, you'll have others but if you get stiffed on a $100 tab, at most restaurants in the US the serving is losing ~$5-6 for the privilege of waiting on those people. I think in the early '00s I was tipping out 3.5% to the general staff plus 5% of bar sales to service bar.

Parties of 6 or more seem to get autotipped everywhere I go at home, also in UK (where it's an automatic service charge).

Strangely, during the time I waited/bussed tables (and also during the 15 years my sister, who sometimes says racist things, was a waitress) I never once heard of this concept of black (or church) people being stingy tippers. So until there were internet messageboards, I did not know this was a thing.

Gawker also covering itself in glory with stereotypey/racisty commenters (though I grant some of them may have only started posting to Gawk on the thread in question).

sad lols :-(

Gawker commenters in general seem to be just as dumb and offensive as Reddit posters.

except for Fleshbot commenters, they're class acts

oh man, I had forgotten about the existence of fleshbot between say 2008 and now!

I guess I never realized fleshbot was a gawker thing

oh wow, and clicking on links delivers livejasmin chat pop-ups.

fleshbot is no longer a gawker thing, got sold a couple years ago

did the buyer leave a tip?

left just the tip

strange that music and porn were the two subject areas gawker couldn't make work in covering -- both media most beset by mass illegal file sharing, right?. i guess wonkette didn't succeed enough either, but the gawker main covers plenty of that beat itself.

kinda talking out my ass here

i cant really speak to idolator, for fleshbot (and to some extent wonkette) the big issue was ad sales -- hard to sell ads around politics or porn. for fleshbot in particular, the only ads you can sell are porn ads, so its difficult to do strong independent journalism and still make a living, plus you cant sell inventory across the sites in your network. plus there was a point where gawker was doing some pretty good porn-industry journalism and i think it became clear that... whats the point of having the site if flagship is doing the journalism on its niche

I see where y'all think that mandatory tipping isnt dumb but it v clearly is.

it is dumb but that is how it works here, and shafting the server is not an appropriate response to its stupidity

its not mandatory, its automatic. its a small but distinct difference.

I wouldnt stiff the waitress or anything, when in rome etc, but when i leave rome i reserve the right to say 'rome does shit dumb'

fair

i would love to go to rome

I"M GONNA MAKE ME A 'ORRIBLE POST ABOUT IT TO ME ILXOR CHUMS

it's not the autotip that's dumb, it's the fact that servers are legally allowed to be paid below-poverty-level wages (just reiterating the obvious here)

but if tips are mandatory u miss out on the karma boost

i love auto-gratuity because it makes it so easy to leave super-tip

Canadians are pretty blah, Phil.

Here's a tip: screw you! ;)

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Keep it down with that salty Canadian language.

I knew right after I posted that I couldn't have come up with a more Canadian joke, sigh. But I tip well at least.

canadians are pretty eh, phil

lol at FFM thinking she's "canadian"

lol at mh thinking I'm a "she"

Lol at all of you for thinking this is not a dream

I didn't know "she" was a euphemism when it came to tipping!

I worked at headquarters for a buffet chain that re-classed many of their employees as "servers" so they could legally reduce their pay below minimum wage.

Can you imagine working a minimum wage job and getting the memo that your wage was being cut?

How did they make them servers? In addition to their standard tasks like restocking the buffet and cleaning tables, they were made to pour coffee, offer deserts, and do a few other server tasks, and had their wages cut for it.

A buffet chain! Have you ever seen someone tip at a buffet chain?

yup; all of my older relatives who were on fixed incomes loved buffet chains (yours in particular) and would always tip 15% on their meals

http://brokelyn.com/how-giving-up-tipping-saved-me-10000-in-one-year/

upon thinking abt this, i am pretty sure it's an april fool. i was all ready for a vitriolic thread, too.

it's def an april fool, woulda been better if they used a reasonable $ figure

Just yesterday, for instance, I wrote some adorkable emails to coworkers that I spent all day on, and I felt like my creative juices were just flowing like boxed wine at book club.

digging gr8080's new posting style

http://i.imgur.com/eEPcCp3.jpg

hahaha yesssssss

I am tipping you in Coca Cola Rewards codes.

fuckin' dot biz

This is what all my friend's kids are getting in their Christmas cards.

Do you tip at dim sum? I would have thought yes but the dude from china I was eating with said no, and the person behind the counter crossed out the tip line on the credit card thing

in general Chinese people are not used to tipping

only white people feel so entitled to give/receive tips

It felt so wrong not tipping when I was in HK. My brain just cannot compute.

how much would you tip on an $18 cocktail. asking for a friend

I think it depends on the context, like if it's $18 cause the place is ripping you off or if it's $18 because it's some crazy drink that involves lots of preparation