revolutionarygays: a man with a degree and a job making in a month what i make in a year will pull..

[dragonlady7]

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revolutionarygays:

a man with a degree and a job making in a month what i make in a year will pull out his phone to calculate exactly what 20% of his fucking $15 haircut was and leave me $3

a cocktail waitress will hand me $30 and walk out the door

the difference isn’t their income, the difference is how much they value the work i do

Yesterday my dude and I went down the street to the tiny diner we’ve lived near for, well in his case almost his whole life except when he moved away and met me (we live near his childhood neighborhood). The place is clean, cheerful, cheap. The total was basically ten dollars for both our breakfasts (sit down, full service). He glanced at me and was like “what’s the tip” and I said, for something this cheap, you don’t calculate percentage, you just leave ‘em a five, bro.
(I am the tip authority because I waitressed so long.)

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[squidgiepdx]

I'm a firm believer in the tenet, "You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their waitstaff/server/etc". Because you can be all flashy and everything, trying to show people you're the shit, but if you stiff - or worse yet, minimally tip - a person in the service industry, you're not a nice person in my book.

Neither Patrick or I have worked in the service industry before, but we know better. It shocked a few people at first when we'd leave $20 on a $50 dinner, but it's just common decency. Especially when you're in a place that's running the staff ragged. Most places don't do that, but some absolutely do, and it's nice to be able to say, "Hey, thanks for doing what you do."