Ignore all tip jars?

Question

Employee compensation is strictly between the employer and employee and is solely the responsibility of the employer. I would never presume to interfere with that relationship. If the business has to raise prices, I can decide whether or not I want to pay for what you have to sell.
Some advice for those who feel the need to display a tip jar for me to ignore:
1. Go ask your boss for a raise.
2. Refuse to work for minimum wage.
3. Find a better job.
4. Improve your skill set.
5. Join a union and get the benefits of collective bargaining.

While I'm on a rant...Why are consumers so stupid? We work all day for other people's benefit and then when we are the customer,we perform unpaid work. The one that really kills me is when people bus their table after they have paid their hard earned money to eat in a restaurant.Would you mop the floor for them if they put out a mop and bucket for you?Do you like eating off tables caked with dried ketchup?You're the customer.Leave it for them.

Don't get mad at me. I'm not the one paying slave wages. I pay and I eat. That's all. I never said I don't tip or treat workers with respect. I just don't do their work or pay them. Why does the wealthy merchant always get a free ride on this issue? It's a given that you get less service at restaurants that don't employ wait staff but that doesn't mean NO service. Hire enough people to serve your customers. Is a clean table too much to ask?The help won't leave the counter and the boss won't tell them to if you clear it for them. Let's help each other out. I'll leave a mess so that they HAVE to clear and WIPE the table for YOU if you do the same for me.
For those anti-union...It didn't hurt my career. Union job=retire at 50 w/$3500 a mo. for life...my college edu.=$0. We don't accept whatever it pays.You have to pay the price to make it happen.They don't just give it away.Tip jars=panhandling.Sorry, I don't reward the gutless. Besides, you'd probably walk accross my picket line anyway

Answer 1

I am with you on this one.

And Princes ya right Princes, anyway you can
leave your whole pay check there if you want

If we don't want to tip them fools then we wont, to
bad they can get a better paying job.

Answer 2

I agree with you on the tipping jar thing. If someone is working above minimum wage, than they have no business asking the public for a donation. But people in restuarants and similar hospitality industries work Below minimum wage, and as someone who has been in the industry, tips are a very important and are mostly depended on to make ends meet. Now with that said, as server I am working my but off to ensure my customer is comfortable, satisfied with their meal, and that their dining experience is a memorable one. I am doing this because that is what I 've been hired to do. To do all this is not always the easiest thing to accomplish, there are factors involved that the customer is not aware of. For instance I must ensure that the order comes out in timely fashion, the food is presentable and hot. Well if the kitchen is behind and I'm yelling at the chefs to get my order done,I am yelling at them on customers behalf, and now the chefs are really pissed off at me. I may also have alot of tables in my section because another server called in sick and now my attention has to be split between 20 or more customers. There are many many situations that are commonplace in the restaurant industry that alot of people don't realize. The stress level is high.
After 15 yrs of working in the industry I went back to college, got a second degree and am working a minimum wage job. I made more money as a server, than as a "professional". I am in a union that sucks away my earnings, and will be getting a 10 cent raise soon. With the cost of fuel these days this job is making me broke. So I've decided to go back to waiting on tables because at least I can pay my mortgage, utilities, medical expenses and put some money aside for my future. So making tips is crucial for me. I totally agree that tipping is optional and when I do get a tip I can only hope that I earned it, not because its the "norm". By all means solicitating tips is a tacky practice and should be frowned upon. One more thing, I think everyone at least once in their lifetime should wait tables for a week and see how business works, and how stressful it can be at times.

Answer 3

Tips are a very personal thing. If the person has gone above and beyond the call of duty for me - then I will go beyond the call of duty for them by leaving a tip.

1. It may not be as easy as asking for a raise, there are
compensation structures and policies companies need
to abide by.

2. When you are a college student you know that you will work
for minimum wage at least once in your life -- and frankly
I think it builds character. Anybody who attempts to do
better is ok in my book and worthy of a tip.

3. Finding a better job is easier said than done. Someday
they may find a better job, but in the meantime if they do
the job they have well, people have the option available
to them, to reward that with a tip.

4. Improve your skill set! Funny you should say that
because they are improving their skill set, merely by
being employed. Many people are unemployed and
are employable, but choose not to work. I do not mind
tipping the people who make the effort to contribute
to the community by being gainfully employed.


5. Join a union? Woah. That is another topic entirely. Unions
can be extremely limiting to a persons career. Unless they
intend to limit themselves to certain careers, unions will
not be an option. CEO's do not generally belong to unions.

As I said, tipping is very personal. If you choose not to tip - great don't bother. If you want to tip all the time and well, great. In the end you make your own choices.

That is the beauty of living in America.

Answer 4

Oh goody, it's a self righteous customer. People in the service industry really love your type. Just keep pissing 'em off, you'll probably have a little extra something in your hamburger (nobody I've personally known has ever done that, but we all know the stories).

You sound like somebody who has never had to work a crap minimum wage job, so let me lay it out for you... some of those people actually work hard. I was one of them. When I've just spent the duration of your visit kissing your *** the best I can it would be at least appreciated for you to clean up your mess. If you're too cheap to leave a tip whatever (not that that's right either) but at least have *some* courtesy.

Society has all levels, and we all have to start out somewhere. Sorry you feel the need to be an asshole to those who actually have to *work* their way up the ladder.

Oh, and by the way, I don't mind helping other people out. When you've had a crappy job you realize that they have enough to do without you leaving your table super dirty, leaving your shopping carts out in the middle of a parking lot, etc... and I tip as well as I can.

Edit: But I do agree that tip jars are a little much.

Answer 5

we've a Starbucks interior the food market the position I artwork which potential those each man or woman is my co-workers and receives a fee comparably to my salary scale. i do not have a tip jar in MY branch so I usually do not tip them both.

Answer 6

There is a difference; those being paid UNDER the minimum are banking on the tips and then I feel obligated to tip, which I do, and I base it on their service.(although I think its a silly system and should change).

There are those that are being paid AT or ABOVE the minimum wage that set out those damned tip jars - I think that they have a lot of nerve! I think they should be FORCED to take them down. The employess are NOT banking on the tips to bring their wage to the State's minimum wage.
* Wal-mart pays minimum wage - there is NO tip jar there.
* Gas station attendants are paid minimum wage - again NO tip jar there.
* McDonald's = minimum wage - and NO tip jar there (yet)
* File clerk also minimum wage - no tip jar.
* Store clerks - minimum wage - and no tip jar there either!

Now I think we can all agree that the people that work at these places wait on people and help them. Should they have a tip jar out? NO, and why? Because that is their chosen job at the time, and they are being paid to do that job.

Why is it then that at the DRIVE UP window at DUNKIN DONUTS that there is a TIP JAR? Hello? OR even inside the store, I wait in line, place my order, and they give it to me. Not a lot of work there - and they have that tip jar! PLEASE. Not going to happen!!

I have to agree with the question asker, if you chose a job that you know pays minimum wage, don't look to the public to supplement your income. I also don't see why people bus their own table, it isn't my job. I do help out occasionaly, but only when I want to get my food/seat faster. But, when I do that, I think twice about going back to that establishment.

Answer 7

Have to agree with this one. When this sort of jar tipping thing started, I didn't understand what it was for - thought it smacked of begging?

I've never left a tip jar on my desk at work "TIP JAR, THANK YOU! HAVE A NICE DAY".

Perhaps someone could try this (I work from home) at work, see how long the boss would put up with this and post it as a question on this site, would be neat to read about.

Answer 8

I don't like tip jars either but if I'm in a restaurant and the waiter/waitress has done a good job i will tip the individual

Answer 9

In new zealand we don't do tipping. people get payed the right amount for their work, the minimum wage keeps going up to ensure people get enough pay. seriously wouldn't you rather give money to a charity anyway? unless you think restaurant workers ect are a charity case. Do you like thinking that people are being nice to you because they want you to pay them?

Answer 10

I couldn't agree more. There's one restaurant where you order from a counter, then you have to pour your own coffee, then pick your food up from the counter, and then bus your own table. Of course, they have a tip jar! For what???

And you're right. The customers are idiots for going along with this scam.

Answer 11

I agree totally.

Tips should never be expected no matter what your job is.

Tips are for good service. Those who do not get tips and complain need to look in the mirror and find out why you aren't getting tips.