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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Feb 8 2005, 06:18 PM
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@Feb 8 2005, 10:30 AM
I think they should tip people who work at Staples.# I used to work there for a year and believe me, it gets busier than a restaurant.# Try handling 1 customer who's talking to you, 1 customer who needs his fax machine from the top shelf taken down, 1 very impatient customer holding his broken cellphone, and 1 customer who's still waiting for this computer (but can't get it yet because I don't have the key to the backroom, and thus, have to wait for the manager), simultaneously all at once.# And that's an average day for me.
So yeah, why didn't I get tipped back then?# Seems unfair to me since I made less than a waiter/waitress.
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Yeah but that's the job you signed up for. So did waiters too I understand, but if the guy at Staples expects a tip then so does everyone, in every store. Tip for your slurpee, tip for the guy at the video store, the grocery-bagger, the gas jockey, you'd be spending a fortune. Not to mention the tip you have to leave for your kids teacher every day, a little slice for the lunch lady and 10$ for the Principal. Don't forget a fiver on your desk or your office won't get cleaned.
Wait staff get paid crap, and if they weren't making tips they wouldn't do it. We'd be paying for it one way or the other. At least with a tip you have an option. If they were paying them $20 an hour, you'd still be paying their wages.
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But the guy with the slurpee does not do the same type of service job as the guy at Staples. He stand by the cash register and rings in the slurpee, very different from what a staple guy does, who has to convince the customer to buy a product and not make any commission from his wages.
I'm saying there are jobs that are way more underpaid and thankless than waitressing. At $7/hr, a guy at staples already makes less than an average waiter, and to top it off, the waiter gets tips. So I suppose what I'm trying to saying is I'm against tipping in general. [/b][/quote]
I don't know what to say other than "that's retail for ya". If you are against tipping, don't tip. As has been established, if tips are cut out of the equation, nobody is going to be a waiter. The only way they'll be keeping their staff is if they pay them a
lot more and that's coming out of your pocket as well. Tip or no tip, a decent waiter in a normal restaurant is going to command more than the guy at Staples.
Looking at it another way... a bartender at Cowboys makes more than most schoolteachers.