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Originally Posted by 4X4
Phanutier, regarding the amount of money your ex made, just for a minute, put that into terms that us guys can figure out. A man can go to work in a profession or a trade and make $20 or $25 or $30 or $50 or (in troutman's case) $900 per hour. For a nice, solid 8 hours.
We go to work, we make our salary or our hourly wage (for 8 hours or more) and collect a paycheque on the 15th and the 30th. Wait staff don't. If they're lucky (read: good) they get a friday or saturday night when it's busy for 8 hours straight and then they get their $200 in tips plus wage. Guess what they earn on a tuesday night?
I don't even know why I've waded back in on this ###### fest. If any of you non tippers actually think that these people are going home with $220 every night, why the hell aren't you in on that action? Because you know that they only make that kind of cash one or two NIGHTS per week. In other words, they have to work crappy, dead shifts the rest of the week and then forfeit their weekends to make decent coin a couple of nights. To serve whiners like half the people in this thread their drinks while they comment on their asses.
Seriously, guys. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
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Believe it or not, this is what they actually make every night. Its not at the local Denny's I'm talking about, they got a pretty good gig where they are. She did Wed and Fri nights, the Wed nights ringing up about $120 in about 4 hours, and Fri nights ringing up $180+ again in 4 hrs. This was ontop of her day job where she was making approx $22 per hr for her summer job.
I wish I knew about that gig when I was younger instead of making the $5.90 that I did in HS. Quite frankly, I'm not in it because the avg salary range for what my university degree is in should be significantly higher.
(As for the tipping, as I said, I tip the standard 15%)