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Originally Posted by Reaper
Nobody stops by my desk when I'm doing my job competently and tosses change in a cup for me.
They fill a glass by pulling a lever in one direction. Receiving a tip is dependent on the promptness of the service provided as well as the server's attitude. If you act like I am an intrusion on your day I vote economically.
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I'm guessing you don't make minimum wage and maybe don't deal directly with the end user of your company's product/service. This is why you don't get tips. You likely earn a salary or a higher hourly wage and then maybe even a bonus. Restaurants could make their establishments no tipping, and give the servers a percentage of their ringout. This would likely make the service worse, since they are guaranteed an amount and it goes on how much you can sell in food and drinks.
I've never understood why people make the argument that they don't get tips at their job, so why would should they have to tip a server. By that logic, everybody should make the same wage and it would be closer to a communist state. Because people have different skills, education levels and genders, they can earn different types of wages and different ways to earn livings. In North America restaurants pay servers low wages and they gets tips to supplement their income. This isn't much different than sales people earnings commissions, except at restaurants the server collects from their employer and their customers. In car sales, for example, the employee is paid by the employer only, but they have built in an amount into the car for a commission.
I do agree with everything in your second paragraph.