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Originally Posted by Yasa
Sliver, you seem to paint occupations with a broad brush. I'd take the stress of EMS over the stress of serving/line cook/chef any day.
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I'd wager you wouldn't want to be a server as a career more because it's likely not a very fulfilling/rewarding job and less because it's so stressful.
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Originally Posted by SeeBass
You may have missed the part where I agree a tip is not required and bad service should not be rewarded either.
If you do not see that a steak and lobster dinner is a more complex dish and requires great skill to prepare then again you have no understanding. Do all items at your work require the same amount of precision, skill or effort to produce do higher paid employees work on those issues or do you leave even the most important issues to the lowest wage earners too?
my point is that many seem to have trouble seeing is that good service comes at a cost either it will be adjusted in a set wage on a menu price and then you pay the higher salary of incompetence servers too or you reward those that do a good job at your free will.
The way I amuse you with justifying the difficulty in serving and you compare other occupations but are those other occupations making min wage? You seem to be not grasping the concept of job+skill=wage, are these others equal in your statement of comparison? By thinking it is only a requirement to carry a drink/plate shows you have no concept of what it takes to do the job well.
Complaining to mangement does work. A volume of complaints does change things would it not matter at your work?
and no I am not in the industry I have been out of it for almost 20 years. Your problem is you have no respect for the trade.
If service is not good dont tip and complain if you desire but you cant escape the money will be made up elsewhere if there was no tipping.
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Yeah well it's a skill-less, easy job and the compensation reflects that. That's not a slag, it's just a fact. You don't go to waitress school, you basically get trained that morning and you're off to the races that night.
I know there's stress, but I think for people who like to do a good job there is stress in anything because you're always challenging yourself to do better.
Personally, I don't mind the way tipping works now. I tip for average to great service. If it's pitiful I wouldn't tip at all but that only happens like once a year.
I guess why I keep arguing with you is because you have waitressing up on a pedestal that it doesn't belong on IMO. I mean seriously, it's not that friggin' difficult.