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Originally Posted by Julio
So who are you accusing of breaking the law here?
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Nobody's breaking the law unless this guy's only getting $4/hr in Calgary. Which he's not. I was using "extorted" and "ransom" in their overexaggerated dramatic senses.
Something irritates me about tipping, especially at a bar, in the same way a new pair of underwear that doesn't fit the same way as all your old reliable pairs irritates me. I've never had any problem giving a little something extra to people who do a bang up job. I think, getting back to one of the original tangents of the thread, that it's the expectation of a tip regardless of service quality that annoys many.
I would expect reasonably prompt service as a paying customer at any establishment. Obviously, as Sowa pointed out, this isn't the case. The people who make it worth his while to hustle get their drinks first. If he did a decent job getting my drink and did so in a reasonable time I probably would have tipped him anyway. But to expect to have to do that regardless of quality of service in order to get my drinks before the bar closes bugs me a little.
It also annoys me that Sowa's employer can get away with paying him such a low wage. Doing so increases the expectation of tips to make a meager wage and shifts the onus for wages onto the customer-server transaction rather than the employer-employee relationship.
But all this has been beat to death in the three previous pages in the thread...