Mostly dunking on the upper post. Thread about tipping in /r/antiwork. The juxtaposition that happened here is something. Thread for reference.
Mostly dunking on the upper post. Thread about tipping in /r/antiwork. The juxtaposition that happened here is something. Thread for reference.
Even then, lots of those "good" serving jobs are rare and hard to get. You need to be in a high class establishment that serves tourists, or a low class establishment that serves other waitstaff (always flush with cash).
There's also the fact that you have to manage your tax burden, I know tons of people that don't even make enough salary to cover their taxes on tips and end up underwater at the end of the year. You get used to it, but it really screws over a lot of newer folks.
When I was delivering pizza I made about $15/hr after tips and expenses. Would have been about $12/hr if I paid for the vehicular insurance that was technically required.
My girlfriend makes about $25-$35/hr serving at a fancy tourist place that does weddings, but scheduling is all over the place, so she might get 70 hour weeks or she might get 10 hour weeks. There's also a pecking order with the old heads getting all the good shifts.
Sure. Lots of trade off in the service sector all around.
I just get the sense that one's opinion of the field has far more to do with your own relative success in it than in the field itself. Like, the problem with tips isn't that you don't get a living wage. The problem is that lower class service jobs don't have clientele tipping generously.
Exactly, it's a system that keeps managers directly control wages of employees with shifts and sections. Literally dividing workers against each other.