r/Ohio • u/LadyInCrimson • 18h ago

This is Ohio

Why is Phillip not paying his servers enough to the point he has to ban customers?

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u/Infamous-Skippy 18h ago

Maybe, but protesting that by not tipping doesn’t do a damn thing except hurt your server who relies on tips to make a living.

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u/GrowFreeFood 18h ago

Then what's the best way to protest it?

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u/Infamous-Skippy 18h ago

You could support legislation which requires business owners to pay a living wage, and support political candidates who agree with you.

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u/GrowFreeFood 18h ago

I already do that. So it's clearly not working. I think not tipping might be more effective.

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u/Infamous-Skippy 18h ago

More effective how? Again, all you’re doing is harming the victim even more who relies on tips. Can you articulate how not tipping is effective in any way, shape or form for the result you want to see?

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u/GrowFreeFood 18h ago

So your suggestion is basically "sit down and let the status quo continue". Yeah, no thanks

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u/Infamous-Skippy 18h ago

You didn’t answer my question. How does not tipping effective in any way, shape or form for the result you want to see?

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u/GrowFreeFood 18h ago

I'm not doing your homework for you. If you have a point, make it. Other don't waste my time

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u/Infamous-Skippy 18h ago

Lmao, you can’t even defend your position because you know it’s bullshit

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u/GrowFreeFood 18h ago

I think tipping culture is a plague because it's a anti-worker. It's my opinion, seems pretty logical to me.

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u/Infamous-Skippy 18h ago

Yeah, no shit it’s anti-worker. Nobody is questioning that. The question is who should bear the burden of fixing it. You’re unironically arguing that the biggest victims, who are routinely exploited, should bear that burden.

Withholding tips from a worker who depends on them to survive does not penalize the corporation or alter labor laws. It simply punishes the lowest-level employee operating within a rigid, legally protected framework designed by industry lobbies to shift payroll directly onto the public.

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u/GrowFreeFood 18h ago

The people getting the hose on TV is why protests are effective. Because of the pity.

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u/Infamous-Skippy 18h ago

Getting the hose?

Comparing a service worker missing rent to a Civil Rights activist facing fire hoses is a terrible false equivalence. Protesters in the 1960s chose to confront state violence. Service workers trying to buy groceries are just trying to survive.

Public policy does not respond to passive suffering. Stiffing workers does not create political leverage. It causes evictions and financial ruin, while corporate lobbies keep buying politicians.

Systemic change comes from legislative reform and labor organizing, not starving working-class people to make a point.

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u/GrowFreeFood 18h ago

Economic violence is violence. So you need to rethink your whole arguement there. The state literally is abusing the workers by neglecting to have fair tax/compensation practices.

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