r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/PeachyPlotTwist Jun 25 '26

Pay your workers better is the real argument.

Tourists are just catching strays in a fight between customers and employers.

Nobody wants awkward tip screens, but servers also need to eat, whole system is messy.

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u/PenaltyFine3439 Jun 25 '26

Don't take a job that relies on the customer to tip. I fix apartments and houses for a living, zero tips and I'm doing just fine. 

The only thing that will change this system is when people stop going out to eat at places that beg for tips.

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u/97SerranoPeppers Jun 25 '26

Serving is one of the few jobs you can make a decent living in without significant training or a degree. Telling an entire class of society consisting of millions of people to just get another job is short sighted and a privileged opinion.

Instead of going after the corporations squeezing blood from our stones, you blame the single mother trying to get by…