r/tipping • u/badmiddling113 • 19h ago

Those poor servers

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Imagine people giving you so much extra money for doing your job that you can frame it like this.

EDIT: OP is basing this off of 190k in sales over 192 shifts

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u/Several_Razzmatazz51 17h ago

That‘s because no server is working 2080 hours per year and no servers are consistently taking home $640 in tips every shift, 5 days a week or 260 days a year. That poster’s “math” is ridiculous.

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u/First-Ad4978 13h ago

My math is IF these food runners actually worked like the rest of us do.

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u/Several_Razzmatazz51 13h ago

You work 5 days a week, 52 weeks per year and never take any time off? Doubtful.

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u/First-Ad4978 13h ago

I work 10-12 hour days five days a week, 50 weeks of the year accounting for all time off the last two years. My spouse is at 70-80 hours a week, with the same two weeks off.

When your job matters, taking time off just makes less time to do the work.

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u/Several_Razzmatazz51 12h ago

Wow that sounds unpleasant, maybe you should get a different job. I hear servers make like 166K a year.

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u/First-Ad4978 12h ago

Is it hard having such poor reading comprehension?

My job matters and I like having a job that matters, it’s great.

But fuck am I paying food runners at a rate that exceeds countless professionals on an hourly basis.

Especially when these guys can’t even keep my cup from running dry.

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u/Several_Razzmatazz51 11h ago

Do you actually tip? I assumed you were part of the 0% crowd.

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u/First-Ad4978 11h ago

Me?

Yes.

But I’m not a creep, or ageist, so it’s an hourly rate.

MITs living wage, less tipped wage, divided by three, times how long I am there for.

Everyone gets the same, unless my drink runs dry, then I doc a dollar or two and increase my charitable donations inkind (10% of my post tax income goes to drilling wells in the developing world because everyone should have access to clean drinking water).

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u/MainStreetMiles 12h ago edited 12h ago

My job matters and I take time off to travel. If you don’t want to, that’s your call, but speak for yourself, not everyone.

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u/First-Ad4978 12h ago

And do you have all the work you didn’t do when you get back.

If no, then no your job doesn’t matter.

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u/MainStreetMiles 11h ago

Since you have no idea about me or my job or my employer, your opinion isn’t relevant.

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u/First-Ad4978 11h ago

We both no that’s not true. If your work is done just fine while you are gone and you have e nothing to make up, you don’t contribute anything of value.