ID: line drawing of an upright bunny with a black bandana tied around their neck, holding a lit match in their mouth like you might a toothpick. The text says “we can’t just vote fascism away, the time has come to disobey. (be brave!)”
I’m still feeling bitter and a fast food place last night asked me to tip, so it got me thinking that maybe this is the time to push out tipping culture. If the country wants the party of “fuck you, I got mine”, then fight your own battles for your wage.
Legally, if they don’t make minimum wage through tips then the employer has to make up the difference (in practice this likely doesn’t happen). Maybe it will make them care more about the minimum wage if it affects them.
I can see where you’re coming from in theory, but if we rely on employers to treat employees fairly we’ll be waiting a long time (they’re already demonstrating that they would rather ignore the law and potentially face a minor fine, than pay the minimum wage), and the only ones who will suffer will be the sub-minimum wage employees who now aren’t getting that tip either.
You make people care by building solidarity with them, not by using them as a bargaining chip.
If wait staff stop getting tips, eventually they will strike or quit and the restaurants will have to change their model. My solidarity exists that if they strike then I won’t shop there until they agree to a compromise. I don’t see how the existence of the US’s unique tipping culture is our responsibility.
So your solution is to starve those already struggling, instead of support them and together taking the fight directly to the employer, or even better, to the political establishment?
That’s a really gross and privileged take. Do the people in your vicinity a favour and don’t eat out, they don’t deserve to have to wait on someone who would rather see them starve before offering any support or even solidarity.
E: I’ve got it now - yours is the liberal version of pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
instead i would say you could tip and hand out union material now that would really fuck the rulling class off.
The cashier making MacMinimum Wage needs your political throttling ?
They are your emotional pawn because you look down at them being poor ?
What a great Democrat you turned out to be. You could run for president with that kind of attitude.
They aren’t a political pawn. This is what we want. This is what we voted for. It’s not my responsibility to pay their wages. If they don’t like their compensation, they can strike or look elsewhere for employment. Clearly trying to push for better compensation through law isn’t going to work.
