[–] 39 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Literally everyone should, they’re going extinct from all the light pollution. I saw a mating pair of fireflies the other day, it was the first fireflies I’d seen in over a decade.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Because it doesn't matter how much you make if you are appreciably beating minimum wage until you file taxes? I'm in the same boat where I worked in a white tablecloth restaurant, and it just doesn't matter if you are guaranteed to beat it the minimum. There's not a prize for knowing your take-home pay to the nearest dollar week over week.

    What are you even talking about. Literally nothing you are saying makes sense. If you are making appreciably above minimum wage, then why would you be worrying about not making tips?

    At the same time, knocking down the bottom line of your lowest paid workers is still checks notes a dick move. That's true no matter who you are.

    Who is knocking down any low paid workers?

    Crab bucket: you know how bad things are, but you intentionally punish other crabs in the bucket so nobody (or only a few) get out.

    Huh? This metaphor makes no sense. Punish them how? With what?

    If your perspective is "this problem gets better if I, personally, don't tip" you, tyler, are personally asshole. Period. And the more you understand the situation the worse it makes you look, not better.

    And yet this is how the entire rest of the world works. Are they all assholes? You keep thinking whatever you want, I guarantee you make ten times what I did working in a boonies Mexican restaurant, and even at the time I pushed for no tips and better pay. That was with federal minimum wage.

    You’re just getting paid a ridiculous amount and see no tips as a threat to that, rather than a boost to all the actual low paid servers out there. Those that do make minimum wage every week because their employers say employees make more getting tipped.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    If you are making above minimum wage you are not number crunching. Maybe if you work at Chili's I guess.

    Huh? I made upwards of $40 an hour serving. I still counted my pay. Why the fuck wouldn’t you?

    From the server side, having 5 people a day stiff you hurts more than it helps. If your answer is "well fuck, get everyone to stop tipping until servers make less than minimum wage so that they complain and change this" and then say you did it, it's some real crab bucket shit, no?

    If the state you live in cares about you then minimum wage is already higher than federal by a large amount. Not tipping in a $20/h state helps those in shittier states.

    No clue what “crab bucket shit” means.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    I worked six years as a server. And yes, I did crunch those numbers lol. I wanted to know when I was making minimum wage or not. Anyone who doesn’t is an idiot who lets their employer take advantage of them.

    You change the system by not tipping. You don’t change it by continuing to tip.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Using boiling water is still fine, the measurement will work, your comment literally only is a problem if they don’t measure in time. So yes, it’s exactly like sticking it in an oven and not measuring at the same time

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