Paycheck stub

Okay, MelkorHimself, you think you're pretty smart. And you probably are. But you're still confused, so I made you a video. This is my paycheck stub from last January. It should hopefully explain why tipping is only optional if you're a mean person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CJHNCFuM1I

That's the video!

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• the restaurant WOULD pay you

[jawbone83]

im a great tipper. im not afraid to tip 20, 30, 40% if the service is good. but if there are two tables in the restaurant and i have to wait more than five minutes for anything other that food the server probably isnt going to get much if anything. they get what they earn with me. but i also know if its standing room only i dont expect to get immediate attention so i dont factor that into my tip.

[itinkuno]

@jawbone83 I never said tipping is a horrible system. I just said I don't appreciate it when I didn't get tipped. I stayed on my toes and did whatever I could to please my customers, and it's partly because I depended on them for money.

[Flare400]

You have clearly demonstrated that in places like Chicago anyone with a conscience should tip.

It's quite sad that waiters are not always covered by minimum wage laws. I would much prefer that waiters get a decent wage and wouldn't rely on tips like beggars.

[itinkuno]

@Flare400 I think it's sad that people are so passionately against tipping.

[c00lwatter]

Regardless of how much you get paid as hourly wage, no person is obligated in the least to care. A homeless vietnam veteran depends on the kindness of strangers to pay for their daily meals. This is socially understood and accepted. How many people out of 10 that pass him by on the street actually stop to even look him in the eye, let alone spare a lousy dime?

[itinkuno]

@c00lwatter I don't know, I've never been a panhandler, but as a waitress I carried around a shit load of cash all the time and I was quite generous. I gave money to whoever was polite and not pushy.

[NotGodJustMoses]

@NotGodJustMoses The fact that something is allowed or prohibited by law makes it no more or less moral. The fact of the matter is that it is the moral responsibility of your employer to be paying you fair wages, and that if he shirks that responsibility, it does not suddenly fall upon my shoulders to do so. I'm not saying that it's not nice to tip your waitress, and I'm not saying it's not dickish to give her nothing, but that's it, being nice or being a dick. It's not a horribly immoral act.

[MelkorHimself]

Tips being "expected" does not mean mandatory. The federal government expects tips to be given based on past statistics, but they aren't demanded. If, in fact, tips were meant to be mandatory, Congress or the states would've passed laws making it mandatory to pay gratuity. You chose to work for slave wages, and the responsibility for that only falls upon you. Furthermore, if your $4.50/hr + tips AFTER tipping out don't equal $7.25/hr, your employer MUST make up the difference...from the FLSA.

[Kasmir145]

watch?v=enJwYaeolXc Just throwing this in there.

[lordfrostblizzard]

go to paycheck stub templates com

[jake7864]

I always tip so does my dad and alot of my family but once my cousin bought me lunch at a restaurant, he did not tip and then he told me that food servers do not deserve tips and that he never tips ANY1(cheap asshole)

I didnt pay anything and had $0 on me but i still called him an asshole for it.

I dont think i tip that much only like 10% but i always tip that amount unless they really did a good job then i give more

[itinkuno]

@TrooperCX Ah, here's where it get's tricky. Restaurants are all a little different, but when a server at Clarkes took a carryout order, they were still expected to tip the busboys out 4%. A lot of people declined to tip for carryout, even though the server was the one packing their food and bringing it over. So you generally lost 4% for every carryout order you took. I always tip 20% for carryout orders. The servers are always really greatfull.

[o0JustNobody0o]

@itinkuno

Melkor is an ass, but he probably used extra accounts to rate himself up, i.e. you can cheat by creating more than 1 account. I think youtube keeps a record of who(ie account, not by ip though) rated what comment, so one only account can count for one +, but for views, I think every reload counts towards view count, even if for same ip and even done right after the other. I tested the whole view count thing reloading your page using tor, viewcount didn't update.

[itinkuno]

@o0JustNobody0o I can't do research, but whenever I upload a video, everything gets updated every time the page is refreshed, including the view counts. I'll go to the video's page, and then I'll go to my homepage, and the view count will have changed. I'm only pointing out what I'm observing. I've noticed this before (is that what you mean my "research"?), but I suspect there's a way to cheat. And I really don't believe MelkorHimself's responses are *that* popular.

[itinkuno]

@itinkuno I know that's not true, because when you upload a video, it shows up on the homepage, sometimes. People will watch if they think you have a cute face. It updates every time you reload the page. I'm not sure if the ratings update when you don't reload, but I know for sure that's not true. MelkorHimself cheats his way into getting thumbs up.