• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Maybe it’s your job to avoid patronizing places that don’t pay their employees enough though?

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        6 hours ago

        No, it’s not, however as a near-minimum wage worker myself, it is also not my job to cover a massive corporation’s lack of proper budgeting…

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          If you keep patronizing such businesses, why would they ever do that? They know they don’t have to in order to get your money. And it is the same with your own near-minimum wage job. You are working against your own best interests. Nothing will change while people are willing to give their money to companies that don’t pay their workers a fair wage.

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            Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against tipping if the person did a good job, but a company trying to guilt trip me into giving them a mandatory tip? Nah, that’s bullshit, it’s essentially “Oh, we can’t pay our employees enough, would you mind helping 🥺”. Outta here with that.

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              5 hours ago

              Right,so don’t use those businesses. You give them no reason to do anything differently.

              All you are doing is helping to maintain the status quo.

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                I think it is the case of “you think in the right direction, but you don’t do it all the way, so now I’m gonna attack you over this until you stop doing anything”.

                Not paying tips is a good start.

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                  How? Those people just aren’t going to get the money. Its not like the company is going to pay them extra because you didnt tip. Theyve already decided that the wage will be low Your logic doesn’t really make sense

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                You don’t get it, I think? The point is to get the workers to quit or protest because they don’t get paid enough, so that the place can increase the prices instead so they can pay their workers. If the place is still providing a nice service or good food or whatever it may be, you don’t want it to go out of business. Just make a worker-positive change.

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                  It takes everyone to fix these issues. It is not a one-sided job. Every time you give these establishments money, you help them.

                  And there is no shortage of replacement waiters out there for the ones who quit.

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                    I’m trying to help the establishment, by changing their ways. Not by bankrupting them. And if they just keep changing waiters, surely the quality of service will go down and Darwin takes care of the rest.

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                  Most people won’t quit, especially in the US from what I know. If they are already underpaid, how can they quit? And if pretty much every place treats waiters the same, what choice do they have?

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                    8 minutes ago

                    They won’t have a choice but to quit if we all boycott the business either.

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                5 hours ago

                I would not, that’s… what I’m trying to imply here… Yeah, businesses who don’t pay their employees enough bad.