Re: You know what really grinds my gears?
There's so much I could go on about all this.
It's not about if someone deserves more money because we all know people should be paid more, it's simply about companies being so cheap they just refuse to pay people so this tipping culture among other things is present to guilt the average person into making up for the company not paying people.
Same narrative as "we can't pay people more or else our prices will skyrocket", meanwhile many countries have proven this isn't the case. I forget where it was, but I remember McDonalds in Europe or somewhere paid people the equivalent to $20USD an hour or something and all it cost was raising menu prices by 25 CENTS.
You think some company making thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars a day can't afford to pay people more?
Im sure the math might be off/other things are factored in, but let's say you're some fast food chain with 20 total employees over the course of you operating for 14 hours a day (8 hour shifts) and you pay them $12 an hour. That's about $2000 a day.
Now that same chain makes $20,000 a day (which I feel is a low number). If you want to turn your $12 employees into $18 an hour employees, that costs you about $900 extra a day. Clearly they already have enough money to do so, but even if they wanted to boost revenue to make up for the wage increase, you're really just raising menu prices by 5%. So some $6 burger now costs $6.30. That's not a lot, and why are consumers being guilted into tipping what would be 60 cents to over a dollar on that single item when the company themselves could charge less than that in price increase in return for paying people enough where tipping isn't needed or even a thought.
So to sum it up, forget tipping culture, companies should just pay people.
There's so much I could go on about all this.
It's not about if someone deserves more money because we all know people should be paid more, it's simply about companies being so cheap they just refuse to pay people so this tipping culture among other things is present to guilt the average person into making up for the company not paying people.
Same narrative as "we can't pay people more or else our prices will skyrocket", meanwhile many countries have proven this isn't the case. I forget where it was, but I remember McDonalds in Europe or somewhere paid people the equivalent to $20USD an hour or something and all it cost was raising menu prices by 25 CENTS.
You think some company making thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars a day can't afford to pay people more?
Im sure the math might be off/other things are factored in, but let's say you're some fast food chain with 20 total employees over the course of you operating for 14 hours a day (8 hour shifts) and you pay them $12 an hour. That's about $2000 a day.
Now that same chain makes $20,000 a day (which I feel is a low number). If you want to turn your $12 employees into $18 an hour employees, that costs you about $900 extra a day. Clearly they already have enough money to do so, but even if they wanted to boost revenue to make up for the wage increase, you're really just raising menu prices by 5%. So some $6 burger now costs $6.30. That's not a lot, and why are consumers being guilted into tipping what would be 60 cents to over a dollar on that single item when the company themselves could charge less than that in price increase in return for paying people enough where tipping isn't needed or even a thought.
So to sum it up, forget tipping culture, companies should just pay people.
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