Do you tip your barista? What about your doctor?
First wank so TIP WELL and I promise not to use the cheap lotion. You believe me, right?

After a nice exchange earlier today, I was actually beginning to have warm feelings about

seattle. Not for long.

deguisement freely admits she has already ~~wanked~~ ~~trolled~~ posted in the New Yorkers comm about tipping baristas. Surprisingly, that did not go completely swimmingly. My favorite comment was:

I'll tip my NY baristas like i do my Seattle baristas when they make drinkable fucking lattes like my Seattle baristas do.

Whee! They're off.

gomezticator and

oui_je_danse are of course involved in tl;dr threads of nothingness. Some highlights:

SO bartenders don't deserve tips either?

wouldn't know; i'm straight edge.

So a couple hours later, the OP makes another damn post. This time, she wants to know our Thoughts On Tipping McDonalds. Bonus wank on stripper morality.

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	eilan 2007-06-16 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	that's another rule, anybody who's in a union doesn't get a tip. i'm a big fan of unions because collective bargaining gives labor the opportunity to demand of the employer a fair wage. in that circumstance, you don't need my gratuity. Dear mr_quackenbush, WHAT? No love (Reply to this)(Thread)

	scarah2 2007-06-16 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	It's true though. Not because this blowhard says so, but because the union doesn't allow it. The Starbucks I usually go to is inside a big grocery chain store. Starbucks ingredients, Starbucks menu, Starbucks uniforms, Starbucks training. But they are employed by the grocery chain and are union and not allowed to accept gratuities. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eilan 2007-06-17 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	And all union members in the US are not allowed tips? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

scarah2
2007-06-17 11:38 pm UTC (link)

I only really know about the grocery store one, and that's because I tried to tip them at first, thinking that they only had space from the grocery store.

US has < 20% of the workforce in labor unions, and most of those are probably in fields where it wouldn't be much of an issue anyway. Factories, trucking, medical, making movies, working for the government, etc.

I always figured that this union actually has that rule to make it easier to protect and negotiate for their workers. Minimum wage goes down by around 5 bucks an hour for a "tipped" job, so it's easy to see the corporations trying to have all kinds of a field day with that. "Let's pro-rate their benefits too lol."

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	eilan 2007-06-18 06:45 am UTC (link)
	So, actually you only know about one case. So why this It's true though. Not because this blowhard says so, but because the union doesn't allow it comment? I don't get it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

scarah2
2007-06-18 07:00 am UTC (link)

Sorry if that was unclear. I meant, "I know that it can be possible where this is not allowed [here's my anectodal example]," rather than, "I empirically state that I know everything about 100% of all the cases."

I also didn't read the context of whatever the guy you quoted was saying, so figured it was baristas. I would also add that of the several large grocery chains that dominate the country more and more each day, the ones that are union shops at all are all the same union. So quite a bit can be extrapolated from baristas at one store in a major chain having to follow that policy.

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	frequentmouse 2007-06-18 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	On the other hand, The United Food and Commercial Workers, which represents, among others, wait staff in some large chain restaurants, would in no way exclude tips in their contracts. The no-tipping clause in the grocery contract has a lot to do with not wanting to slow down lines; at least if you're thinking of the IGWU contract and not the Teamsters one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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