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Originally Posted by Omaroo
LOL! I'm just wondering where I said that I like or agree with the system. If I were in hospitality - which I've never been - then I think that I'd prefer a fixed wage. At least I could bank on it. What I'm saying is that from living in the USA or a number of years both on the East and West coasts, my observation is that the workers are pretty OK with the system. They know that they can get more than the fixed amount if they please the customer. Note I said "please", not just work harder.
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That's something you've inferred by what I wrote and it's not what I said
What I said was is basically what you have said...it's part of their work culture and they live with it. As I had put it, the whole system is Dickensian...in actual fact it's in the 18th and 19th Centuries when tipping developed as precisely that...go cap in hand to the customer to beg for more money in order to supplement lousy wages (if they got any at all). I would have thought that in the proceeding 2 centuries (or at least from the later half of last century) that our work practices and ethics would've evolved beyond indentured slavery. Seems not.