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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Carl - she lays it on thicky in order to get more than she normally would - and probably more than an Australian working here in an equivalent role might get truth be known. She can nearly double her salary - which is already "reasonable" in her eyes. Not bad - and at least she has a mechanism by which she can accomplish it. It's not as though she has to do party tricks. She just smiles a bit more and people react accordingly. What's wrong with that? Her uni fees are astronomical (Harvard!!!!), and she's not there on a grant or scholarship - so it's not as though she could hope to cover them working in hospitality there or even here. Making more than the standard wage is something to applaud - not denigrate. Again, the inference is that she's being underpaid and made to dance nude to come up to what we'd call a normal wage, and that's typical in America.
The notion that we should all be paid a standard wage that is inflexible, for the sale of it being stable, quick frankly smacks of well... we may as well be wearing standard grey.
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It's still a party trick, no matter how well you dress it up. A person's wages shouldn't be determined on how courteous she/he is to people or whether she/he provides good service, it's supposed to be based on how long they work for and the rate for the job in question. That she should be courteous to the customers is a given, it's part of her job description. It's good to see what she makes from it, but why should anyone have to jump through extra hoops in order to make up their wages...and what was her standard wage to begin with?? It can't have been too great if she's doubling it through tips.
It's a miracle she put herself through Harvard...I know what the fees are like for courses over in the US. I contemplated doing postgrad studies there a few years back, till I saw how much I would've had to fork out just to even live on campus, let alone pay for tuition fees and such. However, she must've had extra income from some other source...just to do an undergrad degree over there can cost upto $30-50K a year, depending on the course. Heaven help her if she was doing postgrad!!!.
At least she was working somewhere with a bit of class...or at least with the ethical position not afforded to so many of her workmates elsewhere over there. Like I said previously, it's an indictment on their culture in general.