Spidra, I'm with you. Well, mostly. I mean, the opportunity to earn really good tips can be an enticement, but (particularly at the lower-end restaurants) what you mostly get is cheap tippers and sometimes people who take tips from your other tables. Might have been better off with minimum wage.

I'm at 15% is the paycheck too, myself. But I will happily tip a penny if the service deserves it -- I want to be sure they don't think I just forgot.

How is tipping to work for food deliveries? Similar %ages?

I had to rearrange my suitcase. THe cat jumped on it and it started emitting To INFINITY AND BEYOND!! and then laser blasting sounds. Ah well, I figure the screeners have heard it all before...

I've worked plenty of food service and customer service, but never a waiting job. So I was shocked when a friend who was told me that the federal government taxes waitpersons on the tips they *think* the waitpersons should be getting regardless of whether they're actually getting tipped that well. That's another reason I think that system sucks.

I've heard people argue that tips are the only way that we can motivate workers to give good service but I don't really believe it. As I said, I've worked service jobs most of my life and I don't get tipped. I work hard and honorably. Some servicepeople might get surly or amotivated without tips, but I think if employers were paying a living wage, most servicepeople wouldn't be any more disgruntled than the average working stiff. I make a living wage, but it's the kind of living where my nostrils are just above the waterline.

Reading some of the remarks from servers on that website makes me not want to eat out, if those are the sorts of people who are handling my food.

Ha HA! I just sent off my last finals of the year. Woo hoo!

Congratulations, Jesse!

I've heard people argue that tips are the only way that we can motivate workers to give good service but I don't really believe it.

Yeah -- that might work if people (as a group, I mean) tipped more or less at the same rate, and had consistent ideas of what level of service should be rewarded. But when you've got idiots who get great service but brag about not tipping because they don't believe in it, and other people who tip big for lousy service because they want to impress a date or they have a policy of never tipping under 20, so you're supposed to magically surmise that 19% is meant as a slap in the face? It's too random to be either informative or motivating, except maybe in the way an abusive relationship is motivating.

Yay, Jesse!!!!

YAY finals being over!