Tips Is BS!: Tipping - not tipping

Gunny, while I do concur with some of your assertions regarding tipping, I find I must also disagree with a few of them.

Firstly, most employers do not pay a living wage. This is a well known fact. Consequently the Servers depend on their gratuities to make up the difference. Even the Terrible Government is aware of differences between wages and gratuities. That is why they tax Servers, and others in similar fields, on what they, the Government, 'assume' the Servers are being 'tipped'.

The Gunny says:
[quote]..."Also, there is the vanity aspect--we ourselves, love to tip-- "put on the dog," as they say --by impressing ourselves and others in our demonstrated generosity and ability to reward, handsomely, those "underlings" --yes, perceived underlings, if you care to be honest with yourself about it--even though said underlings may easily be pocketing higher wages than you yourself and for less effort...[/quote]"

Secondly, Gunny, I respectfully beg to differ with you. For me, tipping is not a vanity "thing", nor do I consider my servers to be "my underlings" as you so state. While many of them appear to be students, many more have chosen this endeavor as their life's choice, as a vocation as opposed to an avocation. Depending upon where one is employed, it can be a very lucrative vocation. I knew two bartenders in 1974, in La Jolla and Del Mar, CA, who purportedly earned more than I, and my salary was in excess of $32K per annum, which was not a bad salary for that time and place. (I must admit to probably assisting them in their annual remuneration, LOL.)

I do, however, think I comprehend what you are endeavoring to say in this regard. With some people the service is secondary to the amount of tip they expect to receive and are disgruntled if they feel they have been "short-changed" in the amount of their perceived gratuity.

Semper Fi