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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Because there's no such a thing as unskilled labor, some people believe that you can wait tables without training, and that people duck as waiters.
Plus they clearly hate the job so it makes me feel as if they are making me a favor. That said, probably the job pays terribly and that's the reason why this happened in the first place.

I want competent waiters with competent salaries.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Friend of mine is a waiter who says things like “give me that two dollar minimum wage any day with tips.“ Says he makes more than anybody else in the restaurant except the owner. But again, this is skilled labor as you say, I couldn’t just go in and be the same caliber with no experience, he’s been doing this decades.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

It depends on where you work for those tips. Fine dining and busy bars tend to do good. Though I was a bartender at one somewhat busy bar and tips were shit because the clientele were just that way. Old folks and people who spent all their money gambling on video poker mostly. Was kind of annoying when someone won big and bought the house a round but didn't tip at all or tipped $1.

But I only had that job for one year before I left to work in IT. No tips but way better pay overall.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

THIS IS NOT A DRILL
I repeat
THIS IS NOT A DRILL

CONFIDENCE IS HIGH
(wtf is that even supposed to mean)

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