Im having beers at bar ordered wings and tipped $2 everything the bartender brings me.

Beer = $6

tip for beer $2

wings = $20ish

Tip for wings from bartender = $2

Total tips = $4

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Same order from waitress/er = $26

Tip = $5.20

Now I know this is micro example but extrapolate this over several drinks with food and the difference swings the other way. The question remains tho, am I tipping correctly?

  • @arrow74@lemmy.zip
    0•7 hours ago

    No, it’s not. When people use the term “unskilled” for jobs it doesn’t mean “you literally have to have zero skills, not even the ability to user your hands, to do it” - it means you only need a limited skill set and is a job that has minimal economic value. Essentially it’s a job that anyone at any stage could walk into and be able to do with minimal training.

    That has always been how the skilled/unskilled labor gap has been broken up.

    You’ve bought the lie they’ve been telling forever. Every person that goes to work is performing skilled labor. The only thing a person can do that doesn’t take any skill is being born rich.

    Rich assholes that do nothing other than “invest” into a buisness. Every dime made from there is off the backs of working folks. Without our skills the wealthy would be poor.

    • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      1•6 hours ago

      You’ve bought the lie they’ve been telling forever.

      I haven’t bought any lie, I’m telling you the definitions of skilled/unskilled labor that have been in use forever.

      Every person that goes to work is performing skilled labor. The only thing a person can do that doesn’t take any skill is being born rich.

      Ok so your idea of skill is simply…not dropping dead. Gotcha.

      No matter what you want to think, serving tables is one of the easiest and least-skilled jobs in the world. It’s why literal kids do it, it’s why it’s paid less than minimum wage, and it’s why it’s a last resort for many of the people who do it. Literally anyone can know how to do it with maybe an hour of training from another server. It’s not a “skilled” job. It’s a “bare minimum of being able to function in a society” skill level job.

      Let me ask you this -do you think that investing is a skill? Choosing what to invest in and when and how much?