• HairHeel@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    In other jobs a promotion comes with more/different work, added responsibility. Would that be the case with “good waiters” vs “bad waiters”? I suppose on some level you could have the good ones handle more tables at the same time than the bad ones, but there’s a lot in that job that doesn’t scale that way.

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      1 year ago

      There are plenty of service jobs that don’t involve tipping which manage to have a hierarchy of staff without it getting overly complicated. It would be a change in how we approach situations where we’re extremely used to tipping, but I don’t think there’s any actual barrier to doing so. Pay staff the equivalent of what they make with tipping today, raise the price of the service/good, and just completely eliminate tipping. Then we can stop being the weird country that expects to tip in every situation.