"Who the hell tips because it is socially acceptable?"Lil devils x said:Who the hell tips because it is socially acceptable? I tip because I know that those servers depend on those tips to survive. Hell would have to be frozen over and pigs flying around for Texas to turn Union, so I know there is no chance in hell for the servers here to change anything. There are plenty of unions, just not any with muscle here. There ARE unions, but this is a right to work state. All you do by not tipping and blaming servers is ensure they become homeless and starve. Most servers are in school or in between jobs. With the immigration Texas has, those jobs will be filled before the next shift.
Texas has stayed this way because the employers will just hire immigrants if the citizens refuse to accept their terms, not because people haven't tried. I contact my representative, it isn't like they care because I didn't vote for him. Here, those that wish to change these things are simply outnumbered. I would think Texas would be one of the last states to go union, if at all.
Uh... EVERYBODY? In this country you're considered a prick if you don't tip, so most people do. Either that, or like you they tip because they want to help out their servers, not realizing that they're doing the exact opposite of helping by doing this.
All I'm getting from you is that you don't think it's possible for these people to get better wages, despite the fact that it's been shown countless times in the past that that's not true, so you don't even want to try.
I suppose slaves shouldn't have even bothered to try to escape, workers throughout history should have just shut up and lived with working their asses off for next to nothing, the colonies should have just shut up and lived with taxes from Britain, and countless other oppressed people should have just sat back and done nothing, because why bother?[/sarcasm]
If nobody are even willing to try to change things, then they never change. I have no doubt that before Unions were formed and people started having the balls to demand higher wages from their employers they thought it was just as impossible as you do.
You are just making excuses so the status quo can stay the same, nothing more, and not even halfway good excuses at that.
I will only tip my servers who DESERVE those tips, because I despise our tipping culture and refuse to contribute to it.