mcswift said:
Gitsnik said:
mcswift said:
When I go to Australia, I won't gripe that my gratuity is tacked on already and the bartender is getting paid more than minimum wage.
Neither will we who live here
Most bartenders don't get "tips".
...And why can't you manage your money like the rest of us?
I don't know if you've ever been to Vancouver up here in Canada, but the cost of living here is ridiculous. Not much of my money manages to go to anything other than living expenses...I don't drive, I don't eat out because I'm working that damn minimum wage job when I'm not at school.
You can only rub pennies together so hard. And as far as the ad hominem attacks go, I was t-boned a couple of years ago and my back is entirely wrecked, so I can't get the trades jobs that most of my friends in school can over the summer, serving is basically all I can do that makes a decent amount (as long as people aren't cheap).
Jerk.
Ease up there a bit - we all have different issues. Me, I spend every day in massive pain from a whiplash that no chiropractor or rehabilitation person can heal and a permanent state of sickness due to intestinal problems from my own 200km/h car accident (that I wasn't driving in by the way). And you know what, I didn't stay in my shit kicker job - which actually ended in me raking leaves because I couldn't lift the boxes properly, I made something of myself - I went to school (Edit: For one year), I got a certificate IV (i.e. a qualification - nothing special, just a basic qualification) and went and found a shit kicking job where I sat at a desk all day.
The point is, and my justification for not tipping stems from this, if I can be the lazy son of a ***** I am (and let's face it, I've been known to not eat because the food was a couple of feet too far from the couch and I couldn't be bothered getting up to make something) and still make something of myself from the god awful job I was in, why can't anyone else?
Funnily enough, I didn't complain about my job either, I just went out and worked on fixing it - and now, a couple of years later, I'm the one making the money I make while my friend (who suffered the same fate as me) still sits at home sulking to himself and not bothering to do something about it.
So yes, I'm a jerk and I know it, but it's for a good reason - we need waiters and waitress' to be sure, but I don't see why I should pay taxes (which go into Dole money for bludgers anyway) as well as drop my small change (which would otherwise go into my laundry bill - because I don't usually operate much with cash) just because they won't do what I struggled so hard to do. I keep hearing the same tired old arguments "I can't get a decent job" "I can't understand this stuff" or "I hurt my back" and never see people try. You, at least, are in school and starting to make something of yourself - but I don't see why I should help fund your education either, I don't know you (assuming we were in the same country), I don't care about you (this goes for pretty much every member of the human race) and I already pay my taxes - why, then, should I give you more money for doing your job? I don't get bonus' for that.