Honestly, I completely agree with you. The whole point of that hypothetical was trying to see if they’d back down from their insane thought that FOH staff is “stealing/hoarding” all of the tips. (predictably they did not even address it in their reply).

Are you going to answer my question first, or just keep spinning around spewing bullshit?

I’ve literally answered every question in earlier replies to you, so get better at this or shut up.

I’m not sure why they don’t, that’s an issue you’d have to take up with the restaurant owners that successfully fought for a separate minimum wage for wait staff.

So now you’re claiming the wait staff “steals” all the tips, despite the fact that the tipped minimum wage exists and those tips are used to help ensure that the wait staff makes as much as the dishwashers and cooks?

...what?

Just because people are willing to work in a system doesn’t necessarily mean they endorse that system; high-minded ethics are great and all until it’s time to pay the rent.

Well, seeing as how the restaurant industry didn’t collapse into itself with mass staff exoduses when the tipped minimum wage was introduced, I’d bet that nothing would happen (except the continued exploitation of lower-wage workers).

You’re the one making the assumption that, if this rule goes into effect, all of a sudden owners would go crazy and rip off employees.

You’re making a lot of assumptions with #2 there, thinking that there would only be one potential restaurant that would try and pull that off. They don’t even have to take *all* the tips; in fact, I’d say it’s more likely that the owner would put a percentage off the top and distribute the rest out, knowing that the…

You really keep hammering home the “every worker would quit” part of this without seeming to put any thought into it. Our country’s history is filled with stories of people working for companies in horrible working conditions because they had no other choice. Some people can’t just give up a paycheck because their…

So you’re totally fine enabling a rule change that, if abused, could put people in a position where either a)part of the money they’ve earned is being taken away from them and they have to suck it up; or b)they have to give up their paycheck and hope that they can find another one quickly enough not to disrupt their…

I think most people would take exception with this part of the proposal:

“so people went to a lunch counter, sat where they weren’t supposed to, and were tossed out, exactly as anyone would predict and likely their intent in order to give us this headline.”

Pissed in that toilet two months ago. It’s most fun to stand on the ledge and feel like a very tall man.

just checkin in to make sure you know that geno smith went to virginia university west

Never, total suck Pod. Tell Eggers to shove it.

this joke would have landed better if the story was about Atlanta instead of Alabama

I was in the stadium for this one - on the 30 yard line, Patriots sideline, four rows back (dad had contacts with a company Bob Kraft owns and no one else wanted Thanksgiving night tix). Saw this all unfold almost directly in front of me and still can’t replicate the sound that came out of my mouth (a mixture of…

I have been vegetarian for 12 years now and I swear to god I will die a fucking vegetarian so please back off?