I’ll wait 7 or 8 years before his book “Doing Nothing: How I Learned the Priceless Art of Relaxation After I Had to Spend 2 Years in Bed Due to a Mysterious Chronic Illness.”

Exactly. The idea it’s okay to visit these kinds of places in the first place is troubling. It’s like saying, well, I’ll tip the slaves, but still benefit from the plantation. Same thing with sweatshop produced clothing.

“The serum absorbs the moisturizer.”

Ever heard of a union?

There is an interview with the author on another NYT page (not the Vice one) linked to below the article, and she says higher tips will be skimmed by owners or used to justify paying an even lower wage, so she doesn’t think that’ll be helpful. I’m at a loss.

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perhaps it’s a question of what changes their behavior in a better way. tipping more might help one individual in one instance (but not necessarily if they’re force to hand over tips), but getting customers to stop going to those places altogether sends a message those businesses needs to change, and will help the…

It would be a bandaid if you could be assured that those tips will stay in the workers’ hands. I have to imagine that tip garnishing is rampant among these unscrupulous owners.

Maybe what can be done, for starters, instead of leaving snarky comments towards people who point out that tipping is not the answer, which your own article makes clear because tips are skimmed, is to start paying more attention to where you get your nails done. Ask for transparency from your salon, and if you don’t…

As is the misguided belief that tipping these laborers will resolve the problem. What guarantee do we have that the manager who pays less than minimum wage doesn’t skim tips?

Yeah but this is a temporary fix. Have you noticed how many people in the goods/services industries now ask for tips? It used to be wait staff, the pizza delivery man, and maybe your barber. Now it’s the coffee barista, the doorman, the cashier at the takeout restaurant, the cashier at the grocery store (which I go to…

Or you could go to a more expensive spot where you know the person is being paid fairly and is not slave labor and just tip normally? It would probably come out the same cost wise.

What makes you think people who aren't politically engaged would tip more. Would they even be aware of this artice, or care?

Write your congressional representatives, is my suggestion. But I agree - Articles like this do not emphasize that course of action. It bugs me when we only emphasize individual action we can take with individual employees. Is the point to make the customer feel good about herself walking out the door after leaving a…

How about posting worker-friendly salons?

You can also contact your elected representatives and demand that the government protect these workers. That isn’t a quick fix, but it is a necessary step.

Boycott and let them know why.

I thought it was actually respectful of the waiter to ask. He didnt make assumptions based on appearance or his own opinion...he simply asked the person their preference. What is wrong with that?

Aw. TBH I like it when people don’t try to pre-judge a person’s gender, and don’t make a fuss about asking if it’s relevant. Of course, I wasn’t there, so I’m in no position to know whether he was being rude about it.

Oh, so this is one of those mommy-aimed pieces of media where it reels you in with some vaguely insulting or inaccurate statement like “Breast Milk is the Same as Formula” only to piggyback on the surprise (masquerading as emotion) of a REAL INSPIRATIONAL TRUTH: LOVE YOURSELF LIKE YOUR BABY DOES I MEANT ‘BREASTMILK…