There's a reason that for most jobs, firing decisions are in the hands of managers, not random customers. Do you want random people coming in off the street to decide whether you get paid today?

Dude, no. There is some debate, mostly regional, about if 15% is an actively bad tip, but 10% is ALWAYS a bad tip. You should never be leaving that unless you got truly awful service.

Hahaha so much of the nonsense you're spouting is hilarious, but for some reason your assertion that someone cannot be both a Vet and a douchebag is my favorite. AMURICA, right?

I am really scared that, with the sheer number of allegations may come one crazy person who decides to levy a false one, and it will send everything crashing down. I don't mean that to say that I don't believe every single allegation is true, because I do, I just worry that if even one is proven definitively not…

I would only do it in really egregious circumstances. The only reason I say it is that managers ought to be the ones deciding who works for them and if they're doing a good job, not random customers.

For one thing, I'm not a server. For another, if you can 'save up' to take your wife to a nice meal, you can 'save up' a bit extra to guarantee your server a minimum wage. If you don't want a waiter to serve you, don't go to a damn restaurant. A 15% tip is not extra, it is part of your bill. Servers can literally make…

Yeah, so that instance seems fairly reasonable. It's just a slippery slope, as you can see from the other stories here. I honestly still would have tipped her 15%, especially now that I've received this deluge of comments from people who clearly get off on denying people a living wage because someone took a few too…

OK, that's fair. I'm talking about states where servers make less than minimum wage.

You do realize that servers make less than minimum wage, so their livelihood depends on your 'discretionary' tip?

Well, yeah, exactly. There should be no tipping but in the meantime, I'm gonna make sure servers aren't screwed over in the meantime. Your assertion that they're all making $50 an hour is. . .not good math. Maybe at a very expensive restaurant, not at most by far.

15%, and a complaint to the manager.

That's just. . .outdated information. 15% is not a good tip.

Yeah, so at your job, if you're not doing well you get a negative performance review and if you don't improve, eventually fired. Do you not see the difference between that and "you did a bad job today so you don't get paid?"

No, 18-20% is the minimum for average service. And when you mess up at work, do you not get paid that day? Or do you get a chance to improve like everyone else on earth?

I'm all for complaining to management while still tipping a reasonable amount. A person screwing up at their jobs deserves to have their manager to hear about it, but nobody deserves to not make a living wage for their work based on daily performance.

The thing is, the entire system is tipping is totally effed in that it gives customers the ability to randomly decide whether that server earns a living wage or not, and that should not be the case. 15% is the minimum that gets that person's hourly wage up to something even remotely decent. How would you like it if…

I mean. . .kinda depends how little you tipped, honestly. 15% is still the minimum that should be tipped for bad service.

"I am sorry that anyone chose to interpret my statements as meaning exactly what I meant"

I was working on a google doc with a bunch of people and accidentally pasted "CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE WIZENGAMOT TO STOP OPPRESSING ME?" into the document. Nobody said anything but I'm certain somebody saw it before I deleted it.

I got a resume for a job as an administrative assistant at a nonprofit that said "Objective: to obtain a part-time babysitting position"