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Originally Posted by biker1
My post was in response to the post regarding servers making minimum wage. You miss the point and you are wrong with your conclusion. Servers are guaranteed to get the minimum wage ($8.25/hour, not $5.23/hour) regardless of the tips they receive. Go back and read the law. They can certainly make more and that is entirely up to them and the choices they make. The employer is required to make up the difference if their tips don't cover the difference. There is no attempt on my part to state anything other than the facts. If you want to introduce some sort of morality issue into the discussion then please start another thread. I am not really interested in such discussions since what people make is mostly a result of their choices.
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Yes. A closer look tells me that tipped servers get at least the Florida Minimum Wage of $8.25 an hour. When I am wrong, I acknowledge it. That's still pathetic compensation.
On your second point, I didn't introduce "morality" into the discussion. Several previous posters have already touched upon tipping people even for poor service as a matter of compassion for the less fortunate.
Decades ago I began overtipping older female food servers in honor of the fact that my mother did not have to work at such laborious duties in her "Golden Years."
As Shakespeare said, Compassion cannot be forced. You have it or you don't. "It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown: ......
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;" --- (The Merchant of Venice)