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Old 06-07-2025, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
And you know as well as I do, and as well as everyone else does, that the pandemic and shut-downs was an unusual circumstance. Most people were out of work entirely, and those who were working in tipped service positions were taking huge risks, and dealing with insane employee shortages because many quit or were too sick to work (or died).

During normal times (which we have now, thankfully), overtipping can be (not always, but can be) harmful to the employee's bottom line, and healthy for the employer's bottom line. This is completely reverse to the intention of tipping.
I still tip the same way... (and I'd be hard pressed to find that any servers, who tend to be young and healthy DIED due to Covid...

Thinking that over tipping is actually harmful to the employees sounds like a cop out reason NOT to tip...
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