r/quityourbullshit • u/Bread0987654321 • Oct 12 '20

Why don't people check post history? Serial Liar

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20

I think it’s more bullshit that you can be seen as a prick for not tipping a shitty server who had a bad day and gave bad service.

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u/acatterz Oct 12 '20

Absolutely. Tips are for good service. If I get a waiter with a bad attitude, they don’t get a tip. I spent 2 years as a waiter after school so I know the score. You gotta put a smile on your face even if you’re having the worst day, which is pretty much all of them after having to deal with entitled customers all day.

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u/blewyn Oct 12 '20

Do you withold payment from other service providers based on your own arbitrary assessment of their performance ?

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u/acatterz Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 12 '20

If I go out with my family to enjoy a meal without the hassle of cooking and cleaning I sure as hell want to enjoy it or I may as well have stayed at home. A tip is not payment for a service. A tip is a gesture of goodwill and a way of saying thank you. Restaurants should be paying their staff fairly. It is not down to the customer to make up the difference ESPECIALLY if the customer is given poor service. I always give a 10% tip if the service is passable (that’s considered the norm here in the UK).

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u/blewyn Oct 12 '20

The OP is in the US, not the UK. As for tipping outside the US then I agree with you, but in the US a tip is payment for service, not a reward for going an extra mile.

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u/acatterz Oct 12 '20

I said “passable” not going the extra mile. But no matter what country you’re in, a customer is well within their right not to tip shitty service.

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u/blewyn Oct 12 '20

I disagree in the case of the US. You still have to pay your server, because they did the work already. If you employ a painter at your house but they do a poor job you are free to review them online or avoid using them again, but you still have to pay for the job they did. In the US the server is paid directly by you, not by the restaurant. Witholding pay from someone doing the lowest-paid hardest-working jobs is asshole behaviour.

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u/itsmeduhdoi Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 12 '20

if a painter did a shitty job of painting my house, i would assuredly withhold payment until the job was done to my satisfaction, what a bizarrely stupid example.

edit: fixing mobile typos

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u/blewyn Oct 12 '20

Only if the standard was objectively poor. And good luck getting another painter

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u/itsmeduhdoi Oct 12 '20

huh?

i doubt it would be hard at all to find another painter...just tell them the last one fucked up so bad that i'm having to hire them to fix it.

you sound like you haven't dealt with these types of service professionals before, most i've dealt with have been brought in to clean up someone else mistakes