Originally Posted by
OngBonga
This one is always a fun topic. Refuse to tip and you're a cunt, while the business gets away with underpaying their staff.
Oklahoma's minimum wage is $7.25, for companies with annual gross sales of $100k, or with ten or more staff at one location. Otherwise it's $2 per hour.
I would point blank refuse to hand my money over to any company that pays their staff less than $7.25 an hour, which is already meagre.
Here in the UK, from April 1st, the minimum wage for people 25+ will be £8.21,just over $10. For 18-20 year olds, it's £6.15 ($8). This is just about reasonable, it would be near impossible to survive on this in London, but otherwise it's doable. A 40 hour week for a 19 y/o on minimum wage will earn around £250 a week, or just over £11k a year. This is untaxed as it falls below the minimum threshold.
That means waiters (outside London) earn enough to survive.
Still we have tipping culture, even though there's no reason why a waiter should earn more than, say, a shelf stacker at Tesco who receives no tips.