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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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Stopping all fediverse activities. Good bye.
Absolutely stupid indisriminate bans by mods on various instances make it clear to me lemmy and fediverse does not want content.
if I ever get back to fediverse It would be on my own instance as its clear to me nothing short of that is going to work.
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Well-played.
feels like everything else should just be sprayed over with graffiti paint or sth
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Should have stopped at :" we don't pay our staff"
The sign is asking for someone to graffiti it, indeed.
"Waiters salary: 2.13"
"Don't be cheap"
Motherfucker, you are gonna be let past the velvet rope to the executive guillotine when the revolution comes.
My bill is 165 dollars and you can't afford to pay your staff more than server minimum wage? Listen here, fuck nuts...
Also, while we are at it, I used to be a server when I was a teenager 20 years ago. Minimum expectation for a tip was 10%, 15% was standard and 20% was for particularly good service. Since fucking when has 25% become the minimum expectation or even a high end expectation? That is on top of already increased food costs from inflation. Even the low end of the presets you see on all of the card readers asking for tips is 18% most of the time. What gives?
Oh it's ridiculous. I long to return to 15%, but I won't budge a penny over 20%. I'll hold up the bar with a calculator if you make me, I've done it before.
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JFC... How about "if you can't afford to pay your employees you can't afford your business."
SERIOUSLY. DON'T BE CHEAP. IT'S EMBARRASSING.
They're right, but they're wrong about why they're right.
If your people work so 'damn hard', why aren't you paying them a living wage?
"If you can't afford to pay your fucking employees even the minimum wage, you don't deserve to run a business."
Businesses have successfully managed to underpay staff then shame customers for not making up for it. What a rotten culture.
My AU fantasy:
Your bill: $165
Waiters salary ($35/hour, tips appreciated but not necessary): $0
Tax: included in the bill
Total (the least you can do): $165
if you can't afford to pay your staff properly, you can't afford to run a business here.
Feels like ragebait
Yeah, lot of people here are falling hard for this AI rage-slop. Besides the customer on the right having no legs (or the world's weirdest chair), there's no visible way this printout is attached to the window, the reflection in the top right cuts off at what presumably is the bar top and then the reflection below it is inexplicably of a perpendicular street, the lack of a ceiling where a ceiling is implied to be and all that similar stuff, the type justification doesn't actually line up. (begrudging credit to r/isthisAI)
It's a good fake but still pretty conclusively fake. And... honestly, it's worrying that people here are falling over themselves to comment as if this is real. Ya'll, we need to try and be a little bit less credulous with boomer memes, especially ones that perpetuate negative BS like this, otherwise we're basically no better than Facebook users.
If you would like yet more proof, this hanging light becomes a window frame.
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Came to say, looks like a certain business needs to rework their business model or go bust.
Why should the customer also be paying the $3.40?
Which should be a crime, by the way. Both the ridiculously low wage, as well as trying to pass it to the customer. Next thing you know, the cook's salary will be listed, too.
Oh don't worry, you are! In many states, the first chunk of tips goes to cover the employee contribution. Essentially the waiter makes either tips or hourly, which ever is higher, so until the tips are larger than the base pay, your tips are really just saving the employer money. Does this make sense? No. Is it common in states not called California and New York? Absolutely!
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Pay your employees livable wages???
I prefer countries that don't tip and just pay their employees a reasonable wage. Also when did the tip jump from 15% customary to 25% to 35% minimum? Anyways they're right, vote with your dollars to not be a customer of establishments abusing the tip system to pay their employees slave wages. Maybe last note, as far as I'm aware if tips don't make up the difference the employer is legally inclined to pay their staff at least minimum wage in most places.
In New Zealand, we declare that tipping culture can go fuck off. We don't have it and don't want it here. I had an american friend come to visit and he thought we were stoopid for not tipping, and he tipped everyone anyway to show mercy to all us oppressed souls over here.
I shouldn’t have to pay your staff with tips but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
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seems like only the first two lines are true
This offsets costs for the business and makes the customer compensate for lower wages. The whole point here is to make you pay for it not corporates and corporations. That's why taxes should be higher like 99%. Except they own politicians.
That can’t be real.
Have you visited the United States…?
It is our daily hell.
In all seriousness I doubt that any business would post this and invite the backlash. People do stupid stuff all the time though, but I still doubt on this one.
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This has to be fake... "we don't pay our staff..."
"our people work damn hard ... for only $2.13/h"
"show some respect ... to the workers we only pay $2.13/h"
Losing Business 101
They could have saved money on ink by stopping the printing after the 2nd line.
I wish people would name and shame the company that does this type of bullshit.
Leaving their point aside for a moment, their math is nonsensical, as they included the waiter's salary in the total.
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Maybe you should just start paying your wait staff a proper wage, where proper means a liveable income. That way your waiters can turn around and eat at your diner too, increasing your profit.
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I’d imagine this is fake, even here in America. No company name or anything.
Too lazy right now to search
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Get the fuck outta here with that 25%. You get 20% for good service, and if you're lucky I'll round up to the nearest dollar if I'm paying cash.
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I thought the normal tip for satisfactory service was 15%.
Dont do well, ignore me, make faces if i ask for more water.... then lucky to get anything.
20% and over was for really good service of something they did for you above and beyond.
When did 25 and 30% become normal
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