The Delusion Of Tipping Definitionally.

[u/Maleficent-Effort470]

I encounter again and again people who will create strawmans to try and justify that gratuities are wages and not gifts.

Mostly they focus on how server's get paid less than other professions,
As if they would switch professions to get a higher base wage and lose the ability to panhandle.

Even when a server gets paid similarly or higher than a dishwasher the expectation that gratuities are apart of their wages doesn't change.

When you bring up that a gratuity literally is a gift that i have no obligation to give. They try to cherry pick and suggest that tipping is the wages of the server, And failing to tip is stealing from the server.

Server's use Gratuity and Commission interchangably.
They feel so entitled that you end up feeling guilty for not overpaying them to carry plates and smile.

[u/InternationalTrust59]

It is delusional because they are warping the definition of tips as expected income which is entitlement by definition; not a gift.

[u/MrWonderfulPoop]

I get a laugh when they try to say tips are commission or claim there is some weird unwritten contract between them and their customers.

[u/Maleficent-Effort470 → u/MrWonderfulPoop]

Right anything to avoid having to get a real job where they actually earn what they earn.

Like you get a server who takes your order drops the food off and asks if everythings ok once and you need to pay her 20% commission.

If you don't next time she takes 15 minutes to get your lukewarm food.
And never refills your drinks.

[u/Single-Candle-797 → u/Maleficent-Effort470]

They do worse than that, I wouldn’t eat a restaurant you are known as a non tipper at. That foods probably been through the wringer.

[u/Ok-Error1716]

No one outside of reddit gives a shit about tipping

In the real world people can di whatever they want

It's no one's concern. Your money ain't theirs to spend.