06-11-2024, 03:51 PM
(06-11-2024, 02:41 PM)pally Wrote: The vast majority of service employees are not tipped employees. Try being a hotel housekeeping having to clean 20-25 double rooms in 8 hours. Try being a grocery store clerk. Try being a line cook.
These are hard back breaking low wage jobs where you are on your feet constantly. We exect perfection from their performances but somehow we dont want to pay them for it
Line cook in a diner is easily one of the most under paid, under appreciated gig out there. Similarly, I have seen hotel owners who clean rooms themselves as well, or try to use other staff, like kitchen/food prep staff to do so. Grocery clerk is out the door soon, as we see with self check out, as it takes no complex skill.
People are being paid what their skills, ambition, and work ethic translate to.
The real minimum wage is zero, after all.
