Anonymous Apr 22, 2014 at 8:48 am

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I think Harvey Dent put it best in The Dark Knight...

"I knew the risks when I took this job Lieutenant."

Oh boy, someone didn't hand YOU, their server/bartender, as much much money as they thought they were owed. Time to post a rant, bitch to your friends, curse humanity, etc.

They have these jobs out there that pay a SALARY. May wanna look into that option. Otherwise, you're doomed to the consequences of your own unrealistically lofty expectations of people's decency/generosity.
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Maybe they meant "I work in the service industry, I understand... that you're giving me shitty service."
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I find myself saying, "I work[ed] in the service industry, I understand,"... that you make minimum wage and still give shitty service while I made $2.30/hr and was über dependant on tips and therefore doing well, you're not.
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Hey Rick? "get a better job" is always a stupid response. Always. SOMEONE will always be doing service jobs for tips. It is part of our culture to tip. If someone gets stiffed on a tip, that's the customer being an asshole, not a server being in the wrong profession.

That said, "I understand" is not something you want a customer to be saying. It usually means someone fucked up, and fucking up ends up with a lower tip. Especially if you fail to make things right.
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Aestro, one man's "stupid" is another man's "painfully obvious."

If tipping is part of our culture, then occasionaly poor tipping is part of the same culture. Once you get to the point where you freak out about getting stiffed on a tip here or there, the industry has burnt you out.

And it's a "what have you done for me lately" industry at that. I did it for 8 years. I hated being at the mercy of cheap/ignorant clientele, petty/childish coworkers, and egomaniacal asshole managers.

And if my comment is really so stupid, why are there so many FORMER servers and bartenders?
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Every service industry worker is a unique snowflake who's totally talented and special and so very intelligent and everything would be different if they could only get that big break in whatever career they were REALLY born to have. The one they truly deserve.

You should tip according to the server's hopes and dreams, not the job they're doing today. Only by tipping them like the famous artist / musician / actor they really are, deep down inside, can they ever get ahead!
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Hell Rick, you were a server for 8 years and you're asking why there are so many FORMER servers and bartenders? Why'd you stay around so long?

Obviously not everyone wants unstable wages or having to deal with the segment of the population that thinks "I'm paying money for a meal. Better find a reason to complain and treat this human being like shit!"

You can be a server for 2 weeks or 10 years and getting stiffed will ALWAYS suck. Having a valid complaint doesn't mean you're burnt out and need to leave. Instead of blaming someone (presumably) doing their job, why not blame the asshole breaking the social contract?
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Aestro,

Simple answer to your question...

I had no ambition and no college degree during that period of my life. Oh, and I thought that I, and that lifestyle, were very cool. I was wrong on both fronts.

And yeah, people who tip poorly, or not all, really suck. I hate rapists and breast cancer too, but they exist. How does that one stiff job sound now?

Not terribly important, huh?
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This town has got to chill on the high tip expectancy. How much longer til servers include their rent bill with your dinner check for added guilt?
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TIPS for Jesus!
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Service industry also includes oaks park, sbarro, moda center, Lloyd center food court and le pigeon....
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The ol Marine is a little reluctant to get into this pissing contest without his trusty M14 or 16....so I've taken a blue one this time, and here goes. The real culprits here are the restaurants and bars of old that started the practice of paying their servers bupkis and telling them "hey, if you grovel enough or ladies if you ~ shake it baby~ you'll do all right, and if you don't like it there's plenty more hungry folks that'll jump to replace you". (Sad but true) Of course it's not become a popular cause to change all that and start a boycott to force restaurants/bars to pay their help more and lift the requirement for the public to subsidize the servers income. It's too entrenched now. We can pontificate about the cause and effect or the chicken and the egg thing forever, but it's time to take a nap now.
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^ colonel douche
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It's history, man. Guns, dope, armed insurrection. Peasant land seizure. Dig it.

Ghost riders, anarchist prophets, fire, blood... revolution!
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Ok buddy but only because it was your I,A:

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@ Col. Sanders

Might be my favorite comment of all time. I swear 1/2 of you must know each other in real life.

This has to be true, it has to be true. Otherwise, I feel like I'm witnessing Buddy descend into utter madness.
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Nobody is right or wrong here. If you like the service industry stay there for a while. If you work bussing tables, serving drinks, chat it up with drunk ass holes , you deserve a tip. If you think you make enough without getting a tip, that is fine too. I think I like to tip for good service because I like to do it. So I'm happy with it.
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Gaaaaaah, I'm over these rants about poor tipping in Portland. Again, I'm a bartender, please stop EXPECTING a tip. This city has way too much attachment to this ideal that if you're a poor server you should get a 15% tip on every order and the person who tips you less is a scum bag. Wrong. Get over yourself. Don't really on a maybe - maybe I'll make bank tonight in tips. It's a lottery. You're the asshole for thinking it's a given.
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Don't rely* on a maybe

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