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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #30 on: March 26, 2014, 06:12:20 AM »
Tips are tricky sometimes. Some countries never include a service fee while others sometimes do, so these days I always check before travelling.
The way food service workers are paid in the US is atrocious.  Tips are the only way they can live.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2014, 11:58:08 AM »
Tips are tricky sometimes. Some countries never include a service fee while others sometimes do, so these days I always check before travelling.
The way food service workers are paid in the US is atrocious.  Tips are the only way they can live.

I can attest to that my wife was a waitress while in college and they don't even get minimum wage most places,  some places even take out tax based on your sales for tips also which really sucks if you get lots of shitty ones
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #32 on: March 26, 2014, 04:25:08 PM »
they don't even get minimum wage most places
Which should be illegal.

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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2014, 06:42:19 PM »
they don't even get minimum wage most places
Which should be illegal.

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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2014, 11:44:43 PM »
Tips are tricky sometimes. Some countries never include a service fee while others sometimes do, so these days I always check before travelling.
The way food service workers are paid in the US is atrocious.  Tips are the only way they can live.

I assume the same is true with hotel staff.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #35 on: March 27, 2014, 10:14:47 AM »
Tips are tricky sometimes. Some countries never include a service fee while others sometimes do, so these days I always check before travelling.
The way food service workers are paid in the US is atrocious.  Tips are the only way they can live.

I assume the same is true with hotel staff.

I used to tip the hotel maids at the end of a trip.  then I realized that sometimes the maid on the last day wasn't the one that cleaned the room the other days.  Now I leave a tip each day.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #36 on: March 27, 2014, 11:57:31 PM »
Yup. I do that too now.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #37 on: March 28, 2014, 04:45:02 AM »
Tips are tricky sometimes. Some countries never include a service fee while others sometimes do, so these days I always check before travelling.
The way food service workers are paid in the US is atrocious.  Tips are the only way they can live.

I assume the same is true with hotel staff.
Food service is the worst, because they can be paid below the legal minimum wage.

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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #38 on: March 28, 2014, 07:30:08 AM »
And the cleaning lady can't? :-\
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #39 on: March 28, 2014, 07:36:51 AM »
I do not tip anyone and did not overseas either really.
I did not visit America.
What is minimum wage? I think that it ought to be at least sustainable for the country comparability to cost of living.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #40 on: March 28, 2014, 07:59:28 AM »
And the cleaning lady can't? :-\

Not legally. What Jack is saying, precisely, is that in much of America, minimum wage is lower for tipped employees than for general workers.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2014, 08:07:00 AM »
Cab drivers get a fixed income based on the fact that they get tipped on top of that, here in the Netherlands. Call-centre personel from cab firms get the same income without the tips, of course.

Cleaning people at people's homes and at home childcare people are getting the most lousy pay here. The regulations suck. They have hardly any rights when it comes to sick leave, and they get no unemployment pay either.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2014, 04:03:08 PM »
And the cleaning lady can't? :-\
Correct.

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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2014, 05:15:22 PM »
And the cleaning lady can't? :-\
Correct.

Here the cleaning lady often gets a moonlighting, or semi moonlighting contract. And that is way below minimum wages.
It is different if you work for a cleaning company, but rights then still suck big time.
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Re: I'm bringing sexy back!
« Reply #44 on: March 28, 2014, 05:18:00 PM »
http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25/hour.
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