New Jersey waitress receives ‘LOL’ instead of tip on receipt

[HumanAbyss]

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;48560265]If enough people unionize than that problem disappears. Then they'll be choosing between workers with higher pay or no workers. Not saying it's easy, just that workers will have to unionize if they want any influence at all.

Also tipping just makes for worse service. The staff is so eager to get tips that they're basically up your ass all the time. Especially bad in places with many tourists where they even try to inform you that you have to tip. It's fucking annoying and it makes me not want to go to restaurants in the US.[/QUOTE]

Waiters and waitresses can't unionize.

They'll be fired instantly for joining a union and when you're so poor you need every dollar for every meal, you can't afford to go a few months without tips, without work, and they're the most replaceable group.

Any attempts to unionize would lead to bad things.

[WarriorWounds]

There is too high of a demand for waiter and waitress jobs for them to unionize as abyss said, any hint of it happening and the restaurant manager would just immediate fire them and get new replacement staff within a week/ two weeks at most.

[opaali]

[QUOTE=Satansick;48540028]I wouldn't even get out of bed for 2.50 an hour. Judging from this thread, even without tips I make more than American waiters.[/QUOTE]

I think i'd get more than 2.50 an hour without even having to get out of bed

[PersonalJesus69]

[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;48556257]ok? how do you propose the servers enact change? (protip: the managers aren't typically to blame)

[editline]27th August 2015[/editline]

mandatory gratuity on parties bigger than 8 was a pretty good idea though, just because those large parties tend to suck up a huge portion of a server's section and a huge portion of a server's time, time that could be better spent dealing with smaller individual parties that may be more likely to tip[/QUOTE]

I get a spare $18 on my paycheck from parties. Its supposed to be $25 but federal and state taxes take out at least $7...