To me the issue seems to be that they are blaming the server for asking tips and not the restaurant for not providing a liveable wage to their employees.
Yes, that’s my entire issue with this comic. It seems like they’re upset about wait staff “demanding” tips for just doing their job, when the real issue is that restaurants don’t pay their servers what their job is actually worth. It’s often an opinion of people who look down on “unskilled labor” like service industry employees. Fun anecdote: airplane mechanics were considered “unskilled labor” throughout WW2 and into the early Cold War, when the profession was suddenly rebranded as “skilled labor” due to a pressing need for aircraft mechanics with the rising demand from fighter jets and airliners and a lack of people entering the field. There’s no such thing as “unskilled labor,” just undervalued work.
And my second bit that I always make about the 2 years retail service is that it would either destroy the country or make it a nicer place where people respect each other more, and at this point I don’t know which is better.
Yes, that’s my entire issue with this comic. It seems like they’re upset about wait staff “demanding” tips for just doing their job, when the real issue is that restaurants don’t pay their servers what their job is actually worth. It’s often an opinion of people who look down on “unskilled labor” like service industry employees. Fun anecdote: airplane mechanics were considered “unskilled labor” throughout WW2 and into the early Cold War, when the profession was suddenly rebranded as “skilled labor” due to a pressing need for aircraft mechanics with the rising demand from fighter jets and airliners and a lack of people entering the field. There’s no such thing as “unskilled labor,” just undervalued work.
And my second bit that I always make about the 2 years retail service is that it would either destroy the country or make it a nicer place where people respect each other more, and at this point I don’t know which is better.