What frugality? He was paying the full price that it was being sold at.
By that logic, most reading these comments should expect to hear from their employer:
What annual bonus?
What stock options?
The company is paying full price that your time was being sold at.Stock options are because you could be paid more or you are taking risks for future rewards.
A mandatory tip is because your employer doesn't want to pay you full wage and instead of increasing the price and pay you more, they pass it over to the customers. So they get the same profits without having to bother.
Quite different reasons.
> Annual bonus is either performance based
>>>> We'd even have it ready for him before he showed up so he never had to wait!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Sounds like a tip to me.
> Stock options are because you could be paid more or you are taking risks for future rewards.
Sounds to me like the allure of a job in which tipping is expected.
> A mandatory tip is because your employer doesn't want to pay you full wage ...
Tips are not mandatory by definition.
evidently the tips under discussion were not mandatory.
Baristas are paid to make iced tea. The customer doesn’t expect them to do more than that, but they can be nice, learn your name, prepare your tea ahead of time, change the tea recipe to something you enjoy more. Don’t you think they should get a nice bonus too?
In the scenario I set forth, an employer assumes the role of customer during annual reviews of their employees.
Variable, pseudo-optional tips seem like a much bigger problem.
When tipping is no longer customary to receive good service and seeps into other aspects of lives it leads to all sorts of problems and situations.
This[1] is an extreme example of that situation in a different country but are we really ready to accept similar consequences and say they should've just paid the poor nurse ?
1. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/up-mainpuri-infant-die...
In the service industry, you wouldn't need to say end customer, because the person you're delivering to is already the end customer. Either way is still a results based cash reward paid by the entity receiving the direct output of your work.
Since tipping is done by customers. It is like employers tell employees you can let customers know good service is for good tippers. Maybe car repair mechanic can pour sweet tea in instead of engine oil since customer is known to be bad tipper.
I am sure that will go very well with that business.
In the scenario I set forth, an employer assumes the role of customer during annual reviews of their employees.
> It is like employers tell employees you can let customers know good service is for good tippers.
This is non sequitur as clarified above.