Man I’ve been there. If it wasn’t for being able to buy fishflex (Cefalexin) and/or fishmox (Amoxicillin) from the pet store, I would have probably done something similar.

What about #2? Waffle stomp?

Now I want to stick furry stickers on gas pumps to own the libs almost everybody.

Way of the road, Bubs.

Really the only thing we disagree on is that not tipping does/doesn’t hurt the business. I’m with you on everything else.

I really don’t have a dog in the fight tho. I don’t work in food service nor do I participate much in the dine-in restaurant portion of it. I can count the number of times I’ve sat down and ate at a restaurant in the last 4 years on one hand. I’m also a hypocrite, I over tip for takeout/delivery and perpetuate the problem.

But I do believe if people collectively ditched tipping, the problem would sort itself out. Not that it wouldn’t be painful for the workers. And not that there aren’t better options (I’m 110% for minimum wage to be the same across the board).

Leave to where? What other job?

To the same place they would go if everyone collectively boycotted that business like you are calling for. When there’s no customers, the businesses aren’t just going to keep paying them. They’ll end up getting fired or hours cut until they starve or leave. What’s the difference?

If everyone just stopped tipping all that would happen is that the workers now have a lower pay. The employers have lost no money, and have no reason to change anything.

No, a portion of the workers are going to say “I can make more at -insert literally any other job here-” and they are going to leave. Then the business has to either fix the problem or shut down. These service industry workers aren’t beholden to their employers, when the pay stops being decent, they’ll dip.

That’s how it works. TASER became Axom (maker of most body cams).

Head on over to !flashlight@lemmy.world and start that new addiction, I mean, hobby.

Edit: fixed formatting.

It’s called a bundt pan.