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Re: Gregg Popovich may have given a Memphis server a $5,000 tip
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2017, 11:50:29 AM »

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I love stories like this. If I was extremely rich, I'd do stuff like this constantly. $5000 can be life changing for a server.


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Re: Gregg Popovich may have given a Memphis server a $5,000 tip
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2017, 12:23:49 PM »

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i know. i wish i could afford to do such things as well. going through my undergrad years, i worked in restaurants to make money and i know what a difference such a tip can make to people.

sigh....if i were a rich man...Daidle deedle daidle. Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb ...  ;D
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Re: Gregg Popovich may have given a Memphis server a $5,000 tip
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2017, 12:24:41 PM »

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Pop is amazing.

That said, what about the cooks who work just as hard and don't get paid as much as the waitresses?

Tipping is a problematic institution. :P

But yeah, Pop is the best.
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Re: Gregg Popovich may have given a Memphis server a $5,000 tip
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2017, 12:29:10 PM »

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I love stories like this. If I was extremely rich, I'd do stuff like this constantly. $5000 can be life changing for a server.
I suspect most places will be pooling tips. I doubt this will go to just one guy.
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2017, 12:37:50 PM »

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I love stories like this. If I was extremely rich, I'd do stuff like this constantly. $5000 can be life changing for a server.
you can do the next best thing Roy.  You can give me 5000 TPs and feel the same level of generosity.  it's almost as good 

I gave you one and feel better already.  imagine how you'd feel after giving out 5000!  8)

Re: Gregg Popovich may have given a Memphis server a $5,000 tip
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2017, 01:08:22 PM »

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why dont we strive for equity in pay rather than reduce the country to a welfare economy where poor folks depend on 'charity' from rich people who make obscene amounts of money?

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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2017, 01:12:23 PM »

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Re: Gregg Popovich may have given a Memphis server a $5,000 tip
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2017, 01:12:35 PM »

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why dont we strive for equity in pay rather than reduce the country to a welfare economy where poor folks depend on 'charity' from rich people who make obscene amounts of money?

Because a server simply does not deserve the same pay an RN gets, and an RN doesn't deserve the same pay as a radiologist.

People are paid according to their skills (ignoring the foolish idea of a minimum wage, anyway) and that is how it should be.

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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2017, 01:21:36 PM »

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does a RN deserve as much pay as a scrub on a NBA basketball team?

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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2017, 01:25:28 PM »

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does a RN deserve as much pay as a scrub on a NBA basketball team?
Nope, because a lot of people could be trained to be an RN.  Not a lot of people could be trained to play in the NBA.

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« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2017, 01:27:05 PM »

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why dont we strive for equity in pay rather than reduce the country to a welfare economy where poor folks depend on 'charity' from rich people who make obscene amounts of money?

Because a server simply does not deserve the same pay an RN gets, and an RN doesn't deserve the same pay as a radiologist.

People are paid according to their skills (ignoring the foolish idea of a minimum wage, anyway) and that is how it should be.
Yes, in the fantasy land of perfectly competitive markets this is true. In the real world, not so much.
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« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2017, 01:31:11 PM »

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I love stories like this. If I was extremely rich, I'd do stuff like this constantly. $5000 can be life changing for a server.
you can do the next best thing Roy.  You can give me 5000 TPs and feel the same level of generosity.  it's almost as good 

I gave you one and feel better already.  imagine how you'd feel after giving out 5000!  8)
holy Christmas you actually did it!   I can only hope that felt as good for you as it did for me! 

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« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2017, 01:32:43 PM »

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does a RN deserve as much pay as a scrub on a NBA basketball team?
Nope, because a lot of people could be trained to be an RN.  Not a lot of people could be trained to play in the NBA.

You must also believe that 30 year old hedge fund managers moving paper around deserve all those millions they make. By the way, if you are right there is no need to tip the waitress $5,000.00 or anything at all for that matter.

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« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2017, 01:35:27 PM »

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Pop is amazing.

That said, what about the cooks who work just as hard and don't get paid as much as the waitresses?

Tipping is a problematic institution. :P

But yeah, Pop is the best.
well, the cooks and other staff outside of the wait staff make a higher wage.  Wait staff do not get the minimum wage applicable to other jobs but a different minimum wage, which when I worked as a waiter in the mid-80's was $2.01.   I don't think it's gone up much from there.  I had a lot of nights where my tips didn't amount to enough to match minimum wage no matter how good I was at my job.

fully agree that this should be a system of pay that is sunset.