Banker’s Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99%: How dumb is this?
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st when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at the True Food Kitchen restaurant in Newport Beach, California.
To add insult to injury the word "tip" was circled on the receipt,
and the banker wrote "get a real job" on the bill. The picture of the
receipt was taken and uploaded to the blog Future Ex-Banker by a person
who was dining with the anonymous banker. As expected, the blog received a lot of attention
and has now been taken down. The author of the blog wrote, "mention the
99% in my boss' presence and feel his wrath. So proudly does he wear
his 1% badge of honor that he tips exactly 1% every time he feels the
server doesn't sufficiently bow down to his holiness."
People online who had a chance to see the blog post before it went
offline and those who have been made aware of it on social media outlets
are outraged. One person called the tip a "tale of greed and contempt," and another referred to it as "arrogance personified."
The Web's general reaction to this story is eerily similar to an almost
identical 1% vs. 99% scenario that took place last fall. In Washington
state, a waitress received a tip of no money and advice scrawled on the receipt that told her she could "stand to lose a few pounds."
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Beat Magnum True Hero 2012/02/27 20:18:44+9The issue isn't even the tip, it's the snide "Get a real job" comment. What a bloody coward! Know what a real job is? It's a service you provide in exchange for payment. That means that everything is a real job, and I can promise you that in this economy, a good number of people in the service industry probably got laid off from a "real job" in the last year. Remember, we're all about one layoff away from having to do this ourselves, so treat the service industry employees with dignity: they work so that you don't have to.






















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IF the service is lousy .. I'll tip less .. (But I'm not rude about it .. nor do I make disparaging comments about the physical appearance or job status of the individual) ..
IF The service is good .. I'll tip even more ..
But I'm also aware of the fact that some occasions .. especially when I am with groups of individuals .. that the TIP is built into the price of the meal .. (yep .. it is already included) ..
and if the service is exceptional .. then I'll tip EXTRA for that service ..
like, if there were no waitresses, who the hell would serve his sorry ass?
Nobody, that's who.
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The banker might be arrogant but guess what....a tip is just that....a tip. It's an extra. It's not a mandatory payment. It's a bonus. On the other side of things there are way too many service industries that expect a tip as part of their pay yet do nothing extra to earn that bonus. It's not the patrons fault the restaurant doesn't pay their workers more. If they want to charge more for their food and pay their workers more then a patron can then choose to go to that restaurant or not.
A tip is for services.
T - To
I - Insure
P - Prompt
S - Service
= Tips
I'm sure the 1% are getting sick and tired of the class warfare especially since they are the ones paying most of the taxes for the rest that don't pay any.
How about the rest of the 50% start paying federal taxes and back off from the 1% that are paying more than their share.
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The banker might be arrogant but guess what....a tip is just that....a tip. It's an extra. It's not a mandatory payment. It's a bonus. On the other side of things there are way too many service industries that expect a tip as part of their pay yet do nothing extra to earn that bonus. It's not the patrons fault the restaurant doesn't pay their workers more. If they want to charge more for their food and pay their workers more then a patron can then choose to go to that restaurant or not.
A tip is for services.
T - To
I - Insure
P - Prompt
S - Service
= Tips
I'm sure the 1% are getting sick and tired of the class warfare especially since they are the ones paying most of the taxes for the rest that don't pay any.
How about the rest of the 50% start paying federal taxes and back off from the 1% that are paying more than their share.
FINE.... YOU support your precious "1%" then... THE REST OF US DON'T WANT TO!
Really? Did you take any basic math in school? Or are you just dumber than a box of rocks.