Wednesday, September 3, 2008
What do you think?
I use to work in banquets and i would like to know what you all think about a particular situation. as employees we were paid a starting wage of $9.50/hr. our jobs were to serve parties ranging from 100 to 2500 people. when our employer would bill the parties for our services, they would include a 25% gratuity. They told the clients that this covered all of the tips for the staff working the event (made this very very clear). so everyone attending the event knew tip was included. At the end of events the employees never saw a dime. after much frustration, we found out that the gratuity was being dispursed to upper management as bonuses. Let me know what you think?
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What a crappy thing to do! That is deceitful even to the customers. In the South, people are very thoughtful of the people who are their servers in restauraunts. I would have quit and then told everyone I knew about their crappy policies. Jeez!
I think it's terrible, but how was it set up like that in the first place?
Well, they never said *who* the gratuity was *for*, did they?
This is similar to one of the points about "Brake Breakers." If a company thinks about employees as materials of production rather than as partners *in* production, then it makes sense that they would minimize upkeep costs on what I assume they viewed as "disposable resources."
Was this a job where you felt disposable?
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