Mar 15 2010

Why He Doesn’t Tip: Twat-Wafflery at it’s Finest

Category: Exploiting the Idiocracy — Head Bitch in Charge @ 1:27 pm

Egg RacismToday an article was published in The Hawkeye (ULM’s newspaper – formerly the PowWow) entitled Why I Don’t Tip. It is unclear whether the author, Joseph Roberts, is on staff at ULM or merely a student, but this much is startlingly clear:  he is an asshat.

In his article, Mr. Roberts explains that he does not tip the local wait staff at places such as Coda or Kyoto, even if he receives excellent service.  He thinks that it should be up to the restaurants to pay its employees a livable wage.

I can’t begin to illustrate the many ways that this article is offensive to our local servers – I’ll let you read the comments to his article for that. However, I can express my outrage that ULM has allowed this piece to be published even though it contains blatant racial remarks.

In his article, Mr. Roberts writes about his time as a Big Star Grocery employee -  “Just imagine swaths of gleeful minorities all coming to shop on the same day, and you get to carry out truckloads of free groceries for them, and then find a way to stuff everything into their cars which are already full from every other store they looted at the beginning of the month.”

Clearly, Mr. Roberts does not like the fact that minorities are allowed to use food stamps and implies that they are “looting” stores when their welfare checks come out.

Wow.

Such a loaded statement for an article about tipping. It makes me wonder why Mr. Roberts would even be compelled to use that statement in his article in the first place.

Maybe he thinks that controversial articles get more publicity. If this is the case, he would be correct.

Maybe he really does think that food stamps and tipping are related. In this case, he is still correct – if no one tipped their servers, many of them would be forced to apply for food stamps.

However, I tend to believe in the principle of Occam’s razor. The simplest explanation for this phenomenon is that Joseph Roberts is a racist wanker.

And the ULM staff who allowed this article to be published? I’ll let you decide.

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4 Responses to “Why He Doesn’t Tip: Twat-Wafflery at it’s Finest”

  1. Monroe Diner says:
    March 15th, 2010 2:05 pm

    I understand the impulse for not tipping, but not the racism. While I tip, I sometimes resent the hell out of tipping being expected and demanded. It should be optional, it should be earned. If you don’t tip, though, you’re an asshat for depriving the hardworking server his living.

    Restaurants should have to pay living wages and we their customers should have to pay more for the food. If we choose to leave a little extra on the table then that’s up to us. Why should I have to pay your employee?

    In all fairness to servers, too, I believe buffets should have to pay their waiters at least minimum wage plus tips. If I have to get my own food, my own drink and my own dessert, you’ve not done anything to earn that extra 15% you expect.

  2. admin says:
    March 15th, 2010 4:36 pm

    Amen on the buffet thing! And to-go workers, too. I’ve known many a to-go worker who was paid the same as a server and hardly ever got tips due to the nature of the job. It would be nice if restaurants paid their employees a livable wage, but right now, they do not.

  3. pipedaddy says:
    March 16th, 2010 7:33 am

    The ULM newspaper has been DEAD since about 1996. There is NO school of Journalism anymore and it is currently run out of the ENGLISH!!! THAT’s RIGHT the ENGLISH department!!!!!! What a joke. Since when did English and Journalism become the same thing? Tech has the only real Journalism department anymore and I’m sad to say the decline of Journalism departments mirror the decline of print media in general. I blame it on stupid blogs. DAMN THEM! ;)

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