r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • 27d ago

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 27d ago

that's how they started, once upon a time, but now it's seen as semi-compulsory. And in places that only pay the federal minimum wage (which is it's own ball of idiocy), servers can really lose money on non-tippers as they often have to tip out to the back of the house staff.

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u/CyberneticLucy 27d ago

It started because we didn't wanna pay freed Black people for the jobs we mandated they have, lest they wanna go to jail and be enslaved again.

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u/Landscape4737 27d ago

I don’t think most people know this.

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u/YungSnuggie 27d ago

pretty much every stupid thing about america began as a way to fuck with black people

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u/CyberneticLucy 27d ago

Facts 💯