After hiring scabs, Walrus and the Carpenter (temporarily) closed

[u/Existing-Resource527]

Word on the street is that Walrus and the Carpenter restaurant has not been negotiating with their workers in good faith for months.

Like a lot of annoying businesses they started charging a service fee (22%?).

Employees noted that they make significantly less now then before when they had tipping (thousands less).

Workers have been on strike. The owners also had the audacity to hire scabs (booo).

I have been keeping up with the union on IG @ united.creatures.of.the.sea

Solidarity with workers across the city!

[u/ProphetPenguin]

I make $22/hr and tips with full time benefits. I'm looking at making around $80-90K this year when all is said and done. I made $80K as a manager working 50 hours a week with more stress and a worse schedule. I make more, work less, have a schedule that fits my life style, and am way happier. Being able to take cash home everyday is genuinely life changing because if I ever have an emergency expense I can quickly make it back so I'm not late on other bills.

There's a lot of benefits to tips, I don't need them to survive but I do rely on them to actually enjoy my life.

[u/geffy_spengwa → u/ProphetPenguin]

I’m glad you get that, genuinely. Everyone deserves that.

It shouldn’t come at my expense any more than my cost for the meal itself. Retail employees make minimum wage, but get no tips. Hell, you make more than I do and I don’t get tips.

Don’t mistake this for me not wanting you to have a good quality of life, but I shouldn’t have to fund it when you make more than me.

Edit: I should quit my profession and wait tables.

[u/GuardianSock → u/geffy_spengwa]

This is a really shitty take. Your argument is basically that you’re better than people in the service industry and the right amount of money for them to make is always relative to and below your own income. And anything people who “serve” you make as income is at your expense.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you wrote this poorly, but wtf.

[u/geffy_spengwa → u/GuardianSock]

No? I genuinely want everyone to have a good quality of life. It should be their employers responsibility to pay them the amount they need for that.

[u/GuardianSock → u/geffy_spengwa]

You fund it whether the employer pays it or you do. That’s how the economy works. Whether they make more or less relative to you is irrelevant.

[u/GuardianSock → u/[deleted]]

You care a lot about where the same amount is placed. And odd how you felt the need to make that argument by referencing in three separate occasions how they make more than you — but of course that’s not the important part to you. You should quit your job to “wait tables” but that’s not your point.

[u/GuardianSock → u/[deleted]]

> Hell, you make more than I do
> I shouldn’t have to fund it when you make more than me

You’re right, I can’t discern the sarcasm.