She comes from a long line of people just like her. useless and in athuority.
i don't like the concept of "tips" as an established transaction.
part of it is simply the fact i don't like compliments, which tips are kind of a monetary form of. but for the most part, i simply don't like the idea of a business being able to track what the heck the customers are giving to their employees as a personal side-gift.
my job of the moment involves....some providing the customers with obvious physical labor. store policy (well, mangement policy) is that we are not allowed to receive any tips, presumably on the grounds some would take a lack of tips as reason to do less quality work for some customers (i base my effort at work on the quality of the staff and management, so....) and as the manager is usually sitting in her office nearby, doing nothing important so you generally have to decline the tip. sometimes at great length. and i inwardly agree with the policy, not because of any managerial stupidity but because part of me worries that accepting a lot of tips will encourage them to lower my pay to compensate.
this is a terrible situation to me, because i can't understand what gives employers any right to a transaction between their employee and their customer that stands intended as separate from the provision of goods/services the place of business provided. but somewhere the idea because that if there's an interaction you can observe between someone that works for you involving money, you deserve at least part of it. there's something terribly wrong about the "protecting the business's sovereign right to it's envisioned profit" that's deeply pervasive in spite of the sheer wrong-headedness of it. i don't enjoy having to control my behavior because of someone else's selfish stupidity, and i've spent far too much time doing it.
part of it is simply the fact i don't like compliments, which tips are kind of a monetary form of. but for the most part, i simply don't like the idea of a business being able to track what the heck the customers are giving to their employees as a personal side-gift.
my job of the moment involves....some providing the customers with obvious physical labor. store policy (well, mangement policy) is that we are not allowed to receive any tips, presumably on the grounds some would take a lack of tips as reason to do less quality work for some customers (i base my effort at work on the quality of the staff and management, so....) and as the manager is usually sitting in her office nearby, doing nothing important so you generally have to decline the tip. sometimes at great length. and i inwardly agree with the policy, not because of any managerial stupidity but because part of me worries that accepting a lot of tips will encourage them to lower my pay to compensate.
this is a terrible situation to me, because i can't understand what gives employers any right to a transaction between their employee and their customer that stands intended as separate from the provision of goods/services the place of business provided. but somewhere the idea because that if there's an interaction you can observe between someone that works for you involving money, you deserve at least part of it. there's something terribly wrong about the "protecting the business's sovereign right to it's envisioned profit" that's deeply pervasive in spite of the sheer wrong-headedness of it. i don't enjoy having to control my behavior because of someone else's selfish stupidity, and i've spent far too much time doing it.