20-03-2024, 06:22 PM
(20-03-2024, 06:17 PM)harm_less Wrote: The (misguided) logic that is becoming apparent here is similar to the reasoning in support of tipping service staff in the US hospitality sector. Those employees rely on what are essentially donations in order to supplement their deficient pay rates and in turn the employers use tipping to justify their pitiful pay rates.
Thankfully that model is one that is shunned by New Zealanders.
And long may it remain so. Workers shoudn't have to rely on an unpredicatable source simply to survive.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)