The hot topic in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is about a waiter and bartender that got fired after speaking to the press about how tips are being affected by changing economic conditions..
Though Pennsylvania is an at-will state, which means an employer can fire without without reason as their discretion, opinions abound about whether the Spice restaurant firing was kind or moral..
Or necessary and right.
Justified or not.. it's legal for the firings to take place.
But the bigger story may be the restaurant world versus everyone else. It's difficult to understand the mindset of a tipped employee unless someone has walked for 10 hours shifts in their shoes.
It's tough to think about living day to day on cash that kind people may leave on a table..
Or sometimes what they don't leave on a table..
Can any rules make it easy? Tip20.com offers some advice.
And the bigger lessen for servers: Never talk to the press. At all. Period... no matter how good of an idea it seems like it will be.
Though Pennsylvania is an at-will state, which means an employer can fire without without reason as their discretion, opinions abound about whether the Spice restaurant firing was kind or moral..
Or necessary and right.
Justified or not.. it's legal for the firings to take place.
But the bigger story may be the restaurant world versus everyone else. It's difficult to understand the mindset of a tipped employee unless someone has walked for 10 hours shifts in their shoes.
It's tough to think about living day to day on cash that kind people may leave on a table..
Or sometimes what they don't leave on a table..
Can any rules make it easy? Tip20.com offers some advice.
And the bigger lessen for servers: Never talk to the press. At all. Period... no matter how good of an idea it seems like it will be.
