The person who keeps my electricity on deserves a living wage, but he person who delivers my pizza or pours me a pint deserves to be judged on their service. I give very generous tips, but I reserve the right to withhold them!
> The person who keeps my electricity on deserves a living wage, but he person who delivers my pizza or pours me a pint deserves to be judged on their service. I give very generous tips, but I reserve the right to withhold them!
That’s too much hard work on your behalf! I don’t know why you put up with that...
We get around that in a different way, believe it or not. We give our business to places whose staff treat us well, and we stay away in droves from those who don’t.
The business owner tends to weed out his/her deadwood on that basis, real fast: as is only good and right and just. As a consumer, you should not have to take responsibility for a business owner’s Human Resources issues. Staff evaluation and remuneration is NOT your job, and neither should you be made to do so by lazy business owners.
Good businesses treat their good staff really well — like the treasured business assets that they actually are — and these businesses are rewarded by heavy patronage from repeat satisfied customers. The deadwood gets sorted out by the marketplace and punished accordingly. Severely.
Much, much more effective!
> The person who keeps my electricity on deserves a living wage, but he person who delivers my pizza or pours me a pint deserves to be judged on their service. I give very generous tips, but I reserve the right to withhold them!
Thinking your post thru even more carefully, if you lived in Auckland you’d be more likely to pay your pizza delivery guy and barmaid a living wage, and demand your electricity supplier to be paid by Tips. Electricity supply is spotty at the best of times here, and in 1997/1998 it nearly managed to shut down our Central Business District. Many people went broke as a result of poor electricity services.
No, I think it needs to be all-or-nothing: either everyone is on Tips, or nobody is on Tips.
*DieHard*