Posted on 11/23/2022 3:42:15 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Katelyn Boss is a 22-year-old server at a sports bar in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She thought it was a waste of time at first. The tips were bad, and her base wage was $2.13 an hour.
Then she tried putting her hair in pigtails to get higher tips from male customers — and it worked.
When I first started working as a waitress at a sports bar and grill, I was struggling to make tips. It almost felt like I was wasting my time. I was making so little money, because the minimum wage in Utah for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.
I saw the 'pigtail theory' for making more tips on TikTok So I went on TikTok to look at what other waitresses were doing to make higher tips. I was looking for any ideas and tricks I could use, and I came across the "#pigtailtheory" trend. In it, women realized that if they wore their hair in pigtails, they made more money in tips.
I was kind of surprised by the idea, but I decided to just give it a try. I put my hair in pigtails and went into the bar for my waitressing shift. That was the night I made my first $100 tip.
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The younger ones are much more likely to be middle to upper-middle class kids living at home, going to college, with better career prospects ahead.
Having those new employees make enough to stick with it fits with that profile.
Lots of restaurants around here (NY/New England) have pooled tips among other reasons to keep balance in compensation.
I fully admire women who have the talent, brains, and capacity for hard work that you have, and are unafraid to throw their physical appearance into the mix.
Granted, I work in Healthcare, and I see both men and women coming it from vendors to meet with physicians, and they still dress to the nines. The men come in with those blue and gray pinstriped suits, polished pointy shoes, and hair perfectly set.
The women, who recognize their target audience when it is male surgeons, dress to that audience. Business skirts, high, but not high enough where eyebrows get raised, often the same blue and gray pinstriped pattern, high heels (rarely stillettos) a bare hint of cleavage but not enough to where guys would whiplash and think “Cleavage!”, tasteful yet not overdone makeup, and well done hair.
Not being the direct object of this focus, it is entertaining to watch the kabuki show as drugs, equipment, and processes are sold.
The women are obviously sharp. They have to be in those jobs, but are quite obviously not hesitant to employ feminine aspects if the object of their sales pitch falls into the right category.
And the truly funny part is, they know it. The physicians know it. Onlookers like us know it. Everyone knows how the game is being played, and on it plays!
A fabulous movie that portrays this kind of thing is “Love and Other Drugs”. When my wife and I, both of whom have worked in healthcare for forty years or so, saw this movie, the first half of the movie floored us with their portrayal of these sales-types! I thought it had the possibility of being one of the best movies along these lines, but they tried to turn it into a real story in the second half of the movie (instead of lampooning medical sales, in this case, Viagra, as they did) and the second half didn’t fit the first half at all.
But, boy...did they have the sales people down pat! Of course, that sales environment has changed since then (for the better, IMO) with rules and regulations, but...
Those are people unashamedly maximizing their assets!
I have always been a big believer in dressing to your strengths, enhancing those things that are assets, and not drawing attention to your liabilities.
Us fat guys wearing things we shouldn’t, is often a crime against nature. Overweight guys in T-shirts is an abomination of appearance. Wear a sharp untucked, non-form fitting shirt with a straight bottom. Clean and pressed. Women too, sometimes fail egregiously more so. I am thinking of yoga pants on the wrong female. Wearing a Moo-moo is suicide, but there are plenty of sharp looking clothes that enhance the female person.
One of the things I adore about my wife is she dresses in this fashion...I can always be proud of her appearance when I am with her, as she is not at all inclined to fashion, but more the classics, especially those that fit.
Someone who is out of shape but has great personal skills can go a long way by de-emphasizing their physical liabilities and promoting those things that work in their favor.
LOL, and the silly backward-ball cap with the bill pointed slightly up in the back really catches my eye in the wrong way!
She could also throw in a couple of “honeys and sweeties” to get even more. Pretend you like the old, fat, bald guys—we like it and will pay you better.
I tip well either way, as long as the service is good. These people rely on tips for a living and in most cases they need the money. It’s my version of helping others, + they are working.
oh yeah. if i’m out with my husband and vice versa, we dress nice.
Unless we’re going to pick up more mulch at Lowe’s.
and we joke with each other when we see hideous looking seniors “please don’t leave me”
Indeed it’s not pigtails it’s handle grips.
I’m more of a ponytail-through-the-back of a baseball cap kinda guy.
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I think we now have the complete collection.
Would that include a Polo shirt, by any chance (with the collar turned DOWN, of course), in your estimation?
You pegged my style perfectly after I got married. Pretty, professional, and attractive. The acceptable uniform for a woman who wasn’t afraid of her femininity but wanted to be seen as a professional.
They come ready-to-wear, now:
LOL, I don’t know. I am a buttoned-down guy...I don’t go out in public wearing things that look disheveled (sweat pants, pajama bottoms, etc) unless I am working a project and have to go to the hardware store to pick something up!
My wife laughs at me...when I tuck in my shirt, I have to get the plumb line straight!
I just believe in decorum...:)
Exactly. I understand exactly. I just cannot stand slovenliness. Just cannot stand slobs in public.
When I go to wakes and funerals, I wear a suit. Always. Even weddings, my wife says “You’re going to be the only one there wearing a suit!” and I say “Don’t care.”
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I almost spit my drink there!
Harkening back to a less...er, cultured time for me!
Hahahahahahaha! I get that!
I attended a memorial service for an old friend who passed away last year. I went with another friend of mine. While most people were dressed decently there, he and I were apparently the only ones wearing customary funeral/memorial garb (black pants and jacket, white shirt, and tie).
You don't like Carl Bratananadalewski, do you?
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