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I tip even though I live on $1000 or less a month and only make $9 an hour when I tutor.

I tip well even, but it should be mentioned I rarely ever eat out at all, and I usually do so frugally.

Last time I ate out was at olive garden. The waitress there knows me, and also that I tip, but also knows I make very little money, my cars window was broken out etc. She saved me money by having 3 meatballs for 3.95 instead of $2 per meatball like normall (I got 6 of them for $8). Total with tax was less than 10$ and I left 14$ for her.

Now if I had bought 6 meatballs normally at 2.10 each, the base cost would have been $14 before tip, so that worked out very well for me, and she was happy.

The happiness or non-ager/sadness is the reason I tip even though every waitress/waiter in the world (yes even in states that don't give them min wage + tips like mine) make more money than me.

If you tip, their day is a bit better, if you don't it's a bit worse. I've had friends/roomates etc who work tipping jobs, and even here in WA they are really upset if they have a bad day of tips.

Not worth the little amount of money to ruin a persons day in my opinion. It shouldn't be our responsibility to tip them, certainly not about 50% of americans who make $15 or less an hour, but that is sadly the way it is. I would totally get behind getting rid of tipping universally, but sadly the opposite is true, more and more jobs are asking for tips, uber drivers for instance.....They already cost a ton, but now expect to be tipped as well.

I just wish there was some kinda card that you could use that would provide tips based on your income or something so if you make less than someone you don't have to tip them and they don't feel bad about it. I certainly don't think tipping should be required to eat out, that should be available to everyone.