Is my boss allowed to dictate how I spend my tips?
Location: North Dakota
So, we have a tip pool at work. Basically, the owner collects and holds onto all tips aside from leaving about $100 in the register for us to buy coffee or lunch. Literally the only way I am allowed my tips is to buy food and write down when/why/and how much I took. There is no spoken agreement on how much we can take/how often. The only thing in the handbook about tips just says "Tips are to be shared by the team". That's it. I don't think I ever even signed that. Is this normal? It seems really shady and insulting that the only way I get my tips is buying a coffee once a week.
Edit: I do not work in the food industry, but at a pet boarding facility. There is no told limit to what we can take from the tip section in the register, but it is assumed that you only take a small amount once a week or every 2 weeks. So "Sarah" could buy a $20 lunch every week while "Peter" doesn't take anything from the tip fund. That doesn't seem fair...
That's a lot of Reddit 's comments though. People have a burning need to join in and post something even when, by their own admission, they have nothing of value to contribute. This reply in r/pics to a photo of the inside of an airplane landing gear bay is an instant classic.
"I don't know what I'm talking about, this shit is obviously complicated and nobody could ever know how it works. Anyway you should ask AI for the answer."
That comment caused me existential damage. Sadly, "words words words words I'm not even this type of engineer" is a common engineer failure mode, but the "you should ask chatGPT" at the end kneed me right in the balls.
(The information may have been out there at one time, but unfortunately search engine enshittification and digital decay have mangled everything, with the added bonus of what's left being people words words words words'ing. Source: me tryna see if I could look up the tire numbering scheme for a 747's landing gear on my phone and getting baffling horseshit)
I got banned because, despite always citing everything in every post I replied to, they said I was an "unhelpful commenter" after I didn't notice I was over there and not here and said something mildly snarky.
I know it's a typo of 'pooling', but I found it unintentionally hilarious. "You can't vote unless you first vote to vote."
In other words, how the US Senate works
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Cat fact: if dogs can play poker, then cats can play pool
Edit: I missed a golden opportunity. I should have worked “snookered” into the title. Bother, I also should have called the employer a "pool shark."
The advice in the thread is pretty good which is always nice to see.
Not that this is a particularly gray area of law.
Except for the poster who kept trying to defend the employer, missing the point that whether it’s malice or incompetence, it’s still wage theft.
And then there's this poster who's not sure what's what, but they know they don't like it:
One of the more honest commentators on the site.
There are so many commenters whose entire comment is, "I don't know what the actual law is, but I feel like it should be this" without saying it.
That's a lot of Reddit 's comments though. People have a burning need to join in and post something even when, by their own admission, they have nothing of value to contribute. This reply in r/pics to a photo of the inside of an airplane landing gear bay is an instant classic.
"I don't know what I'm talking about, this shit is obviously complicated and nobody could ever know how it works. Anyway you should ask AI for the answer."
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/vUFlD9TBWg
That comment caused me existential damage. Sadly, "words words words words I'm not even this type of engineer" is a common engineer failure mode, but the "you should ask chatGPT" at the end kneed me right in the balls.
(The information may have been out there at one time, but unfortunately search engine enshittification and digital decay have mangled everything, with the added bonus of what's left being people words words words words'ing. Source: me tryna see if I could look up the tire numbering scheme for a 747's landing gear on my phone and getting baffling horseshit)
That's funny.
I meant though specifically on LA where it's actually against the rules.
I got banned because, despite always citing everything in every post I replied to, they said I was an "unhelpful commenter" after I didn't notice I was over there and not here and said something mildly snarky.
Their loss.
Oh, that sure sounds illegal. Not just a little.
It doesn't even sound like a 'tip pool'
The tips are paying for the owner's backyard pool, isn't that close enough?
It’s always Boss Swim in the tip pool.
It is a tip pool in the sense that the employees are only allowed in the kiddie area.
Lol, it's ND. Unless they're in Fargo no one will care.
yeah this is the most north dakota thing i've ever heard