From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Dec 31, 2025 at 4:11:12 PM PST, "Capricorne"  wrote:   
      
   >>  On Dec 31, 2025 at 11:57:44 AM PST, "shawn"    
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:13:22 -0700, anim8rfsk    
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>  Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >>>>>   In article <10ip638$3kkbb$2@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>   More and more restaurants around here are automatically adding tips to   
   >>>>>>   the bill-- even for parties of just one or two-- as a mandatory   
   charge.   
   >>>>>>   They don't call them tips, since legally tips have to be voluntary.   
   They   
   >>>>>>   label them things like "staff health care fee" and "worker   
   compensation   
   >>>>>>   fee" and "living wage fee".   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   And of course even after they charge you one of those bullshit   
   mandatory   
   >>>>>>   fees, they still add the tip line at the bottom for you to pay them   
   even   
   >>>>>>   *more* money. Whenever I see one of these exciting new fees on the   
   bill,   
   >>>>>>   I just draw a line with an arrow from the tip line up to the fee,   
   circle   
   >>>>>>   it, and write, "That's your tip."   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   That reminds me; What's the deal with my FB feed containing several   
   >>>>>  postings   
   >>>>>   lecturing me to tip 40% and postings (suspiciously AI-generated) of   
   >>>>>  people's  restaurant bills with comments written about the tip? I saw   
   one   
   >>>>>  in which the   
   >>>>>   waiter presumably wrote on a bill with no tip that they were calling   
   the   
   >>>>>   cops.   
   >>>   
   >>>  LOL. If a waiter ever wrote such a thing I would definitely not tip.   
   >>>  Even if I loved their service. Just to see if they were foolish enough   
   >>>  to call the cops out for my deciding not to offer an optional   
   >>>  gratuity.   
   >>   
   >>  This.   
   >>   
   >>  I would *so* call their bluff.   
   >   
   > I wonder if Trump tips. Funny, just thinking about it we seem to know   
   > the answer, no?   
      
   When we first picked up Trump as a protectee during the 2016 campaign, he   
   would routinely hand out $100 bills to all the staff and crew working his golf   
   rounds. He even tried to hand them to us on his detail but we had to   
   (reluctantly) tell him that as government employees we weren't allowed to take   
   tips.   
      
   Those are facts, as opposed to your baseless speculation.   
      
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