{"id":3544,"date":"2013-01-29T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T13:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2013-01-29T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T13:04:37","slug":"tipping-one-thousand-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2013\/personal\/tipping-one-thousand-comments.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Tipping &#8211; My First Post to Cross One Thousand Comments :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a bunch of posts on my blog that invite a lot of controversy. A lot of them have to do with debating right wing stuff. Surprisingly however, the\u00a0<em>most<\/em> commented on post has nothing to do with India. It talks about my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/philosophy\/5-reasons-why-i-wont-tip-you-if-youre-a-waiter.html\/\"> dislike for tipping as demanded in the United States<\/a>. A few days back, that post crossed 1000 comments. The first to do so.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple premise really. Waiters say they don&#8217;t get paid enough and so we should tip. I say it&#8217;s not my problem, that I&#8217;m not their boss, that they&#8217;re hired by the restaurant and my interaction is with the restaurant alone. I couldn&#8217;t care less about their woes. This doesn&#8217;t mean that I view serving as a menial job or that waiters are somehow &#8220;lesser&#8221; than any other profession. On the contrary, by treating them the same way I treat everyone else I&#8217;m showing my respect and regard for them.<\/p>\n<p>This particular post of mine has been reproduced on waiter sites and pro tipping sites like\u00a0ifyoucantaffordtotip.com and I&#8217;ve got legions of visitors from those sources lambasting me for cheating waiters etc. Some of them tried to &#8220;shame&#8221; me into removing the post. My picture and Facebook account etc are all freely available. 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