Tips reward good service; not cover shortfalls of cheap employers
[QUOTE=Dr Bombay;1169130]Was that feminist? I was trying for an Occam's Razor statement, maybe you just inferred it that way. Maybe we didn't read the same posts. I read grabbed-twice stated, you inferred it meant guide. You seem to infer a lot of stuff. Reading the CL ads must make you positively giddy. Anyway, my point was about anyone in the service industries. I've had good endings, bad endings and indifferent do-it-yourself endings, but the only time I can think of no ending is because of a warning, cops hanging around the area too much or something out of the ordinary happened making it necessary to lay low for a few days. Since the house gets most of the money, she is basically working for free. That's why I thought a few dollars as a tip is better than none at all. After all, it's not often you get a good massage at these places. Did he say he paid 80 for a half hour?[/QUOTE]"No means no" is one of their standard slogans.
The argument that a customer is obligated to pay an employee extra money on the grounds that her employer keeps the fee is a fallacy. First, how do you know that the house keeps most of the money? Second, if the house isn't paying her a fair wage for her work, she's free to leave. Third, there are laws that prohibit employers from making employees work for free. In the massage business, I'd think an owner would be very careful not to upset his employees, and find himself accused of human trafficking.
Finally, he paid 60 for a half hour, which is 20 more than a professional massage at a therapeutic spa. Her 20 "tip" for the massage was already included in the 60.
If a hotel garage charges you $30 to park your car for two hours, and the valet doesn't even bother to hold the door open for you, and he moved your seat and changed the radio station, would you give him a big tip anyway because the hotel keeps most of the parking fee?
I'm not sure why you're so fixated on what I infer. The word "inference" exists because it's fair for reasonable people to draw inferences from others based on how they act and what they say.
Wendy Thai of Springfield
Has another offering named Sunny. She's a bit different than Wendy so the offerings are an alternative to Wendy's Thai massage and can be worth a try, as they say."variety is the spice of life"!
MnV