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Oct 26, 2007 | 7:20 pm

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USirritated

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Originally Posted by joshua362

I saw that too and concluded it was some made up fairy tale / urban myth. If you read the story, the waitress gave the kid some attitude yet left a 43% tip.

I'm sure he's all for very generous tipping as he can pay his employees less...

I have no idea whether that is a fairy tale or not, because I have heard that story for years and years, it dates back to at least the 1950s.

As far as what he pays his employees, that is a VERY COMPLICATED issue, since remember, he does not own the hotels anymore, remember? (Okay, he owns three or four of them, but by and large, MI does not own hotels!) Beyond that, the pay scales are so different location to location, as determined by minimum wage laws from state to state, and even city to city (there are living wage laws too), and that is just within the USA! Besides that there are also union issues to deal with, and so many other isses that we have no idea of. TO simply say that "he can pay his employees less" is so vastly oversimplified and unfair is putting it mildly to say the least. There are also circumstances where MI has the management contract and does have something to do with setting the pay grades of the employees in the hotels too, so it is sometimes more complicated, and sometimes less complicated (when MI does not have a management contract, etc.) I am sure that I could go on and on.

The story was an allegory, a fable, to teach us, to explain morals, and it was effective. We can choose to accept it, or we can choose not to, and move on, but why argue about it and be derisive?