IMHO also can mean In My Honest Opinion, not only humble, so don't get upset about someone giving their honest opinion. It may sound arrogant and unkind to you however it didn't to me. It's all in how we read things and its hard to do online.
Disney does NOT hire people and let them work for ZERO pay. They do get a pittance of pay as a server. It was, at one time, $50 a month but I'm not sure if that has risen in the last little while. Then they work for tips which makes up the majority of their income.
The point is that to earn anything they have to work hard AND people have to tip. If they work hard and people don’t tip, they don’t get paid (no I don’t count $50 a month as getting paid when they are working 15 hour days, seven days a wei). The pp was saying that waitstaff are stupid to take that risk. That is what I thought was cruel—it is not stupid to count on others to be fair and pay for the service they receive, because most people do.
If you go to guest services, you can literally tip anyone onboard the ship. There is a place to fill out name. What I have done is provide the name, where they are from, and what department that they are working in, or where I encountered them.
Exactly correct. During the day, the MDR crew teams rotate to the other areas of the ship. So your server team will rotate to Cabanas for Breakfast/lunch, the next day they might be in royal court/table for breakfast and lunch. At dinner I always ask them where they will be the next day, this way if I enter the restaurant I know they are working at, I can request to be seated in their section. They already know what I like and it continues the relationship. What I do not know is when the host takes your room number at the podium what that is being used for. Does a portion of the standard tip that I pay to my normal server then go to the server who takes care of me that day? Is Disney tracking the number of people who come to dine in those locations, if so, why does room number matter?
No, Doug720 said, and I quote,
You said, and I quote,
You may not consider it a base pay and that they don't get pay unless they are tipped (and I'm not arguing that they should not be tipped) however they DO in fact get a base pay even if in your book it doesn't count because its so small. It's still a base pay and we can't say they work for zero unless they get tipped. In many of the countries that are represented in the waitstaff $50 a month could be all they would make in their home country. We can't judge by our standards. BUT they still get a base pay.
$1.60 a day is next to nothing (yes even in their home countries—it is ignorant to say that is a lot of money where they are from). Calling more than $1.60 a day a “bonus” is absurd. People used to justify slavery along the same lines: saying slaves are so much better off than they would be at home. Nothing is still nothing no matter what country you are in.
Stop misquoting! Where, in heavens name, did I say that their base pay (base pay) is a lot of money where they are from? I said 'In many of the countries that are represented in the waitstaff $50 a month could be all they would make in their home country'. No where in that statement is anything you are saying, no where! And do not equate anything I have said to saying slaves are so much better off than they would be at home!! That is ignorant! I did not anywhere even indicate that sentence.
Nope:not paying people for work they do for you when you know that is their pretty much entire source of income is treating them as a slave. Cambodia is one of the countries with the lowest cost of living in the world, and even there, rent for a tiny apartment averages $250 a mont, utilities average $90 a month, and groceries average $200 a month. Where are you getting that people there make $50 a month?
Then if you are referring to a post by someone else do not quote me, which is exactly what you did. That in itself makes it a misquote so you actually are misquoting. No where in my post did I put what you are saying Doug720 said so why did you use my posting? What you have done is made it plain that you think I was saying all those things, which again, I find insulting. Keep track of what you want to respond to and this will not happen.
And yet again, what are you talking about? Where did I say people in Cambodia make $50 a month? Where?
