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Originally Posted by reason162
Bad analogy upon bad analogy. You don't tip at McD, therefore McD is required to pay minimum wage. They're not considered "tipped employees." http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm#foot1
In NJ/NY, employers are only responsible for $2.15/hr for tipped employees, which most definitely include mates on a party boat.
So by all means Bob, keep stiffing the mates, rationalize/justify your cheapskating behavior, tell yourself that the captain welcomes you aboard and that everything is a-okay. And as another poster pointed out, the mates will hate you, but that's okay too: 99% of them are professional enough to never show it. So keep living in your bubble and thinking that it's okay to stiff them. |
Soooo,, you're saying an experienced mate on a good head boat makes $2.15 an hour, and on a slow day is going to bring home $30 or so if there are no tips forthcoming???.. Why do I find that a highly questionable scenario?.. I tip the mates when I feel its appropriate... I do NOT feel a need to tip because the guy iced the boat before I got there, or hosed the deck when I got off... If I get some decent individual attention for whatever reason, or win a pool , the mate gets tipped.. If I have no contact with the mate at all on any given trip, and only see him him when he puts a pint of cut clams between my rod and the rod of the guy next to me,I don't feel I am obligated to hand him a $20 bill.
I can assure you the mates on some of those boats make more money than some of the customers do.
