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TranscriptA tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.

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[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Usually with tips it's like $2.13 or something. For wait staff that gets tips they're allowed to be paid less hourly. Their total pay for the day still has to be at least the federal minimum wage though.

Tips are so weird.

[โ€“] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They're weird because of the Jim Crow South. Ain't that fun? Go on, dig into it. I'll wait here in Jim Crow 2: Electric Boogaloo

Which, by the way, was the whole point of the Boogaloo Boys. Yall remember the fascists in Hawaiian shirts? Yeah. This has been planned for a while.