Male Karen Berates Son-In Law For Tipping at a Restaurant

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Apr 27, 2023 3:30 PM EDT

Anyone who has worked as a waiter knows that people who don't tip are the worst. In the United States, many waiters only get paid $2 hourly and, therefore, only survive on tips. Some restaurants don't even pay their servers an hourly wage. This is basically common knowledge at this point, so for most people, not tipping is simply out of the question.

But there are always those people who get angry for the insistence that they tip. I find that these come from two camps. The first camp is Boomers, who are simply too cheap to fulfill the obligations required of them while eating at a restaurant. The second camp is Gen Zers, who I've noticed have become increasingly disillusioned with tipping because "the restaurant should pay them more." Whether your reason for not tipping is righteous or selfish, you have no right to criticize the good people who actually tip. One Redditor, u/InformationPrimary31, was on the receiving end of backlash from his tipping-negative father-in-law.