A long while ago, I had to vent a bit about the recent trend of retail tipping. Long story short, I pondered why fast food restaurants employees were putting out tip jars and why we would tip people simply for doing the job that they are paid a full wage for. Over the last few days, I’ve been in Redmond, Washington and have discovered that the trend has been going on around here, with one key difference – it isn’t the politeness of the workers, though… that seems to be a side effect of just living out here.
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