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1. toffeecoffee
   

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   now,id like to know who does the tip counting at your store. b/c at ours anyone of our SS does it. now all my shifts admit to being potheads ( all they ever talk about is getting drunk or high , both or how much of their paycheck they spent on it.)

   anyhow, im convinced that they steal the tips before theyre counted and divided up. its not like anyone knows how much tips were recieved for that day---so its hard to fight.*i know they use a stupid **** formula to calculate how much u get based on ur hours worked etc*

   just my opinion.

   and shifts shouldnt get tips since they get paid more and work 40hrs a week or close to it.

   Posted 3 years ago #

2. seashellez
   

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   The SS do it at my store and I agree that there's some money being taken from the pile but that also includes when the SS are dropping the tip bags into the safe.

   Posted 3 years ago #

3. SCSHC
   

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   only baristas do it at my store, theres about 5 people who rotate doing it, the only time i ever notice a problem is when some of our airhead baristas do tips and you know they messed up

   Posted 3 years ago #

4. bootsonbarelegs
   

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   One barista at our store always does it on sundays. Its an extra hour added to her shift every week. We're all very used to it, and she's a really trustworthy girl. It works for us, its always consistent.

   Posted 3 years ago #

5. pap3rf1sh
   

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   the same guy does the tips every week in the back room and I'm almost positive he takes money from it. either that or we get REALLY sh*tty tips from customers because tips are always low.

   Posted 3 years ago #

6. dragonfly123
   

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   What do you consider low?

   Posted 3 years ago #

7. toffeecoffee
   

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   U know what I consider low is when I know we had a $hitload of tips last week. And I still got the same amount as when its slow. Doesn't add up. Someones skimming for sure.

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8. pap3rf1sh
   

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   when I work about 38-40 hours a week and only make about 38-40 dollars a week lol. that's low

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9. dragonfly123
   

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   Yeah, I think it happens at my store as well. Guess when you pay min. wage for slave-like work you turn people into GD thieves. Doesn't make it right because then everyone else suffers. Steal from the customers, not us!

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10. lola
    

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    Our tips are counted and divided among whoever is working for that period.For instance... The baristas who open the store at 6am split up the tips between them when I come on at 9 am.Then if I amin the cafe from 9 to 3 and leave at three, we will divide the tips then before I leave.Whoever works those hours, gets those tips, cut and dry, and they get them at the end of their shift. As far as the charge tips...whoever does the "clopen" divides up those at the end of the day. That way, if the bank is a little short, it comes out then to cover that, and they deserve the extra for the opening and closing duties they perform. I have to say, now that I'm a lead svsr, I spend a lot more time in the office and less on the floor and I sure miss those tips! I usually made about $100/wk,give or take, and it paid for Christmas last year with 10 weeks worth saved. Awesome!

    Posted 3 years ago #

11. pap3rf1sh
    

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    @lola I wish that they did the tips like that. I work mornings mostly and I don't think it's fair that I have to deal with 1000 customers and get the same amount of tips as the people who work at night when it's SOOOOOOOOOOOO slow that they basically sit around half the night.

    Posted 3 years ago #

12. lola
    

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    Aww, I wish you got them that way too, pap3rf1sh. It's not fair for the tips to be split evenly when the workload is not. I hope you can get it changed. Good luck!

    Posted 3 years ago #

13. toffeecoffee
    

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    paper i assure u we dont sit around at night... we gotta clean up the whole days worth of ****..LOL!.. :( customers at that point are just an inconvinience to us cleaning.

    Posted 3 years ago #

14. steam_machine
    

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    yeah speaking as a closer, i do way more labor intense work than i did than working in the morning. In the morning its mostly about having a full staff to deal with the rush and eliminating unnecessary movement, so if your dtr, that's all you do for a couple hrs, you have to stay planted. But if you're dtr at night and on a 3 man with you're third person leaving an hour or so before you close, dtr has to do dto, dtr and dtb, not to mention the front register does the same. it feels like non stop work until the night is over, but its just cause our store stays consistently busy until around 9 or 10 in the evening and then we have to run around trying to clean and prepare the store for the next day of opening.

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15. pap3rf1sh
    

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    @toffee, at my store NO ONE comes in at night. NOTHING in my town is open past 8 except for starbucks so there isn't a whole lot of traffic in the area so pretty much from 6 o'clock on there's like maybe 10 customers an hour. I used to close and there would be nights where we literally wouldn't have customers for hours.

    Posted 3 years ago #

16. DARKROAST
    

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    Now back in the day, the philosophy behind the distribution of the tips was simple: although the morning team may have "earned" the majortiy of the tips during the day, the night baristas did the "grunt work" through extensive cleaning and prepping for the next business day. It balanced out, you know.
    As far as I knew, the formula for the tips was the following: count all tip deposits and hours used for the previous week. Divide the total amount of tips by the hours used and that gives you the hourly rate. Then your hours for the week are multiplied by the hourly tips rate to determine your share. I don't know what they're doinf nowadays, but from what I hear it doesn't sound kosher. I hope I helped!

    Posted 3 years ago #

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