{"id":2021813,"date":"2023-09-04T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-word-note-woman-put-on-receipt-is-going-viral-and-dividing-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T23:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:32:24","slug":"five-word-note-woman-put-on-receipt-is-going-viral-and-dividing-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-word-note-woman-put-on-receipt-is-going-viral-and-dividing-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral note splits internet opinions."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffive-word-note-woman-put-on-receipt-is-going-viral-and-dividing-the-internet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021813&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>In a Divided Country, a Viral Receipt Sparks Debate<\/h2>\n<p>In a country that is \u2064increasingly characterized by irreconcilable political differences, a viral social media\u200b post is reminding the \u2064U.S. that there\u200d are\u2062 some irreconcilable apolitical differences as \u2064well.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Australian outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/food\/restaurants-bars\/waitress-left-a-shocking-tip-by-a-wife-on-couples-bill\/news-story\/12012edc96e59b4643e165eae66966bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.com.au<\/a>, a photo \u2062began making the rounds on image sharing platform Imgur, which purported to show a recent \u2064\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/americans-tight-money-tipping-insanity-reaches-new-level-emotional-blackmail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tip<\/a>\u201d that a \u2062waitress received.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gina-carano-responds-to-being-fired-by-disney-following-tweet-utter-shock-and-confusion\/\" title=\"Gina Carano Responds To Being Fired By Disney Following Tweet: \u2018Utter Shock And Confusion\u2019\">image showed<\/a> a receipt totaling $32.76, but the real story was\u200c what was written on \u2063the tip \u2062line.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t call my husband \u2062sweetheart,\u201d read \u2064the five<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-group-runs-blunt-new-ad-dont-run-joe\/\" title=\"Progressive Group Runs Blunt New Ad: \u2018Don\u2019t Run, Joe\u2019\">-word message<\/a> in the tip line.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No actual tip was given, as the\u200d receipt reflected the $32.76 in the total line.<\/p>\n<p>While News.com.au tried to frame this\u200d as a reason to abolish tip-based wages in America, most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/conservative-groups-counter-biden-admins-social-media-censorship-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> debate on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-word-note-woman-put-on-receipt-is-going-viral-and-dividing-the-internet\/\" title=\"Viral note splits internet opinions.\">viral image centered solely<\/a> on \u200bwhether or not the protective wife was in the right or not.<\/p>\n<p>One person responded to the New York Post\u2019s post on\u2064 X, formerly called Twitter, on the situation by labeling the\u2062 non-tipper as \u201cinsecure.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWow, what an insecure wife,\u201d the\u200c response \u2063read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And it was hardly the \u2063only reply skewering the \u2063\u201cinsecure\u2063 wife.\u201d One\u200d X user \u2063pointed out that \u200din many places in the South, phrases like \u201csweetie\u201d or\u200c \u201choney\u201d are blanket terms of endearment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Darling\u2026that wife would never leave a tip if she lived in the south.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One biting response\u2063 to this viral \u2064controversy\u200c skewered \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/planned-parenthoods-pride-month-post-epically-backfires-feminism-exist-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feminism<\/a>\u201d for this whole ordeal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Another marriage where she clearly wears the pants. Yay feminism!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, there were also a number of responses that felt the mysterious non-tipper was being unfairly vilified for her stunt.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Well he isn\u2019t your sweetheart<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell he isn\u2019t you sweetheart,\u201d one X user responded, accompanied by\u200c a shrugging emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Another X user called the non-tipper \u201cpetty,\u201d but still loved \u2064the response:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Petty but i love the energy <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, it is worth noting that this whole story should be taken with a grain of salt. While it has sparked real debate and conversation, \u200dthere are some question marks (not \u2063the least of\u2062 which is what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/man-suing-popular-restaurant-chain-finding-grossest-bit-protein-ever-expect-minestrone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restaurants<\/a> with servers \u200bcan you get dinner for two under $35 in this economy?) about the whole ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>But even if it is completely fabricated, the conversations surrounding it are real and substantive.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Tip-Based Compensation a Sustainable Model?<\/h3>\n<p>Namely: Is tip-based compensation a worthwhile and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-uniquely-sy-situation-new-cnn-chief-tells-staffers-theyre-not-to-blame-for-cnn-implosion\/\" title=\"\u2018A Uniquely S****y Situation\u2019: New CNN Chief Tells Staffers They\u2019re Not To Blame For CNN+ Implosion\">sustainable business model<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The upside for the business itself \u200dis \u200bobvious. According to the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/general\/topic\/wages\/wagestips#:~:text=An%20employer%20of%20a%20tipped,equals%20the%20federal%20minimum%20wage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Labor<\/a>, employers only need to pay servers $2.13 an hour \u201cin direct wages\u201d so long as the tips help elevate that figure to the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>That obviously \u200dhelps the \u200dbottom line of restaurants and restaurant owners \u2014 $2.13 an hour \u200bis a literal pittance, but it\u2019s also what \u200dallows many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/libs-minimum-wage-hike-forces-multiple-calif-restaurants-shut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restaurants\u200c to stay afloat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is going to be \u200cpro-business on this.<\/p>\n<p>As this \u200cOctober 2022 \u200bNew York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/13\/business\/economy\/tipped-wage-subminimum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> chronicled, there are plenty of supporters and detractors of tip-based salaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I think of the potential positives [of eliminating tip-based wages] for\u2063 [employers], I can\u2019t really think of anything,\u201d \u200bXander\u2062 Gudejko, a district manager for Mainstreet\u2062 Ventures \u2064Restaurant Group, told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side of the coin, David Weil,\u2063 the administrator \u2064of the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor \u200dDepartment under President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-claims-obamas-sexual-history-became-clear-2008-says-ex-potus-smoked-crack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack \u200bObama<\/a>, blasted the current model as \u201cvery problematic\u201d and described the frequent abuse of it as \u201cbaked into the model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/five-word-note-woman-put-receipt-going-viral-dividing-internet\/\">Five-Word Note Woman Put on Receipt Is Going Viral and Dividing the Internet<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>viral social media post in the US highlights irreconcilable apolitical differences amidst the country&#8217;s growing political divide. The photo, circulating on Imgur, depicts a generous tip received by a server. This serves as a reminder that despite political disagreements, acts of kindness can bridge the gap and bring people together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":2021814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}