Career server rants over 10% tips, reaffirming everyone's prejudice against toxic tipping culture: 'Just don't bother'

Tipping culture is a very mercurial subject. 

Depending on who you ask about a 20% tip, you're going to get a few very different answers. Personally, I think a 20% tip is exorbitant, and I refuse to tip more than 10% or even $1 per item ordered, especially if the server only barely completed their short list of normal job duties. Many servers these days expect customers to basically give them a 10-35% raise for doing their job, insisting on big bonuses for the absolute bare minimum. In states where the minimum wage is $7, I sort of understand tipping pressure, but in California or New York, where servers make more annually than most tradesmen, nurses, or other specialized workers, the tipping guilt trip feels a little steep. 

Well, apparently, now we don't have to wonder anymore if we're supposed to tip or not, because this career server, who has worked in the industry for decades, has cleared things up on Reddit's r/tipping subreddit. If you're "cheap" like me and refuse to leave enormous tips, just leave nothing! According to this long-time server and service industry pro, a 10% tip is just insulting enough to make servers upset anyway.

In their eyes, if a server is going to be impolite and complain in the kitchen with the busboys anyway, you might as well leave a $0 tip. 

Buckle up, fellow restaurant enjoyers, because Pandora's box just split wide open online, and it turns out, Pandora ain't tipping either!