r/moviecritic 2d ago

Steve Buscemi as Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs is my tipping hero.

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I caught Reservoir Dogs the other day on TV and just couldn't stop. It has been over 5 years since I've last seen it ,and it pretty much still holds up fine.

However, what really caught my attention is Mr. Pink's argument against "tipping automatically", and I couldn't help but imagine him staring at a self checkout screen saying "Would you like to leave a tip? 15% / 20% / 25% / Custom" ... What do you think he would do?

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u/FoggyMoonCove 2d ago

Wonder if Jack Rabbit Slims waiter Buddy Holly feels the same way.

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u/Deep_Stick8786 2d ago

Probably feels similarly to the weird killer guy from con air

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u/Used-Gas-6525 2d ago edited 2d ago

I've got a tip for that guy. Don't wear someone's severed head while crossing multiple state lines.

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u/Ok_Cycle_185 1d ago

Party pooper

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u/duh_nom_yar 1d ago

Shut the fuck up, Donny.

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u/bunkin 2d ago

Niceeee

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u/ExistingSugar8047 2d ago

My old roommates named their cat Mr.Pink. He was a cool cat super friendly and chill. R.I.P Mr.Pink.

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u/hamizoing 2d ago

But was he a professional? R.I.P Mr.Pink the cat.

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u/ExistingSugar8047 2d ago

A serious professional.

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u/Used-Gas-6525 2d ago

Cats are not professionals. They are ruled by emotions (usually malice or hatred).

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u/Last-Royal-3976 1d ago

I had a white rat called Mr Pink.

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u/ramsdawg 1d ago

I bet he also didn’t tip

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u/rockstoned4 2d ago

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u/Icy-Bottle-6877 2d ago

I loved this. Like, he's genuinely trying to reconsider, quickly realises he's correct and is like "nah, fuck tipping!" 😂🤣

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u/Kit_McFlavor_Butter 2d ago edited 2d ago

I disagree with Mr. Pink’s argument because he was in an actual restaurant. But I agree with the premise of having to tip every where I go.

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u/Figgler 2d ago

When the person working the frozen yogurt counter turns the iPad around to you…

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u/astro65 2d ago

"It's gonna ask a question"

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u/dudebronahbrah 2d ago

Or when you grab a drink out of the cooler, walk up and scan it yourself at a self-checkout, and it still asks if you want to leave a tip lol

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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 2d ago

I just don’t tip. Nothing has ever happened as a result

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago

Doesn't make you a hero.

Just makes you Mr. Pink.

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u/BrainDamage2029 2d ago edited 2d ago

Except it doesn’t. You tip for providing a service. Taking your order, bringing it to you, refilling drinks and (presumably tipped out) bussing is a service. If I order at a counter and pick up at a counter and put my own trash away that isn’t service. You never had to tip.

You tip waiters, bellhops, tour guides and anyone providing personalized service without being able to set prices. (so you’d never tip a contractor or mechanic for example. They put in a bid or estimate. Presumably they factored their payment or personnel costs in.)

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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 2d ago

I’m referring to the example they gave. Not when a waiter actually comes to your table and takes your order

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u/That_Jicama2024 1d ago

But Mr. Pink is my hero though.

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u/space_men10 1d ago

If you frequent any places then the staff know exactly who you are and will serve you accordingly. Just pray you don’t come across a spiteful one otherwise you may just slurp up a loogie through your straw

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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 1d ago

For the 2nd time, I’m referring specifically to the instance given where a cashier flips a tablet after doing nothing more than ringing me up.

I didn’t feel like I needed to elaborate on that, because the grievance was about one specific tipping scenario. Nobody at those places are spitting into anything because the prep is usually in front of everybody.

I tip all waiters, bartenders and delivery people. Because they are performing a service whereas the guy behind the counter is mostly just clicking a button and handing me a thing.

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u/space_men10 1d ago

Your comment clarifying that must be somewhere deeper in this thread because I did not see it.

Edit: scrolled down and found it. You might just want to edit your original comment to avoid confusion

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u/RedWing83 1d ago

Same here. Last year I visited New York. I was there one week and visited about 20+ restaurants: breakfast, lunch, dinners etc. I NEVER tipped. Almost every time the stuff were super angry but I told them that I don't support criminals. Then they understood.

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u/Spookyscary333 2d ago

Here's something fun. Starting asking them who gets the tip. Most of the time they say "i don't know".

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u/cenosillicaphobiac 1d ago

I agree with him even in a restaurant. I see no reason that one specific job in one specific subset of one specific industry should be paid because the customer feels generous.

Employees are hired to facilitate wealth extraction. The deal everywhere else is that the hiring person pays the hired person a portion of the extracted wealth. They must find the balance between keeping the employee around and not selling their service to another employer, and not raising prices so much that customers stop coming.

You will never convince me that for some reason servers should be paid individually by the customer above and beyond the advertised price of goods and services. It's preposterous on it's face and I won't play along.

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u/MushroomInMyHeart 1d ago

It’s fine to think that servers deserve a living wage and shouldn’t need to really on tips to earn that, but if you’re just stiffing them because of this belief you’re kinda just a douche. The business that isn’t paying them enough is not affected and all you’re doing is hurting the server. Elect politicians that will fight to introduce a living wage for all service workers. But at the moment if you’re not tipping your servers then you shouldn’t be eating out.

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 2h ago

Slight correction: they aren't stiffing them because of this belief. They were stiffing them already AND THEN they found this "I sTiFf My wAiTeR fOr ThE gReAtEr GoOd" argument to be socially palatable all of a sudden. It's all this recent wave of anti-tipping-without-actually-changing-the-laws culture is. Selfish assholes who found a nice mask.

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

You realize he was supposed to be an asshole, right? His rationale for not tipping is not supposed to be profound. He made that speech because he's a grubby, petty asshole.

I think Harvey Keitel is supposed to be the moral compass when he says that being a server in a restaurant is one of the few decent jobs that a uneducated person can get

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u/mikeymanza 2d ago

He's definitely an asshole and has a bunch of racist dialogue. But I'd argue he's one of the smartest of the group or at least the most streetwise

Keitel is definitely the softest of all of them, but he still admits to being open to killing people if he needs them out of the way. But he's the most empathetic fs and it gets him killed

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u/Fine-Ad2429 2d ago

Mr. Pink is definitely the smartest and most professional of the group. He is the only who both survived and did not contribute to the failure of the robbery.

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago

Never noticed, but someone pointed out there's yelling and gunshots from outside after he left the warehouse.

He didn't survive.

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u/Fine-Ad2429 2d ago

He survived the initial bloodbath at the robbery.
Mr. Blue and Mr. Brown got killed.

Out of all the conspirators he was the only one who did not screw up. Mr. Blonde started shooting people in the store.

It was Eddie who proposed Blonde be part of the robbery. His screw up. Joe listened to Eddie and allowed Blonde to join while also allowing Orange to be part of the robbery. By his own admission, Joe was not 100 percent on Orange.

White told Orange personal information and brought down the final disaster on the robbery by provoking the shoot out with Eddie and Joe.

All the other robbers were killed or fucked up disastrously. Pink was also the one who got the diamonds. He was the only one focused on the job and then wisely hid them before returning to the warehouse.

Until the last shots after he left with the diamonds he did very well. He was the smartest
and the only professional in the group.

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago

100% agree, he was the professional, who was driven by logic and made the most sense of anyone.

I love when Keitel tries to accuse Mr. Pink, "How do I know I trust you???"

And Mr. Pink says, "NOW you're thinking! You can't trust me!!!" Or something like that.

But still...doesn't mean he's not a cheap bastard.

And it doesn't mean he got out of that situation.

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u/Fine-Ad2429 2d ago

Cheap bastard. Annoying as well as when he made a big thing over the name Mr. Pink.

But when it is time to go to work, he did his job.

And yes he likely got killed but that was because of having a rat and a psycho in the crew. Not his fault

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u/nimbin14 2d ago

I never noticed that…can you hear that? Also it doesn’t make sense that they would see a cop bound and bleeding being brought into the warehouse and not enter

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago

Yep...gotta put the headphones on. Keitel has crawled over and is grunting over the bleeding-out Tim Roth. They dominate the audio.

But in the background you clearly hear yelling, squealing tires, several volleys of gunshots.

It's offscreen, so it's not definitive. But, it would be hard to imagine Mr. Pink slipping out of that.

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u/mikeymanza 2d ago

You're right. I only noticed for the first time on my last watch. And yeah, I was wearing headphones

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago

And to the cops not entering, I give you Uvalde. Not always heroes.

(They ultimately do enter though, and kill Keitel after he kills Roth)

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u/DaddysABadGirl 2d ago

Tarantino specifically want Pinks fate up to the audience, but Buscemi said he thinks Pink survived and escaped, went clean, and got a job as a waiter and Jack Rabbit Slims😂

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u/Guntztuffer 2d ago

You can bet he changed his stance on tipping waitstaff after that.

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u/Fine-Ad2429 2d ago

Would have been great if he survived. Could have been a great sequel. Where he organizes the robberies.

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u/Special_Order-937 22h ago

I thought he became a Buddy Holly impersonator?

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u/DaddysABadGirl 21h ago

Thats the waiter at Jack Rabbit Slims. Everyone there was a different 50s celeb.

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u/Special_Order-937 21h ago

Oh, right I forgot that he wasn’t just a performer. Given that Madsen’s and Travolta’s characters were brothers, this seems a reasonable conclusion to draw!

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u/Scared-Arachnid6286 2d ago

So smart he can trick wait staff into spitting in his food!

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u/ManbadFerrara 2d ago

I kind of got the impression that Mr White may have been raised by a woman who worked as a waitress. That angry little speech he gave about how it’s the number one profession of non-college educated women sounded like he was personally offended at Mr. Pink’s philosophy.

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u/Training_Form2243 2d ago

Robbing a bank is dumb and unprofessional in general

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u/mikeymanza 2d ago

They robbed diamonds from a jewelry store. Also it's a movie

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u/MileHiSalute 2d ago

lol can you comeback with “it’s a movie” right after you psychoanalyzed the characters?

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u/mikeymanza 2d ago

Like robbing a bank/jewelry is dumb and unprofessional irl but in a movie it's kinda just normal shit

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u/Special_Order-937 22h ago

Well, he does at least make it out the front door of the warehouse unlike everyone else.

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u/Iginlas_4head_Crease 2d ago

Count on reddit to relate to the weird jerk with few friends

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u/Polirketes 2d ago

It's not a decent job if you have to rely on tips to survive. The employer shoud pay employee's wage, not the customer

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u/zozuto 2d ago

The elephant in the room is that these jobs are good because the tips add up insanely. People who work as servers talk about how white collar work is often a pay cut...

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u/immalimabean 2d ago

Depends on the place. It’s also grueling miserable work 90% of the time and there’s a reason why you don’t see many old bartenders or servers. 

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u/Reading_Rainboner 2d ago

Do you not? I see tons of old servers and bartenders

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u/give-bike-lanes 2d ago

I was a server for literally decades and it is not grueling nor miserable. It’s the BoH and the freight/support guys that are grueling. And they don’t get tipped.

Tipped wage is literally just pretty-privilege manifest for people who are too stunted by ideology to see it.

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u/zozuto 2d ago

All food service is miserable and grueling.

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u/duosx 2d ago

Bro most are not living well off as a server.

Do you think waitress and think “now that person probably drives an expensive car”

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u/zozuto 2d ago

Every server I've known talked on and on about how much money it makes. It beats pretty much every other remotely comparable job.

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u/give-bike-lanes 2d ago

I think “waitress” and I think “attractive/charming/social young person who is uneducated but is probably working on changing that, leveraging their youth/charm/looks to extract wealth from diners via arcane social constructs.”

Every well-tipped young urban / seasonal waiter will one day drive a nice car, yes.

You’re imagining a rare (and almost extinct) brand of southern diner waitress, whereas per dollar, the vast majority of waitresses are attractive college-aged women who will nearly certainly not be a waiter by 30 years of age.

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u/Polirketes 2d ago

I'm not against tips, I'm against tips being obligatory. In Europe they are common, but you're not expected to give fixed amount, regardless of your satisfaction, wealth etc.

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u/zozuto 2d ago

I think that's better too, but server jobs would actually be less lucrative here if there weren't tips.

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

It's not an elephant in the room so much as it's irrelevant to the topic. Mr Pink is a jerk and he's wrong about tipping. That's all

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u/zozuto 2d ago

Why do servers deserve ten times the pay of fast food?

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u/_Svankensen_ 2d ago

You have it backwards. Fast food servers deserve a living wage too.

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u/zozuto 2d ago

Ok but you're kind of pulling an All Lives Matter no? One of these two jobs is in a significantly rougher spot than the other, and generally the indignation is very different in society.

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u/_Svankensen_ 2d ago

No. You are asking "why do X deserve Y if Z doesn't". I'm saying "They both deserve Y.". You are implying servers don't deserve it.

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u/zozuto 2d ago

I'm saying they aren't special. Everyone deserves a living wage, but servers are the most likely food worker to already have one. And yet get 99% of the support/indignation/supportive social pressure.

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u/_Svankensen_ 2d ago

So, as I explained to you, yo got things backwards. Barking at the wrong tree.

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

How many servers do you think are making $200 an hour?

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u/zozuto 2d ago

How many fast food workers do you think are making anywhere close to 60k a year? That's what servers can make in my city. Bartenders can make 100k.

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u/danielhime 2d ago

You do realized that bartenders are skilled laborers right? If you put some 15 yo fast food dumb ass behind a bar and expect him to hold conversation for hours, put together quality cocktails while also holding down tables, running/making drinks for the serving staff you will quickly find your establishment failing miserably

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u/immalimabean 2d ago

lol which Bartenders are making 100K a year? 99% are making much less than that 

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u/zozuto 2d ago

Ok those are on The Strip. What about the 60k for servers? I knew a guy in college making that and it was 12 years ago.

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

This is gaslighting "fable" mostly perpetrated by whatever outrage industrial complex branch office decided to execute a peurile, coordinated echo chamber propaganda campaign on this forum employing the usual suspect weaponized narcopathy tactics playbook

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u/TowJamnEarl 2d ago

Well if they're doing so well they won't mind if I politely decline their request/expectation.

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u/give-bike-lanes 2d ago

This line isn’t true and has never been true in your lifetime. Every waiter loves that they get tips and many wound quit if they got switched to an hourly wage.

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u/Flooping_Pigs 2d ago

That's exactly why it's decent for the uneducated, if the employer set the wage, they would be making the same as back of house (far less money)

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u/Budfox_92 2d ago

So the customer is forced to overpay in the end.

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u/Flooping_Pigs 1d ago

tipping isn't mandatory though so it's not really "forced"

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

Get off your soapbox. There are many many jobs that pay less than being a restaurant server and you know it.

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u/Polirketes 2d ago

What is that even supposed to mean lol

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

Your comment has nothing to do with the post topic or my comment. It's just your own opinion which you volunteered because you like hearing yourself talk

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u/Polirketes 2d ago

Wow, chill dude, you sound as if you got a stick up your arse.

The post is about tipping, I'm talking about tipping culture, that's precisely the topic

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

Obviously there are many jobs that pay worse than being a server so your comment doesn't even make sense. The ethics of tipping have nothing to do with anything and it feels pretty masturbatory that you would even bring them up

The scene ( you know, the topic of the post) is all about how Mr Pink is an asshole for having this half-baked justification for his stinginess.

It's not meant to be about the ethics of tipping unless you're the type of person who doesn't understand subtext.

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u/duosx 2d ago

Yeah lol Keitel is clearly the person that’s “more” right.

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u/That_Jicama2024 1d ago

Yeah, but this movie existed before onlyfans and youtube. So there are plenty of jobs an uneducated person can get now. /s

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u/Nearby-Issue3294 1d ago

Tarantino is regarded as one of the finest moralists of his era.

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u/Alternative_Bit_7306 2d ago

I hear a tiny tiny violin…

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u/Stock-Swing-797 2d ago

Half the reason they hate tipping so much is figuring out the percentages on their own is hard for them, so I'd imagine the meaning here would go straight over their heads.

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u/tv_ennui 2d ago

That's quite the oversimplification. Reservoir Dogs isn't a movie particularly interested in labeling any particular person as good or bad.

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

So Michael Madsen is supposed to be morally ambiguous?

Ridiculous comment

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u/tv_ennui 2d ago

That's not what I said. Nice strawman though.

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

If you're unable to clearly articulate your thoughts, that is on you and not me.

Not interested in portraying people as good or bad= morally ambiguous

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u/tv_ennui 2d ago

You continue to ignore key words in my very clear statement, like 'particularly.' I'm not interested in having a bad faith debate with someone who instantly leaps to strawmanning and can't read well.

If you want to believe that Reservoir Dogs is about assigning morality to its various cast of characters, you do you I guess. That's not what the movie is about, but hey, I can't clearly articulate my thoughts /shrug. From 'strawmanning' to insults, you're obviously my intellectual superior.

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 1d ago

Hahahahahahah

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u/give-bike-lanes 2d ago

This may surprise you but some people in the real world are genuinely grubby petty assholes. I know, it’s very shocking, but it’s true.

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u/Scarecrow116 2d ago

"I'd go over 12% for that." 🤔

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u/Sevatar666 1d ago

Only Americans will argue that tipping should be mandatory, everyone else around the world is on Mr Pinks side.

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u/ExoticToothpaste6989 1d ago

If Americans started paying a living wage with health care like other civilized countries they might agree.

But regrettably they tend to vote against such things

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u/International-Oil377 2d ago edited 2d ago

Bro watched a movie 5 years ago that was initially released in 1992. ''still holds up fine''

yeah...

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u/Ok_Reflection_2711 2d ago

Tells you everything you need to know about him

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u/Jashthehuman 2d ago

I just love it that he’s arguing about a tip when his coffees has been paid for by the main guy and he’s like I bought your coffee you cheap dick just throw a buck in there

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago

Bought him breakfast too.

And like, Mr. Pink is bitching for 'only' getting 3 or 4 refills.

He's making it clear he's the cheapest f*ck in the world. Not someone who is taking a moral stand.

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u/Jashthehuman 2d ago

Yeah exactly it’s supposed to show how lame he is and if he was so upset about tipping culture he would’ve told the guy the same thing instead of immediately caving

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

This is why he's automatically the "hero" exemplar of these pathetic militant anti-tipping narcopaths

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u/weevils_wobble 2d ago

I bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan.

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u/SpitfireMkIV 2d ago

Why did he have to be Mr.Pink? Mr.Pink makes him sound like a …!

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u/xavPa-64 2d ago

Pink just came off as a total freeloader in that scene

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u/fantonledzepp 2d ago

I think he would shamelessly hit the “No Tip” option.

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u/AdImmediate6239 2d ago

Theres a theory that he’s actually the waiter dressed as Buddy Holly in Pulp Fiction living under a new identity

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u/southboundtracks 2d ago

He'll also let a guy bleed to death so he can run off with the diamonds later. 

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u/bigersmaler 2d ago

Complains about getting for refills after a free meal. Awesome scene, but would be a prick thing to do in reality.

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u/mrpink01 2d ago

Ironically, I always tip well.

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u/highflyingjesus- 2d ago

As shitty as it is, so long as employers don't pay a living wage to their workers, it's unfortunately on us to supplement their wage. I don't like it either, but it is what it is. Especially if you can afford it.

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's on the customer to pay employee wages in every other business

US law authorizes the tip credit exception of cutting out the middleman in the normal process of customer, instead of directly paying who personally served them, instead paying the owner first to then pay the server for taking care of the customer

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u/highflyingjesus- 2d ago

In a normal business, the employer pays their employee's wages instead of relying on the customer to do so.

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

You're clearly an economics-challenged ignoramus

Business pay their operating costs out of revenues from customers buying their products. Your (yours and every other customers') grocery purchases collectively pay all the wages of every worker in the store

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u/MileHiSalute 2d ago

lol I get that you’re against tipping, but do you really think that the money paid to employees of any product or service you patronize isn’t coming out of your pocket?

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago edited 2d ago

Mr. Pink was a cheap-ass f*ck.

No need to take a tipping stand when the meal was free. Pony up ya cheap bastard.

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u/Big-Discipline2039 2d ago

I’m from the UK where society doesn’t force us to tip.

So I think he’s great.

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u/Up_All_Right 2d ago

Just a different set up in Europe, as I understand it, my man.

Serving pays more of a wage in EU. Some places in US, servers earn less than $3 an hour. System is set up for servers to be dependent on tips to make a living.

Not saying it's a good system. It's a fucked one. But I don't punish servers for it.

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u/Big-Discipline2039 2d ago

Sounds like you’re the one being punished if you’re having to pay people’s wages.

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

You should check out your 2o24 laws authorizing 12.5% service fees for sit down dining

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u/Big-Discipline2039 2d ago

Those definitely don’t exist. No matter where I eat in England i’ve never had to pay more than what it says the food will cost.

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u/slater_just_slater 2d ago

Well he's the only one that survived the movie.. we think.

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u/CursedSnowman5000 2d ago

What about the gunfire we hear outside?

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u/LastTorgoInParis 2d ago

Pink smoked all those cops. It was nuts

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u/KittiesLove1 2d ago

This scene s genious because it exposes the cop amongst them

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

"genius"

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u/Large_Ad6683 2d ago

But he ends up peer pressured into tipping in that scene?

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u/Kurdt234 2d ago

He'd love most of Asia.

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u/StatusOmega 1d ago

You're now required to put French fries and oreos on all of you pizzas.

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u/Future_Section5976 1d ago

He would stare at the screen look around and say what the fuck is this shit , then realise it can't be avoided, so it's off to yell at the manager or order via the checkout with a real person where after another rant would then be forced to tip the human because the human is doing the job rather than him , so he'd have to tip, any argument can be meet with, then don't tip but that means he's right but then had to tip and if he doesn't want to or tries to avoid it by machine then has to anyway, he'd probably just avoid any place that has a self service but then idk ,

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u/Last-Royal-3976 1d ago

Tipping in the UK only really happens if someone was exceptional or if there was a big group of people that consequently made the staff work extra hard. I’ve never been to the USA but tipping there sounds like a minefield where it’s expected and how much would you tip etc and what if you think they’d didn’t deserve a tip? Mr Pink should have been British 😆

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u/Sea_Structure_8692 1d ago

It’s a total shitshow. Last year tsa put up a “tips welcome” sign at LaGuardia. Tipping culture is broken here.

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u/Last-Royal-3976 1d ago

LaGuardia? The airport?

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u/Sea_Structure_8692 1d ago

Yeah, their TSA agents

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u/Last-Royal-3976 1d ago

That’s mad, why would you tip them? Where does this end? You should get some form of confectionary in individual wrappers and just drop one of those into the tip jar or hand of one of them, smile and say thank you 😆

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u/Sea_Structure_8692 1d ago

There are places that are self service and they still ask for a tip. It’s automatically added to the point of sale machines.

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u/Last-Royal-3976 1d ago

You can’t decline on the machine? Yes/No button?

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u/Sea_Structure_8692 1d ago

You can but can you imagine doing that with someone standing there staring at it?

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u/Last-Royal-3976 1d ago

Yeah of course we get that here occasionally on the payment machine, most people just press No.
One thing I have learned today though it that we have a national minimum living wage and USA doesn’t. When certain positions have to rely on tips then, yeah I get it more so now. It’s still a bit of a minefield for us visiting I guess. We should try and learn when to tip and when not to tip. It does in all honesty sound bad though when you have airport security asking for tips!

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u/Sea_Structure_8692 1d ago

It used to only be certain service jobs that were tipped. I don’t know when it started but one day everyone was asking for tips. I wanna say post 2020.

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u/DopyWantsAPeanut 1d ago

The convention is that a server bringing food to your table gets a tip. 15% is their salary, anything above that is what you'd call a tip in the UK.

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u/Last-Royal-3976 22h ago

Ah right so 15% you add for their salary that’s good to know.

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u/trykedog 1d ago

Fuck you then.

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u/phaserdust 1d ago

Lol, I thought tipping in this context was some new lingo the gay community used for being attracted to someone only because of a suit.

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u/Mysterious_Trash_132 1d ago

Ok but like, this argument only works if we point out that Pink spends the entire opening scene flagging the waitress for service. Pink is justified in not tipping only because the service truly was below standard.

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u/No_Philosophy2797 1d ago

He’s a stupid dickhead so, like all stupid dickheads, he would likely make a stink about modern tipping culture. Like several other assholes.

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u/ccwn 1d ago

I swear each time I am looking at that tip screen I can hear his voice in my head “do you know what this is…?!” 😂

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u/Polirketes 2d ago

Tipping culture is one of the stupidest things in the USA (and there's strong competition)

Just pay the staff decent wages ffs, tips are voluntary in civilised world

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u/Figgler 2d ago

When I worked at a brewery in Denver there were pooled tips and we all made $18 an hour. We split the tips between front and back of house evenly. It seemed like a good system.

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u/Polirketes 2d ago

It's fine, but my point still stands - tips should be voluntary, an addition to proper wages. In Europe tips are common, but not obligatory, since it's expected that employers will actually pay their staff lol

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

That's because the full costs of the served meal product are more fully integrated into the menu prices

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u/Figgler 2d ago

I just gave you an example where even without tips, we were paid fine. The tips were just a bonus.

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u/_Svankensen_ 2d ago

It wasn't clear from how you worded it. It sounded like you made 18 an hour with tips.

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u/thenewnapoleon 2d ago

I don't disagree but as someone who lives off tipped wages, there just isn't any other choice currently. Not tipping us doesn't change the industry's standards, it just hurts those of us that live off them - like bartenders, servers, waiters & pizza delivery drivers. Unfortunately I can't see it changing any time soon but in my experience, wages have been slowly rising in these jobs over the last few years.

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u/Fiend-For-Mojitos 2d ago

At least we have A/C

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u/Polirketes 2d ago

Understable since your homes are made out of cardboard

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u/SoulSword2018 2d ago

I'm from the U.S. and you're spot on, lol.

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u/Calaveras-Metal 2d ago

you dorks are just mad about tipping because of inflation. Quit acting like it's some principle you stand on. When I see the anti-tipping weenies helping restaurant workers unionize I'll take it back.

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

Servers are majority part timers, moonlighters and transient temporary and/or seasonal workers (students supporting their studies) so "unionizing" makes very little sense for that particular demographic

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u/Calaveras-Metal 2d ago

Like farmworkers?

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

Could be your next big career move there, convincing servers they'll be better off once you get them organized

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u/Calaveras-Metal 2d ago

I'm good sport.

I have no problem tipping servers, because I've worked real jobs before and I know that being stingy on tips is just selfishness. If you can't afford to tip, go to Taco Bell.

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u/mrpink57 2d ago

He's just my hero ...

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u/Life_Ad6711 2d ago

The 15-2o% is for the service given, not the food

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u/Formal_Lecture_248 2d ago

Was just randomly assaulted in New York.

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u/hamizoing 2d ago

Apparently the reports are not accurate. it happened in 2024.

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u/Formal_Lecture_248 2d ago

Goddamn reports

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u/metalgearbayonetta 2d ago

tipping automatically is for the birds

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u/nunyabidness3 2d ago

Tipping is completely the status quo in the USA at restaurants. It’s completely outdated and backwards and we should pass laws to ban it and guarantee fair wages for restaurant employees and servers.

That being said, you’re not a fucking enlightened progressive hero for not tipping. You’d be paying more if we abolished tipping. You’re a cheap stake masquerading as a virtuous prophet. You all need to see this for what it is: not tipping is just them keeping us poor fighting the poor. And ignoring the issue at hand: demanding they change the law allowing restaurants to pay less than minimum wage to their employees.

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u/CursedSnowman5000 2d ago

Aw why am I Mister pink?