Lol you’re being such a wiener. Grow up and work on yourself kiddo

Whiny and angry. Yeah you definitely are not independent. Emotionally small and immature.

Shut up nobody cares.

Dunno why you’re so aggro about it but okay. Nobody cares what you do and nobody is saying you don’t do them. Relax.

There is a difference between independent, in a community and codependent. It isn’t just codependent and independent.

You seem pretty angry though so maybe you should step back and think about why you’re so mad at others saying independence isn’t the greatest thing since slice bread lol

I actually think this whole concept of independence is pretty bad for society. Americans are so isolated. I get people have shit families but we often have shit families because of this concept of independence being so important.

We have 0 sense of community in America and it stems from the me, me, me, my independence stuff.

I work in the industry. It definitely might happen in places but no it doesn’t.

You wouldn’t keep your servers and bartenders they genuinely wouldn’t make enough to work there or even the gas to get to work.

You’d essentially blacklist yourself. Once other restaurants find out they’ll pilfer your people and many owners go to other restaurants with the thought in the back of their head of pilfering workers. It’s not the intent but all it takes is “hey how do you enjoy it here? I own ____ come check it out sometime we’d love to have someone like you” happens all the time.

Your biggest risk is that it’s also illegal as fuck and very very easy to prove.

Majority of places do not fuck with server’s tips.