Is that a tip or a bribe? Symantics, I think or word play. Do they get maybe a step ahead of the guy I have never seen before or the crappy tipper. Human nature says yes.
Satan absolutely agrees with you 100% Who's to say it's an unscrupulous practice though? I can think of things where a tip or a bribe might be unscrupulous.
Politics
Judges (I guess that's politics too)
Safety inspectors
We're KJ's though. I tried going to church a while back, and I was treated like satan for working in a *OMG BAR?* It's not like we hang with the highest class of customers to begin with.
I dunno, brain fart I guess but I can't think of anymore. Anyways, I look at it like this. I know it's in my nature to treat the ones that tip/bribe me better than the normal croud. I just don't lie to myself about it, I embrace it. I've mastered it and weild it like a sword.
Joe: Yah I pull down some bucks sometimes. Sometimes I don't. It really depends on the crowd, who showed up, who knows what's going on, etc. I have tipping and non tipping regular, a regular bribing couple (The man is impatient, and he can't bribe himself up and not his girl unless he wants a sexless night.) and the occasional "IM SO FRIGEEEN WASTED THERES A WAD OF CASH IN MY POCKET I DONT KNOW HOW IT GOT THERE I WANT IT NOW!" drunken guys with an idiot problem.
My regs and I are very close. Check out our website, visit the chatroom. We have our own small little community there, and i'm in constant check with them.
Let's boil down to the *REAL* reason I straight up take bribes....
My boss is 62 years young Sayoko Umehara. Her mind is constantly business. She started the karaoke at 7b, and she always takes a bribe.
If I don't take one, customers will go to her, override me, and she'll come up to my booth shaking a ticket and 1/2 the bribe in her hand saying "BAAABEEESAN! THIS ONE NEXT OK?" then walk off.
For the longest time I thought to myself this was not OK. Then I started seeing the beauty in it. It sort of plays into checks and balances through out the entire night though. If a jerk wanders in demanding nownownow for money, just drain them. Break their pockets. Taketaketake for their nownownow and then send them away.
Now instead of someone having to walk all the way to the owner, I just save them a step and take care of it directly there.
I hate to compare singers to a herd of buffalo, bribes are like wolves hunting buffalo. They only eat the dieseased slow ones, leaving only the good buffalo to reproduce making a stronger, healthier herd.
