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Usually you go through a warning system and then you fire someone, or as is the case here you can fire for any reason during a 90 day trial period.
I guess it varies from place to place. From what I gather in some parts of Europe it can be very difficult to fire someone. I've seen people here in the UK get warning after warning after warning but still never get kicked out.
The problem with the "strip club system" is that it still relies upon people tipping and takes away the owners responsibility to pay for the workers services properly. It has major flaws too, I imagine being pretty might help you get tipped more over someone just as good but not as popular.
In a restaurant setting where efficiency is more important than good looks it certainly has its shortcomings, although in many ways it seems that most systems will work reasonably well as long as everybody knows how it's supposed to work.
If you have a tipping culture and it's clear from the prices that service isn't included then it works, even if it can be annoying having to mentally juggle figures to figure that $10 on the menu really means $12.10. At the same time one practise I've seen here in the UK annoys me enough that I'll boycott any restaurant that does it, and that's to add a 15% service charge to the bill and then present the customer with a credit card chit with a space left open for a gratuity.
I also think that there should be some leeway for employers not to know everything about their staff. Gauging performance should be built into the managerial system. If you know everything all of the time it just builds prejudice and lack of a fair environment.
Gauging performance is a management job but it's not always possible to objectively measure performance. If a customer complains about a waiter it can be hard to know whether there's a problem with the waiter, the waiter just had an off day and is normally fine, or the customer just had a problem with the waiter. When we see news reports of someone deleting a 15% tip on the credit card and writing a comment like "God gets 10%, what makes you think you're worth 15%?" it's easy to see how things happen that leave people thinking "you couldn't make this up".
I still think there's something wrong with strip clubs and making people pay to be there. It reinforces that the club is somehow doing you a favour. In some places they withhold the workers pay until they get what they want from them. I understand it's a complicated subject.
Based on what the strippers can earn it's easy to argue that the club is doing them a favour. It's not as if anybody forces them to work there. Some years ago I read an article in a local newspaper written by a young woman who quit her job to become a stripper and found she earned three times as much. If you get $2000/week in tips as a stripper and it costs you $100 to work the shifts you're still well ahead of the game. If you were expected to put the $2000 into a centralised pot and the manager decided how much of it to return to you that would be a different situation entirely.
Fundamentally any situation like this involves trading off interests. The worker's interest is getting as much money for as little work as possible while the manager's interest is getting as much work for as little money as possible. Given the two sides to an employment agreement have diametrically opposed aims anything that can align the two interests has to be a good thing.
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