MLM TOP FAILS #55 | Amare rep admits that preying on mental health makes her a lot of money

[@HannahAlonzo]

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[@yaramar34]

“You can smell really expensive without it costing an arm and a leg” Are you for real?? Lost all respect for your channel when I had to endure your gushing endorsement of your promotion of a monthly perfume subscription ….

[@whispywind1015]

​@@yaramar34dude it's just perfume. I think she does a lot more for society to get some slack for doing ads to continue spreading awareness. You can stop a subscription, and if you really want to get into perfume it's a good intro to that world. If you're not interested it's just not for you, and that's also okay.

[@josephsalvador51]

No matter how bad things get I remind myself I could be trapped in a pyramid scheme convinced I'm a business owner.😎

[@okoala62]

Same! 🤣

[@laurapardy8297]

Omg don’t be so negative and cast doubt on our dreams k 🙄. We need enablers in this business.

[@Carmen-Electra]

😅😅😅

[@raven4090]

Falling over laughing! 😂 I'm gonna use that next time I feel hopeless. Thanks!!

[@BloominFleury29]

@@laurapardy8297 was that a joke

[@crystal_xxi]

As a European the tip credit system is COMPLETELY insane. There's no tip culture or expectation here and I can only see it becoming a way to thank for excellent service, not a way to make sure the waitress gets to eat tonight🙃

[@jijipoid]

trust me most people in the US think it is insane as well. It is always a big battle here between people who think tipping should be mandatory and people who think it is their right to exercise not tipping or tipping poorly simply because it isn't really mandatory to tip at all. It is always a battle of wills. Then there are people like me who think we should abolish tip culture and maybe just make business pay their dang employees and that perhaps we shouldn't be enabling this practice. I use to work in food and have to rely on tips, however in my state business are required to make up for lost wages if tips did not equal minimum wage.. which is why tip share is a thing here which is also dumb for it's own reasons. Don't get me wrong I do tip when i go out however i just think it needs to go.

[@crystal_xxi]

@@jijipoid Thanks for your perspective. The system is so confusing that when me and my dad were in IHOP a couple years back in NYC he literally had to ask the waiter how much he should tip. IMO obviously the businesses should pay the workers enough so they wouldn't have to rely on tips. but now that the system is like this everyone probably should tip at least 20% to make sure that the waiting staff get paid :(

[@claudiahdz20]

As an American what’s truly insane to me is how everywhere is slowly starting to expect tips, like Starbucks and five guys (a fast food place) places where (to my knowledge) are getting paid at the very least minimum wage. Starbucks used to have a tip jar at the drive through but now when paying by card it asks about tip first

[@AlienZizi]

@@claudiahdz20 that's nuts. fast food doesn't even include waiting on someone and giving service beyond handing them food once...

[@rebeccaerazo825]

As someone having been in the industry for more than 15 years, the Starbucks thing for example isn’t something expected (though obviously appreciated). I’ve wanted to tip many times with no cash on hand for example in an establishment like that. Putting it on the receipt that way offers an option to non cash carriers. Restaurants where you’re dining and being served is obviously a different scenario.

[@jamierose1732]

As an Australian I find tipping hard to get my head around. Nobody should be reliant on the fickle judgement of the general public to make minimum wage. Couldn’t agree more with your position.

[@HannahAlonzo]

As an American, I also find the tipping policies hard to get my head around! 🤣

[@chaseohara4781]

Honestly, even as a Canadian, where tipping culture is normal, it's difficult to fathom the differences. It can vary based on province here, but generally there's still a minimum wage for servers, although it can be a reduced wage. (for example $12 an hour instead of $15). Most of the provinces have now gotten rid of a separate minimum wage for servers, however. Still, it is more or less expected to tip, and it's a weird hybrid system. At least I know my server is getting minimum wage even if they're incredibly rude and I do decide not to tip, though. 😂

[@hannahkritschgau3016]

I agree. I also have a different perspective. Tipping = commission. To me I provide top tier service so I’ve earned 18-20%+. A lot of servers don’t do that job and have an expectation to get 20%+ when they aren’t being hospitable, getting to know tables, being personable, upselling, etc. I think we should get rid of tips and up it to minimum wage.

[@Rspsand07]

@@chaseohara4781 Yeah, there's no way I'm ever tipping again now that they get guaranteed min wage as a baseline. Plus none of them pay taxes, which is huge in Canada... It's one of the best paid jobs if you're attractive or work in a busy area. Friend of mine cleared 50$+ an hour straight into his pocket. You'd have to make over 100$/hr to match at a taxed job.

[@draconicfeline6177]

@@hannahkritschgau3016 Exactly, it's meaningless when it's required.

[@miss_andry1857]

I don’t think the wages of employees should be on the customer. That law is so sleazy restaurant owners can afford to play their employees a minimum wage and if they can’t no one says to them “if you can’t afford to pay your employees don’t own a business” capitalism is so messed up. It has us convinced that WE are at fault that People’s wages are our responsibility when We don’t own a business.

[@lindtothesayyy]

I agree with you on most parts. But the thought that we are responsible for other peoples money as a society actually is more like socialism than capitalism.

[@miss_andry1857]

@@lindtothesayyy No making it so that owners don’t have to pay a fair wage on the assumption that they’ll make up the rest is capitalism. There’s no guarantee that they will make that income and because we know that they aren’t being paid a fair wage we feel obligated to ensure that they do. Meanwhile, the company is making millions with practically free slave labor.

[@jadecoolness101]

And calling people "stingy" for not paying the wages of a business' employees only directly supports these laws. People aren't stingy for paying the price of the food they ordered. I'm so glad I don't live in the US, absolutely ridiculous the way you have people arguing over what percentage of your food you should add to your bill and if you don't add the right percentage you're stingy and a Bad Person, and also waiters who need tips are beggars and want free money and and and and... and somehow the stingy employers are never brought up because people are too busy picking sides in the fight between tipper and tippee. American intelligence at it's finest.

[@miss_andry1857]

@@jadecoolness101 I know. It’s crazy. I had a waiter be sooo rude because we didn’t tip him the way he wanted us to

[@Cerianne]

Another European here: Tip culture and laws around it are *insane*. your EMPLOYER should be responsible for paying you a living wage, not your customer. Thankfully tipping here is just something you might do to round up a bill, or for extra good service.

[@CrunkKitty1]

Tipping culture is really wild. In Australia we don’t have tips and the fact that a server in America works their a$$ off their entire shift and their wage is paid by CUSTOMERS?! So… I’m going to a restaurant, paying $25 for food and then I have to add 20% to pay for the employee of someone else too?? No wonder so many people open restaurants in America. They get all these employees they don’t have to pay and keep all the extra money from not paying them because the customer is paying them. I’m so glad we don’t have that crap here.

[@ambergerhelper7852]

All the animals are trying to unalive you. Australia frightens me.

[@laurelloaf]

I’m American and I think it’s so insane that employers won’t just pay their employees a living wage at restaurants. Just make everything 20% more expensive and actually pay people! And don’t get me started on how minimum wage isn’t even a living wage to begin with….

[@draconicfeline6177]

Someone told the that the businesses would close and jobs would be lost but like... That's an acceptable sacrifice SINCE THEY WEREN'T PAYING THEIR WORKERS ANYWAY. And a very temporary one.

[@dazzlingextremes389]

Or how the moment they raise min wage eggs milk and ALL other products become exactly that much more expensive. Wild. It's a design to keep poor, poor....

[@XLindsLuvsPinkX]

Well, now California is giving either $20 or $25 minimum wage, even if you work in fast food.

[@amandascharf3870]

They tried that here and it failed. Pretty sad.

[@TreXsJournal-Coming-Soon]

The way I would never dine at that place again.

[@LoveableNiki]

The fact that restaurants only have to pay $2.13...which hasn't changed since I was a server YEARS ago...is disgusting.

[@randl7423]

Lol, the seller talking about how easy it is to sell Amare because people are desperate for mental health help is the definition of "saying the quiet part out loud" 😬

[@shn4zy]

I think a lot of people go for MLMs in the US because of health costs. Our mental health is an issue in the US and people can't afford medications and appointments. Essential Oils, Supplements, Drinks, etc (while overpriced) can be a cheap alternative.

[@LostStarzOfTheSky]

​@@shn4zy they don't work

[@earlgreyt123]

And the reps don't necessarily realise they're exploiting people if they genuinely believe the products will work for them.

[@maeveokay]

Commenting to say that I got to bring up the example of mlms being manipulative in my upper year college ethics course… I was so happy to finally talk about it academically 😂 I love these videos, thank you for being so consistent for us! Look forward to them every week

[@shanastiner]

I wonder if anyone in your class was in one or was or knew someone close who was lol

[@draconicfeline6177]

What's extra stupid about tipping culture is that it DOESN'T promote better service. It promotes desperation and bad behavior, like chasing people down. Good wages and respect promote good behavior and good service - Japan doesn't have a tipping culture, for example, and the service I got there was the most deserving of tips I've ever had. Because, you know, they can live off their wages.

[@jessicawaldeback]

I’ve started binging on anti-mlm content during these last few months. It all started when a former studdy buddy from uni got into Young Living. I had no idea that mlm’s even existed here in Sweden. Last year I noticed that my sister in law had tons of YL products at home. The more I found out about mlm’s and Young Living especially the more I noticed the lack of info on the internet about it translated into Swedish. So I’m now trying to do something about that, with taking the time to translate the Wikipedia pages into Swedish.

[@LisaHarvey16]

Translation into different languages is very important to do.

[@miaomiaochan]

You're doing important work, because these MLMs will go international once the market's saturated in their home country.

[@avencree]

The Monat tipper fail is even more insidious when you realize she originally wrote “$9.82”, but changed the 9 to a 8. You can clearly see the straight line of the 9 and how she went over the top and added a curve to the line to make it an 8. So not only did she tip less than 10%, but she took a dollar off of that! 😂 What a big spender!

[@hawaiianshirts4715]

I bet she remembered she had to compensate for the fees that go along with her company debit card. (To be fair, I don't know if the Monat debit card has fees. But when I worked in a call center, I was offered a company branded debit card for a "more convenient" way to receive my paycheck. There were so many sneaky little fees that went along with it that, if I used it like I used my regular bank's debit card, it would cost me about 5% of my paycheck every month. Hard pass.)

[@MrsMuffin11]

I'm guessing she only had 110 bucks on that debit card 🤣🤣🤣

[@cardcaptormyoki7345]

Who knows too. Maybe she didnt pay with that card or it wasnt her bill to pay. Just bringing something to consider

[@avencree]

@@cardcaptormyoki7345 Either way, the person paying gave less than a %10 tip. No amount of considering is going make this person look good 🤷‍♀️

[@jadinealma7742]

@@avencree Can't accept that some people won't tip you? Get a new profession.

[@brookenjonas]

Hannah always posts right before my planning period so I lesson plan and listen to Hannah.

[@Kreepie11]

Hooray for prep time!

[@brookenjonas]

@@Kreepie11 it goes by too fast lol

[@alinadele]

Can we stop saying "if you can't tip at least 20% you can't afford to eat at that restaurant" and start saying "if you can't pay your employee minimum wage you can't afford to own a restaurant"

[@WestonDion]

We say both things. But at the moment it’s true that, if you go out to eat and can’t tip, you’re costing someone else money so you can get served. More accurately it’s “I know that restaurants aren’t paying servers fairly but I don’t care and I want to eat out so my server can lose money by serving me”

[@andrealai2807]

As an Aussie it is so unbelievable that this is a thing - I didn't even know this! Next time we are in America definitely going to be tipping at least 20% - I always assumed that tips were extra on top of minimum wage. But I cannot believe employers are short changing their staff - disgusting. We don't have this in Australia. Minimum wage at the moment is $24.10 (which is about $16.60 US)

[@acatnamedm4529]

That hun didn't tip more because she's not making minimum wage either lol

[@kocsispetra1625]

Honestly, the whole tip situation is a scam as well. The fact that it's legal only makes it worse. If you can't pay the worker well, you can't afford the worker. Either raise the prices to ensure their salary, or quit being in business. This is absolutely insane. And the fact that a lot of people are still pressuring the customers instead of the restaurants is just as bad. You all should boycott these restaurants. What the actual hell

[@lucydawson1344]

I agree! I live in the UK but went to NYC for a few days about a decade ago now. I absolutely loved my trip but couldn’t believe both the whole adding on the tax in shops for everything or the whole tipping thing even though I knew it was very customary. Our minimum wage rules here are much better. I don’t earn much more than minimum wage myself. Some restaurants do automatically add a service charge but you can easily ask for it to be removed. I have occasionally tipped but the cost of living is high and most don’t tip anyway!

[@sia7051]

The tip thing in the states is so dumb. I used to manage restaurants in the UK. Tips were a great way of getting a snap shot on team interactions with customers. As all of our wait staff made at least minimum wage, those who would get high tips were clearly going over and above for their tables. Despite what some people say we definitely have a tipping culture in the UK. Some of my best waiters would make an extra £100 tips over a 4 hour shift. We would often use the amount of tips waiters made, to decide if it’s time to have the conversation with them as to whether or not they put themselves forward for a promotion. Fair pay is beneficial to everyone involved. I will never understand why restaurants in the states think that the way they pay their team is acceptable.

[@miaomiaochan]

Because in this country, we pay people less than they deserve and then dunk on them for being poor, all the while worshipping people that got rich through sheer dumb luck or from rich parents.

[@cathy997]

Make no mistake, a lot of the servers are happy with the system as they get way more from tips than they would from minimum wage. Especially those working in nicer places, since tips are % on the meal cost. As if the server does less work to serve your entree worth $20, than your entree worth $35.. Ironically since you have to pay the wages of employees at a restaurant, you have more of a claim to being an entrepreneur than the MLM huns do.

[@justoverit]

Because its literally in the laws that people who work as servers can be paid below minimum wage with the expectation that tips will push them to minimum wage. It has to change legally before anything will change in individual restaurants!

[@Razgriz977]

I hate tipping culture. I hate that delivery now requires a tip before delivery. It defeats the purpose of tipping. I've only once tipped very poorly. The waiter brought food then disappeared. never refilled drinks. We were looking around the restaurant and no one noticed we had been done for a while and needed a check. There was only one other table of people. I was so mad and wanted to give no tip.

[@katie_a1075]

Parents: Honey I’m concerned you don’t have medical insurance Hun: ✈️ 👋 🖕 How delusional that your loved ones can’t even be concerned for your basic needs being met 😂

[@laurapardy8297]

😭😭😭😭😂

[@mclean2612]

Classic cult tactic, sadly.

[@shineonsunfish]

She would have seemed more normal to keep it vague about people “being negative” but to use “we’re worried you don’t have health insurance”! It’s such a clear and gentle concern, how wild that she used that as her example!

[@desertrose0027]

Yeah I was going to say... that's a very legitimate concern!

[@sltslt24]

I was shocked. I thought she at least say something like "are you sure this business is working" but she really said if my family cares about my need for health insurance and lack of then 🖕 them. Like the deluluness of it all

[@aechawk]

As someone who has had depression for most of my life and the past years have been my most difficult. I have Endometriosis, I desperately want more children, and that is not going to happen. I also will be having a hysterectomy next week. I am all kinds of emotional and struggling. If this company's products actually worked, doctors would be suggesting them, and people wouldn't have depression, anxiety and similar illnesses anymore. They simply do not work and preying on those who are struggling is very, very wrong.

[@TheGoodDirtbag]

Hoping the best for you in the coming weeks. So sorry for what you’re going through. Care for yourself like you would care for someone else you love and I hope your recovery from the surgery is smooth❤

[@CarboneCat]

I’m giving you a big hug. It’s so sad that you endured all of this. I wish you that things will get better.

[@aechawk]

@@TheGoodDirtbag thanks ❤️

[@BloominFleury29]

Same I have Crohn’s disease and adhd and the amount of huns that “cure” them is disgusting

[@Andreana-iv4yr]

Ah, but that's because Hun Science is better than anything else!!

[@ryanhburnette]

ON👏TRA👏PAH👏NEW👏WAH👏 “When I go home and my mom is all ‘oh sweetie when are you going to get a job with insurance so you can get your scurvy fixed?’ I’m all ‘bye ma!’ I don’t need that negativity in my live as she slips an orange in my bag. Don’t keep the haters around, you know?”

[@mooniemoons]

Unrelated to the video but Hannah is a cat momma and I have to share! I just brought a new kitty home less than an hour ago. She is currently in hiding but I can't wait to watch your videos with a kitty on my lap! My first kitty passed away from old age three years ago after 17 wonderful years together, and I was waiting for the right moment to give another kitty a good home and love again. I feel so happy! 💗

[@HannahAlonzo]

This made my day!! Bringing home a new kitty is such a joy. Enjoy this special time!

[@Kreepie11]

Cat mommas unite! I remember bringing two home, and one hid under the couch. I lied on the floor with my hand outstretched for over an hour, just trying to get her used to my scent and my voice. 😂 I hope you bond quickly with your new baby!

[@krixkhaos]

I literally watched this video just now with my chonky tuxedo boi on my lap 🖤 (he's not overweight, just LORGE)

[@maryeckel9682]

Congratulations on your new kitty!

[@Kyamusuku]

At my college we were all required to go to a talk about scams and campus safety

[@HannahAlonzo]

I love to hear that!

[@deathbymischief9106]

I live in a country whih pays servers good wages and that tip credit thing you described is horrid. How could the restaurant just be pocketing that much money and leave the servers unpaid?! It should be illegal to pay people less than minimum wage that way. I will be avoiding those states like the plague from now on.

[@kaywade115]

If you can't afford to pay your staff, don't own a business. No one should have to tip.

[@russshh]

exactly

[@amandascharf3870]

They tried that where I lived in a couple of restaurants; no one liked the increase in menu prices!

[@mommy2libras]

Wrong. You know how eating out works. And tipped wage is good for the lower economy. As someone who spent over 20 years making 2.15 an hour, let me, who has experience and lived in that socioeconomic class, explain to you: With tipped wage, you are expected to tip anywhere from 10-20%. This allows servers, who might not have skills or education to find a different job, to have the opportunity to make more than minimum wage (in my home state of Alabama, minimum wage is 7.25- absolutely unliveable wage- no place in the US has THAT low od a cost of living). This also incentivezes people to actually take server jobs. Servers deal with the public more than any low ranking job- even in retail you might have to help someone find something every once in awhile but are often dealing with most customers just once at checkout. So let's say you get your wish tomorrow and all servers suddenly get minimum wage but tipping stops. Here's what will happen: restaurant owners WILL raise food prices anywhere from 20-40% and blame it on this "forced wage increase". Funny enough, those same people who complained about tipping a whopping 15% (that used to go directly to the server) will still gladly go out to eat and pay an extra 25 or 30% without saying jack sh*t. But now all you've done is created thousands more minimum wage jobs that no one can live off of. Congratulations. And now no one wants to be a server anymore. Do you think I'd have put up with all the sh*t I took for 20 years if it wasn't for the fact that I could make at least a little better than minimum wage? All the cursing, people calling me names, the disgusting messes, people actually throwing food at me? Hell no. Most people are lovely and go out to have a nice time but even then, you get at least one really nasty person per shift who think you're their personal servant because you're getting paid 2.15 an hour to bring them food (and they don't tip or tip like crap, too). And the servers who do take the jobs have no incentive to do a good job. They're making minimum wage regardless so what do they care if you wait 10 extra minutes to get your iced tea refilled? Or get the butter you're actually waiting on for your potato before it gets cold? Now they don't care because they're reserving some energy for the second job they had to get just to pay their bills. All because people whined about tipping 15-20% (and are now actually paying much more for the food). All you've managed to do is pay MORE for your meal (because restaurant owners WILL take the opportunity to make more profit) but made sure that the e tra went straight to the restaurant owner instead of those who do actual work enriching the owner. As well as made sure thousands who used to make at least enough to pay their bills now make crappy minimum wage. But great job on not having to tip anymore! Feel good?

[@hannamcgowin8934]

Agreed 100%. But until this is done, people should absolutely tip their server or not dine out.

[@Diana-qp2rw]

@@amandascharf3870That’s why there should be laws regulating this matter, so that every place has to pay their employees and prices increase everywhere. Tips shouldn’t be meant to survive, they should be extra money for good service that customers can give if they want to.

[@lulima8064]

Why are Americans so okay with employers not paying their employees and putting the burden on the clients?

[@Automatic91-97]

Because many are brainwashed to think that capitalism is the only way, has no flaws, and anything else makes you a communist.

[@tashababyyy]

Most of us aren’t. But the opinions of the few (aka the rich) outweigh the opinions of the many.

[@katelyn.l]

As a three time ASU alumna I am thrilled to see that email!!! I hope other schools sent something out. I think comms majors are often targeted.

[@Steveve4123]

Three time ASU alum and employee here- so proud that they are always looking out for their students. Go devils!

[@worldwiideweb]

Came to say as a current sun devil so happy to see this included!

[@riseabove1256]

Also an ASU grad! 🎉

[@lelisbet]

I'm European and that tipping culture is completely incomprehensible to me. In normal countries employers pay the servers, not customers. Such madness only in USA 😂

[@Alyse_bell]

Still can’t wrap my head around why the minimum wage in the States is so low. Here in Australia it’s about $21 an hour. Even that is difficult to live on so I can’t imagine how anyone would survive on 1/3 of that.

[@jenniferawelch]

I wanted to add something to the tip discussion. In addition to the tip credit there are a couple other points I don’t see brought up as often. 1) regardless of whether the server recieves a tip, they still have to tip the host, busser and bartender (if applicable) based on the sales total, about 4-5% is standard. 2) the irs taxes you on the tip, at a minimum of 10% of the sales total, regardless of if they actually get the tip. So if you do not tip, the server has to pay to have waited on you, first with the tipshare and then to irs. The whole system is broken, but not tipping is not the way to fix it.

[@eckilla]

I think about this issue often. I’m a very generous tipper but I’ve often wondered if we collectively could change the system to make these restaurant owners do their due diligence as employers… then I feel guilty when I realize that even if we got everybody in on it, most people would still be making ~$8/hr because minimum wage is so low. It all just sucks so I continue to tip generously and be kind to food service employees. But they deserve better than being reliant on customers’ understanding of etiquette 🥲

[@garypierce7380]

Tipping culture needs to go away.

[@ChimChamChambliss]

@@eckillaas a country, we have tried multiple times. However, servers do NOT want to be paid a wage and prefer overwhelmingly to be on the tipped spectrum and lobbied against it. My spouse and I tip between 20-50% depending on cost of the meal, so we definitely are not stingy tippers but I can’t help but resent the fact that servers (as a whole) literally blocked a set wage as the idea is that they can potentially make more and then they turned right around and complained about the variability.

[@eckilla]

@@ChimChamChambliss yes and ultimately that comes down to the fact that even with stingy tippers, servers *do* make more from being tipped because wages have not stayed consistent with cost of living. If servers were paid a more competitive wage than they make from tips, they would likely support the shift away from tipping. But again it falls back on employers being willing to share their profits instead of hoarding them, something that likely won’t change without a major societal & economic overhaul.

[@infoskrimp420]

my old restaurant pooled tips and then tipped out nearly everyone it was outrageous by the time servers got it; we had next to nothing. they’re a VERY expensive james beard winning famous restaurant in philly 🙃

[@jardinosaur]

Ya! I prefer the fails over the horror stories. You've got something for everyone, and I love it! ❤️

[@coolbeansnyc]

I prefer fails over horror stories for everyone *except* Hannah’s 😆. I love her horror story videos (and only hers).

[@cubonefan3]

30:28 regarding the tip credit: I would say you may have unintentionally misconstrued what a tip credit is for. It means that at the end of the day the waiter will be paid at minimum 7.25/hr , even if they receive NO tips at all. The employer would have to pay the full wage in that situation. But yeah the tip system in the USA is crap, which is why smaller restaurants generally have trouble keeping waiters since they don’t pay well

[@Narja23]

As someone who's not American, and never has been there, i'm a bit horrified about that law allowing people to not be paid the minimum wage as long as they are tipped! 2.13 dollars per hours is so awful for people having a job as exhausting and difficult as working in a restaurant is! No wonder that MLM can feast upon people if the rights of the workers are so feebly defended!

[@SageandStoneHomestead]

When I worked as a waitress tips were very good and it was not a problem to have small per hour pay when the tips were so good. Tipping culture in the united states is a lot more normal than other places I've visited.

[@NimbleInfringement]

This may be common knowledge, but I'll put it anyway: Tip for quickly calculating tips: Look at the total, move the decimal over 1, then multiply that by 2. For example, let's say your total is $58.74. Moving decimal over 1 gives you $5.87 (basically $6).Then multiply by 2, which gives you $12. So you should tip **at least** $12 if you're dong the 20% thing. That $8 on a $100 tab is.... wowzers...😬

[@samanthag6077]

I almost guarantee she only has $110 on that card

[@wurdnurd1]

There is ONE time when I didn't tip, and that was because the server literally refused to serve us, and we had to get the food and drinks ourselves from the stations, then she screamed (literally) in my friend's face and threatened to beat my ass for asking her to stop. I get having a bad day, but she should have lost her job, in addition to the tip... IOW: it takes a LOT to no longer deserve a tip in my book.

[@bmakrides]

Just imagine if I took a photo of my debit card every time I went out to eat and tagged my company and thanked them. lol

[@lexwithbub]

It's so cringy!

[@annea.4173]

And even worse, you showed your company what a horrible tipper you are.

[@Quagthistle]

@33:01 - And this is why I don't eat at restaurants anymore. The costs are insane and the tips only make things even more pricey. Nope, I can eat at home just fine. I know, that means I'm "killing" restaurant businesses like the millennial I am, but I just have better things to spend money on than dining "experiences".

[@MSqurd]

T’was JUST binging the MLM playlist when the notification popped up 😂 Soooo binge-able, to the point where it’s so easy to come back and continually binge ❤

[@schrdngrskat3847]

When I was a server, we were supposed to report our tips at the end of the shift, and if it didn't calculate out to be at least minimum wage per hour, the employer is required to pay the amount to get it up to minimum wage, and it's added to the paycheck. My fellow servers would often *not* report their tips, which I would think would make the employer make up the difference to minimum wage *plus* them getting to keep their tips separately (aka kinda cheating the system)? So unless employers were breaking the law and not paying the amount required to make up to minimum wage per hour, servers should not be only making $2-$3/hour. That's my understanding of it based on my own experience and having the requirements explained to me.

[@erinmeadows14]

The only time I have not ever tipped was when our server didn't do more than take our order and bring our check and another server picked up the slack. We ended up walking what would have been our tip to the server that actually served us.

[@annakout]

I was a server for a hot minute and will not ever do it again so I always tip 20% when we go out to eat because customers are down right terrible. Thank you for advocating for servers!

[@katekiddo1714]

Ehhhh. I still tip 20% for that reason, but in my opinion it’s kinda like buying from your MLM sister to hold her over - you’re trying to help in the moment, but you’re contributing to a larger, toxic situation that’s taking advantage of her.

[@JW-vi2nh]

I worked at a sleazy restaurant in high school who made certain they never had to pay us more than the bare minimum $2.13 an hour. They did this by having us print out a slip every night showing how much money we sold in food for that shift, multiplying that by like 10% and putting that down as the amount we made in tips. There were nights I literally didn’t make a single dollar but had to write down that I’d made $70+ in tips. I didn’t realize at the time what was going on and I wish now that I had known. They shut down not long after I quit. What a terrible place.

[@MadamCougarGaming]

Im not responsible for paying someones wage. We should be putting pressure on businesses that take advantage of servers and not the patreons

[@mariaangelova8275]

Regarding the tipping, we should ve focused on fixing the problem of servers not getting paid enough vs. advocating for huge tips. Just my two cents. Getting paid $2.50 or so an hour is absolutely ridiculous.

[@hammy5668]

9:55 About the Monat rep saying they are an entrepreneur- It made me think that as an MLM rep they are even lower than the bottom of the company because they are actually the customer. Not close to the CEO at all. They are the ones stuck over-buying products to remain active and having to pay to try the new skincare and lifestyle products. It’s sad but they aren’t even really as involved in the company as a sales person is at a traditional business.

[@lmsmith015]

this is for your tip lecture, which I whole-heartedly agree with :)

[@HannahAlonzo]

Thank you Lauren!

[@anittadrink]

Eloquent and instructive as always! Thank you for these videos!

[@anittadrink]

Brazilian reais aren't worth much, but wanted to say thank you anyways 😅

[@ExSharkV]

The college I went to out-right banned MLM advertising and recruitment on campus after several known human traffickers posing as members of Vector Cutco went around the dining centre trying to "recruit" female students for a "job opportunity." Thankfully someone caught on to who the people actually were, called the local police and they were arrested. Not wanting to risk another incident like that the college banned Vector Cutco and other MLM's from recruiting on campus

[@JaimeLeighArt]

I would be so embarrassed to share that restaurant receipt as a form of bragging. My teenage daughter is a waitress and if a customer was proud to leave her an $8 tip on $100 bill I would ask her what she did wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️ (she has never once had a customer leave a credit and cash tip - the customers always leave either/or)

[@star.skylar]

I'm not from the US so every time I hear this I always think that the American tip culture is a little insane. "If you can't afford 20% tip, you can't afford to eat there." I've heard this so much from other KZbinrs and, while I appreciate the sentiment for the service workers, it's putting the burden to the wrong people. How about "If you can't afford to pay minimum wage, you can't afford to have that much staff yet?" Employees outside the hospitality industry don't rely on tips to survive, seems to me that they just need to protect hospitality workers' compensation better. A lot of successful businesses here start from small where the owners themselves do all the work and learn about sustainably scaling by hiring additional people at the right time. So, while this isn't just against Hannah's opinion, when she said passive aggressively to 'go ahead and let in the comments know you're a stingy tipper,' it rubbed me the wrong way. Of course if I ever have the chance to go to USA I will follow the social norm to tip appropriately out of respect.

[@lulima8064]

I completely agree.

[@VisualMind]

I'm from Europe and I didn't know about the tip system AT ALL when I went to the US a few years ago. I was so confused that the minimum tip you could click on was always 10%. If you give 10% here in Austria, I can guarantee you that they will ask you if you are sure that you want to give that much. We usually just round up or add 1-2€ and waiters are pleased with that. (I tip 10% if the service was excellent) I also have to add that I worked as a waitress for a short period of time with no experience and the pay was pretty good.

[@CarboneCat]

A top leader that has a downline of 26k? That’s insane! How the heck she expects her downline to duplicate her success? It’s mathematically impossible.

[@Faustian_Bargain_Bin]

My brain just experienced frame rate issues thinking about 26k people each with 26k in their downline

[@isabelle7029]

I know this was 1 year ago but I’m pretty sure her entire personal organization is 26000 meaning she recruited 10 who recruited 20 and now she has 30. Not 26000 personal recruits 😅

[@happymelodieart]

Gosh the tipping culture in the US is driving me nuts as a French person. I wholeheartly agree with you that as long as this system exists, people should be tipping accordingly. However, there really needs to be a bigger conversation on how to dismantle this system because it is outrageous! The prices in US restaurants are in no way cheaper than in restaurants in France and yet here the service workers are being paid at least minimum wage! Restaurants owners in the US are just unbelievably greedy and exploitative and the fact that the lawmakers are accomodating them to this extent, is mind blowing. END THIS MADNESS PEOPLE!!! ✊

[@aechawk]

AHHHHHHH! MLM sellers is not entrepreneurs!!! Why can't they get that through their head? Also, if I work for Walmart, my family and friend's don't have to buy at Walmart to support me.

[@toriamigo]

Im from northern ireland, my sister has worked as a waitress for about 10yrs (at several different establishments). She earns minimum wage (which is close to £10 per hour), but she also gets to keep any tips she makes too. She lives off her tips. Im always so jealous lol

[@sarareimold3151]

As a former waitress who worked at a restaurant that was popular with tourists, it's so frustrating when tourists don't understand that tips are absolutely necessary in the US. It's not their fault, but I know that my heart would always sink when I got a table from great Britian because I knew there was a good chance that they would think they were leaving a great trip but I MIGHT get 10%.

[@olgazetify]

I get your point and think people should be aware of it, but for most European countries it is such a strange thing that the company is not paying the living wage... in my country we tip around 10% if we are happy with the service and it is for restaurants/cafes, none tips for doing nails or hair.

[@nicolecarter5367]

That’s amazing!👏👏👏

[@Mirrima]

@@sarareimold3151 it's not "don't understand" tho, it's more "don't know". In my country tips are just an appreciation sign, you're not obliged to tip, and there is no "less than minimum wage" policy for waiters. I was shocked when I heard about that USA situation a couple of years ago from some other youtube video:(

[@sarareimold3151]

@@Mirrima that's my point. They could be the nicest people but most just didn't know how tipping works in the US

[@marchepage7488]

The tip tangent is incorrect. It’s federal law that restaurants MUST cut a check of minimum wage of the server didn’t make enough in tips. So if we all stopped tipping tomorrow restaurants legally have to cut checks. Plus it should be up to us to compensate people. (Which is wildly ironic considering it’s an anti MLM page.) Businesses should pay their employees. Plus I took hospitality law, I’ve been in the industry 11 years. AND I’m going to law school… so my opinion isn’t half baked.

[@barborahrabalova7945]

Fascinating, did not know that - but then I am from Europe and the tipping culture is still weird for me when I come over to the US.

[@notursweetseptember]

Shouldn't u rather be advocating for a liveable minimum wage system for everyone?

[@furiscafynn6275]

I don't live in the America, but your tip rant... Christ, that is not okay. Why is it so different for restaurant workers? That person is at work, they should be paid fairly for that. Just horrific, I hope it changes soon.

[@ae6888]

I got into Arbonne about 15 years ago to make extra money. I ended up with cases of unsold products in my apartment and a feeling of failure. I can personally attest IT is absolutely an MLM, especially after attending a hype-up meeting by my upline ppl. Thank you for all your work to shed light on MLM and social media predatory businesses

[@honeylis7]

I am an actual entrepreneur, with an actual small business, and it makes me sick how the US deals with health insurance. I'm about a month from going and getting a job at a place where I can be offered affordable health insurance and just take those hours away from my small business, because it is SO expensive to pay for it out of pocket when you are self-employed. It is RIDICULOUS.

[@bananamanchester4156]

A note regarding the tip situation you described: as a British person, I think it's disgusting that restaurants in the USA are not legally required to pay minimum wage, ESPECIALLY if they earn over a certain amount in revenue. If I lived in the USA I would refuse to visit restaurants out of principle based on that fact alone. I can not and will not take responsibility for the greedy business decisions of people who CAN afford to pay a fair wage, but don't. We have delivery services like Uber Eats and Deliveroo in the UK, and I absolutely refuse to use them for that reason. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's the same basic reason I avoid buying from MLM distributors. In all fairness, I know that restaurants have a massive part to play in socialising and leisurely activities, which can benefit your mental health- sometimes you just want to go out for a nice meal, totally get that. As a Brit, I'm definitely privileged to not have that PARTICULAR moral dilemma on my hands (let's conveniently ignore the fact that in Britain, minimum wage does not equate to the recommended living wage...)

[@LifeBindeR222]

I'm not tipping 20 or even 15% in most cases, in my area they make $15.25/h so with tips they usually average $25/h which is insane if you ask me for a job that's supposed to be minimum wage for high school kids and students. Tipping culture and minimum wage laws have lost it.

[@EC_123-h8i]

Boy, I have a BA in communication and there are a TON of scammy "business opportunities" being targeted at comm and marketing students. I went on one job interview for a company that seemed legit in the job ad, but the interview had some major red flags. Told my folks about it and my dad said "it's a scam, block their number"

[@elewysoffinchingefeld3066]

I'm old enough to remember when 10% tip was considered a good tip. Then it was 15%. Now it's 20%. Part of me is thinking 'why can't restaurants just pay the employees a wage and leave us out of it?' and then I talk to a server who works at a nice place and makes BANK on tips, especially alcohol, and would never want to work for a flat rate.

[@emilyvanderlaan7699]

Always Hannah uploading on the days I need it the most 😂 💕 🎉

[@goldiewadsworth2787]

My first thoughts after seeing her picture of the receipt was “You didn’t tip enough” 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ we always tip 5 dollars a person which is normally 20-25% not sure if this was because I once also worked for tips at $2.00 an hour but I believe in tipping the 20% also!!!

[@certs743]

The whole tip thing as a Canadian is just bizarre to me. And even the $7/hr minimum wage is astonishing. That is a poverty wage. The minimum wage in the poorest province in Canada is around $10/hr. Where I live minimum wage has not been around 7 dollars in almost 25 years. And I get that servers pay the price in this scenario but workers in the US should be in the streets. It is not the responsibility of customers to pay the wages of their staff and because this has been decided as socially acceptable you now have customers being shamed for not paying the wages of the restaurant staff. That is dystopian capitalist hellscape shit to me. Expecting the working class to pay the wages of other working class workers like that.

[@user-dd5eh5lu3o]

In the video you say "If you want to expose yourself as a lousy tipper" but it is not that Black and White. I definitely disagree with being implicated in the employment salary of a worker who isn't working for my own company, but I do not "punish" the server for that belief. I absolutely think that a restaurant that cannot afford to pay their servers an actual living wage should not be in business. The onus should NEVER be on the patron who simply shows up for a meal and service, and expects that cost to be included in the cost of the food. You say that if you can't afford a 20% tip, you can't afford to eat at that restaurant, but I say that if a restaurant can't afford to pay a living and decent wage, they can't afford to be in business. No one owes anyone a business. This demands that patrons subsidize the business owner's bad choices in launching something they can't afford to sustain. If I choose to go to a restaurant (which I do not anymore post-pandemic) I tip generously because it is not the fault of the server that the restaurant is doing this, but I do think the business owners should have the onus on them since they own the business. I do not own the business and am not responsible for the pay of the employees. We do not expect shoppers to pay the wages of cashiers at grocery stores or retail shops etc. Imagine buying milk and eggs and then having to pay the cashier for checking the items out, because the business decided they just don't want to pay them a proper and fair wage and then having everyone get hateful and angry with YOU instead of the busyness owner. The business owners are not held even the slightest bit responsible, and servers have been known to go outside and hunt down and scream at patrons who didn't tip them well, instead of choosing another line of work or going to the business owner and airing those grievances with how they're treated.

[@daisybeeYT]

4:09 I’m sorry they get how much?!?! I emailed Arbonne Australia and asked if reps get bonuses for recruiting and they said no! I’m gonna have to look further into that

[@brucheweinberger6863]

Maybe it's illegal in Australia to do that so they took that out of compensation plan there?

[@daisybeeYT]

@@brucheweinberger6863 idk I’m going to be looking into it for sure

[@keke1tube]

American former server and bartender. I hate our tip culture. It’s not about affording. If the three tables you served in one hour gave you $5 each, you made well over the minimum wage. But the reality is those three tables are tipping $15 each so they’d make $45 that hour. Beyond making well over minimum wage, they’re making a more “livable wage” than most of us & they evade taxes. But on the video topic, yeah 8% tip is not a flex 😂

[@kxd4103]

I go to Penn State and got a very similar email a few weeks ago about job scams from the career services office!!

[@michelleprieur1]

Not to change the subject, I wish tipping in the US would simply stop. (Ftr, I always budget for tipping, and I tip based on service; there have been a total of 2 times in my adult life that I left nothing). I've lived in Europe multiple times, and in virtually every other developed country, tipping is very rare. They have this crazy idea that the employers are responsible for paying the employees a living wage. And no, their restaurants are not more expensive based on their average wages than ours.

[@isabelle7029]

Stingy tipper here 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@lisahance]

The Amare rep who told the story about the new rep getting 25 responses to her post and how much money she will make. This assumes all 25 people purchased the product and didn't decline when they were told the cost or discovered it was an MLM.

[@blissfulmountain]

Kinda off the topic, but I really dislike tipping culture in the US. The employers should be the ones paying their employees instead of putting the burden on the customers. Wage should be managed by management only. I’m not american, so tipping is just a terrible foreign concept to me. I hate it that I am basically forced to tip whenever I eat out (I live in the US). About the point made at 33:30, I get it that the servers might have had a bad day, but it is hardly my responsibility as a customer to guarantee your wage. It should be the restaurant that should pay you what you deserve for your work and time, regardless of what happened to you that day and regardless of whether or not you put your best smile and customer service voice to use that day. It’s really sad that servers dislike customer who don’t tip (or don’t tip much) instead of disliking how their workplaces treat them.

[@momiji01]

You mentioned in an earlier video that you find it funny that people from other countries watch your videos. Well, greetings from Switzerland, I love your videos!!

[@JoolsVoiceOver]

Rather than saying people should tip at least 20% maybe waiting staff should do something about their employers not paying at least minimum wage. People need to stand together and refuse to work for any less.

[@WestonDion]

Can I move to the planet you live on where bottom-barrel employees have power?

[@JoolsVoiceOver]

@@WestonDion I hear what you are saying but if no one ever fought for what was right lots of things would never change. You deserve a proper living wage and employers shouldn’t be able to not pay well because people will tip. Tips should be a little extra for a job well done, not the basis of your wage.

[@WestonDion]

@@JoolsVoiceOver Correct, but if your “fight” is just not tipping servers, or tipping them poorly, you’re just hurting the working people you allegedly want to help and restaurant owners keep making the same money and don’t feel it or give a shit. If I serve a table with a $200 check and get a $0 tip, I just paid $10 to serve you so you could… make a point? Meanwhile I’m trying to eat and pay rent.

[@JoolsVoiceOver]

@@WestonDion you have picked me up wrong, I am not saying people shouldn’t tip I am saying employers should pay decent wages. I am in the UK so it doesn’t work the same, we tip to say ty for good service but the staff also get a wage so if they don’t get tips they can still live.

[@anniebale4343]

I'm not gonna magically stop tipping well, but I do find it absolutely disgusting that tip culture essentially feeds into the whole idea that we are the ones paying the servers and not the employers, so wages get ridiculously lower and lower until our tips are the only thing that can keep the waiter/waitress afloat. It's a vicious, unfair cycle.

[@Steveve4123]

Always proud to be an ASU alum and this video made me even more proud of them taking direct steps to protect students. Every college should teach students about avoiding scams like that when they first become students or are getting ready to graduate and go into the job market.

[@danielleia]

There's one big thing you missed on your critique of the Amare girl and her recruitment course. The idea of double-dipping by selling her downline the training is far from being the big ticket outcome of her strategy. If she focusses on showcasing her recruitment success and selling her recruitment course, her primary target market will be people who have big goals, big belief and little success in other MLMs. MLMers are chronic for opportunity jumping, so if she paints herself as the answer they are looking for and the key to making all of their goals and dreams come true, there will be a large number of them who will take the course and then join her team. The recruitment course IS the recruitment tool.

[@ElohaiGordon-b5t]

I’ve realized that the word “entrepreneur” has become a very strong indicator of mlm involvement. Something about it seems to really captivate certain individuals and almost entrance them. Every time in the last two years I have heard it used, it has been by an mlm representative trying to either recruit me to their down line or hype up themselves.

[@fairy6818]

30:00 Tipping is not the nice thing to do, paying the employee a living wage is. And I never dine in, so I don't contribute to this viscous cycle while maintaining my stance.

[@divadawn509]

Preach

[@msSweeTae]

I'm from Germany and while it's normal to tip here as well the rules in the US shock me. And tbh, your tipping culture most likely enables this whole thing. But of course you can't just stop tipping, because it would make those who are dependent on it suffer before any change would happen. It's a vicious circle.

[@caitlinsaylor6222]

Thank you for talking about tipping! When I saw the 8% I was shocked, and felt bad for the server. I bet if the server was a woman she tried to pitch her "the opportunity" 🙄

[@floraflowers]

As a European, it never ceases to shock me when I hear about the tipping culture in the USA. I mean, I think you probably hear it a lot from people who don't live in America and I am sure it gets tiring, for that I am sorry, but it also still baffles me every time I hear about it. I hope that some things will change in the future because it's just wild that employees can pay someone $1.50/hour and get away with it.

[@LovedLisa]

Living in Europe myself i still make a point of tipping really well because I have experienced first hand how tough working as a waitress is and how minimum wage is truly not enough compensation for that

[@MrsMuffin11]

the servers name was Kevin but hey you never know in 2023 lmao

[@fantasticmio]

One week on any treatment system, including scientifically proven treatments, is not nearly long enough to eliminate the possibility of the placebo effect.

[@hayunnie]

I am lucky to have only ever lived in countries where people have to be paid for their work, so it's not expected of customers to tip. Sometimes you can leave a small tip as a show of gratitude for good service (depending on the country, they might or might not appreciate it) but the server doesn't rely on anyone's goodwill to survive.

[@nikkilovesbooks27]

I don't usually tip 15%-20% because in Canada, all servers make minimum wage. In cases where they make 2 DOLLARS AN HOUR, I'll tip higher. I have no idea how paying someone so little is legal. It's so messed up.

[@innakaptela7552]

Tipping culture is crazy 😮

[@ivycline9242]

I don't believe in the whole tip bullshit. I worked at a hair salon back in 2008 making 6.25 an hour and most did not tip, nor did I expect it. Being said I still tip but most places already include it in the tab there for I'm not going to add more to it if it's already included in my bill.

[@tompanata]

wouldn't it make sense to not tip in order to force owners to pay their employees minimum wage?

[@workingoutthekinkswithtash5001]

Owners don’t care. That’s why people are leaving the service industry.

[@rebelbelle1388]

Thank you for explaining tip credits. I worked at a steakhouse in NJ from 2002 to 2006 and was paid $2.15 an hour. My paychecks were typically $0 due to taxes and social security, etc. I don’t agree with it, but I obviously didn’t have a say in the matter. There were plenty of times that I got tipped poorly because the restaurant was out of something or the cook overcooked the steak, the salad bar was out of something, whatever- nothing to do with me. Please, please tip your servers well, or don’t go out to eat. They depend on you to pay their bills.

[@FireVixen164]

I don't understand this. Why would anyone work somewhere where you don't get paid?? This is why tipping is actually really bad! It encourages you to take all the risk of the restaurant onto yourself, and work for free for the restaurant hoping to get enough tips for it to be worth it. The restaurant OWNER should be taking on the risk, and should be paying you at least minimum wage regardless of how generous or rich the customers are, or how busy the restaurant happens to be. This restaurant took advantage of you, just like an MLM. And the tipping customers aided it, just like people buying MLM products. That restaurant should not be able to find willing employees when they refuse to pay a stable minimum wage. Why wouldn't you work a more stable job which isn't a scam instead? Probably because sometimes the tips were good. In other words, tips tricked you into letting yourself be taken advantage of.

[@TheRonnieaj]

@@FireVixen164 And yet, when people quit the restaurant industry in droves over the past few years, customers were mad about that because everything took longer. SHOULD restaurant owners take the risk? Of course. But they don’t, and they don’t have to, so if you’re going to frequent them, understand that and do your part. Or don’t complain when things take forever because servers took your advice and quit. And also, like with many things in the country, you can thank racism for the low minimum wage for servers. 🙃🙃

[@kadeelacayo4806]

@@FireVixen164 ya because everyone has the option to not work there…. What about the mom who can only get to work as a server bc no othrt job works with her kids schedule ? Or the man without a car and is in walking distance ? So many other options

[@erxxy]

This sucks so much. From what I know from my history in the food branche in the Netherlands, we do not have that, but I still try to tip. Our normal tips are around 10%. How horrible that you are not paid for the hard work that is waiter. I've only worked in lunchrooms, so our rush hours were early morning or around 1 pm. But yeah, you're walking, standing up, killing your back. So weird you are not compensated for it. I hope most customers are at least nice.

[@Rinirinirinirin]

@@FireVixen164 other commentators attacked you, but I can see your point. The fact that people have just accepted these t&c so tacitly IS the problem. If more people boycotted restaurants that don't pay their employees, and if less people wanted to work for them, then that would naturally force the policy and businesses to change! Honestly, as a European it's shocking to hear about these horrible work conditions in the US, as well as the tipping culture.

[@babiifrshj07]

“Lord, when you bless me, please don’t forget to bless my family and friends. You know, the ones who agreed with me all of the time and never shared their honest feelings or critical thinking skills with me.” So ridiculous.

[@essiejones8520]

Excited for this! Thanks for making another work day that much better!

[@amra2918]

I seriously am considering never tipping ever again 🤦🏼‍♀️ wtf?! I can afford my meal but stop expecting me to tip you for doing your job - I seriously don’t care. Everyone chooses their job. So be okay with either a tip or not. Relying? 🤦🏼‍♀️ 31:46 You’re losing me here! I only rely on me doing my job, so they should then find another job where they don’t need to rely on tips either. Ridiculous

[@stephanieefany]

Australian here - it is absolutely possible for restaurants to pay a decent wage and make a profit. If you want a true horror story, look up where tipping culture in the US comes from. Giant big racist yikes.

[@angie.castle]

I refuse to cave on tip culture. I hate that it's expected I give 20% each time. I'll do it for waiters and waitresses who are kind and know their job, or make attempts when it's really busy. But I refuse to give that much to someone who treated us like we were a bane to her existence--it doesn't happen often, but I hate the social pressure to tip that much even in this scenario. Why should I reward that? And don't get me started on how so many stores now ask for tips when all they did was put your order in.