The Patrick Madrid Show: November 20 2024 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick covers the importance of tipping and its role in generosity and almsgiving. He discusses how tipping can have a real impact on the lives of service workers and also talked about the effects of minimum wage laws. Personal stories about working in the restaurant industry and today's work challenges are shared.
- Mike - I worked as a bartender and waiter and got a lot of value out of it. (02:41)
- Michelle - Cost of living has doubled in IN and now I don't make enough money to pay my bills. I feel bad for young families. (07:15)
- Alan - TIP was originally an acronym, 'To Insure Promptness'. If you gave tips in advance, you would get quick service. (10:06)
- Richard - When I worked in the late 50s, I got $1.25 an hour, and then $1.47 in manufacturing. (15:03)
- Barb - I made more money babysitting than I did at the pharmacy. (16:27)
- Matt - I think pushing up minimum wage will drive small farms out of business. (23:33)
- Carl - It made me feel good leaving a tip and a nice note saying, 'have a blessed day' (29:18)
- Cliff - I think that people who are working at minimum wage are working many different jobs at once. (32:44)
- Terry - A waitress took a bad tip (for poor service) and threw it across the room. Friends have told me I need to give good tips, but if they're not doing well, they don't deserve it. (40:41)
- Sandra - When you leave a tip at a hotel room, you don't know if it's the same maid. I leave tip after each day on the bed. I give gift cards to the poor instead. (42:28)
- Diego - I work in a fast-food restaurant and that's definitely heightened my appreciation for other workers, and I tip 20% (44:33)
- Fran - Almsgiving; I ended up giving $10 to a single mom as a favor who was a hotel clerk. Two days later I won a school $100 raffle. (46:40)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.2 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio. |
| 0:20.0 | Okay, we are talking about, among other things, relevant radio. Okay. |
| 0:28.3 | We are talking about, among other things, whether you are generous when it comes to helping the working guy or the working girl, not that kind of working girl, but people who are |
| 0:33.1 | working for a living, honestly, morally speaking, et cetera, but you are, where do you fit in the |
| 0:39.2 | spectrum in terms of tipping? And I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if you ask |
| 0:43.9 | anybody here, she will say, oh yeah, I'm a generous tipper. Oh, yeah, of course I am. But maybe |
| 0:48.5 | more for anything else, just ask yourself, are you actually generous? And my proposal is that when you are giving a |
| 0:58.0 | tip to a server, a waiter, et cetera, in a restaurant, or you're leaving a hotel room and you leave |
| 1:03.6 | a tip for the cleanup crew, the cleaning maid who's going to come in after you're gone, et cetera, |
| 1:09.7 | that these are good ways to do |
| 1:11.0 | what Jesus talked about, about helping the poor. These people may not be poor, poor, poor, |
| 1:16.3 | but probably, I mean, if you're working as a waitress or you're working as a busboy or you're |
| 1:22.4 | working as a maid in a hotel, a motel situation,ances are you're probably not too many rungs up above |
| 1:31.2 | poor poor. So that's my thesis, and I'm curious what your thoughts are on this. Jesus had a lot |
| 1:38.1 | about giving to those who need help. And alms giving, you know, let's face it, if you put some |
| 1:43.2 | money down, that's money out of your you, if you put some money down, |
| 1:49.3 | that's money out of your pocket, but that can make a huge difference for somebody who's in a situation like that. And this is all against the backdrop. What really sort of prompted this |
| 1:53.3 | discussion is the, the news story about Sacramento and California, they wanted a minimum wage increase to $18 per hour. |
| 2:03.2 | And it failed in the voting booth. |
| 2:05.6 | But the thing is, those things often backfire on the very employees that they're intended to help |
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