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		wccrawford on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010) I think there's a difference between not-tipping and telling the employee you're not going to tip them, especially by some stupid "10 pennies make a dime!" saying, as if the employee wasn't smart enough to know that or save money.

jstanley on March 20, 2018 [2 more]

My reading was that that only came up after the employee explicitly asked for a tip.

Otherwise how has he refused to tip "even a single penny"? He's merely failed to do so.

psychometry on March 20, 2018 | [–]

It's a figure of speech. Don't be so obtuse.

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