Reply #22: i can easily imagine, here's a story from the 1930s

[pitohui]

during the great depression my uncle wanted to work as a busboy or a waiter (no longer remember which and he has since passed on) to a very fine restaurant in a snooty southern town known for its fine restaurants (not new orleans where my family's history doesn't go back so far)

not only did he have to work for ZERO pay from the restaurant, everything from tips, but if he wanted to get/keep the job he had to pay a bribe to a manager there

i'm glad starbucks was called on it, bribing managers to get/keep jobs an ugly practice that doesn't need to return to america