Waiters/Waitresses

I actually had someone tell me not all that long ago, that since restaurant owners and the tax structure figured tips to be a portion of a waiter's wage, that if you receive poor service, you should still give a normal tip and complain to the manager. Isn't that sort of defeating the point of a tip? I mean, if a waiter gives me adequate service, they'll receive an adequate tip. If they give me superior service, they'll receive a superior tip. And if I, or someone in my party, creates a larger than usual hassle for them, I'll tip to reimburse that. So, conversely, if I get lousy service, they'll get a lousy tip. Why is that so difficult to understand?

Okay, okay. I realize that there are people out there who don't tip well for whatever reason they may have. But it's not *my* job to make up for them. As a matter of fact, my husband regularly accuses me of being too generous when I tip. But the point, I always thought, of a tip, was to reward the peson waiting on you (in whatever capacity) for service. Perhaps if they cannot make "enough" money in that sort of field, they should consider what they are and are not doing on the job and perhaps accept that they should be working in some other field.

Am I wrong about this?