Any servers out there? Let's vent about our job!

Okay I am a server and I was wondering if anyone else has anything to say about their serving job. You don't have to be a server, just and of the FOH staffs. Let's just talk about what we like and what we don't like about our jobs.

Well I have been a server for 3 years now. To be specific, my work history consists of working at 3 different Japanese restaurants. Out of those three, my current job at a fine dining sushi bar would be considered my favorite. However, I still hate so many aspects of my job. There are so many things that I would LOVE to change about my job. For example, I hate tipping out the kitchen and the bar. At my restaurant, servers tip out 3% of our sales to the kitchen and 2% of our bar sales to the bar. Plus on the weekends, I have to tip the Server Assistant 2% of my sales. So on the weekends I usually lose about 7% of my total sales from my tip that I earn that night. It wouldn't be so bad if everyone knew how to tip well. But because of the location of my restaurant, I get a lot of wrong crowds that doesn't belong in a fine dining restaurants. The average tip percentage I make every night is about 18% of my sales. Then, I get to tip out 7% of that! So let's say that I sold about $1300 to 10 tables one night which is about 8 hour shift, then I would be making only $140. In my opinion, servers should be making close to, if not more than, 20% of our sales. I try so hard to up-sell everything like how I'm supposed to and I don't even get rewarded for it. I hate, I repeat, I hate the fact that I have to tip so much out to others when I don't even get great tip from the customers.

Now that was one of my venting session about my job. I will come back for more, but for now I will give everyone else to let all the frustrations out.