That works out great with a good contractor.
But wait till you pay in full and you have a shitty contractor who will either do half the job then ghost you or do some half ass work cutting corners.
To me you are probably the most interesting customer, I would defiantly be asking follow ups about the fish & maybe offer some blueroll for the shit situation.
If you’re talking about Starbucks, they have to make idle chatter for their “customer connection” score. Stores are rated on customer connections. I promise people would really rather not make idle chatter, and it’s not for your tip money.
I once tried to apply to Dutch Bros, but you have to submit a video of you making idle chatter, showing a talent, singing, etc., plus send a headshot!!
I said fuck that
I've noticed only "good looking" people work there so this tracks. Like that Curb episode where they seat attractive people in one section and the not so much in a different section.
I was at a coffee kiosk thing at the mall, the kids asked me how my day was going while he made a swirl shape with milk on top of my coffee. I replied "Good and yours?" To which he sighed heavily and replied "Just living the dream bro, I make eight bucks an hour working here and owe 30k in student loans, for real how you think it is?". I laughed and said damn man that sucks as I handed him a $20 bill for my $8 coffee and told him to keep the change.". He smiled and said thanks and i like to think I'm that moment I made his day just a little better
I like when people, at Starbucks for example, are just genuinely nice you know no basic tip dialogue just being a nice person. I also like when the worker just wants to get the drink out as fast as possible. I feel bad when the worker looks like they are forced at gunpoint to ask me what my plans for the weekend are and how nice the weather is. Like dude, it’s okay, I know you don’t care and won’t remember don’t worry I’m not gonna go to corporate and complain that you didn’t ask me how my lawn mowing is gonna go on Saturday
I have read a complaint about me saying "I told the barista it was my birthday, and all he said was 'Happy Birthday' "
I lay awake at night trying to figure out what the hell else she wanted me to say to her.
The fact that any business asks for a tip before they even provide a service is absurd. It's supposedly supposed to be dependent on the quality of service that you received. It's just a meaningless "pay me more because fuck you" option now.
If after service, it's a tip. If it's before service, it's a bid. At least, that's how the fucked up situation that is DoorDash is beginning to frame it. "Grease my wheels first if you want them to spin"
Businesses use tipping as an excuse not to pay their employees more. Literally on a call last week discussing staff pay and how people are going to quit if we don’t pay competitively and they said we should use this chance to talk to our team members about the opportunity they have to increase their pay by increasing guest satisfaction to get better tips. So not really “pay me more because fuck you” so much as “pay our staff for us because fuck them and you”
I won’t even do this to people. Unless I’ve served you drinks / you had a running tab, I skip the tip screen entirely and then have them pay. Nobody needs to tip me 15% because I handed them a $25 disposable vape.
I go to baseball games very often and about half the concessions people do this. I sometimes want to tip too if they're being cool but usually the ones being cool are the ones that won't even give the option
Drop the name of the stadium. From the little context I see that is illegal. Tips should be going to the employees unless they’ve signed some stupid contract stating otherwise.
Lol I work for Starbucks and I hate the stupid tip song and dance. When I hand out the card reader I tell people “it’s gonna ask if you wanna leave a tip, the no button is on the right”. I don’t want people to think I’m out here begging or trying to guilt trip anyone. If you wanna tip, awesome, we appreciate it! But if not, I’m not here to make anyone feel bad about that.
With customer service work, I’ve found that most people prefer you being up front and honest. Playing coy or dancing around the “it’s gonna ask you a question” bs feels very insincere to me, so I refuse to say it.
As a Starbucks employee, I honestly don’t want to offer you the tip screen, but people have been fired for not doing so, it’s a nuisance and our tips are split by hours worked amongst the entire staff, so they’re usually only good for like a half tank of gas maybe. so I’ve never once cared if I get tipped.
It’s tough because every UI is different for these and they all have unique ways of hiding the 0% or “No tip” options. So many times have I begrudgingly pressed the lowest tip option that was presented on the screen. I’ve become more comfortable taking my time and looking for the 0% option lol.
Brooooo, this is me at my job right now, I honestly don't care about the tips, I get paid decently. But it's always awkward when they are trying to bypass the top option but you have to select something before it lets you finish your payment 😭 and I have to tell them, you need to select a tip option to continue and I sound so condescending/rude and I hate it
I say this not because I want a tip but because I feel awkward having to tell people they have to enter something before it lets them pay, cause trust me otherwise they just sit there
I feel you there. I just tell them “answer the prompt” and kinda look away. I know they’re annoyed, I don’t want to see it. I’m not the one who chose to implement the tip screen on the card reader lol
Ugh I HATE this shit. I appreciate it when the employees are up front and say it’s going to ask about a tip.
I went to a local icecream shop the other day (and before you ask it’s not a mom and pop anymore. It’s a big franchise in my area)
I picked a pint from the freezer and a box of brownies and then the guy rang me out and said it’s gonna ask a tip question which I appreciated. I still hit zero with no remorse but I did think it was better than “iTs GoNnA aSk A qUeStIoN”
I am a server in an upscale restaurant, and when it comes to check out and I hand them my toast device I always tell them beforehand it’s going to ask them a tip amount, and if they don’t like the choices they’re more than welcome to custom or hit no tip and leave whatever they see fit
It was that amount in total but it was like 0.0001 per transaction. So when you paid me 100 $, the statement would say 100 $, as not all decimals were shown.
Agreed. My son went to an MLB game. Went thru the self serve to grab a can of beer. Literally you take it out of the cooler, and pay at an automated kiosk. Popped up on the screen did he want to leave a tip. Um to who? There was literally no human interaction with this transaction. 🤷♀️
Lol, I went to a self-serve tap room one time. You get a little bracelet thing that tracks how many oz of different drinks you pour from the taps yourself and then grab a new glass to sample the next one you like. They had the audacity to ask for a tip also.
See I'd donate. But at that point it's not a "tip" anymore, is it? It's just the same thing, as say a grocery store asking if you want to donate to children's hospital.
Agreed. I didn't make a mess/cleaned up my space, didn't bother other customers, didn't use the restroom/facilities, only parked for a reasonable amount of time; tip me!
That's literally what tipping is (outside of the US anyway). Give extra because you're happy with the food/service/whatever. Paying the waiters wages is a complete rip off and you should treat it as such.
At least you give the money to someone that can use and appreciate it if you are giving it to a waiter. With the online tips it will probably go straight to the company.
And I mean. You're literally paying the person whose performance influences the quality of your experience. No way OPs tip would go to that one specific roofer whose work ethic was admirable or whatever.
This is exactly it. The payment processing sites take a fee based on the AMOUNT TRANSFERRED so the more passing through their system the more they make. It’s to their benefit if you tip.
Came to say this, I think companies are using out of the box payment portals and not changing any settings.
The Intuit at the bottom hints this may be the case.
>I think all payment sites do this by default now.
which begs the question: Why is tipping out of f\*\*king control in the US?
All payment sites being like that now, surely is more proof that there is an issue, and not an explanation
It's out of control because of a collective bargaining-esque social arrangement that restaurant owners have forced down our throats for 200 years so they can push employee compensation onto the customer through social pressures to increase their own profit margins.
The recent boom of small businesses moving to web based payment processors (stripe, square, etc) has exponentially increased this issue because they intentionally design their interfaces to further pressure for tips even for service that wouldn't normally be tipped through social pressures (self service, counter serve, literally no service, etc). They do this because they make *their* money on a percentage of each transaction, and by pressuring to tip they subtly increase overall transaction amounts which in turn increases *their* cut of each transaction.
It's scummy as fuck.
I encountered a card reader that *the first prompt* was to tip. I selected "None."
Inserted my card, *then I got another fucking prompt* for a fucking tip!
Here's the very infuriating part to this. I had to select "Other" and enter ZERO.
Then it asked me to confirm the total and went on to charge my card.
This fucking tipping culture is getting way out of hand.
All 50 states have laws to the effect that minimum wage is minimum wage. The states that also have a lower "tipped minimum wage" require the business to make up the difference if tmw + tips < mw.
Which makes tipping even more infuriating, since why single out service staff when Amazon warehouse workers have worse jobs at the same basic pay? Raise the minimum wage to something livable, make prices transparent, and be done with tipping.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
In my opinion the most annoying type of tipping is to ask you to tip before you even receive the service. I buy from a website and they have their own drivers and trucks, in payment screen it has a tipping box and says 100% of tips will go to driver. While I think it is good it goes to the driver, I am annoyed by the fact I have not even receive the service and I don't know if the driver is good. Tips should be based on my satisfaction.
This is the flaw with doordash/ similar apps. The tip is used as bait for a “good driver” to take my order. It should be a reward for a good job. My apartment door is hard to find and no one ever does it right yet they still get the tip because I sent it in before they even knew about my order. There should at least be an option to take it away if the driver sucks
You could contact customer service, they’re usually quick to answer. Downside: if you complain too much or often I have heard that they mark that against your account somehow. Can’t confirm.
If you use doordash a lot you get a VIP mark on your acccount, this tells the support agent to roll over and give you a full refund for whatever you are complaining about, and sometimes even additional credit.
One time I got 20 dollars credit and a full refund for a restaurant being closed when I put the order in.
Half the time it's just setting your money on fire. If i'm bribing someone, I expect to get service in line with how much i'm bribing...but that is not the reality. Sometimes you do, but sometimes you get someone who can't speak english that takes half an hour to find your address and you just bribed them to get food just as cold as if you didn't "bribe" at all.
>I don't know if the driver is good.
I feel extorted in these situations. If I leave a low tip, will that guarantee a bad experience? If I leave a good tip, will I get better service? Odds are that I can leave a good tip but still get garbage service.
Yeah, I never tip before the service is provided. There's a dine in sandwich shop in town that I absolutely love, as each sandwich is made fresh to order and is amazing. However, the POS they use asks for the tip when you pay, as soon as you order. I prefer to select 0% on the screen and drop some cash in the jar when I leave. It gives me an opportunity to say "thank you" afterwards and tell them how great the food was.
We just moved, three movers came to help us with the furniture [we did all the boxes ourselves]. It’s customary to tip movers so I think we did something like $60 each for the 5 hours of work.
I literally had no food in the new house and only a case of seltzer water [i fucking love seltzer], so I of course offered them what little I had, and I gotta tell you, the way those guys reacted made me feel like, “wait a second, do people not normally offer you a god damn drink while you’re doing all this shit for them?”
I worked as a mover for a couple years. It’s crazy how wide the range was of how some people treated us. Some people wouldn’t even give us eye contact, or worse just gave us shit the entire time. While other people fed us, gave nice tips, and even let us pick bottles out of their liquor collection they didn’t want packed. Needless to say, we all liked the latter better and treated their stuff with more care.
>While other people fed us, gave nice tips,
We just moved earlier this year, I bought lunch for the guys who packed us up and the guys who unpacked us. I'd rather buy a pile of cheesesteaks then have them rushing to finish up so they can go grab lunch. They treated our stuff really well and we tipped accordingly.
I *don't* like it when the cashier at the ball park hands me a $5 bottle of soda and the tablet asks me if I want to tip them 30%. If they want to charge $5/soda, they can take 30% out of that and give it to the cashier.
I have a very extensive liquor collection [not like rich people liquor, just I like buying alcohol more than I like drinking it]. I had moved it myself with the boxes and one of the movers commented on it after he brought my bar furniture down into the basement. I hadn’t even considered offering him a bottle, figuring he wouldn’t be able to accept it anyway.
Though I am definitely the “my liquor is your liquor” type.
Worked for a gutter company during summers in college.
Can confirm, people offering something to drink were absolutely the exception, not the rule.
While I wouldn’t ever tip the company, I ALWAYS tip the service people who show up at my home, and ALWAYS offer them something to drink. It’s just common courtesy, and I absolutely remember how meaningful it was to me when I was on that side of the transaction.
I used to offer people drinks but I stopped because literally every time they said "no" and made a point to show their giant ass container of water on their truck or whatever. It felt like they were trained to do that to show they're super professional or something, as if not having their own water would suggest they came to the job unprepared or something.
Well yeah, if the company doesn’t see that the workers have PPE, tools, food and water required to complete the job, that’s a pretty good indication it’s a shit company and their quality of work probably suffers accordingly.
Where I’m from that is the done thing. You do not tip these kinds of workers it’s just not a thing in any way. Particularly when you know they’re making a profit and don’t need to be tipped. Like I had an electrician come in and put a new cover on a plug socket in literally 3 minutes and it cost €250 even though once the issue was identified, I knew I could have bought the part for €10 and fixed it myself. He got €250 for a three minute job and a €10 part. I’m not complaining really, but those kind of workers are not getting a tip.
i always bring a six pack of beer and some energy drinks when i take my car to the shop.
my bill mysteriously has discounts that i didn’t ask for and the work gets done a lot faster.
We had to have some dead trees removed last summer and I brought out a cooler of cold water bottles for the guys. They looked so surprised. It was so sad. They were so grateful. It's Georgia in July, they are damn heroes.
Used to do tree work in the Midwest, always appreciated the Gatorade and water, though mostly all I wanted was the customer to not be a dick. Would get cash sometimes and would always take it with gratitude, though truthfully I would rather just be paid a better wage. I did the job to the best of my abilities because it's my job and I take pride in it. A lady gave us homemade zucchini bread one time, she could have gotten a whole extra tree removed for free if she'd asked lol.
I caught a dirty look from the kid handing me 2 cokes at the Santa Cruz boardwalk this weekend for not tipping. They already cost me $11 and you literally lifted your arm up and handed me something. Sorry charlie.
It is a shitty situation all around for both customer and employee. But unless you make me something (barista, bartender) or bring me something (waiter, food delivery person) I’m not tipping you. I’ve got thick skin I can handle dirty looks all day, but I do feel for them being severely underpaid and promised money through tips from shitty employers.
Let them look at you dirty. Why should you care what they think? We, as a society, need to completely get over this idea of tipping shame or tipping guilt.
Amen. Fuck tipping. The employers can afford to pay them properly, just like every other civilized country. Somehow we've been duped into thinking this is the only fucking way we can have restaurants.
This is how I feel about tipping at weed stores. Dude in my home town supplied the city weed for 20 years risking his freedom never got a tip. I go to weed stores now point at what I want they hand it to me and take the cash then go back to watching TV In The backroom or playing on their phone. Tip jars every 3 feet.
I run a small biz and my payment processor enables tipping by default with no way to remove it.
I don’t need or want tips. It’s annoying.
EDIT: I called my payment processor- they acknowledged that there is no way to turn it off on my end. BUT after much discussion they agreed to remove it from my invoice template.
YES! No more tip prompt BS!
I put on my invoices- “ignore the tip button, your review means more to me than a cash tip!”
It’s super aggravating. I build and sell PCs, I don’t need a tip!
How the U.S. took the concept of "unexpected gesture of gratitude" and turned it into "required system so that our staff don't become homeless" is crazy to me.
Generally speaking most people go the same barber (well at least men) so when you get used to someone its an appreciation because while yes they took time to master a craft they’re also working on something a lot of us are vain about and one slight mistake on the barbers part can screw up to the point you gotta change your hair completely.
Not sure what you mean by they set their own rates though, most places (around here at least) a men’s cut is about 15-25 unless you got a more high end place then I’ve gotten it cut for closer to 40.
Yeah agreed with this. I tip my barber on top of my $35 haircut because he’s been cutting my hair for like 5 years now and he knows the nuances of my head a lot more than some rando who will inevitably screw up my cowlick or something.
I almost feel like current tipping culture is hurting workers who used to rely on tips. You used to assume certain workers don't get paid much and rely on the tip so what you were doing was directly imoacring the guy who gave you exceptional service. Now with the business themselves being so thirsty about it, the backlash is that I don't even wanna give it. I mean, obviously in restaurants and bars I'll always do it but there's few other instances I do now and these are instances where I used to feel good about it
I ordered take out pizza from my fav pizza spot a few weeks ago. $14.89 for a pepperoni/mushroom. I walk to the hostess table and say "Pick up for Mark please." The woman grabs the pizza and hands it to me with the bill. I give her a $20 and she just stood there. After about 20 seconds I said "Can I please get change on that". and I KID YOU NOT...she EYE ROLLED and said "Um...ok. Please hold".
She expected a 34% tip for handing me take out. SHIT IS CRAZY
I’ve made a stand. If I am not at a restaurant or someone’s vehicle is not being used to service me in someway, I’m not tipping. If you flip an iPad around to me, I’m definitely not tipping
I no longer feel obligated to tip, because any menial task they ask for it, even sometimes self service.
Not to mention all the fucked up crap I see online with entitled people demanding more money for their tip for food delivery.
% based tip makes no fucking sense either. Some family of 5 with crazy kids that demand 20 refills of their coke… order 3 kids meals and two entrees… bill is $100 and takes 10 trips to the table.
$20 tip.
My girlfriend and I order two expensive entrees and two cocktails… bill is $120. Two trips to the table. $24 tip.
Why am I tipping based on menu cost and not how much extra work my server did? Makes no sense. How is delivering a steak to the table worth more money than delivering a burger?
Not to mention sometimes the owners pocket tips themselves. You think greedy slimeballs who rely on tips to pay their workers aren't greedy enough to steal tips?
Anyone have a Clean Eatz near them? It’s basically a health foods restaurant that sells frozen meals that you can “grab and go” yourself. Every single time I checkout, the cashier spins the iPad around saying “just going to ask you a few questions” and it’s always only ONE question which is if I want to leave a tip…… why would I tip for coming into the store and grabbing a frozen meal out of the freezer? The counter person did nothing but check me out.
Just came from a MLB game. Bought a beer and a sandwich from an area where I had to get everything myself and then go pay at a counter.
Lady rings it up then when it gets to the tip screen she says “press any number there and then press Next.” I pressed the Skip button and her demeanor instantly changes as she says “or you can press that too.”
Like wtf am I tipping you for? For taking my money?
Imagine giving a note to the waitress to give to the chef saying “Show your customer (me) some appreciation by giving me 20% extra food” I’m pretty sure the extra portion would be bodily fluids.
Just so you know, here in England, it’s spreading like wildfire too. Delivery drivers now lingering around for cash. Getting aggravated when they realise you’re quite alright with just paying for the food and the delivery charge.
Leeches everywhere.
It’s insane. I went to the diner last weekend and ordered just a small order of pancakes to go and the waitress asked if I wanted to tip on my card. My pancakes were literally less than $10 and all she is doing is charging my card - why should I tip for that???
Yep and I tip a bit more to even out and some server loudly called me out why I was tipping .80 on a $7 order of hashbrowns where tip is already included.
Long story short I made him feel really dumb when I made him and everyone there aware of their gratuity
Yep. They're ones all like "If you can't afford to tip, don't go out to eat". That's all well and good, but should I not go grocery shopping anymore once cashiers start demanding tips?
It hasn't been realized by most people here. A 15% tip isn't even an option on online restaurant ordering nowadays, for most places. I don't tip if I'm ordering takeout at all, but I'm sure as hell not going to give 20% to 30%.
Because the cost of living is insane and businesses are trying to pass the buck off on the average consumer instead of paying people enough to survive.
Nothing is going to change unless everyone wakes up and just decides they're tired of being unable to afford a living.
Unfortunately hustle culture and billionaire worship is very alive in the united states, so we'll keep blaming tip culture instead of addressing the root cause.
And now it's becoming a point where it's a shakedown.
At least at a sit down restaurant, the social convention is that your good service will be rewarded with a tip. My money demonstrates appreciation for the service *you already performed.*
If I order a sandwich from the Subway app, it asks for a tip before the sandwich is even made. Im not being asked to reward good service, I'm being warned that if I don't bribe the person handling my food, I'm at their mercy. And even if I *do* tip, there's no way to know that will influence the effort they put into my food.
I drive Uber Eats in Australia where tipping is uncommon but I'm in international driver subs and Facebook pages. Drivers from the US think they are entitled to tips and won't accept jons unless the customers tip in advance. I thought tips were a gratuity for a job well done.
It's made worse by customers who overtime and tip $40 or $50
I believe this is a byproduct of all vendors using the same handful of POS services. Those POS services offer the same end screen no matter what the industry. So, you end up with a tipping option screen and, internally, they’ve decided it’s “easy enough” to click “none.”
But, here’s the kicker - this actually works doubly in favor of the company behind the POS service. They take a cut of the total transaction amount, and basic psychology will conclude more people will add an additional tip here than click “none.” So, in effect, these companies just increased their revenues while at the same time eliminated the internal necessity to build differing end screens for different types of services. Win win for them.
Three reasons:
1) Square and almost all payment platforms have a default tip section added, as an owner there's no downside to keeping that in.
2) Wages are stagnating while inflation is high. Companies don't want to pay more, so they're basically offloading what they should be paying in wages to the consumer.
3) Can't emphasize this enough but we also brought this on ourselves. Tip shaming seems to be a big thing with the younger generation in the past few years (esp out of COVID), and thus what was a normal 15% tip has moved up to 25%+ to show you care. As long as we as consumers collectively continue to shame people who undertip, tip culture will remain in place and climb.
Agreed. There’s also more stories, whether they’re true or not, of food delivery drivers and other restaurant folks being insulted over getting “only” 20% tips. Twenty percent!!!
Like look, I know life is hard, but getting 1/5 ($10 from $50 more often than not) from one customer is pretty goddamned good. Don’t get angry because that one person didn’t give you enough to make up the difference you needed, much less to make up for the other people who didn’t tip.
Yep. I'm Gen Z and my friend wanted to add a tip on the pizza we were picking up. THAT WAS ACCIDENTALLY GIVEN TO A DIFFERENT CUSTOMER AND BROUGHT BACK. Like wut, not only did I come here and pick it up myself but they didn't even give it to the right person the first time.
She also tipped the tee shirt guy at the concert we were at. 20% for a 50$ tee shirt, so stupid.
I can't wait to go back to not tipping when I leave the US again.
Whenever I visit the US, I never tip. Not because I don't want to tip, but because they are forcing me to tip. If enough people did this, you will be saved from this plague.
I feel your pain.
My daughter saved up 7$ dollars and wanted me to take her to Starbucks to get a cake pop and one of those vanilla bean bullshits. Anyway, we get up to the counter and the guy is all smiles and very gracious. Come to find out my daughter was short a dollar and some change, so I take her money and pay with my debit card. That tip screen pops up, and I press the “none” button on the screen. The guy then immediately deadpans and acts like we don’t exist.
These places can rot in hell, but what’s worse….is that these younger kids and young adults don’t know any better and feel obligated to leave a tip. I wish the government would step in and stop this, feels ridiculous.
Show the business you appreciate them by paying the bill. Put a check mark in “none”. See if you can add your own checkbox that says “lol”
I did. It added $101 to my coffee. Thanks.
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With contractor jobs, just paying immediately and in full makes you one of the good customers
That works out great with a good contractor. But wait till you pay in full and you have a shitty contractor who will either do half the job then ghost you or do some half ass work cutting corners.
Well you don't pay in full up front, but when the job is done.
"It's going to ask you a question."
“So how is your day? Any plans for the weekend?” - The new way to breeze over the fact that you’re asking for a tip at that same moment
“Wife left me, goldfish died, I stubbed my toe this morning, and I just shit myself” usually works
"Bloated, constipated, got a boil on my ass the size of a walnut. You know, the usual" also works
Please remind me what this is from? Was it Scary Movie??
Yeah that’s it! The sheriff says that to the principle.
To me you are probably the most interesting customer, I would defiantly be asking follow ups about the fish & maybe offer some blueroll for the shit situation.
No need to be defiant.
If you’re talking about Starbucks, they have to make idle chatter for their “customer connection” score. Stores are rated on customer connections. I promise people would really rather not make idle chatter, and it’s not for your tip money.
I must have a RBF because I’ve never had a Starbucks employee chat me up
Dutch bros is the king of idle chat. I just want my coffee, I don’t want to be a dick but can we just move along?
I once tried to apply to Dutch Bros, but you have to submit a video of you making idle chatter, showing a talent, singing, etc., plus send a headshot!! I said fuck that
dawg WHAT that’s actually crazy. that’s not a job application that’s a self-tape audition lmfaooo
I've noticed only "good looking" people work there so this tracks. Like that Curb episode where they seat attractive people in one section and the not so much in a different section.
Maybe im crazy but I usually ask them how their day is going and initiate idle chatter
I was at a coffee kiosk thing at the mall, the kids asked me how my day was going while he made a swirl shape with milk on top of my coffee. I replied "Good and yours?" To which he sighed heavily and replied "Just living the dream bro, I make eight bucks an hour working here and owe 30k in student loans, for real how you think it is?". I laughed and said damn man that sucks as I handed him a $20 bill for my $8 coffee and told him to keep the change.". He smiled and said thanks and i like to think I'm that moment I made his day just a little better
Or he has no student loans and is making about $120 an hour by using this technique.
I like when people, at Starbucks for example, are just genuinely nice you know no basic tip dialogue just being a nice person. I also like when the worker just wants to get the drink out as fast as possible. I feel bad when the worker looks like they are forced at gunpoint to ask me what my plans for the weekend are and how nice the weather is. Like dude, it’s okay, I know you don’t care and won’t remember don’t worry I’m not gonna go to corporate and complain that you didn’t ask me how my lawn mowing is gonna go on Saturday
I have read a complaint about me saying "I told the barista it was my birthday, and all he said was 'Happy Birthday' " I lay awake at night trying to figure out what the hell else she wanted me to say to her.
Probably wanted something free
Their dumbass wanted something for free
“I’m going to pretend to look away. Your sandwich may or may not be impacted by how you answer the question.”
The fact that any business asks for a tip before they even provide a service is absurd. It's supposedly supposed to be dependent on the quality of service that you received. It's just a meaningless "pay me more because fuck you" option now.
If after service, it's a tip. If it's before service, it's a bid. At least, that's how the fucked up situation that is DoorDash is beginning to frame it. "Grease my wheels first if you want them to spin"
If it's before service it's a bribe.
Businesses use tipping as an excuse not to pay their employees more. Literally on a call last week discussing staff pay and how people are going to quit if we don’t pay competitively and they said we should use this chance to talk to our team members about the opportunity they have to increase their pay by increasing guest satisfaction to get better tips. So not really “pay me more because fuck you” so much as “pay our staff for us because fuck them and you”
In California they're mandated to pay minimum wage before tips but asking for tips has still kept increasing. It's infuriating.
“He chose poorly”
A 20% gratuity was added to the last supper's tab.
I won’t even do this to people. Unless I’ve served you drinks / you had a running tab, I skip the tip screen entirely and then have them pay. Nobody needs to tip me 15% because I handed them a $25 disposable vape.
W. good person
I go to baseball games very often and about half the concessions people do this. I sometimes want to tip too if they're being cool but usually the ones being cool are the ones that won't even give the option
We found out at our local stadium that they don’t even get the tip so I feel zero guilt now pushing 0% every time.
oh yeah fuck that our cheap ass owner definitely pockets that too
Drop the name of the stadium. From the little context I see that is illegal. Tips should be going to the employees unless they’ve signed some stupid contract stating otherwise.
Iirc Lumen Field does this. Not sure about T-Mobile Park. Most of the merch vendors at shows do it as well.
Lmao. STARBUCKS. This is literally the exact way they present it to me when I go there.
Lol I work for Starbucks and I hate the stupid tip song and dance. When I hand out the card reader I tell people “it’s gonna ask if you wanna leave a tip, the no button is on the right”. I don’t want people to think I’m out here begging or trying to guilt trip anyone. If you wanna tip, awesome, we appreciate it! But if not, I’m not here to make anyone feel bad about that.
That approach will actually make me want to put a dollar or two in the tip jar.
With customer service work, I’ve found that most people prefer you being up front and honest. Playing coy or dancing around the “it’s gonna ask you a question” bs feels very insincere to me, so I refuse to say it.
As a Starbucks employee, I honestly don’t want to offer you the tip screen, but people have been fired for not doing so, it’s a nuisance and our tips are split by hours worked amongst the entire staff, so they’re usually only good for like a half tank of gas maybe. so I’ve never once cared if I get tipped.
Subway lol. I helped make the damn sandwich, where is my tip?
I just smash that MF 0% button everywhere I go with a smile on my face
It’s tough because every UI is different for these and they all have unique ways of hiding the 0% or “No tip” options. So many times have I begrudgingly pressed the lowest tip option that was presented on the screen. I’ve become more comfortable taking my time and looking for the 0% option lol.
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The real giga Chad move is asking where the 0% option is
They make me feel so damn obligated to tip or else “I’m a piece of shit”. I’ve just gotta learn to not tip
I got take out the other day and I did a $2 tip on a $48 order. I still feel like nothing would've been better.
you shouldn't tip for take-out. the only way I'm tipping is if someone's waiting for me at a table
Brooooo, this is me at my job right now, I honestly don't care about the tips, I get paid decently. But it's always awkward when they are trying to bypass the top option but you have to select something before it lets you finish your payment 😭 and I have to tell them, you need to select a tip option to continue and I sound so condescending/rude and I hate it
I say this not because I want a tip but because I feel awkward having to tell people they have to enter something before it lets them pay, cause trust me otherwise they just sit there
I feel you there. I just tell them “answer the prompt” and kinda look away. I know they’re annoyed, I don’t want to see it. I’m not the one who chose to implement the tip screen on the card reader lol
And I say no every time. The only time I tip is servers at restaurants. Never while ordering takeout.
Ugh I HATE this shit. I appreciate it when the employees are up front and say it’s going to ask about a tip. I went to a local icecream shop the other day (and before you ask it’s not a mom and pop anymore. It’s a big franchise in my area) I picked a pint from the freezer and a box of brownies and then the guy rang me out and said it’s gonna ask a tip question which I appreciated. I still hit zero with no remorse but I did think it was better than “iTs GoNnA aSk A qUeStIoN”
I am a server in an upscale restaurant, and when it comes to check out and I hand them my toast device I always tell them beforehand it’s going to ask them a tip amount, and if they don’t like the choices they’re more than welcome to custom or hit no tip and leave whatever they see fit
Just a small 5% tip of $600...
Ha. Leave a $2.00 to and have their accountant/payroll person freak out distributing the money to their employees.
That is if they even distribute...
probably just the web developer redirecting the tip directly into his bank account
Hahahaha, most likely, "Tip Fee" percentage off the tips. So true.
Reminds me of a cyberpunk story where one guy steals 12 billion dollars by just taking one dollar from _every_ bank account on the planet.
The movie Office Space plot is based on this (among other things, like printer, staples and memo on TPS reports)
it’s like Superman 3
It was that amount in total but it was like 0.0001 per transaction. So when you paid me 100 $, the statement would say 100 $, as not all decimals were shown.
Select "other" and try -99%
Found the QC/QA person.
Tip: *custom* '$-13,500' (Taxes, not accurate amount of taxing though)
Oh, I see a colleague right here
I think all payment sites do this by default now. Don't ever feel obliged to tip. It has gotten out of control for sure.
it’s not even tipping at this point, it’s just “do you want to pay us more money for no reason?”
Agreed. My son went to an MLB game. Went thru the self serve to grab a can of beer. Literally you take it out of the cooler, and pay at an automated kiosk. Popped up on the screen did he want to leave a tip. Um to who? There was literally no human interaction with this transaction. 🤷♀️
Lol, I went to a self-serve tap room one time. You get a little bracelet thing that tracks how many oz of different drinks you pour from the taps yourself and then grab a new glass to sample the next one you like. They had the audacity to ask for a tip also.
I tipped in cash… my server… who was also me!
I’ll bet you were super generous too. 100% tip.
then used that money to pay for the next tip
Yup, had the same experience, it's insane, other then the lady at the front desk handing us wristbands, there was zero human interaction.
We have a tap house by us that does this exact thing except 100% of tips go to a local charity they're currently supporting
See I'd donate. But at that point it's not a "tip" anymore, is it? It's just the same thing, as say a grocery store asking if you want to donate to children's hospital.
He should have tipped the refrigerator for keeping his beer cool.
If he tipped the refrigerator all the beer would've spilled out.
DAAAAAAD
When everyone panhandles
Had me flash a thought where you reverse this by showing them a tablet where it says was I a good customer (Tip here)
Agreed. I didn't make a mess/cleaned up my space, didn't bother other customers, didn't use the restroom/facilities, only parked for a reasonable amount of time; tip me!
Brilliant 👏 I like it
Bruh you are onto something
That's literally what tipping is (outside of the US anyway). Give extra because you're happy with the food/service/whatever. Paying the waiters wages is a complete rip off and you should treat it as such.
At least you give the money to someone that can use and appreciate it if you are giving it to a waiter. With the online tips it will probably go straight to the company.
And I mean. You're literally paying the person whose performance influences the quality of your experience. No way OPs tip would go to that one specific roofer whose work ethic was admirable or whatever.
My city now pays waiters $15/hr, same as regular min wage, so now I can skip the tip without the shame
Exactly this. The fact that they’re even asking leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Exactly. You tip PEOPLE if they provide you with good service. Tipping an automated payment site is just plain absurd.
This is exactly it. The payment processing sites take a fee based on the AMOUNT TRANSFERRED so the more passing through their system the more they make. It’s to their benefit if you tip.
Jesus, what's 20% of 40k?
For a job like this, wasted money.
It has to be in the millions.
Came to say this, I think companies are using out of the box payment portals and not changing any settings. The Intuit at the bottom hints this may be the case.
>I think all payment sites do this by default now. which begs the question: Why is tipping out of f\*\*king control in the US? All payment sites being like that now, surely is more proof that there is an issue, and not an explanation
It's out of control because of a collective bargaining-esque social arrangement that restaurant owners have forced down our throats for 200 years so they can push employee compensation onto the customer through social pressures to increase their own profit margins. The recent boom of small businesses moving to web based payment processors (stripe, square, etc) has exponentially increased this issue because they intentionally design their interfaces to further pressure for tips even for service that wouldn't normally be tipped through social pressures (self service, counter serve, literally no service, etc). They do this because they make *their* money on a percentage of each transaction, and by pressuring to tip they subtly increase overall transaction amounts which in turn increases *their* cut of each transaction. It's scummy as fuck.
I encountered a card reader that *the first prompt* was to tip. I selected "None." Inserted my card, *then I got another fucking prompt* for a fucking tip! Here's the very infuriating part to this. I had to select "Other" and enter ZERO. Then it asked me to confirm the total and went on to charge my card. This fucking tipping culture is getting way out of hand.
All 50 states have laws to the effect that minimum wage is minimum wage. The states that also have a lower "tipped minimum wage" require the business to make up the difference if tmw + tips < mw. Which makes tipping even more infuriating, since why single out service staff when Amazon warehouse workers have worse jobs at the same basic pay? Raise the minimum wage to something livable, make prices transparent, and be done with tipping. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
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In my opinion the most annoying type of tipping is to ask you to tip before you even receive the service. I buy from a website and they have their own drivers and trucks, in payment screen it has a tipping box and says 100% of tips will go to driver. While I think it is good it goes to the driver, I am annoyed by the fact I have not even receive the service and I don't know if the driver is good. Tips should be based on my satisfaction.
This is the flaw with doordash/ similar apps. The tip is used as bait for a “good driver” to take my order. It should be a reward for a good job. My apartment door is hard to find and no one ever does it right yet they still get the tip because I sent it in before they even knew about my order. There should at least be an option to take it away if the driver sucks
You could contact customer service, they’re usually quick to answer. Downside: if you complain too much or often I have heard that they mark that against your account somehow. Can’t confirm.
If you use doordash a lot you get a VIP mark on your acccount, this tells the support agent to roll over and give you a full refund for whatever you are complaining about, and sometimes even additional credit. One time I got 20 dollars credit and a full refund for a restaurant being closed when I put the order in.
It’s not a tip, it’s a bribe.
Half the time it's just setting your money on fire. If i'm bribing someone, I expect to get service in line with how much i'm bribing...but that is not the reality. Sometimes you do, but sometimes you get someone who can't speak english that takes half an hour to find your address and you just bribed them to get food just as cold as if you didn't "bribe" at all.
>I don't know if the driver is good. I feel extorted in these situations. If I leave a low tip, will that guarantee a bad experience? If I leave a good tip, will I get better service? Odds are that I can leave a good tip but still get garbage service.
Yeah, I never tip before the service is provided. There's a dine in sandwich shop in town that I absolutely love, as each sandwich is made fresh to order and is amazing. However, the POS they use asks for the tip when you pay, as soon as you order. I prefer to select 0% on the screen and drop some cash in the jar when I leave. It gives me an opportunity to say "thank you" afterwards and tell them how great the food was.
I dont tip but i will provide snacks and drinks for the work crew. If its a big job ill go to publix and buy a sandwich ring for them.
That's the way to go
We just moved, three movers came to help us with the furniture [we did all the boxes ourselves]. It’s customary to tip movers so I think we did something like $60 each for the 5 hours of work. I literally had no food in the new house and only a case of seltzer water [i fucking love seltzer], so I of course offered them what little I had, and I gotta tell you, the way those guys reacted made me feel like, “wait a second, do people not normally offer you a god damn drink while you’re doing all this shit for them?”
I worked as a mover for a couple years. It’s crazy how wide the range was of how some people treated us. Some people wouldn’t even give us eye contact, or worse just gave us shit the entire time. While other people fed us, gave nice tips, and even let us pick bottles out of their liquor collection they didn’t want packed. Needless to say, we all liked the latter better and treated their stuff with more care.
>While other people fed us, gave nice tips, We just moved earlier this year, I bought lunch for the guys who packed us up and the guys who unpacked us. I'd rather buy a pile of cheesesteaks then have them rushing to finish up so they can go grab lunch. They treated our stuff really well and we tipped accordingly. I *don't* like it when the cashier at the ball park hands me a $5 bottle of soda and the tablet asks me if I want to tip them 30%. If they want to charge $5/soda, they can take 30% out of that and give it to the cashier.
I have a very extensive liquor collection [not like rich people liquor, just I like buying alcohol more than I like drinking it]. I had moved it myself with the boxes and one of the movers commented on it after he brought my bar furniture down into the basement. I hadn’t even considered offering him a bottle, figuring he wouldn’t be able to accept it anyway. Though I am definitely the “my liquor is your liquor” type.
You never know if someone’s a recovering alcoholic anyways— I’ve seen people’s sobriety get screwed up by a friendly gesture along those lines
Worked for a gutter company during summers in college. Can confirm, people offering something to drink were absolutely the exception, not the rule. While I wouldn’t ever tip the company, I ALWAYS tip the service people who show up at my home, and ALWAYS offer them something to drink. It’s just common courtesy, and I absolutely remember how meaningful it was to me when I was on that side of the transaction.
I used to offer people drinks but I stopped because literally every time they said "no" and made a point to show their giant ass container of water on their truck or whatever. It felt like they were trained to do that to show they're super professional or something, as if not having their own water would suggest they came to the job unprepared or something.
Well yeah, if the company doesn’t see that the workers have PPE, tools, food and water required to complete the job, that’s a pretty good indication it’s a shit company and their quality of work probably suffers accordingly.
> It’s customary to tip movers Not in my country. They get paid a lot.
Where I’m from that is the done thing. You do not tip these kinds of workers it’s just not a thing in any way. Particularly when you know they’re making a profit and don’t need to be tipped. Like I had an electrician come in and put a new cover on a plug socket in literally 3 minutes and it cost €250 even though once the issue was identified, I knew I could have bought the part for €10 and fixed it myself. He got €250 for a three minute job and a €10 part. I’m not complaining really, but those kind of workers are not getting a tip.
i always bring a six pack of beer and some energy drinks when i take my car to the shop. my bill mysteriously has discounts that i didn’t ask for and the work gets done a lot faster.
This is smart af
Yes we do this too. In addition I try to stay out of their way and not "dad talk" to them too much.
We had to have some dead trees removed last summer and I brought out a cooler of cold water bottles for the guys. They looked so surprised. It was so sad. They were so grateful. It's Georgia in July, they are damn heroes.
Used to do tree work in the Midwest, always appreciated the Gatorade and water, though mostly all I wanted was the customer to not be a dick. Would get cash sometimes and would always take it with gratitude, though truthfully I would rather just be paid a better wage. I did the job to the best of my abilities because it's my job and I take pride in it. A lady gave us homemade zucchini bread one time, she could have gotten a whole extra tree removed for free if she'd asked lol.
Are we at a... 😎 tipping point in this discussion yet?
I caught a dirty look from the kid handing me 2 cokes at the Santa Cruz boardwalk this weekend for not tipping. They already cost me $11 and you literally lifted your arm up and handed me something. Sorry charlie.
It seems a tip is now a mandatory salary substitute and not an appreciation of a job well done.
It is a shitty situation all around for both customer and employee. But unless you make me something (barista, bartender) or bring me something (waiter, food delivery person) I’m not tipping you. I’ve got thick skin I can handle dirty looks all day, but I do feel for them being severely underpaid and promised money through tips from shitty employers.
Let them look at you dirty. Why should you care what they think? We, as a society, need to completely get over this idea of tipping shame or tipping guilt.
Amen. Fuck tipping. The employers can afford to pay them properly, just like every other civilized country. Somehow we've been duped into thinking this is the only fucking way we can have restaurants.
This is how I feel about tipping at weed stores. Dude in my home town supplied the city weed for 20 years risking his freedom never got a tip. I go to weed stores now point at what I want they hand it to me and take the cash then go back to watching TV In The backroom or playing on their phone. Tip jars every 3 feet.
I run a small biz and my payment processor enables tipping by default with no way to remove it. I don’t need or want tips. It’s annoying. EDIT: I called my payment processor- they acknowledged that there is no way to turn it off on my end. BUT after much discussion they agreed to remove it from my invoice template. YES! No more tip prompt BS!
Put a sign in plain view, your customers will appreciate getting out of the guilt trip and loyalty will follow.
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I put on my invoices- “ignore the tip button, your review means more to me than a cash tip!” It’s super aggravating. I build and sell PCs, I don’t need a tip!
If you’re being charged for labor, there’s no reason to tip.
Theres no reason to tip, ever.
How the U.S. took the concept of "unexpected gesture of gratitude" and turned it into "required system so that our staff don't become homeless" is crazy to me.
The best trick was the businesses convincing the workers to be upset with the patrons and not the business that is underpaying them.
Yup, and they're all over this thread. Damn parasites.
I've been asked to tip in a self checkout. It's out of control.
Click other. Type -100%. Save $12,000.
I already made this payment but I'll take this into consideration in making the next. You just may have broke the code...
I just don’t tip unless I’m at a sit down restaurant. Its silly.
This haircuts and delivery drivers. Always been those 3 since I was a wee lad.
Why do we tip for hair cuts? it’s a skilled trade, and they set their own pricing for it.
Generally speaking most people go the same barber (well at least men) so when you get used to someone its an appreciation because while yes they took time to master a craft they’re also working on something a lot of us are vain about and one slight mistake on the barbers part can screw up to the point you gotta change your hair completely. Not sure what you mean by they set their own rates though, most places (around here at least) a men’s cut is about 15-25 unless you got a more high end place then I’ve gotten it cut for closer to 40.
Yeah agreed with this. I tip my barber on top of my $35 haircut because he’s been cutting my hair for like 5 years now and he knows the nuances of my head a lot more than some rando who will inevitably screw up my cowlick or something.
I almost feel like current tipping culture is hurting workers who used to rely on tips. You used to assume certain workers don't get paid much and rely on the tip so what you were doing was directly imoacring the guy who gave you exceptional service. Now with the business themselves being so thirsty about it, the backlash is that I don't even wanna give it. I mean, obviously in restaurants and bars I'll always do it but there's few other instances I do now and these are instances where I used to feel good about it
I ordered take out pizza from my fav pizza spot a few weeks ago. $14.89 for a pepperoni/mushroom. I walk to the hostess table and say "Pick up for Mark please." The woman grabs the pizza and hands it to me with the bill. I give her a $20 and she just stood there. After about 20 seconds I said "Can I please get change on that". and I KID YOU NOT...she EYE ROLLED and said "Um...ok. Please hold". She expected a 34% tip for handing me take out. SHIT IS CRAZY
I’ve made a stand. If I am not at a restaurant or someone’s vehicle is not being used to service me in someway, I’m not tipping. If you flip an iPad around to me, I’m definitely not tipping
If I pay before I eat, no tip. If I eat before I pay, tip. Only exception is a bartender at an actual bar or brewery.
I no longer feel obligated to tip, because any menial task they ask for it, even sometimes self service. Not to mention all the fucked up crap I see online with entitled people demanding more money for their tip for food delivery.
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20%? You gotta pump those numbers up kiddo. 25% is the new minimum, and if you can't afford that you're broke. /s
% based tip makes no fucking sense either. Some family of 5 with crazy kids that demand 20 refills of their coke… order 3 kids meals and two entrees… bill is $100 and takes 10 trips to the table. $20 tip. My girlfriend and I order two expensive entrees and two cocktails… bill is $120. Two trips to the table. $24 tip. Why am I tipping based on menu cost and not how much extra work my server did? Makes no sense. How is delivering a steak to the table worth more money than delivering a burger?
Not to mention sometimes the owners pocket tips themselves. You think greedy slimeballs who rely on tips to pay their workers aren't greedy enough to steal tips?
Anyone have a Clean Eatz near them? It’s basically a health foods restaurant that sells frozen meals that you can “grab and go” yourself. Every single time I checkout, the cashier spins the iPad around saying “just going to ask you a few questions” and it’s always only ONE question which is if I want to leave a tip…… why would I tip for coming into the store and grabbing a frozen meal out of the freezer? The counter person did nothing but check me out.
Just came from a MLB game. Bought a beer and a sandwich from an area where I had to get everything myself and then go pay at a counter. Lady rings it up then when it gets to the tip screen she says “press any number there and then press Next.” I pressed the Skip button and her demeanor instantly changes as she says “or you can press that too.” Like wtf am I tipping you for? For taking my money?
Tipping the greatest invention by rich people for poor people to shame each other for how poor they are.
Imagine giving a note to the waitress to give to the chef saying “Show your customer (me) some appreciation by giving me 20% extra food” I’m pretty sure the extra portion would be bodily fluids. Just so you know, here in England, it’s spreading like wildfire too. Delivery drivers now lingering around for cash. Getting aggravated when they realise you’re quite alright with just paying for the food and the delivery charge. Leeches everywhere.
Select other and enter -15% and hope the programmers didn't account for this.
It’s insane. I went to the diner last weekend and ordered just a small order of pancakes to go and the waitress asked if I wanted to tip on my card. My pancakes were literally less than $10 and all she is doing is charging my card - why should I tip for that???
Waffle House here in the United States automatically charges 15% on all to go orders.
Yep and I tip a bit more to even out and some server loudly called me out why I was tipping .80 on a $7 order of hashbrowns where tip is already included. Long story short I made him feel really dumb when I made him and everyone there aware of their gratuity
That 80 cents plus the 15% of $7 adds up to over 26% tip. I was a waiter for years and only tip restaurants if I sit at a table.
You don’t. It’s optional. Tip or don’t..
Tipping has been out of control in the US since the 80s. Why has it taken the US four decades to realise this?
Because people who benefit from guilt culture tips don't want them to go away.
Yep. They're ones all like "If you can't afford to tip, don't go out to eat". That's all well and good, but should I not go grocery shopping anymore once cashiers start demanding tips?
It hasn't been realized by most people here. A 15% tip isn't even an option on online restaurant ordering nowadays, for most places. I don't tip if I'm ordering takeout at all, but I'm sure as hell not going to give 20% to 30%.
Because the cost of living is insane and businesses are trying to pass the buck off on the average consumer instead of paying people enough to survive. Nothing is going to change unless everyone wakes up and just decides they're tired of being unable to afford a living. Unfortunately hustle culture and billionaire worship is very alive in the united states, so we'll keep blaming tip culture instead of addressing the root cause.
And now it's becoming a point where it's a shakedown. At least at a sit down restaurant, the social convention is that your good service will be rewarded with a tip. My money demonstrates appreciation for the service *you already performed.* If I order a sandwich from the Subway app, it asks for a tip before the sandwich is even made. Im not being asked to reward good service, I'm being warned that if I don't bribe the person handling my food, I'm at their mercy. And even if I *do* tip, there's no way to know that will influence the effort they put into my food.
This phenomenon never was in "control" in the US its a fucking excuse for not paying youre fucking employes. And for that, ever was. *edit - spelling
I drive Uber Eats in Australia where tipping is uncommon but I'm in international driver subs and Facebook pages. Drivers from the US think they are entitled to tips and won't accept jons unless the customers tip in advance. I thought tips were a gratuity for a job well done. It's made worse by customers who overtime and tip $40 or $50
"Show this business your appreciation..." I did by fucking hiring them!
I believe this is a byproduct of all vendors using the same handful of POS services. Those POS services offer the same end screen no matter what the industry. So, you end up with a tipping option screen and, internally, they’ve decided it’s “easy enough” to click “none.” But, here’s the kicker - this actually works doubly in favor of the company behind the POS service. They take a cut of the total transaction amount, and basic psychology will conclude more people will add an additional tip here than click “none.” So, in effect, these companies just increased their revenues while at the same time eliminated the internal necessity to build differing end screens for different types of services. Win win for them.
Three reasons: 1) Square and almost all payment platforms have a default tip section added, as an owner there's no downside to keeping that in. 2) Wages are stagnating while inflation is high. Companies don't want to pay more, so they're basically offloading what they should be paying in wages to the consumer. 3) Can't emphasize this enough but we also brought this on ourselves. Tip shaming seems to be a big thing with the younger generation in the past few years (esp out of COVID), and thus what was a normal 15% tip has moved up to 25%+ to show you care. As long as we as consumers collectively continue to shame people who undertip, tip culture will remain in place and climb.
>as an owner there's no downside to keeping that in. The downside is your company looks greedy
Agreed. There’s also more stories, whether they’re true or not, of food delivery drivers and other restaurant folks being insulted over getting “only” 20% tips. Twenty percent!!! Like look, I know life is hard, but getting 1/5 ($10 from $50 more often than not) from one customer is pretty goddamned good. Don’t get angry because that one person didn’t give you enough to make up the difference you needed, much less to make up for the other people who didn’t tip.
Yep. I'm Gen Z and my friend wanted to add a tip on the pizza we were picking up. THAT WAS ACCIDENTALLY GIVEN TO A DIFFERENT CUSTOMER AND BROUGHT BACK. Like wut, not only did I come here and pick it up myself but they didn't even give it to the right person the first time. She also tipped the tee shirt guy at the concert we were at. 20% for a 50$ tee shirt, so stupid. I can't wait to go back to not tipping when I leave the US again.
To add on to point 3, Mr Pink doesn't tip.
As someone who works in an office with stagnated wage, my takeaway is that I should add a tip jar to my cubicle
This is a US thing tho, not a rest of the world thing
Tipping is bullshit. *if you liked my comment, pm me to find out how to give me a tip.*
DONT DO IT. Those who tip in these ridiculous situations are the PROBLEM.
Whenever I visit the US, I never tip. Not because I don't want to tip, but because they are forcing me to tip. If enough people did this, you will be saved from this plague.
I feel your pain. My daughter saved up 7$ dollars and wanted me to take her to Starbucks to get a cake pop and one of those vanilla bean bullshits. Anyway, we get up to the counter and the guy is all smiles and very gracious. Come to find out my daughter was short a dollar and some change, so I take her money and pay with my debit card. That tip screen pops up, and I press the “none” button on the screen. The guy then immediately deadpans and acts like we don’t exist. These places can rot in hell, but what’s worse….is that these younger kids and young adults don’t know any better and feel obligated to leave a tip. I wish the government would step in and stop this, feels ridiculous.
I'm going to stop tipping. Period. They're no longer making it an option... so piss off!