Like you said, I don't mind tipping for certain things, but it has gotten extreme. One that you brought up is at a coffee shop. For some reason, if it's a mom & pop shop, I don't mind tipping; but at like a Starbucks, I absolutely refuse to do so. Double standard, I know, but life is full of double standards and unfairness.
About ten years ago, I got out of the habit of paying cash in favor of debit cards. Now, I've gotten back into the habit of carrying cash to avoid the tip hassle. Hell, I mostly just make my own food 99% of the time. I bought a bottle of milk at the airport. I pulled it from the refrigerator and put it on the counter. The barista did NOTHING. The tip option popped up at the cashier. She gave me an expectant look. I put away my debit card and paid cash. She rolled her eyes. I'm done! I'm just making my own food from now on. Tipping expectations removed this consumer from the marketplace altogether. Nice going.
Stop tipping altogether. Making a simple purchase these days has become irritating with tip screens shamelessly asking for tips in gas stations, convenience stores, stationary shops, etc. I once had to have my AC repaired, and the technician had the nerve to ask for a tip. Why on earth should I tip you for just doing your job?"
It is not that tipping is out of control, it is corporate greed that is out of control. The employer should pay a decent living wage. And I also totally disagree that if you do not tip you get crappy service. I lived almost 30 years in the UK when tipping was not expected and trust me bar tenders and landlords really went the extra mile, but not in the hope that you will give them money, but because they had a job they liked.
If a server earning 15 bucks per hour gives you 15 bucks worth of service, a tip should not be necessary but, if that server, somehow, gives you exemplary service and adds something to your experience that is above the norm, they should be given a reward, a tip, for going that extra mile. I don't tip my plumber. I don't tip my mechanic. I don't tip my doctor. I pay the bill for the service they were hired for and that I expect to receive. Restaurant staff should be paid a livable wage. Menu prices should be based accordingly and we should not be expected to make up for the financial greed of owners or corporate. Tipping should end. Add 20% to the cost of the hamburger but, no tip. I should get to decide whether or not I want to pay that amount.
Spoken like a person who never waited tables or bartended. I made $10-$20/hour bartending in the late 80's early 90's. I couldn't care less that I was only making $1.35/hour wage. I was just your avg. bartender pouring beer and mixing the occasional drink for drunks.
Please note that I said that restaurant ( wait ) staff should be paid a liveable wage. If they did get paid they would not need to rely on tips. Besides, in many states and all across Canada, wait staff get paid a base salary of at least 15 times the buck thirty-five you got. @@tomo9126
You said that restaurant staff should be paid a livable wage. Then every worker in every industry should get paid a livable wage. Here's a better idea, instead of working in a restaurant, how about going to university studying hard and then finding a high-paying job? Isn't that a better idea?
@@bmoshareholderappleshareho855 - In many cases, the person waiting tables and receiving tips is making more money than a college graduate with a generic liberal arts degree. This is the real reason why tipping will never go away.
As a person who used to work at Subway, making the sandwich is not the important part. It's the whole ass conversation that happens while we are making sandwiches as fast as we can with a line out the door and you don't know what size drink you want. Personally, I think it's a whole lot different than McDonald's or even Jimmy John's.
I’ll tip 15- 20% at traditional times such as after I sit at a restaurant table. NO To Go tip, NO tip for the chef. Seems like a lot of the places expect a tip simply for being open for business.
I've always taken an extra mental step to round up my purchase a few cents when I'm tipping for food orders. Sometimes I'll add in an extra dollar if I'm feeling generous or the service was stupendous. But lately I've noticed how quick and easy it is to press a button to add an automatic tip, and suddenly the already pricey order feels like going overboard. It's kind of scary how instantaneous it is. Like a bullet to your bank account.
Tipping a vallet, bellboy and airport curbside are also common ones. I'm also a person who doesn't tip until service is rendered. If i could tip after i receive my coffee then I'd actually be willing to do it.
I enjoyed this, but one factor that is pretty important in the US is that there is a subminimum wage in many states for tipped employees... and it's the same $2.13 an hour that it was when I was in college in the late 90's (even as we've seen the Federal minimum wage go up a couple of times, though it should be tied directly to cost of living/inflation).
A tip is 10% for standard service, anything more you need to earn. If you want to make more money, get a better job. When restaurants realize they can't get people who agree to work for $2.13 per hour, they may just consider paying more.
hi there, local dog groomer swinging by way too late to add anything meaningful to the argument; the tip epidemic is pretty much a side effect of businesses switching to using square or stripe instead of traditional cash registers, and your barista probably would prefer you pick the 'no tip' option and just shove your change in the jar since the change in the jar is a lot harder to tax, and square/stripe takes their own cut too. the people who get tipped are also unhappy about the installment of those stupid ipads, and the oversaturation of them has caused people to stop tipping for services that they should really, really be tipping for altogether. generally you should tip for a luxury or trade service unless its unclear who specifically provided the service for you. i dont know who made my drink at starbucks, but i know who my waitress is at dennys. always tip your nail tech, hairdresser, dog groomer, waitstaff, etc...
I was recently working one of those jobs, they advertised their pay as much higher then it actually was per hour due to tipping. Red flags right out the gate and I shouldn't have ignored them, I ended up being the manager of that place but I got no title and no extra pay. I absolutely have mellowed now that I'm not begging for scraps, but I can admit I was part of the problem when I was in the thick of it, it was the only way I would get fairly compensated. I was stressed and pissed off about it, and while I agreed it was bullshit, it was really difficult to say that when I was having customers rant and yell at me over the system as if it was my fault that my employers didn't pay me. The company went bankrupt in the end so its not like they could afford to pay me either way, still sucked for all parties ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dog bather for a major company here. I make minimum hourly wage. Seeing someone not tip hurts from the perspective that I personally spent 2-3 hours 1 on 1 with their dog plus I will not see any money from the subtotal we give for the service. I need tips to survive unfortunately.
Their financial incentive is it's their job... just like everyone else. I don't get a tip for Engineering and I still do it. Pay them properly and ditch the tips. Them sucking up to you to get tips is worse than mediocre service anyway
Not only do I not tip anymore, it's gotten to the point where i just don't go out unless it's for a function or a planned thing with friends. So... pretty much never, we're at a point where people need to stop buying and save. We've seen this in the PC market with graphics cards too; prices for high end gpus used to be like 300 to 400 and now that's "low-mid"range and there isn't anything for under 250 that's new. It's actually going to kill the market and honestly i think it's what they are trying to do. Less stuff for us to do and they can take some quick cash before everything comes down.
@@MaximB1 If you tip more than average now, you will then pay less than you do now. Or the workers will need to work more efficiently and prices will be lower, because tiping won't be a thing anymore.
@@MaximB1 I don't want to pay more, but if the service or product improves, I am willing to pay more. There are many ways servers could be paid more without charging the customer more.
I'd just go out of my way to cook my own food since it's way cheaper, it tastes better, and I don't need to worry about paying any damn tips. Oh and if I am ordering my food to go/take out? You're damn right I ain't tipping.
Tipping sucks. Know what's worse? The fake charitable contributions at checkout. Rule number 1 in supporting charity, do not support any charity that advertises for donations. Period, end of story. Rule number 1a, check out charities are the worst. Never contribute, never ever!!!
i don’t mind tipping if they are actually giving me a service of some sort. if it’s a server who’s doing very well, i’ll leave a nice tip. if it’s someone who i speak to across the counter once, there’s no reason to tip, right??
When I was young tipping was 15% then went to 17%, then 18%, and now 20% is the norm. I've seen the buttons for 22% and 25%, WTF?! We need to burn the system down (among other things). and have companies just pay their employees a fucking decent wage and take tipping back to what it is for. Good Video. Now talk about how we (Americans and most of the world) are sheep.
I sometimes wonder how things would turn out if Americans as a whole agreed to stop tipping. Optimistic outcomes is people actually get paid proper wages, pessimistic outcome is that a lot of people wont make rent
I subbed bud.. been getting alot of newer channel recommendations recently and I like it. As for tipping, yeah.. always tip your uber driver (they make shit).. and your waiter if the service deserves it. everyone else can piss off and pay their employees. Good luck on your channel
Subway, ffs. I ordered a pizza and I drove to pick it up, they wanted a tip. I like tipping when I'm getting good service like in restaurant or bar. But its gotten out of hand.
No cuz I totally get it I hate it at corporate places like please pay your employees more but I almost quit my job at a local movie theater because the wages were too low but tipping saved me and my co-workers so now we can pay rent and my boss can have employees.
I am not paying for the lack of wages from cooperations. No one forces you to do a job in a big cooperation. After all, big cooperations didn't grow because they pay their employees fair. the grew, because they exploit on people, nature and resources.
By this same logic, we wouldn't have any restaurants because there wouldn't be any servers. I agree relying on tips is a net negative and not every job can be a masterful career, but I do think every job has its role in society.
@@jamieregan Well, the easiest way to get servers to be paid more is if they simply refused to work for $2.13 per hour. If restaurants couldn't find any worker willing to work for less than $30 an hour, they would find a way to make money paying people $30 per hour. And the best thing an individual can do to make more money, is to find a job that pays more or requires more skills, instead of having the pay me more please argument every day with every customer, have it one time with your boss.
Here are tips. Remember what ABCDEF stands for Always be careful don't ever forget. Also, LOTTO stands for, lose often to terrible odds. SHIT stands for, super high intensified training.
Food Court and no tip. lol. The problem is American food court generally do not taste good. The good one often has a barrier inside a food court where their seats are exclusive to their customers, therefore, it's like a tipping sitting down restaurant where you will have to tip. The choices of tip is now minimum at 18% of post tax whereas a decade ago it starts at 10% of pretax. tipping rate has increase about 100% on top of the inflated menu.
Tip is supposed to be part of the salary for a waiter that earn $3.25/hour vs a host or busser that earn minimum salary like $7.25 per hour (or what the minimum salary is in each state). But as the minimum salary has not really raised as the cost every place. What should I pay tip when standing in line on Starbucks. I can as well pay tip to the cashier in the supermarket? Or to the person behind the counter in the gas station. Or what I buying bread in a bakery. WHy shoudl I tip a person who is just making their job...it's because the employer don't pay a decent salary.
The coffee already cost too much to begin with. They're not waiters/waitresses only making 2 bucks an hour. They are being paid to make that coffee by the company. When I go and sit down at an establishment and am being served I tip. 20 to 25 percent depending on how the service was.
Or we could just respect our service employees and pay them accordingly instead of being subject to the mercy of customers… specially since now tips are getting diverted to the company anyway
"Hmm, we can't have physical slavery anymore. Now what ?" "Oh i have an idea, financial slavery .. hear me out. I have a system making people docile and easily controlled on so many levels. We'll call it Freedom, just to throw them off. Here, take my notes."
You nailed it when you said the practice of tipping was related to the fact that SERVERS could be paid less than minimum wage. A lot less. Tips were expected (though optional) for good service. Well guess what? That person working the register at a carry out place is NOT a server and does NOT make less than minimum wage!
They "could" be getting paid a lot less. Or they could be in any of the cities that have a tipped minimum wage that is close to or equal to the regular minimum wage. It has been decades since it was a given that all servers only made $2 per hour or whatever.
When I used to work at a gas station, tips were extremely rare. The pay was so low and many times people tried to steal gas which would come out of our meagre salary. So forgive me if I don't want to tip.
If you are a decent person, you pay the people who work for you a fair wage, so that they don't need to rely on the generosity of strangers who are likely also struggling financially.
The best way to get around the machines is cash. I pay cash all the time and young people just look at me like I am crazy. Cash means they now need to do math in order to give me change. Nothing is funnier than watching a young person actually use their brain in order to do their job.
When I used to work at a gas station, tips were extremely rare. On top of that, people try to steal gas and it comes out of our meagre salary. That's adding insult to injury.
Maybe if you tipped your landlord your heat would work 🙄
Like you said, I don't mind tipping for certain things, but it has gotten extreme. One that you brought up is at a coffee shop. For some reason, if it's a mom & pop shop, I don't mind tipping; but at like a Starbucks, I absolutely refuse to do so. Double standard, I know, but life is full of double standards and unfairness.
About ten years ago, I got out of the habit of paying cash in favor of debit cards. Now, I've gotten back into the habit of carrying cash to avoid the tip hassle. Hell, I mostly just make my own food 99% of the time. I bought a bottle of milk at the airport. I pulled it from the refrigerator and put it on the counter. The barista did NOTHING. The tip option popped up at the cashier. She gave me an expectant look. I put away my debit card and paid cash. She rolled her eyes. I'm done! I'm just making my own food from now on. Tipping expectations removed this consumer from the marketplace altogether.
Nice going.
Stop tipping altogether. Making a simple purchase these days has become irritating with tip screens shamelessly asking for tips in gas stations, convenience stores, stationary shops, etc. I once had to have my AC repaired, and the technician had the nerve to ask for a tip. Why on earth should I tip you for just doing your job?"
It is not that tipping is out of control, it is corporate greed that is out of control. The employer should pay a decent living wage. And I also totally disagree that if you do not tip you get crappy service. I lived almost 30 years in the UK when tipping was not expected and trust me bar tenders and landlords really went the extra mile, but not in the hope that you will give them money, but because they had a job they liked.
I don't tip anywhere after covid because of inflation and greedflation
i don't tip anywhere because i broke :(
If a server earning 15 bucks per hour gives you 15 bucks worth of service, a tip should not be necessary but, if that server, somehow, gives you exemplary service and adds something to your experience that is above the norm, they should be given a reward, a tip, for going that extra mile. I don't tip my plumber. I don't tip my mechanic. I don't tip my doctor. I pay the bill for the service they were hired for and that I expect to receive. Restaurant staff should be paid a livable wage. Menu prices should be based accordingly and we should not be expected to make up for the financial greed of owners or corporate. Tipping should end. Add 20% to the cost of the hamburger but, no tip. I should get to decide whether or not I want to pay that amount.
Spoken like a person who never waited tables or bartended.
I made $10-$20/hour bartending in the late 80's early 90's. I couldn't care less that I was only making $1.35/hour wage. I was just your avg. bartender pouring beer and mixing the occasional drink for drunks.
Totally agree I wish it was part of the bill upfront and would make any tip actually meaningful
Please note that I said that restaurant ( wait ) staff should be paid a liveable wage. If they did get paid they would not need to rely on tips. Besides, in many states and all across Canada, wait staff get paid a base salary of at least 15 times the buck thirty-five you got. @@tomo9126
You said that restaurant staff should be paid a livable wage. Then every worker in every industry should get paid a livable wage. Here's a better idea, instead of working in a restaurant, how about going to university studying hard and then finding a high-paying job? Isn't that a better idea?
@@bmoshareholderappleshareho855 - In many cases, the person waiting tables and receiving tips is making more money than a college graduate with a generic liberal arts degree. This is the real reason why tipping will never go away.
I tip whenever I pay after I eat. But never before. It doesn't take too much work to assemble a subway sandwich.
Works well at restaurants but a little difficult when paying by card to tip after the fact
As a person who used to work at Subway, making the sandwich is not the important part. It's the whole ass conversation that happens while we are making sandwiches as fast as we can with a line out the door and you don't know what size drink you want. Personally, I think it's a whole lot different than McDonald's or even Jimmy John's.
I’ll tip 15- 20% at traditional times such as after I sit at a restaurant table. NO To Go tip, NO tip for the chef.
Seems like a lot of the places expect a tip simply for being open for business.
why would you tip the waiter but not the chef? The chef works harder, a waiter is nothing more than a glorified conveyor belt.
I've always taken an extra mental step to round up my purchase a few cents when I'm tipping for food orders. Sometimes I'll add in an extra dollar if I'm feeling generous or the service was stupendous. But lately I've noticed how quick and easy it is to press a button to add an automatic tip, and suddenly the already pricey order feels like going overboard. It's kind of scary how instantaneous it is. Like a bullet to your bank account.
Kiddo's gonna be horrified to learn that 10% was the legit standard not even that long ago... 🙃 (And no, I'm not over 40 😂)
I liked those days, when you had to earn 15%.
oh god, I genuinely didn't know this...
@@jamieregan Even as few as 5 years ago the standard tip was 10%.
I still pay under 3 bucks for coffee. Frag Starbucks and any other franchise.
Tipping a vallet, bellboy and airport curbside are also common ones. I'm also a person who doesn't tip until service is rendered. If i could tip after i receive my coffee then I'd actually be willing to do it.
I enjoyed this, but one factor that is pretty important in the US is that there is a subminimum wage in many states for tipped employees... and it's the same $2.13 an hour that it was when I was in college in the late 90's (even as we've seen the Federal minimum wage go up a couple of times, though it should be tied directly to cost of living/inflation).
But what about all the people who work everyday, and no matter what they never get a tip?
A tip is 10% for standard service, anything more you need to earn. If you want to make more money, get a better job. When restaurants realize they can't get people who agree to work for $2.13 per hour, they may just consider paying more.
hi there, local dog groomer swinging by way too late to add anything meaningful to the argument; the tip epidemic is pretty much a side effect of businesses switching to using square or stripe instead of traditional cash registers, and your barista probably would prefer you pick the 'no tip' option and just shove your change in the jar since the change in the jar is a lot harder to tax, and square/stripe takes their own cut too.
the people who get tipped are also unhappy about the installment of those stupid ipads, and the oversaturation of them has caused people to stop tipping for services that they should really, really be tipping for altogether. generally you should tip for a luxury or trade service unless its unclear who specifically provided the service for you. i dont know who made my drink at starbucks, but i know who my waitress is at dennys. always tip your nail tech, hairdresser, dog groomer, waitstaff, etc...
I was recently working one of those jobs, they advertised their pay as much higher then it actually was per hour due to tipping. Red flags right out the gate and I shouldn't have ignored them, I ended up being the manager of that place but I got no title and no extra pay. I absolutely have mellowed now that I'm not begging for scraps, but I can admit I was part of the problem when I was in the thick of it, it was the only way I would get fairly compensated. I was stressed and pissed off about it, and while I agreed it was bullshit, it was really difficult to say that when I was having customers rant and yell at me over the system as if it was my fault that my employers didn't pay me. The company went bankrupt in the end so its not like they could afford to pay me either way, still sucked for all parties ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Best part of this was your commentary at the end! 😂😂
Dog bather for a major company here. I make minimum hourly wage. Seeing someone not tip hurts from the perspective that I personally spent 2-3 hours 1 on 1 with their dog plus I will not see any money from the subtotal we give for the service. I need tips to survive unfortunately.
Their financial incentive is it's their job... just like everyone else. I don't get a tip for Engineering and I still do it. Pay them properly and ditch the tips.
Them sucking up to you to get tips is worse than mediocre service anyway
Why would you have to ditch the tips if you pay them properly? Tips should just be bribes for better service.
Not only do I not tip anymore, it's gotten to the point where i just don't go out unless it's for a function or a planned thing with friends. So... pretty much never, we're at a point where people need to stop buying and save. We've seen this in the PC market with graphics cards too; prices for high end gpus used to be like 300 to 400 and now that's "low-mid"range and there isn't anything for under 250 that's new. It's actually going to kill the market and honestly i think it's what they are trying to do. Less stuff for us to do and they can take some quick cash before everything comes down.
don't tip. If they want more $ ask the gov to reduce taxes.
Or they could ask their bosses to pay them more, or they could get jobs in an industry that isn't legally classified as low skill labor.
@@MegaLokopo the bosses will just increase prices and we'll have to pay more... lol good try tho
@@MaximB1 If you tip more than average now, you will then pay less than you do now.
Or the workers will need to work more efficiently and prices will be lower, because tiping won't be a thing anymore.
@@MegaLokopo exactly, you like to pay more, why? I don't lol Never met someone who likes to pay more.
@@MaximB1 I don't want to pay more, but if the service or product improves, I am willing to pay more. There are many ways servers could be paid more without charging the customer more.
I'd just go out of my way to cook my own food since it's way cheaper, it tastes better, and I don't need to worry about paying any damn tips. Oh and if I am ordering my food to go/take out? You're damn right I ain't tipping.
Tipping sucks. Know what's worse? The fake charitable contributions at checkout. Rule number 1 in supporting charity, do not support any charity that advertises for donations. Period, end of story. Rule number 1a, check out charities are the worst. Never contribute, never ever!!!
i don’t mind tipping if they are actually giving me a service of some sort. if it’s a server who’s doing very well, i’ll leave a nice tip. if it’s someone who i speak to across the counter once, there’s no reason to tip, right??
When I was young tipping was 15% then went to 17%, then 18%, and now 20% is the norm. I've seen the buttons for 22% and 25%, WTF?! We need to burn the system down (among other things). and have companies just pay their employees a fucking decent wage and take tipping back to what it is for.
Good Video. Now talk about how we (Americans and most of the world) are sheep.
I sometimes wonder how things would turn out if Americans as a whole agreed to stop tipping. Optimistic outcomes is people actually get paid proper wages, pessimistic outcome is that a lot of people wont make rent
I subbed bud.. been getting alot of newer channel recommendations recently and I like it. As for tipping, yeah.. always tip your uber driver (they make shit).. and your waiter if the service deserves it. everyone else can piss off and pay their employees. Good luck on your channel
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My tipping rules: they came to my house and did a thing I can't do or I sat down at a restaurant and was served
Subway, ffs. I ordered a pizza and I drove to pick it up, they wanted a tip. I like tipping when I'm getting good service like in restaurant or bar. But its gotten out of hand.
Look them straight in the eye.. hit 0% smile, say that you, and walk away.. It's not hard to do
No cuz I totally get it I hate it at corporate places like please pay your employees more but I almost quit my job at a local movie theater because the wages were too low but tipping saved me and my co-workers so now we can pay rent and my boss can have employees.
I love you (and your co-workers) being able to pay rent. I hope when I grow up I can be just like you (I am 24 and refuse to acknowledge the truth)
I am not paying for the lack of wages from cooperations. No one forces you to do a job in a big cooperation. After all, big cooperations didn't grow because they pay their employees fair. the grew, because they exploit on people, nature and resources.
Why don't people just work harder, get a job in any industry that isn't legally classified as low skilled labor.
By this same logic, we wouldn't have any restaurants because there wouldn't be any servers. I agree relying on tips is a net negative and not every job can be a masterful career, but I do think every job has its role in society.
@@jamieregan Well, the easiest way to get servers to be paid more is if they simply refused to work for $2.13 per hour. If restaurants couldn't find any worker willing to work for less than $30 an hour, they would find a way to make money paying people $30 per hour. And the best thing an individual can do to make more money, is to find a job that pays more or requires more skills, instead of having the pay me more please argument every day with every customer, have it one time with your boss.
Okay I'll do it
"Tipping is for the birds"
there you go
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Here are tips. Remember what ABCDEF stands for Always be careful don't ever forget. Also, LOTTO stands for, lose often to terrible odds. SHIT stands for, super high intensified training.
high-quality videos. Saw you from Jacksfilms. I am subscribing now. Looking forward to your channel blowing up and more videos from you.
I like how we have it in Slovakia. If the service was really good you tip to show them you are grateful or just round it up.
Food Court and no tip. lol. The problem is American food court generally do not taste good. The good one often has a barrier inside a food court where their seats are exclusive to their customers, therefore, it's like a tipping sitting down restaurant where you will have to tip. The choices of tip is now minimum at 18% of post tax whereas a decade ago it starts at 10% of pretax. tipping rate has increase about 100% on top of the inflated menu.
Tip is supposed to be part of the salary for a waiter that earn $3.25/hour vs a host or busser that earn minimum salary like $7.25 per hour (or what the minimum salary is in each state). But as the minimum salary has not really raised as the cost every place. What should I pay tip when standing in line on Starbucks. I can as well pay tip to the cashier in the supermarket? Or to the person behind the counter in the gas station. Or what I buying bread in a bakery. WHy shoudl I tip a person who is just making their job...it's because the employer don't pay a decent salary.
Tipping more like tripping um.. because um I'm not tipping
Also has anyone done a Reservoir Dogs joke in the comments?
The coffee already cost too much to begin with. They're not waiters/waitresses only making 2 bucks an hour. They are being paid to make that coffee by the company. When I go and sit down at an establishment and am being served I tip. 20 to 25 percent depending on how the service was.
Also, in my country you are expected to tip the surgeon that delivers your baby, usually a few hundred USD and a bottle of whisky
This is insanity, what country? I must visit.
@@jamieregan Why, do you deliver babies for a living?! Hahaha its Serbia.
I just got the weirdest Filthy Frank flashbacks from this video's vibe
this is a compliment bye
Have you heard of "tipping your landlord"
This video was worth a 25% tip
30% minimum bozo
He needs it because the heat works now, so his bills will go up.
If i dont see 15% as an option, i tip 0
Here is a comment, saying something.
Thanks for the education on corporate greed! Nice RIUT gear… I’d tip you if you had a RUclipsr tip jar… to help pay your heating bill.
Or we could just respect our service employees and pay them accordingly instead of being subject to the mercy of customers… specially since now tips are getting diverted to the company anyway
Completely agree they shouldn’t be at the mercy of me tipping to make rent
"Hmm, we can't have physical slavery anymore. Now what ?" "Oh i have an idea, financial slavery .. hear me out. I have a system making people docile and easily controlled on so many levels. We'll call it Freedom, just to throw them off. Here, take my notes."
I am anti-tipping. I actually leave less cash than will cover the bill and speed walk out of there.
you actually pay the bill??
You nailed it when you said the practice of tipping was related to the fact that SERVERS could be paid less than minimum wage. A lot less. Tips were expected (though optional) for good service. Well guess what? That person working the register at a carry out place is NOT a server and does NOT make less than minimum wage!
They "could" be getting paid a lot less. Or they could be in any of the cities that have a tipped minimum wage that is close to or equal to the regular minimum wage. It has been decades since it was a given that all servers only made $2 per hour or whatever.
tip
if you are a decent person you tip service people and others that earn it
fair point - give where you can always a good approach
When I used to work at a gas station, tips were extremely rare. The pay was so low and many times people tried to steal gas which would come out of our meagre salary. So forgive me if I don't want to tip.
If you are a decent employer you fucking pay your employees. I have 0 obligation to tip anywhere.
If you are a decent person, you pay the people who work for you a fair wage, so that they don't need to rely on the generosity of strangers who are likely also struggling financially.
The best way to get around the machines is cash. I pay cash all the time and young people just look at me like I am crazy. Cash means they now need to do math in order to give me change. Nothing is funnier than watching a young person actually use their brain in order to do their job.
Bazinga
I must tip in all those occasions
When I used to work at a gas station, tips were extremely rare. On top of that, people try to steal gas and it comes out of our meagre salary. That's adding insult to injury.