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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry for the circumstances for why someone has to do this but tipping is for someone who goes above and beyond the expectations of whatever service is being delivered.  If the pay is not good, that’s an issue between employee and employer.  I won’t reward someone for simply doing the expected job to an average or worse standard.  That said, I think that a living wage should be paid, but this falls on the employer to do, not me, and yes I know that cost will be past on to the customer, but again tips are rewards for superior service.[/quote]

+1 This is the only ethical answer[/quote]

that’s not true. for many jobs, tips are part of the compensation. including delivery drivers. [/quote]

The average hourly pay for a delivery driver in the US is 14/hr. Amazon drivers make 16-25 dollars before tips. A Papa John’s delivery driver makes 100-225 in tips every day over and above his base pay and that’s not close to high end. Even registered nurses (who need to take out loans to study and pay for recertifications) don’t make that much. The delivery organization is legally required to pay the employee’s base pay if tips don’t cover it, which usually means that if you tip, you’re subsidizing Uber eats and reducing their wage costs[/quote]

In case this is not clear, I've attached an article which gets into a little more detail https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/22/20703434/delivery-app-tip-pay-theft-doordash-amazon-flex-instacart.

Here's a quote that is eye-opening - the lady below tipped 44% over and above her order, and this didn't benefit the driver at all:

"DoorDash offers a guaranteed minimum for each job. For my first order, the guarantee was $6.85 and the customer, a woman in Boerum Hill who answered the door in a colorful bathrobe, tipped $3 via the app. But I still received only $6.85. Here’s how it works: If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me."

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That is shocking and disgusting. But I’m not comfortable with these kinds of delivery services anyway, for lots of reasons.[/quote]

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