Anonymous
12/20/2022 17:49
Subject: I'm done with tipping
I don't see what the big deal is. When the screen rotates to me to add a tip, I hit no tip and move on.
They don't see if I've tipped or not. It's already processed through by then.
If I'm seated inside to eat, I always tip 20%. If I do takeout, I usually do 10-15% depending on the place. Is it Chipotle? No, you're not getting a tip. Is it my local pizza joint? Sure, 10-15% depending on what I ordered.
I never tip my delivery people in cash/gift cards because my delivery people rotate all the time. I never have the same postal delivery worker for more than a month! On very hot days in summer, I leave cold beverages and snacks out. During December, I leave snacks out and sometimes do a carafe of coffee or hot chocolate. That's it.
I tip my hair stylist. I don't get my nails done. I never tip for furniture or appliance delivery. I never tip when picking up groceries either. I tried to tip at Target once on an evening when it was a horrible, horrible downpour and I had a sick kid in the car but the woman said tips weren't allowed.
They don't see if I've tipped or not. It's already processed through by then.
If I'm seated inside to eat, I always tip 20%. If I do takeout, I usually do 10-15% depending on the place. Is it Chipotle? No, you're not getting a tip. Is it my local pizza joint? Sure, 10-15% depending on what I ordered.
I never tip my delivery people in cash/gift cards because my delivery people rotate all the time. I never have the same postal delivery worker for more than a month! On very hot days in summer, I leave cold beverages and snacks out. During December, I leave snacks out and sometimes do a carafe of coffee or hot chocolate. That's it.
I tip my hair stylist. I don't get my nails done. I never tip for furniture or appliance delivery. I never tip when picking up groceries either. I tried to tip at Target once on an evening when it was a horrible, horrible downpour and I had a sick kid in the car but the woman said tips weren't allowed.
Anonymous
12/20/2022 17:46
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anyone that has a beef with tipping is most likely salty because they don’t get tips themselves. Sour grapes and all. If wages were raised enough that tips were not a factor most of you would be up in arms.
They don’t have to raise prices. They have to spend their money differently. The CEO of Panera makes $3 million a year. The CEO of Starbucks makes $17 million a year. Why are we responsible for paying their staff a decent wage? Why are you protecting the super wealthy and insulting middle class people?
Why are you dining and ordering out at places you can’t afford? Stick to McDonalds if you can’t tip.
McDonald’s screens will be asking for tips soon too, no doubt.
A friend works for McD corporate. It’s coming. Apparently the employees want it & the honchos think not offering tipping makes them less competitive.
Anonymous
12/20/2022 17:43
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would rather have wages increased--which I think is coming for the wait service industry--than tipping. I hate tipping, this is not a thing where I come from in Asia.
My sibling is a bartender and neither he nor his coworkers want higher wages.
My brother makes $2.10/hr as his wage. With tips, he makes over $100k/year. He works Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday only.
He knows that when he's making $15/hr, people aren't going to leave good (if any) tips.
He works 4pm to 2am on a typical Saturday shift, so 10 hours. If he was making $15/hr and no tips, that's only $150 per shift. Who can live on that around here? He usually makes around $500 on a typical Saturday or as much as over $800 on a great night. This past Sunday he worked 9 am to midnight and made over $1,000 (World cup, 2 holiday parties, normal shift money).
He also never gets weekends or holidays off. Likely no benefits.
This is true at other places he's worked, but he's now at a wonderful restaurant where the owners do provide benefits. They also do a 401k match and encourage all employees to use it because the biggest mistake so many in a cash-centric service industry job make is not saving for the future.
Anonymous
12/20/2022 16:24
Subject: Re:I'm done with tipping
I use cash a lot more than I used to in an effort to avoid this.
Of course no points for app usage when you do this though. Tricky.
Of course no points for app usage when you do this though. Tricky.
Anonymous
12/20/2022 10:18
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why not go out less, buy less, but tip well when you do go out. This going often and not tipping or tipping little is against the workers, not the business.
Amazing how the little man gets screwed over and over again. If less people come, but tip more, we are able to keep only the good workers. If business can't handle less spenders, they can close.
I think you’re missing the point. The anti-tippers here aren’t complaining about tipping waitstaff who make $2.15 an hour. Or a bellhop. Or an Uber driver. It’s that everyone has their hand out for every transaction we make no matter what their hourly wage is or what they do- in some cases no person is there at all. The problem is corporate greed. Companies are just trying to appease their staff by putting customers in the unpleasant position of declining a tip as a part of the standard payment process - or making them tip out of guilt which works.
I’ll tip a server at a restaurant 20-30%. Tipping for my to-go pizza that I ordered online and drive to go get ridiculous. That seems to be the general consensus here.
+1
It is not for most of us about suddenly boycotting tipping at all the spots we have always tipped at like the above. It is deciding to stop tipping every time you turn around to all these new types of jobs that now suddenly want tips too. Nope.
Yeah, I’m going to be asked to tip my pharmacist and dry cleaner any day now. Any time we use a card “10% 20% custom?”
Anonymous
12/20/2022 08:44
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I usually tip my UPS gal or leave a bottle of champagne or gift card. What do you do?
I don’t. Why do you do that? She hot?[/quote
I tip UPS because you are allowed to snd because we use Amazon a lot. Ups allows tips at users discretion. USps and fed exp do nothing google it
Anonymous
12/20/2022 06:29
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:I usually tip my UPS gal or leave a bottle of champagne or gift card. What do you do?
I don’t. Why do you do that? She hot?
Anonymous
12/20/2022 06:16
Subject: I'm done with tipping
I usually tip my UPS gal or leave a bottle of champagne or gift card. What do you do?
Anonymous
12/20/2022 06:03
Subject: Re:I'm done with tipping
OP your post makes some sense, but not everyone has the luxury of finding a better job.
Waiting tables may be the only job a college student is able to work at if the student has day classes, etc.
But yes - ALL employers should pay a living wage to its employees.
At the very least > minimum wage.
Waiting tables may be the only job a college student is able to work at if the student has day classes, etc.
But yes - ALL employers should pay a living wage to its employees.
At the very least > minimum wage.
Anonymous
12/20/2022 05:09
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why not go out less, buy less, but tip well when you do go out. This going often and not tipping or tipping little is against the workers, not the business.
Amazing how the little man gets screwed over and over again. If less people come, but tip more, we are able to keep only the good workers. If business can't handle less spenders, they can close.
I think you’re missing the point. The anti-tippers here aren’t complaining about tipping waitstaff who make $2.15 an hour. Or a bellhop. Or an Uber driver. It’s that everyone has their hand out for every transaction we make no matter what their hourly wage is or what they do- in some cases no person is there at all. The problem is corporate greed. Companies are just trying to appease their staff by putting customers in the unpleasant position of declining a tip as a part of the standard payment process - or making them tip out of guilt which works.
I’ll tip a server at a restaurant 20-30%. Tipping for my to-go pizza that I ordered online and drive to go get ridiculous. That seems to be the general consensus here.
+1
It is not for most of us about suddenly boycotting tipping at all the spots we have always tipped at like the above. It is deciding to stop tipping every time you turn around to all these new types of jobs that now suddenly want tips too. Nope.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 23:22
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sorry everyone, you're getting $0 in tips from me from now on, except for the waiter/waitress, that's it. You can spin the monitor around at a checkout all you want, but you're getting a fat $0 and getting it spun right back at you.
You get wages. If you don't like your low wage, get another job. Tipping enables employers to pay crappy wages, because of people cannot make ends meet on wages at a place where they work then they won't work there job.. the employer will be forced to pay higher wages. But that never happens because we have this asinine culture of tipping that is out of control.
Tipping culture originated from racism too. Employers hired black people with lower wages and forced them to make up the difference with tips. So why do we still have this completely stupid relic left over from America's racist past?
I'm so done with tipping culture. If you are a cashier, barista, mechanic, hair dresser, garbage man, bellhop, etc.etc..No tips for you. Demand better wages if you don't like it or find another job. It's not the customer's responsibility to make sure you make enough wages.
I’m done with tipping. It is such bullshit.
Agree. Total virtue-signaling.
Disgusting virtue signaling.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 23:21
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Sorry everyone, you're getting $0 in tips from me from now on, except for the waiter/waitress, that's it. You can spin the monitor around at a checkout all you want, but you're getting a fat $0 and getting it spun right back at you.
You get wages. If you don't like your low wage, get another job. Tipping enables employers to pay crappy wages, because of people cannot make ends meet on wages at a place where they work then they won't work there job.. the employer will be forced to pay higher wages. But that never happens because we have this asinine culture of tipping that is out of control.
Tipping culture originated from racism too. Employers hired black people with lower wages and forced them to make up the difference with tips. So why do we still have this completely stupid relic left over from America's racist past?
I'm so done with tipping culture. If you are a cashier, barista, mechanic, hair dresser, garbage man, bellhop, etc.etc..No tips for you. Demand better wages if you don't like it or find another job. It's not the customer's responsibility to make sure you make enough wages.
I’m done with tipping. It is such bullshit.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 21:14
Subject: I'm done with tipping
I'm with OP on the baristas, and other retail places that have not traditionally involved tipping. Sorry, no. Also no to the charity donation requests at EVERY.SINGLE.STORE. I'll donate on my own, thanks.
I still tip at restaurants, hair stylist/ salons, and the lady who cleans my house every two weeks got double pay this week.
I still tip at restaurants, hair stylist/ salons, and the lady who cleans my house every two weeks got double pay this week.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 20:37
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anyone that has a beef with tipping is most likely salty because they don’t get tips themselves. Sour grapes and all. If wages were raised enough that tips were not a factor most of you would be up in arms.
They don’t have to raise prices. They have to spend their money differently. The CEO of Panera makes $3 million a year. The CEO of Starbucks makes $17 million a year. Why are we responsible for paying their staff a decent wage? Why are you protecting the super wealthy and insulting middle class people?
Why are you dining and ordering out at places you can’t afford? Stick to McDonalds if you can’t tip.
Does McDonald’s not ask for/allow tips? Why should Panera and Starbucks employees be tippable, but not McDonald’s?
I’m revising my advice—stay home and eat Cup o’ Noodles. That sounds like your speed.
Logically explain why a bellhop gets tips while a worker at McDonald's, chick FIL a, or chipotle doesn't.
A bellhop makes you feel rich and that you are a trickle down economics job creator. The McDs worker is too much of a reality check.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 20:23
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anyone that has a beef with tipping is most likely salty because they don’t get tips themselves. Sour grapes and all. If wages were raised enough that tips were not a factor most of you would be up in arms.
Why would I be salty that I don't get tips? I do a job and get paid a salary. End of story. So simple. So easy. So logical. Give it a try some time.
+1 I invoice clients and my software has a tip option. I turn that off. It’s awkward and unnecessary.