Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:57
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Leave it to dc to raise the pay of crappy waiters/bartenders and lower the pay of great waiters/bartenders.
Restaurants should just double their prices. Give the people what they want… higher prices and communism level motivation.
At least with higher prices I can see the final price and decide whether or not it is worth it. Enough of this stupid ass charades of tipping culture that makes absolutely zero sense.
We already have higher wages for waiters in California and higher meal prices, but people still expect 20-30% tips!
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:55
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:I have no problem tipping for things that we've always tipped - wait staff, hairdressers, and perhaps pet sitters.
But the new tipping culture... like for takeout? I'll do $1 an entree perhaps, but not more. Definitely not tipping 20% for picking up half a dozen bagels. Come the F on guys.
I hear you on this.
I will tip my hairdresser, wait staff, and $5/day for the hotel room. I will even do a few dollars for curb-side pickup where someone goes outside to give me my food bag. But I refuse to be victim to the tip for every damn thing.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:54
Subject: I'm done with tipping
The thing that I REALLY hate is that now when you travel, even countries without a tipping culture, now expect Americans to tip!!! I was just in the Maldives where you are charged 22-23% on everything, with 10% being a service fee. An employee told me that no one really tips except Americans and that staff literally wait around for tips because they know Americans will do it. So annoying and yes I tipped, because they literally didn’t leave my room until I opened my wallet.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:51
Subject: Re:I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even the *way* we tip actually makes no sense at all. We're not tipping based on the amount of work (or service) provided, but on the cost of service. Your $150 a cut hairdresser is not working hard to do your hair than your $50 a cut hairdresser, but if you go by % you are tipping a lot more. Ditto for servers--it always annoyed me when I was one. If I have a table full of people drinking water and iced tea, and I have to run back and forth a zillion times for refills vs a table of full of same# of people who order one cocktail a piece and never ask for anything else, guess who is more work? Guess whose bill is much higher, and then the corresponding tip? It's stupid.
When my friend was a waitress she used to dread my parents coming in...ice water with lemon that needed umpteen refills and then a shared entree. The bill would end up being the price of the entree ($25) and even though they were polite and nice, they were just as much work as a pricier table.
I always tip but I drew the line at a medspa where they expected 15, 18 or 20% on a $350 microneedling service. Hell no.
Do you do a reduced tip on that or just no tip at all? I never know what to do!
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:49
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Grampa forgot his Metamucil, again.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:49
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:The most egregious is babysitters. I’m on a local FB group and apparently babysitters are now charging fees if you ASK them to babysit last minute? I used to always give sitters a few extra dollars, which I never considered a tip, I just rounded up, but now sitters expect tips! And they charge an arm & leg.
I’m a nanny in LA and charge $40/hr. I do not expect tips at all, however, most families tip. I give priority over the holidays, when my schedule is packed, to families who tip. Even if it’s just $10-20, when you round up, you get priority.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:46
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:I just tipped my nurse toxin injector thanks to that dumb spinning screen and it made me vow to go back to paying for everything in cash with exact change.
Yep this happened to me as well. Going back to cash!
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:45
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.
A mechanic is asking for a tip?????? I would tip a bellhop though, because my bags are heavy!
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:44
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Thank you!! I’m in California where minimum wage for waiters is over $15, so now you only get 20% BEFORE TAX. Last straw was when subway tried to make me tip on that screen. Nope! It just takes practice. First I was only using cash, but now I just need to get used to clicking no on the screen.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:38
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:The thing that put me over the edge was the tip question during checkout at Norman's Farm Stand. Now we are tipping for the farmer's market? I bagged my own apples and brought them to the register. The person just rang me up and I declined a shopping bag. Ridiculous!
And it’s the business owners who set up these point-of-sale systems, not the wage earners. They might as well just put a sign up that says “we don’t pay our employees enough!”
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:19
Subject: I'm done with tipping
The thing that put me over the edge was the tip question during checkout at Norman's Farm Stand. Now we are tipping for the farmer's market? I bagged my own apples and brought them to the register. The person just rang me up and I declined a shopping bag. Ridiculous!
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:13
Subject: Re:I'm done with tipping
I've joined your ranks OP. It's been surprisingly easy to ignore the GenZ glares when they flip the screen around asking for a tip.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:10
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Have you been out in the world recently? Everyone is expecting a damn tip.jist for doing their damn jobs. It is completely out of hand. No one has a problem tipping the waiter,because they don't get paid a minimum wage. It's everyone else who already gets wages and yet is now demanding a damn tip. Enough is enough. People should do their jobs for the wages they're paid and stop with having their hands out for cash from the customer. If they don't like their wages, they can get new jobs or demand their employer pay more.
Just because someone has a tip jar out does it mean you have to put money in there. No one is going to let you on fire or blink twice if you don’t put a buck in there.
DP. I have no issue ignoring the jar, but the tip question at the end of every single food and beverage-related transaction with an iPad is incredibly annoying and unnecessary.
It’s the same concept. Really. You don’t have to be so emotionally invested.
It’s different because it makes it feel like part of the overall transaction, instead of an optional extra. Regardless, it makes me go out of my way to avoid places that use these systems. Probably not the effect they intend.
This is a you problem.
I’m clearly not alone.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 13:03
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Have you been out in the world recently? Everyone is expecting a damn tip.jist for doing their damn jobs. It is completely out of hand. No one has a problem tipping the waiter,because they don't get paid a minimum wage. It's everyone else who already gets wages and yet is now demanding a damn tip. Enough is enough. People should do their jobs for the wages they're paid and stop with having their hands out for cash from the customer. If they don't like their wages, they can get new jobs or demand their employer pay more.
Just because someone has a tip jar out does it mean you have to put money in there. No one is going to let you on fire or blink twice if you don’t put a buck in there.
DP. I have no issue ignoring the jar, but the tip question at the end of every single food and beverage-related transaction with an iPad is incredibly annoying and unnecessary.
It’s the same concept. Really. You don’t have to be so emotionally invested.
It’s different because it makes it feel like part of the overall transaction, instead of an optional extra. Regardless, it makes me go out of my way to avoid places that use these systems. Probably not the effect they intend.
This is a you problem.
Anonymous
12/18/2022 12:49
Subject: I'm done with tipping
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Have you been out in the world recently? Everyone is expecting a damn tip.jist for doing their damn jobs. It is completely out of hand. No one has a problem tipping the waiter,because they don't get paid a minimum wage. It's everyone else who already gets wages and yet is now demanding a damn tip. Enough is enough. People should do their jobs for the wages they're paid and stop with having their hands out for cash from the customer. If they don't like their wages, they can get new jobs or demand their employer pay more.
Just because someone has a tip jar out does it mean you have to put money in there. No one is going to let you on fire or blink twice if you don’t put a buck in there.
DP. I have no issue ignoring the jar, but the tip question at the end of every single food and beverage-related transaction with an iPad is incredibly annoying and unnecessary.
It’s the same concept. Really. You don’t have to be so emotionally invested.
It’s different because it makes it feel like part of the overall transaction, instead of an optional extra. Regardless, it makes me go out of my way to avoid places that use these systems. Probably not the effect they intend.