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[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 160 points 8 months ago

This is tipping culture out of control.

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 124 points 8 months ago

Tipping culture is tipping culture out of control.

You should see the insane way it's worshipped in the USA, all as an obviously thin front to avoid paying wages and giving workers rights. It's wild.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

Worshiped? What country do you live in? The biggest argument I see for it is 'its absolutely bullshit but some jobs that's almost all they make'

I don't think I've ever, in my 41 years here, seen a single human being say it's an amazing system.

[-] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

You obviously haven’t been talking to servers that make $200 a night in cash tips they don’t pay taxes on. My fiancé works in marketing for a large winery, and some of the kids they would bring in to work the restaurant would be making tons of money from it. Those are the people who love it

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

You don't talk to enough servers that aren't 20 year old blonde chicks. And even then, there are slow nights where they bring home $50 in tips. It's a predatory system for all involved except the owner class.

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

They're supposed to pay federal income tax on their tips in the USA. However, it being cash, most people take it as "under the table" wages.

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[-] soloner@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago
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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 119 points 8 months ago

I should be legally allowed to smash those screens if they play ads while I'm pumping my gas.

You used to be able to mute them by pressing one of the side buttons but now that just cancels your transaction and stops the pump.

I don't need advertisements shoved in my face every second of every day.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 70 points 8 months ago

Standing there pumping gas is one of the last vestiges of just stopping and being there.

Last time I discovered a machine’s ads couldn’t be muted, I stopped the pumps and I’ll never go back to that gas station.

The level of disrespect is mind boggling.

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[-] Johanno@feddit.de 34 points 8 months ago

You guys have ads on your gas pumps?

Ok the US is really the preview of the dystopian future companies imagine.

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[-] rosymind@leminal.space 28 points 8 months ago

I don't drive much anymore, but when I did I would avoid gas stations with screens (aside from payment screens obviously). If I saw that an unfamiliar gas station had one, I'd get back in my car and get gas elsewhere even if it was a tad more expensive. Forced viewing of advertisements makes me violently angry, and I don't need the stress of trying to repress that anger

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Alright I haven't been to a gas pump in a few months, but when did they start playing ads??? Shit is crazy. Maybe I just never noticed, come to think of it I've never been the one pumping the gas before

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[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 85 points 8 months ago

This has to be from theonion

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago

Please tell me this is photoshopped and these fuckers aren’t seriously asking for tips at self service stations…

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 65 points 8 months ago

Hey, don't be so cruel. These machines are paid below minimum wage, and if you don't tip, they won't be able to pay their rent and student loans.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

they won’t be able to pay their rent and student loans.

You mean their software subscriptions and cloud storage fees.

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[-] atocci@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago

Yeah haha definitely fake, these pumps don't have touch screens so this interface wouldn't work on them. Choices have to be aligned with the 4 buttons on the left and right. Second one from the top on the right side will mute the ads also.

[-] harrim4n@feddit.de 20 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry, did you just say "mute the ads"? Damn, america really is in the terminal stages of late stage capitalism

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[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wait, you guys don't pump your own gas by default? Is this some American thing I'm too europoor to understand?

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 59 points 8 months ago

Most states do (illegal to pump your own in New Jersey), but the joke is more about tipping culture in this country.

[-] wunami@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

This meme isn't implying that it's unusual to pump your own gas. It's implying that tipping culture in the US is progressing to the point of asking you to tip when you didn't receive a service performed by anyone since you did it yourself.

Self service is the default for most of the US. New Jersey and (I think) Oregon require full service gas stations though.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 8 months ago

I think Oregon got rid of that law last year... New Jersey still has it though

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

Today I had lunch at a restaraunt, I was given the option to tip so I did, expecting to get service. I got the fast food treatment, they threw a tray on the counter that I had to pickup and when I went to leave they made me bus my own table...

I've got family that used to rely on tips so I've always been a generous tipper. The recent tip culture has completely changed me though and now these expected tips just piss me off.

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[-] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 48 points 8 months ago

Drink a verification can of Mountain Dew to continue pumping gas.

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 42 points 8 months ago

So since you're the one providing the labour in the transaction, this means you're getting a tip FROM the gas station, right? R... Right?

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

It's because the POS (point of sale) software isn't customized for the application correctly. Either through laziness, ignorance, indifference, or a level of greed that only insane troll logic could make sense of

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 33 points 8 months ago

Not only do you pump your own gas you also are the one to pay at the pump and deal with any issues that come up.

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[-] systemguy_64@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

Sure, I'll leave a -20% tip!

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[-] firewyre@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

This is why we have arson

[-] hahattpro@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

It seem to be best practice, and predatory best practice.

Some people fear of being jugded if they don't follow the mass. And the tip screen make them question themselves like "everybody else tip, what will they think if I don't ?" "What if someone watch over my shoulder and feel disgusting if I don't tip ?"

[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 15 points 8 months ago

And those people we call "suckers"

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[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Actually, I'm gonna need a refund

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Goddamn 2023. The tip screen embarrasses me at work, where I make a normal hourly wage.

"Just hit the skip button bro"

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[-] bquintb@midwest.social 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You pump gas good! TIP YOSELF

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

This is clearly fake. Tip screens all now start at 20 or 25% .

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Where I live we had one gas station with full service when I was a kid, and it cost like a third more than any other gas station in the area so almost no one went there and it eventually went to self serve pumps like every other station. Aside from the one time I went there I have always pumped my own gas, and I'd feel weird if someone else did it for me lol

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

The cheapest gas station around me is the only full service one around. I hate it. I'll pay extra to not have to deal with the forced interaction. Tipping cancels out the discount anyways.

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[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

If only I could give a negative tip.

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