Places that used to not ask for tip now asking for tip(when I'm just picking up my order) and I know that shit isn't going to the workers.
Yeah, I will ask workers what the tip-out policy is at questionable places (i.e. Fast Food Service), most of the places that put in these tip screens do not actually tip-out or have some insane policy to make sure workers never claim the money and/or only a small percentage. Like if a tip jar would seem out of place and/or wasn’t there before a store’s POS upgrade I generally assume the management is pocketing the tip (i.e. Five Guys Burgers, cash goes to employees but I’ve been told by a few cashiers that credit card tips seem to vanish into thin air)
If you order carryout from a sit-down restaurant, it most likely does go to the worker who's hired to get your order.
I'm not defending the practice because that doesn't seem like a situation where you should have to tip, but just sharing information
Wait staff and bartenders check you out at sit-down restaurants, not cashiers.
When I worked there, we had a dedicated carryout server, and she came to us with previous experience doing the same thing at other restaurants, and last time I spoke to her she was doing curbside at yet another restaurant, so either you're thinking of fast food, or you're conflating your personal experience with other different restaurants, or you're making assumptions
Here's a tip. Pay your employees better.
If you continually buy product from a place that doesn't pay their staff better, all you're doing is rewarding the business owner and telling them to keep doing what they're doing. It solves nothing and doesn't get rid of tipping culture to keep giving these shitty businesses your money.
Profit trumps wages. Always has.
My tipping habits are purely chaotic whim or lack of attention in the moment. I accidentally tipped $70 to the guy who tinted my windows the other day.
My tipping habits are ask you boss for a raise. I'm already paying for the service through predicated prices.
Greasing palms can accumulate good faith benefits. But I mean, tipping for a fast food burger, yeah... probably no tat for that tit.
Shitty brutal take that punishes unorganized young workers and rewards the person making their life harder.
I love punishing low wage workers while making statements on how the system should change.
"Oh, you thought you could afford to take a day off this week to help an elderly parent make it to a doctor appointment? Nah, get fucked. You can't afford to that and buy groceries."
It sucks that low wage workers are stuck in the middle, but corporations are also relying on customer guilt to pay their labor costs while posting record profits.
It's not really fair to blame the customer for that.
So your saying we should reward the buisness for their poor practice by giving them our money and then protest the practice of tipping by not giving the low wage worker any?
It’s not up to the customer to directly pay the wages of restaurant employees, period. No one is ever “owed” a tip. The food service industry convinces their employees otherwise, and the result is employees blaming customers for the wage theft that the employer is committing. Blaming customers for not tipping is misguided.
Okay. We're past this point in the debate. No, it SHOULDN'T be the customer's responsibility, but that's exactly what it becomes when you justify your nice night out off of the underpaid labor of someone who is just trying to pay their bills. Restaurant owners laugh all the way to the bank reading these threads because they're the ones profiting off of your disdain for a low income worker.
Yes it is. Knowingly rewarding shitty business practices and making it "nobody's fault!" is literally your fault. The business has no incentive to change their policies if you keep spending money there.
It's not my fault the system is broken. I'm not going to subsidize them. If they want fair wages they should unionize.
Stop rewarding the business owner with your money while they're robbing their employees. You only exacerbate the situation with this mentality.
No, you'll just subsidize the people exploiting them instead because it's convenient and you can't be bothered to heat up your own nuggies, all the while feeling holier than thou about not "subsidizing" the actual worker.
Sounds cool bro.
Me too
A local ice cream shop asked me to tip on the very first screen when I swiped my credit card. You scooped ice cream a couple of times and put it into a bowl. Ridiculous.
In Cupertino there was a self serve yogurt shop (I think it was called Yogurtland) where the cashier only rang you up by weight, and their checkout system asked for a tip, but they never offered to tip customers for doing the majority of the work.
There are legitimate reasons to not tip someone. Being a cashier typically does not necessarily obligate someone to tip you. Lots of times people will say "keep the change" at a fast food restaurant and the workers take home maybe $10 each on a busy shift, but that isn't really tipping.
If you hate legitimate "tipping culture" so much, stop making it the minimum wage earner's problem that they work for a shitty employer and start boycotting places that refuse to pay their workers a living wage.
Fucking everywhere does this now. Are we boycotting everywhere?
I never tip if I’m picking up takeout food, but I will always tip if I’m eating in or if I’m getting it delivered to me.
I wish tipping was not a thing in the States, I’d rather pay more upfront and not have to tip :V
Lemmy:
It's all about class solidarity!
Also Lemmy: Unless the minimum wage exploited employee is a cashier, in which case fuck'em.
It's good to remember that no social media platform is a monolith of opinion.
Context is king: that cashier sees none of those tips because you used your debit card and the 'tip' goes directly into the corporations bank account.
Loblaws already has a fat enough margin with the gouging, they don't need any extra boosts from my just-about-broke ass.
Well, that's what cash is for, and also that is usually not how it works. I'm sure it is how it works somewhere but by and large (like 99%) the servers/cashiers/drivers get paid out for those tips, sometimes having to split them, sometimes with taxes taken out already, but they do get it.
Not saying you have to tip, if you feel they don't deserve any kindness then by all means fuck em, but they do usually get the tips despite what you may think.
What does Bob Loblaws Law Blog have to say about it?
Tune in next week on the rural juror to find out!
When the cashier has a union and strikes, I won't cross the line. Otherwise, get over it! Spit in my food if you have too.
I'm dealing with my own workers rights problems, I can't take on everyone else's at the same time.
Servers have an established expectation of relying on tips to get a living wage, and often earn less than the minimum wage otherwise. The same is not true for cashiers. Maybe they should be paid more, but that should not be done by creating more reliance on tips to subsidize low wages.
Bosses are legally required to make up the difference to minimum wage if a tipped employee doesn't get enough tips.
If I tip a cashier, then we're taking money away from the working class to give to the working class, which means there's no net change. But if I refuse to tip, the boss has to make up the difference and the working class gets money from the capital class.
Therefore tipping is class treachery. You're depriving the workers of chances to take money from the bourgeois.
Tell me you haven't worked a menial job without telling me you haven't worked a menial job
nah, I’ve worked in the food service industry. Places asking for tips on carryout orders is manipulative and gross.
You should never be afraid to not tip. It is optional.
I've started carrying cash again for the first time in like 30 years, just so I don't have to deal with this shit anymore. Fuck off, beggars!
I only use cash cause fuck the bank and credit card company tracking every purchase I make and selling my data to anyone. Not getting extorted for bribes by these fuckheads is just a bonus.
People who moralize tipping are fucking scum. Tip or don't. Preferably don't. Don't make a long list of BS rules when and how much you'll tip. Don't go off your gut either; because that's how you end up subconsciously tipping in ways that are passively racist and sexist. Flat amount.
Tip the same amount no matter what, even if that amount is zero.
Tips are usually pooled with the others that did the "work" you approve of.
You seem really cool anyway.
When did he transition to a man? I’ve only ever seen him with huge jugs. Good for him.
Sounds like you're all "tip", actually. 🤌🏼
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