#tipping

[hjellacott]

Can somebody please explain how this is OK?

As an European I simply don't get this. I spent large amounts of my life in Spain, which is The Bars Country, waiters everywhere. There's literally a bar (understood as a low-cost family-friendly place to drink or eat throughout the day and evening) every few meters, waiters and waitresses are the main export. And there are no problems in Spain about tips because guess what? Being a waiter is a FULL-TIME JOB. It's regulated by law, so they make at the very least 10-20€ per hour and often more, plus tips. Bosses are expected to take care of their team, paying them legally and decently, including medical leave and holidays, and ensuring they are safe in the workplace, and tips are normally like 3-20€ (depending on the level of luxury of the place and how much work people feel they've put the waiters for), because they're just supposed to be a little extra to acknowledge specially good service. The cue is in the name: tip, not salary.

So why the fuck is the US making people feel wrong for not paying fat-ass tips instead of complaining their bosses don't pay their team properly???!!!!

[panboba]

Non-tippers in restaurants: I don't have to tip!!! If it's not mandatory then I won't tip!!!! I should get awesome service regardless if I tip or not!!! Ugh, these servers are so entitled!!!! Besides, these servers aren't allowed to called me out!!!

Non-tippers when the corrupted government and corporations aren't interested in increasing the paying wage but increased the prices, refusing to help the people in need, proceed to use that money to fulfill their greedy wants and still have the audacity to say the people should be grateful enough and not be entitled as they know they have the money and power for the people not able to called them out on their horrible behavior:

If the idea of giving at least a 5 dollar tip to a server is too much for you even though that's a server's salary, then what makes you think corporations and government will gladly give you thousands of money in order for you to survive?

[danskjavlarna]

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[e32c-af6f]

I just bought pizza for someone in another country. He tips in cash, so, when checking-out through the website with my credit card, I selected the "no tip" option. This particular business uses the verbiage "Not today" for that choice. Which cut me deep.

"No tip" is just a checkbox, but "Not today" feels as though it is directly addressing a thought -- a hope -- that the worker had and makes sure to crush it.

Not today, idiot. Don't be so fucking stupid.

[lyftlink]

[fictionoftheself]

A restaurant here has default 10% tips that I have to request my waitress to manually adjust it to 0%. That's crazy, why are we copying the capitalist hell? I doubt if she even get 100% of that since it's built in the billing system.

I tip shippers directly without choosing the tipping on apps because they made like 2-3 orders hourly, under the hellish weather. I've never seen tipping in restaurants. You're not a fine dining place where you customers pay to impress, you cater 6 tables in the same hour and talk to me under a minute.

I'll fight for your rights on the street, but I refuse to normalise this shit. Tipping is punishing the kind people, the mean ones tip badly and the rebellious like me tips nothing to make a point.

[gaysaulgoodman]

Anytime you argue about tipping culture you fall into capitalist trap designed to make the working class infight so they dont come for the rich

Tipping culture fucking sucks but dont fight about it with the worker or the customer, go for the throats of people who employ you and refuse to pay you and the politicians who refuse the raise the minimum wage.