2018-04-13 at 5:13 AM UTC
If you tip, and I'm guessing most of you do, do you do it because you think your person you tip genuinely deserves it, or do you do it because of a sense of obligation or guilt if you didnt do it? In other words, do you tip servers, cabbies, bartenders, pizza boys etc to make them happy, or to make yourself happy?
There are 9,000 dynamics of this to delve into deeper regardless of your answer, but you have to start somewhere.
one quick example out of those 9,000 is why it's in a general sense (at least around here) to tip a bartender a dollar a drink, even if it's just them opening a bottle of beer for you. It's just kinda standard. One dollar for twisting a bottle cap off a bottle, and that's CUSTOMARY. But no tips for the McDonalds burger flippers who quite honestly are probably doing just as much work as a bartender during the course of their shift. That's strange to me. Explain it.
Thanks.
2018-04-13 at 10:59 AM UTC
I only tip out of guilt. If servers were actually paid minimum wage I would only ever give a tip if the service was EXTRAORDINARY, which is the way it's supposed to be
2018-04-13 at 11:23 AM UTC
when I'm in america, I'm not tipping.
2018-04-15 at 5:29 AM UTC
Originally posted by Enter
when I'm in america, I'm not tipping.
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2018-04-15 at 6:52 AM UTC
You tip as a way of saying "sorry that your life sucks". If they work in a place that doesn't accept tips, like McDonalds or something, then it sucks really bad, and therefore the quality and cleanliness of the food is questionable. Have you seen who works at McDonalds?
So yeah, if I order a pizza, I tip the delivery guy. He makes minimum wage, and has to use his own car to deliver it to you. His car ends up smelling like rotten pizza grease over time, and the car overall needs more frequent service. The mainstream pizza places don't really compensate much for mileage and gas. Have you seen pizza drivers on the road? Over here the cops do NOT bother them. They WILL fly to your house as fast as possible.
I don't judge the people who work jobs like these either, god will judge them. I don't know what circumstances they're in that they're working such jobs. Who knows, maybe you'll work a job like that at some point for whatever reason. What goes around, comes around.
I will also say, that if I go to a place that I frequent, I get a noticeable increase in service quality because they already know that I will tip either way. I believe this is their way of saying "thank you for making my life suck less, I will try to do my absolute best for you". Anyone who expects low-income workers to try their absolute best 100% of the time is delusional. People with such perseverance don't typically end up working jobs like these, especially if you take into account shitty management and places that are understaffed due to various delinquents working there.
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2018-04-15 at 7:33 AM UTC
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mandatory tipping is a shitty system
2018-04-15 at 11:39 AM UTC
I tip a lot more than I should. If I get really good service I’ll tip up to 40%. “Ok” service gets 30%. Even if they’re really bad I’ll still give about 20% because they might have just been having a bad day.
If the server is male, take the above sliding scale and reduce by 5-8%.
Honestly I think tipping is a stupid system, but it’s what we got so. Really, the people they work for should just pay them more. Just another method corporate America uses to fuck you
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