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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Perhaps you’ve noticed. We have reached a tipping point in the country over tipping.

To tip or not to tip has led to Shakespearean soliloquies by customers explaining why they refuse to tip for certain things.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, customers were grateful for those who seemingly risked their safety so we could get groceries, order dinner or anything that made our lives feel normal. A nice tip was the least we could do to show gratitude.

But now that we are out about and back to normal, the custom of tipping for just about everything has somehow remained; and customers are upset.

A new study from Pew Research shows most American adults say tipping is expected in more places than it was five years ago, and there’s no real consensus about how tipping should work.

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago

It can be multiple people's fault at once. You're still the one stiffing them until the law makes their employers pay them fairly, don't like it, don't use the services.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tipping is depending on the kindness of strangers. Don't like it, don't get a job that requires tips to survive.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

If you don't want to tip then don't ask for the service of tipped workers and get pissy that they ask for a crumb of solidarity while the fight for a living wage remains ongoing.

Don't like tipping, go grocery shopping for your food and cook for your own selfish ass self.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Goes both ways. Don't like it if a person decides not to tip, which is well within their rights? Get a different job rather than continuing to support an industry that's exploiting your labor even more than most do.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

Nah, you're the cheepo who doesn't wanna pay the real price for the service they're getting.

People like you are why "but it'll raise prices!" is viewed as a main argument against living wages.

Fuckin' cheapskate you are, when you catch something when the barista you short changed spits in your drink, remember how bravely and nobly you carried the cross of "fuck you gimme a free burger."

[-] Benj1B@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Dude. Get help.

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you were trying to convince me that tipping is trash culture for petty, entitled dipshits, you've succeeded

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, the employers are the cheapos who want the customers to pay their employees' wages. If an employee is such a raging asshole that they'd spit in a customer's drink, they most certainly don't deserve any kind of tip and at that point it's extortion. "That's a nice drink you have there...be a shame if someone spit in it."

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