The craziest thing to me are the places that have steadily raised the percentages for the default buttons. It’s a percentage, it already accounts for inflation automatically 😑
A bunch of grocery stores have also eliminated the “bagger” job, leaving you to do it yourself, but then also ask for a tip! Store cut costs by paying their employees shit, heaping more work on them, and then asking you to give their poor ass employees some money. Give them the money you saved on eliminating the bag people!
Yeah but the wages of these employees haven’t. Don’t go making the employer raise their hourly rate!
So inconsiderate of you.
Yes! A 15% tip in 1980 should still be a 15% tip today. Not this 20-25% madness that they try to keep pushing.
In the 90s at least, 15% was for EXCEPTIONAL service…
Now its 15% if they dont spit in your food…
I was told inflation is like 3% per year over the long term. You’re a monster to not want them to have that!
/s
I’ve noticed more and more retail places prompting me to tip. The fuck
Preach!
I’d like to see ‘tip’ and ‘gratuity’ legally protected as terms. So if it says ‘tip’ it must 100% go to the servers only. Very few do like they used to.
Went to Greece last year and they’re pushing this shit. Shoving a card machine in your face begging for a tip
In Europe. Fuck you, Stavros
Press “no tip” while making direct eye contact, and sit in their fucking seat while posting a 1 star review on Maps for spoiling my evening with harassment
It’s your civic duty as a European
I think the prominence of tip options is largely driven by the POS/payments platforms. Square, for example, wants you to tip because they get $.10 + 2.6% of the transaction. They would get this from the total transaction, so if you tip $2 they’ll get almost $.3 of that tip as part of the total transaction fee. They make it easy to enable for the vendor, but inconvenient to skip in the UI if enabled because you have to push a button to get to the receipt button. Plus why would the employee skip it? It might make them a little extra cash. The power of defaults is strong.
I’m waiting for a tip prompt from the forced self checkout kiosk at the supermarket.
I almost feel like I’ve read somewhere that it has already happened.
Newark airport self service tills ask for a tip.
I just had the most American thing happen to me today. I was asked to tip while purchasing fireworks for the 4th of July.
Did you shoot the teller then proceeded to load as many fireworks as you could into your f150 ?
Why is this a gif???
Why not gif? It’s basically a universal format. The file size is reasonable. And gif is lossless if you stay within a limited color palette, which this comic does.
For one, I can’t zoom in on my phone.
I can on thunder
I can’t zoom in on sync.
The pixelation I experienced would suggest this is not lossless.
The only time I regularly tip is when I go to Cold Stone to make the employees dance and sing for me so I can feel like a billionaire.
Can’t zoom in bc your stupid meme is a 0 second gif. Downvoted for not being able to read such small text.
I… uh… just uploaded it using Voyager. It wasn’t a gif on my phone, I don’t know how or why it got converted.
My apologies, but if this is the worst thing that happened to you today….
There’s something ironic about this complaint of a free thing someone posted to a free website where everyone is arguing the merits of tipping for services.
Here ya go:
I know this isn’t the point of the comic, but the barista isn’t just handing you a cup of coffee. They’re brewing it and making specialty drinks too.
The not-tipping argument really only works if you’re ordering a black coffee, but if you’re getting black coffee from Starbucks, you’re already paying way more than you should, so just tip.
Coffee makers are hella cheap if black coffee is all you want.
By your argument, every job should get a tip then, why pay the salaries?
US corporation should start paying their employees living wages instead of them asking their employees to beg for tips to get living standards wage.
You hit it right on with the second paragraph. I wouldn’t hold my breath though. It’s just one of many lobbying efforts to keep that going in the US.
In the meantime though, protesting the current system by not tipping directly harms the person who is doing work you could have easily done at home yourself.
I agree that we should have livable wages as the minimum wage, but your anger is misplaced. I’m mad at the government, and have solidarity with my fellow working-class citizens. If I can’t afford to tip somewhere, I can’t afford to be a patron there, and THAT directly impacts the company instead of the workers.
If the person working there doesn’t demand a living wages with all his co worker then should the customer ask it for them instead?
Do you mean by asking for a universal minimum wage instead of making each company’s workers fight for a living wage at each company individually?
Because yes. Obviously.
