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Unionized Apple Workers Say Tip Your Genius Bar-Tender
- barbazoo 4y ago> Additionally, the workers have proposed bringing a tipping system into the store. Specifically, they’re looking to add the option for customers to tip 3%, 5%, or a custom amount at check-out with credit card transactions. The union’s Twitter account acknowledges the proposal is likely to be “a little controversial.” However, the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE)—as the union is named—notes that customers regularly try to tip already, without any recourse to do so. I'm all for unions, workers' rights and sticking it to the bad megacorps. But somehow I doubt that "customers regularly try to tip already".
- porkbeer 4y agoTipping is a bad precedent, as employers will factor it into wages. You will end up with lower salary/hourly pay, but its 'higher' after including tips. Look at what waiters deal with already, why go down that well trodden path?
- wdb 4y agoNext is asking to tip the sales people at Louis Vuitton stores? Why can’t employers just pay a reasonable wage? Needing to tip restaurant workers in the US is already a stretch
- raverbashing 4y agoThanks but no Why? Because it's a "bar"? No. You're in an union now? Great, fight for good pay conditions But this tipping crap is going too far now One of the reasons why I'm not convinced the CoL in the US is less than in Europe is the sheer amount of hidden fees like tips