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Looking forward to the day some retailer's POS gets hacked and public lists of tippers vs not tippers is leaked and moral shaming begins. Or maybe it will affec
by listenallyall 3y ago
Looking forward to the day some retailer's POS gets hacked and public lists of tippers vs not tippers is leaked and moral shaming begins. Or maybe it will affect your social credit score, surely that's coming soon to the West.
- slyall 3y agos/West/USA/
- hotpotamus 3y agoI mean, if the idea is that you can shift the cost of paying your employees onto the moral whims of your customers, then that does sound like a pretty effective way to do it.
- jdworrells 3y agoThe moral shaming needs to be directed to the employers who refuse to pay a living wage and shift the burden onto the customers.
- birdyrooster 3y agoOr both? We are in a system that requires tips for people to survive. You can begrudgingly pay tips while being against them in principle and trying to change the system.
- listenallyall 3y agoFull-service waiters get paid below minimum wage and that justified tipping (to an extent). The rest of the "system" does not "require tips to survive." Certainly not bridal shops, online travel companies, and locksmiths, some of the examples in the article.
- listenallyall 3y agoI think the point of the original article is that tip prompts are expanding well beyond foodservice to stores and retailers where tipping was never previously part of the compensation structure. These companies did, and still do, pay well above "a living wage" but the additional money is still highly tempting.