This is really in the news cycles of late. And I agree it's gotten out of hand. The dismal wages for employees who are forced to make it up with tips. The exp

This is really in the news cycles of late. And I agree it's gotten out of hand. The dismal wages for employees who are forced to make it up with tips. The expansion of tip-prompting to every manner of services and non-services. The shaming of people who undertip by whatever metric. The modern POS systems that are programmed to prompt, as deceptively as possible, in order to extract larger and larger tips from the customer. The practice of pre-tipping; rather than serving as a comment on how good your service was, it's a bribe to not mess with me. The indiscreet tipping that you must do directly with the service provider, rather than dropping "something" into a tip jar. I remember a coffee house where the employees didn't work for tips, and so local regulation prohibited them from soliciting tips, and so they had, instead, a "show your love" jar or something. Appalling. I remember when it was explained that "do you want change from this?" is a rude question. Now, it hardly occurs to them to ask.