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My resentment is not directed at the retail worker. It's directed at at the system that enables this. If I don't tip, I'm being an asshole to the worker. If I
by garbagecoder 3y ago
My resentment is not directed at the retail worker.
It's directed at at the system that enables this. If I don't tip, I'm being an asshole to the worker. If I do, I'm enabling the system that lets them get by with less on schedule wages. I hate it. I don't have a problem paying a service fee for table service, etc. (would much prefer it just be included, taxes too) but, yeah, I can't buy a pack of gum in the US without a screen asking me if I want to tip.
- autoexec 3y ago> If I don't tip, I'm being an asshole to the worker. No you're not. It's the employer being an asshole to the worker. Just because the asshole employer is begging you to volunteer to subsidize his labor expenses so that he can pay his workers less and less that doesn't make you obligated to and it ultimately hurts the workers anyway since what they really need are higher wages that aren't dependent on the whims (or wealth) of whoever happens to walk in, and the employer has no reason to provide that if customers agree to pay their employees for them. I'll start paying tips for basic/retail transactions when companies start tipping me for being a good customer. I'd even be tempted to start carrying around an ipad and demanding that employees enter a tip for me on it, except that the employees have no control over the POS system their employer users and I don't want to waste my own time. Hopefully pressing the "No Tip" button every single time gets the message across.
- garbagecoder 3y agoThe kid in the store just wants a bit and doesn't understand that 9 times out of 10 and it's just an awkward interaction. I get what you're saying, but what I mean but "I'm the asshole" is in the eyes of that (usually) kid.