> 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 beg

> 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.