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Good. Tipping creates so much mental overhead and unnecessary bad feelings on everyone's part.
by FartyMcFarter 1mo ago
Good. Tipping creates so much mental overhead and unnecessary bad feelings on everyone's part.
- criddell 1mo agoI hate that some workers depend on tips and that creates an obligation on me, but I do like to tip because I know how great it feels to get one. At work I sometimes get a bonus and what’s that if not a tip? I benefit too. It’s a way for me to express gratitude.
- xyzelement 1mo agoExactly! Thank you for expressing this so consciley. The fact that some people can't imagine enjoying giving (and receiving) a nice tip is really gross.
- kakacik 1mo agoWe prefer paying proper price for the meals with all costs included, to see those prices upfront, knowing that workers are paid fairly already and they just do the job expected from them. It means they can have decent lives regardless of their physical attraction, race, if they are sick or any other reason disadvantaging them compared to others. It also means I don't need to ever worry if waiter spit in my burger just because I look like somebody who won't tip enough. Do you also tip every single time bus driver, colleague, bureaucrat handling your request or your child because they did their work as expected? Because why stop at some imaginary border.
- criddell 1mo agoI think everybody (except maybe some unethical employers) want to see employees paid a fair and livable wage for their work. Everybody has different ways of expressing gratitude. That bus driver may be well paid and just doing their job, but I'm still grateful they are doing it and will thank them as I get off the bus.
- xyzelement 1mo agoYou're telling on yourself. Most people I know are happy to leave a tip - especially to reward great service as part of a great night, or in cases where you have a long term relationship with an establishment and its staff. I can only imagine the staff is likewise happy to see the nice tip from us at the end of the night. If you can only imagine "unnecessary bad feelings" - I can only imagine the tip you leave and how the staff feels about you. If you are so poor, you won't enjoy the price hike either and if you are not poor then just tip properly and move on.
- lintfordpickle 1mo agoWhat an incredibly obnoxious comment.
- xyzelement 1mo ago[flagged]
- kakacik 1mo agoMost of the world doesn't tip or does it very casually. Keep this aspect of US culture to yourself please, we see it as crap to be polite and artifact of worker's abuse and exploitation thats typical for US compared to all other western world.
- xyzelement 1mo agoYou are entitled to that opinion. But when you are visiting the US you have to follow our custom and tip.
- SwiftyBug 1mo agoDo I have to tip _well_, though? What's a neutral tip? I agree that while visiting your country, I should try and follow social norms there, but at least let's make official how much I should tip. I do not really have a very clear understanding of what good service is in comparison to bad service. Restaurant service to me is pretty much the same or, at least, I can't tell the difference.
- yuye 1mo agoThe thing I hate the most is tipping at bars. 20% tip when all you do is pour my beers, which I have to order at the bar and bring to my table myself? Insane.
- techgnosis 1mo agoJust don't tip 20% when all you got was beer? I tip $1 a beer (at most) when the beers are $8. Sometimes I only tip on some of the beers.