Tipping Has Gone TOO FAR

Caroline Downey responds to the stark rise in requests for tips from people who work in industries where it either unreasonable or immoral to expect such compensation.
CHAPTERS:
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0:00-0:36 Tipflation
0:36-1:00 Out of Control
1:00-1:28 People You SHOULD Tip
1:28-2:28 People you SHOULDN'T Have to Tip
2:28-3:39 How Businesses Are Changing
3:39-5:07 How It's Changing in the Future

[@gildersleevefan67]

I also hate how Grubhub asks you to tip before you receive the order. The tip should be based on the quality of the delivery, not giving 20 percent and then watching the driver take his dear sweet time getting to you.

[@BS-vx8dg]

The *_absolute_* worst is when you are asked to tip on an app *BEFORE* your food is prepared. I'm actually a big tipper, but I want to tip _after_ evaluating how well you've done your job. PREtipping should simply be illegal, full stop.

[@howardlewis3824]

During the pandemic, I started tipping on take out because I knew that the staff needed the cash and support. I have started pulling back from that position, which got me into a huge fight with my favorite waitress/manager. She was really mad, but I held firm. I tip well for table service, but zero for takeout again. She wouldn't talk to me for about three weeks, but she is thawing out now. I don't if she will ever be as happy to see me again, but there comes a time for normality to set back in and all our problems that remain are our own.

[@jh26pt2]

Our solution has been to avoid these situations. We don't use any food delivery services and rarely use takeout (if we do, we pick it up ourselves) or drive-thrus. When we do, we don't tip. You don't get a tip for pouring coffee into a cup and handing it to me. That's called doing your job.

[@EdmundFolsom]

I recently bought a bottle of Diet Pepsi at a self-checkout store at the Newark, NJ, airport where the checkout terminal presented me with the tip options. It was a self-service, self-checkout store for crying out loud!!! We are living in a simulation programmed by Monte Python's Flying Circus.

[@Mast3r0fTheUniverse]

I was booking hotel stays on a travel site today. And I couldn’t figure out why the booking wouldn’t confirm. I had to choose a tip option before I could continue to the next screen. For what? Keeping your server from crashing? Ridiculous.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

So how do I leave you 2 bucks?

[@mindlaidwaste]

Unions for unskilled labor are commonplace today. Why not tip for "basic" services from unskilled (or skilled, for that matter) labor?

[@lizlee6290]

When the screen pops up with tip choices of 10% 20% and so on, I always select "no tip" and instead leave a cash tip. I know that servers prefer a cash tip anyway. I wonder how long that will be an option? I'm a generous tipper, but can I please decide? Thank you very much.

[@PATRICK-rt3sc]

THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE TIPPING, ARE WE BECOMING MORE STUPID EVERY DAY? YOU TIP IF YOU WANT TO.

[@gaguy1967]

the point of sale company gets a share of the tips...so only tip in cash

[@user-pp6fx7si4g]

No tips!!! It is being totally overdone. I have never tipped more than 10%. Since the expectations have grown out of bounds, I will not tip at all.

[@DerWutendeMetzger]

The self checkouts at grocery stores ask for tips.

[@kevinjenner9502]

In Japan the consumer is god, and god doesn’t tip.

[@spoiledjam3710]

💯 🇯🇵

[@SabbathSOG]

The UPS Store has a tip jar!

[@valleyshrew]

Earning minimum wage in California puts you in the top 3% globally, donating extra money to employed Americans is immoral when there are actually needy people in the world, like the heroes in the Ukrainian military.

[@jh26pt2]

"Helping one person is immoral if there's anybody else in the world who could use the help more" is a logical fallacy and is, to be kind, stupid.

[@strnbrg59]

You can't not tip if you want to get along with people. Nonetheless, I can't help observing that tipping, at its core, is virtue signalling.