Tipping Is Out Of Control in America

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[@MangoMotors]

Tipping really is out of control. I can't believe I'm being guilt tripped by the Glizzlord to tip him for entertainment.

[@tortillachips3911]

😂😂😂

[@von...]

$5 - Value of making the joke funny == +$20 value gained Jeff Bezos is my uncle, lets build my brother

[@andrewgutierrez700]

You win this comment section.

[@HDMICIDE]

He guilt tripped. You guilt tipped.

[@cdubsb3831]

Five dollars! Are you seriously telling me you can't afford to pay FIVE DOLLARS!?

[@TopOfLobby]

I think we should just make it the customers responsibility to pay 100% of the employees income and let the owners/execs pocket even more money that they totally need and deserve.

[@yeetboi268]

my girlmath didn't approve this

[@shlongbongchewy]

you know you are paying 100% of their income when you buy

[@drumusic5665]

At least you understand the issue. I legitimately can't stand that this issue is approached in any way besides blaming the uber wealthy on top.

[@CrazyandLazy]

I agree with this. We should tip 100% for their employees so that the owners/execs can have extra money to buy out all the rental properties. And after they buy out all the land and the apartments, they should apply 50-90% tip for being our landlords. After watching Games of Thrones, I really want to relive in that sort of medieval time era where you work in mud under a Lord's domain. If we live in that medieval era long enough, we may be able to bring back dragons and magic into to real life.

[@Deeptunester]

I don't know why this is such a hard concept for us to grasp here in America. I go to a restaurant for food, not to subsidize peoples' livelihoods. Pay your employees a full fucking wage like every other industry in this country.

[@mrlegodude96alt2]

I was homeless, and I would go to the dennys and get like the $1.30 hot chocolate or the $2 pancakes, and I would tip 10% every time, I didn’t get refills, I was literally just there to read into a climate controlled environment and sleep in their parking lot lol, and after like a week, one of the waitresses came over and complained to me and explained that none of the waitresses wanted to help me because I tipped so little (10% of like $2 isn’t much). And I was like mam, I’m homeless?

[@condimentking3395]

Lmao fuck me for fooling myself into thinking it was gonna be a feel good story somehow. That's crazy

[@undyla-chan1675]

Holy shit and you were homeless and still took the time to tip too. Fucking hell they are so ungrateful

[@MostGenericUser]

​@@condimentking3395ain't no feel good stories at Denny's

[@davidkelly1507]

Fuckin ridiculous lmfao

[@michaelboyle7281]

When I worked at Waffle House I'd usually be the one to take the homeless customers or the ones who didnt tip, but the funny thing was they all started tipping me and no one else since I didn't give them any shit or anything lol. Then when I actually was homeless I was so well liked at Waffle House I was just able to hang out at like any in the city and eat for free, I usually just helped do some cleaning while I was there lol

[@FroggSocks]

Tipping is bizarre for someone who doesn't live in America. Like I live in Australia and you have the option to tip if you go to like a really good restaurant or whatever, but it's never expected. It's so crazy that you have to pay like 20% on top of your meal just so a person can afford their rent, even when the restaurant charges more for food then they do in Australia. It feels so damn dystopian

[@shealarsen4335]

yeah its ridiculous my local dispensary asks 😂like imma tip you for grabbing a bag from the back not even making any food

[@icysdemise3911]

You don't have to tip for people to afford their rent. Waiters have railed against any change to tipping culture because the truth is that if you work at even a halfway busy restaurant, you make at least triple minimum wage. Hundreds of dollars a night. I have a friend who's a bartender at a popular bar in a college town. He works 3 nights a week and makes around $80k/year.

[@FroggSocks]

@@icysdemise3911 you do have to tip people to afford their rent. The minimum wage is so low that you can't afford to pay your rent without tips. Yes, some people end up making really good wages just off tips, but not all servers do. All servers rely on tips to survive, and that's not a thing over in Australia because we have a (mostly) liveable minimum wage

[@kio64x]

@@icysdemise3911me when i lie

[@FroggSocks]

@@icysdemise3911 also for ur mate to make 80k a year working 3 nights a week, he has to make over triple the median tipping amount of 150 dollars a shift (512 dollars total per shift) to be able to hit that wage. If that's true (which it isn't at all), all I gotta say is damn bro they hiring??

[@Trizzer89]

I have gotten exceptionally skilled at not giving tips to non-waiters and never rounding my groceries up to the nearest dollar. I wish this skill could get me a job

[@tortillachips3911]

im proud of you dude, great work

[@jkizzle9953]

Leaving this here encase u or others don’t know, but when u “round up to donate to childrens cancer” or some shit they donate that money on their own behalf and use it as a tax write off. They don’t give a fuck about being charitable, they’re using ur kindness to lighten their tax burden lol

[@user-white007]

100% shit I’m needy too

[@ManOfParody]

The greatest skill I've learned is being a jerk, and not caring anymore.

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

That is a job you're saving money constantly

[@ryanweigel4164]

I work as barista, and I’ve noticed that some older folks (and tourists, for that matter) don’t always know what they’re doing when confronted with a tip screen. Whether it’s unintentional, tipping on sleek iPad-looking POS systems like Clover can be deceptive and exploitative. One older gentleman accidentally tipped $32 dollars buying, quite literally, a cup of coffee. I don’t know how he managed to mistakenly give %1000. My coworker noticed the mistake, and I dashed outside to find him. I caught him, but it makes you wonder how many instances that error is left unchecked.

[@me_avip]

I work at a small toy store where we do complimentary gift wrapping but aren’t allowed to accept tips. It doesn’t bother me much, but it’s so weird having customers say “no I insist” when I turn them down, and have to follow up with “no, I literally can’t take this.” Part of me is glad that no one feels pressured to tip at the store because the expectations these days are crazy, but another part of me is like, “I make minimum wage dude, let me have this win.”

[@Rcmike1234]

If no one I'd just take it

[@WARnTEA]

I have friends that will blame businesses for having those Tip touchscreens, and what you talk about it the thing I always think of to justify why a business would allow the tip screen. There are some customers that get really pushy about giving tips, so not having a way for them give a tip will almost ruin their day, and make the whole interaction very awkward. As long as your job isn’t something where a tip could encourage corruption like a mechanic, I feel like its totally fine. I used to work at Jimmy Johns and they had a weird rule about inshop workers not accepting tips or at least not having a tip jar, which is odd because we are trained to make someones sandwich before they finish paying for the order, its literally an impressive thing that is worthy of a tip.

[@PopeMical]

​@@Rcmike1234If you ever get caught taking a tip at a job where you can't, it can be used as a reason to fire you. So sure you made a few extra dollars but I'd rather not risk my job for a few dollars.

[@jimbothompson7747]

I had a job where the policy was to deny tips twice before we could accept. I’d wait until they had cash in hand and say “No no it’s fine” and then take it

[@Dutchlad112]

If not being able to give a tip ruins your day.. Your day deserves to be ruined.

[@styersjohnmichael1394]

I worked at Olive Garden with us getting like 2-3 bucks and hour without tips. In recent years they got rid of automatic gratuity for large parties of guests, which is great for Olive Garden and horribe for the actual employees. Especially in lower income areas like mine, a lot of people don't know that servers don't make minimum wage, and thus don't tip. A couple of friends/coworkers of mine worked a party of 40 for their entire 6+ hour shift, and were tipped $2 to split between the two of of them. The worst part is that Olive Garden has servers automatically pay a percentage of their sales to the bartends and bussers based on what they "expect" servers to be tipped. So, my coworkers because of the parties' lack of tip, lost money coming to work that day. There is supposed to be measures in place to supplement pay if servers make under minimum wage that day, but it is never actually talked about and very rarely enforced even if the server pushes for it.

[@cheesypufs]

Quit and find a job that doesn't exploit you

[@CB-pd4ws]

I go to a Mexican restaurant every Tuesday for a taco Tuesday deal and the default tip options are 45% 50% and 55%. Absolutely absurd. It takes like a minute to select custom tip and manually type in the amount while the server is standing there waiting. Super cringe.

[@vinny9256]

That’s wild. At my restaurant it lists 15 18 and 20 on the receipt.

[@TaylorXIV]

it would take less time to select no tip considering their default values, thats all they deserve

[@AD3SPG]

Damn that's high I've only seen 10,15,20 at least for restaurants and that's just take out.

[@cheesypufs]

I would very loudly and audibly exclaim "Damn who in the world programmed these tips here!! This here makes me want to never come back" and then select No Tip, and custom tip with my cash

[@AkaThePistachio]

As a british person I always found tipping weird. These massive food chains cant pay their employees a living wage so customers have to do it?

[@HimmyNeutr0n1]

Thank you

[@ThePoliticalBulldog]

They can, they don't want to, and spend the money they saved exploiting workers on lobbyists and bribes in washington to keep getting their way.

[@dangelocake2635]

Dude, our economic system is weird. They can pay more, but they won't, so we have tipping. But nowadays, tipping shows clients the business is not paying living wages, so they don't allow tipping and don't pay a living wage at the same time.

[@iplay9s]

The big chains and corporations can no problem, its the small and beginning businesses that can't because they are so burdened with bureaucratic restrictions and fines and regulations from our oversized government that paying their food service employees even as much as minimum wage would bankrupt them instantly upon starting. The American dream is to start from nothing and build success, and the government decided that to save that dream instead of cutting back on the government they could just lower tip workers minimum wage

[@ThePoliticalBulldog]

@@dangelocake2635 You said "weird" but I think you meant "exploitative and must be dismantled".

[@scpWyatt]

I specifically choose “other amount” and select zero and breathlessly stare into their eyes until they ask me to leave. EDIT: fuck somebody said that in chat already that’s what I get for forgetting what happened in the stream 🤦‍♂️ not even a real glizzy guy

[@irecordwithaphone1856]

They just need to grind harder. Capitalism baby 😎 Started from the bottom now you're still at the bottom

[@theallaroundnerd9889]

Fun Fact: Tip Minimum wage is not a thing in Washington state. Employers must pay the State minimum wage to all employees

[@lurac5710]

same in montana

[@theallaroundnerd9889]

@@lurac5710 based

[@winningsince1992]

That's every state....you can only not pay minimum wage when tips outweigh what minimum wage would be. So that 3.5 dollars an hour is only if you made 12+ an hour if you made less then that then they have to bump it up

[@stt.9433]

@@winningsince1992 oh that makes more sense cause not every tippable job makes a lot in tips. LIke McDonalds has a tips jar but only spare change goes in there.

[@stt.9433]

@@winningsince1992 and in that case not tipping can be a valid stance because it forces the employer to pay for the waiter's wage.

[@PelicanSoT]

it even asked me to tip for my comment this is getting out of hand

[@owenleynes7086]

the stupidest thing to me is the fact that the law technically says if the tips dont add up to minimum wage your employer is supposed to compensate the rest but that rarely if ever happens in my experience

[@nighthawk2548]

Just sue the shit out of them then. An employer not paying you your wages is the easiest lawsuit to win lmao there's no way they can bs their way out of it.

[@benelson12]

That could be even worse than you think because to get away with that they likely are over reporting your tips to meet the law and then you get taxed on money you didn't even receive.

[@jackmossey7107]

Its crazy that this part always goes unreported, essentially assuming that employers aren't over reporting tips, tips are just paying the employers responsibility to pay their employees, money that they would have to pay their employees otherwise. Meaning that we aren't really tipping the waiter but the business. Yes mr.owner I can spot you on this one of course! What a joke, whether minimum wage is enough or not is a different issue but this is really misunderstood.

[@lolsalad52]

@@nighthawk2548 this 100% this. like why would you work for somewhere thats gonna pay you like $80 for a 40 hour week lmao

[@ComFurt]

I've heard that much of the time if your tips don't add up to minimum wage your employer just finds some bullshit impossible to disprove reason to fire you. Being a worker in america sounds terrible, I hate how much of their culture bleeds up north :\

[@EpaGrom]

Every single employer be like: "Hey, we don't want to pay any salary to the workers so let's call this tips. But people will call us greedy bastards... Alright let's force this thing to be a TRADITION! People respect traditions!" No we don't. Come on that is disgusting.

[@WARnTEA]

Thats what I say to people that refuse to add more states to the U.S. it wasn’t even that long ago when we added hawaii and alaska. Fuck 50 we can have 52 its not a big deal, just add more stars to the flag, its not like you are counting the number of stars everytime anyway.

[@j1337-l1n]

i heard somewhere the employees prefer tips over higher wages because you don't have to pay taxes on wages. I read in a comment somewhere the employees protested after tipping was removed and the min wage for employees was $30/hr. I never checked it myself so i am not sure

[@rileythornhill8191]

I’m in a very unique position. I am a waiter in Canada, where just last year it was put into law that all waiters must make minimum wage, we used to make under minimum. And now we have a 16$ minimum wage. We get that while piggy backing off of U.S customs of tipping your waiter. Since the pandemic I have noticed my bottom line go up because I still get an average of around 18-20% in tips while also making the standard 16/hr. It’s not uncommon for me and my peers to bring home 40-50$/hr because of this increase. It also puts me in a weird position when other places, like subway or or Tim Hortons asks for a tip, because it would be kind of hypocritical for me to expect tips but not actively give back. But I do not believe a fast food worker should be tipped the same as a waiter. And I feel as if I have to walk on eggshells around the subject of tipping for that reason.

[@andrewadams530]

Fast food workers shouldn't be tipped. Sorry. The reason you tip the waiter is because they deliver the food. Not because they cook it. The price of the chef's wage is baked into the cost of the food. Sorry not sorry.

[@krisjohnston5569]

I've been a waiter, a fast food worker a bartender etc. One is not inherently harder than the other, and they are all quite easy, what makes it difficult is the type of clientele and the amount. A McDondalds worker at the night shift on a Friday night in town is working 100x harder than some waiter at a family restaurant doing the Sunday lunch service.

[@cassolmedia]

the way i see it, i tip the wait staff for enhancing my experience. I have cause to interact with them over the course of my stay, so that matters. the guy at mcds does nothing but hand me a bag. tips are not wage supplementation.

[@matthewv9169]

​@@andrewadams530the average server makes probably double the money of the cook

[@matthewv9169]

​@@cassolmediaI agree that tips shouldn't be wage supplementation but that server is either doing the same or less work based on the place than the mcds employee and getting paid maybe two to three times more due almost entirely to having the opportunity to get the job

[@sethyoder7996]

Cool and interesting thought. Why cant we just pay "tipping employees" a normal standard wage? And not feel pressured to tip the random guy that genuinely relies on it to make his wage. And then just ignore tf out of random "tips" from service jobs if we believe they didnt do a good job. Its gratuity, it shouldnt be a necessary thing for a worker to RELY on to make their full wage.

[@nighthawk2548]

They already get paid a standard wage. If they don't make enough in tips to reach minimum wage the employer by law has to pay the rest to get them there. wait staff actually make an extreme ammount of money most of the time but people are too busy with shaming people into tipping to notice.

[@FrankLloydTeh]

Business lobby. Owners dont want to pay for people working for their business.

[@rumrust]

@@nighthawk2548 minimum wage isn't a living wage. although i agree, most tipped employees make boatloads more than minimum

[@Kangsta665]

Waiters are the strongest defenders of tipping. They're making way more than the hourly cooks/bussers/dishwashers. This whole "but my hourly is only $2!" is so disingenuous. No waiter is would want to change to $15/hr when they can pocket hundreds tax free.

[@stefan514]

Fun fact, many of the "we can barely survive" waiters would hate that, because after tips they earn really good and the crying is part of their strategy. You'll find places that started paying them 28$ an hour and in turn getting rid of tipping... and they were furious

[@Chad_Maximus]

I've seen these tipping prompts in self checkout of all places. It really has gotten out of control.

[@fernando4959]

why do they want you to tip the machine?

[@coasterthekid8867]

You can just not tip. It’s an option on thing. That’s always been an option, No matter where you are in America. People are just too vain and worried about how they will look if they don’t tip.

[@cocoxcocoa]

I stopped going to 3 starbucks near me because I got attitude from the baristas 7 times in a fucking row for hitting no tip in the fucking drive through. I also stopped going to one of my favourite restaurants because they sneakily added in an automatic 20% gratuity to every check, and then also prompt you to add a bonus tip on top that when paying. The only way you can even find out about the new automatic gratuity is if you analyze your receipt, or if you spot the super tiny sign that's out of the way when you walk into the restaurant. Tipping has gotten to the point where I feel like people need to just start hitting no tip on everything. Maybe that way employees will start to realize they cant rely on customers to prop up their wages, and they'll start pressuring the companies to stop cucking them.

[@fabianbandaiii3304]

10:20 I have worked in a restaurant that tip shares EVERY employee, including the accountant, the head chef, the manager, the owner. And they have openly said " I just split the tips up based on who I think deserves it more that week."

[@orinblank2056]

The lack of tipping was one of the really nice things about living in Japan. It's actually very weird there, and it was so refreshing. You get a bill and just pay the amount, with no guilt or anything

[@Dschonathan]

IIRC I heard from the Yard crossover with Trash Taste that there is no tipping but instead a culture of giving gifts to people you have lasting service relationships with.

[@samboatman6688]

Tipping the coffee cow just for some brew IS out of control, thank your for exposing this Big A ❤

[@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070]

Where tf did you come up with that metaphor?? I like it but a coffee cow? Is there an iced one as well?

[@salami_tommi]

It feels like everyone wants to copy what restaurants have been doing forever which is making their employees reliant on tips so they can weasel out of paying them a fair wage. In theory this is supposed to incentivize employees to work harder which at least makes a little sense when we're talking about waiters/waitresses. But when you take tipping out of the context of actually RECEIVING SERVICE then it starts to make less and less sense like why am I being guilt tripped by 15 year old cashier at a SELF SERVE frozen yogurt place when all they did was turn a tablet around, stare at me with a judgemental look on their face and say "couple questions for ya there". The responsibility should not be on the costumer to pay an employee's rent when costumers are struggling to pay their own rent.

[@esmeecampbell7396]

How do you think any employee gets paid? The business just magics money out of thin air?😂 Call it tips or call it wages, the customer ALWAYS pays. If institute a $15 per hour minimum wage in all jobs, all that happens is the business puts prices up and customer still pays the wages of the employee via the increased revenue to the business.

[@salami_tommi]

@@esmeecampbell7396 I think you missed the point...

[@esmeecampbell7396]

@@salami_tommi no you "miss the point" you can't divert the ultimate responsibility of payment away from the end user. As evidenced by you saying "the responsibility should not be on the consumer to pay a employee's rent" because IT IS whether it is a "voluntary" or "discretionary" tip or just included in the cost of the food because a business charges double as soon as they legally have to quadruple their employee wages. I'm not pro tipping, I'm not a fucking Yank, I'm just saying if you force businesses to pay employees more, then they will force customers to pay more.

[@albinofroggy]

I'm a server and the reduction in tips we receive has been noticeable. My coworkers that have been there longer than I have are saying they are making barely over half what they made at the same time in years past. The frequency of people leaving no tip has gone from maybe once or twice a week across the whole restaurant to us keeping a tally of who gets the most per week. I've seen nights where cumulatively we'll have 5-6 tables that won't leave anything. And the tables that do leave something are leaving 15% or less. Hell, we have several known regulars that refuse to tip, but we still have to take the table. Just this past month I had 2 different shifts where I had to be paid extra from the managers to be above the state's 7.50/hour minimum wage.

[@atrioc]

Interesting. This is just starting recently? Definitely feels related to people getting overwhelmed w/ tip requests elsewhere.

[@albinofroggy]

@@atrioc It has only started getting bad in the last month or so. It was manageable up until students left for college. The week right after colleges started back up everything dropped off like it usually does, but despite the business coming back the tips have stayed almost equal. It's double to triple the people and tables, but you'd never know by looking at our server banks. Some of my coworkers were coming out at $18-22/hour in the spring and roughly $15 during the summer after it was averaged. But now the best we get most nights might be 10-12 per hour. And that's not all of us, that's the best of the night. Unfortunately that's not enough to live here even if you work multiple extra shifts. At least 2 people had to quit and move to another restaurant because they couldn't make rent anymore. I don't think they're having much success at those other restaurants yet.

[@greenwavemonster]

Meanwhile in Europe, a Tip is a Tip not a extra payment you’re forced to pay.

[@camhusmj38]

This. In the UK, 5-10% is the valid range and even then there is no expectation that you tip.

[@harrycake9407]

No it's not, don't spread a fake culture. We don't want it. Tipping is a thing and it's not percentage based, it's based on how great the service was, so it's always depended on the customer.

[@tobinbradshaw4059]

The only thing tipping does (for non service industry positions-I.e. waiters) is offset the costs of employment for the business. They pay employees less than minimum wage and then use your tips to offset their costs. As someone who used to work a job that asked for tips like this, I did not feel bad at all when people didn’t tip. Card tips go straight to the business and you’re lucky if even 5% of it goes to the employee. Save your money or tip cash. Fuck the establishment

[@thomasharriett]

If the establishment keeps the card tips, that is a serious crime. If you ever see this, report them for wage theft. (And if you get fired for reporting them then you can sue)

[@Darkhunter441995]

As a European, this shit is beyond dystopian. We tip our servers, for sure, but for good service. We're not guilt-tripped into it because we actually pay our servers a living wage. Novel, I know.

[@thomasharriett]

When I have visited Europe, I've been told it's rude to tip more than a euro or two. Apparently it's thought of as showing off.

[@theCometPM]

@@thomasharriett ye the servers will punch you in the face if you tip them more than 10% over here

[@JoicSeth]

​@@thomasharriettit's not this is bullshit

[@undyla-chan1675]

​@@thomasharriettthat's somewhat accurate depending on the country. In Europe, if people know you're a tourist they'll generally get over any behavior that seems weird to them (unless you're being obnoxious) so I doubt they would actually be offended. If you go to Italy where I'm from workers will generally really appreciate tips, though there is a risk that the owner might take them because it's easy to exploit young people who don't have any experience and have to work illegally. It's a whole mess of its own that I won't get into, but the bottom line is feel free to tip anywhere and if they look at you weird say you come from the US where it's part of your culture. They'll understand and appreciate

[@leoshest9651]

​​@@thomasharriettits not rude to tip more than a euro or two, lol..? It is odd though and some people might not want to accept it. But its not "rude" rofl Whoever told you this just didnt want to tip

[@jacobhaa2jacob71]

As a server for a Michelin star restaurant in Los Angeles…. I agree lmao the tipping shit is out of hand, especially being in the industry I feel bad for skipping the option but ultimately some positions just shouldn’t have tips for wages they should just be paid more 😂😭

[@dh5874]

not some, everyone

[@sinnlos229]

No, everyone should just be paid more. Tips should be entirely optional, the "tipping minimum wage" you have in the US is beyond stupid and imo, it's what's causing your shitty tipping culture and with it the crisis, the fact that said minimum wage has never increased since introduction completely pushed to the side lmao

[@nighthawk2548]

They get paid minimum wage lmao.

[@cartaphilus242]

​@@nighthawk2548minimum wage is bare minimum lmfao.

[@albinofroggy]

@@cartaphilus242It's below the bare minimum even. Where I live in NC minimum wage is still 7.25$ an hour while houses 5 minutes down the road are selling for 7 digits. The only people who can afford anything are people moving in from out of town.

[@Karsin8or]

I’ll say as a Starbucks employee that has a tip option for the drive thru credit card reader, I don’t expect you to tip unless your order is very large and/or your order was insanely complicated

[@Karsin8or]

Oh also Starbucks has shared tips, so your $2 tip is really like $0.03-$0.05 ish to all employees based on their number of hours worked per bi weekly pay period

[@rrarn-jk3ov]

Hey Big A! So I work at Subway and at some point in the video you asked how much goes back into the employees check, I can't say for certain every place's policies but for my workplace it works like this, the percent you press gets taken and taxed then put directly into a future paycheck. That's the main downside with card tips is that they are taxed unlike cash tips, however cash tips are also split by all the employees currently in the store so card tips do give us more in most cases. I hope this answered a few questions, also yes we do think about it sometimes lol

[@wispyssbm6561]

If I am tipping on an Ipad I generally just hit no. I have no trust that those tips are getting to the people that I want to have it.

[@tortillachips3911]

Recently I hit no and then put a dollar in the physical cup for tips they had 😂

[@HDMICIDE]

At a restaurant if it’s a food receipt and you sat and ate it’ll either all go to the server, get split between the servers, or it’ll go mostly to them with a small split to the hosts and such, and if it’s takeout same thing but sometimes the hosts will get 100% of the tip

[@walak6832]

Im in Quebec, and you can really see the difference between tipping by card or cash, the company i work for (Timmy Hortons) we dont have an option for tip by card but we accept cash tip, my sister’s workplace has the option of tipping that appears before paying. In the end i make like 15$ max in an 8h shift while they can get close to a 100$ for the same number of hours, but usually less clients too 🤦‍♂️😂 so yeah this method makes wayy more money

[@stoplewding]

Btw, most of those iPad tips don’t actually go to anyone but the owners of the shop. I’ve actually had plenty of service workers actively click the zero percent/no tip options for me and say if I *want* to tip to pay cash.

[@Dracna9]

I was buying food at a stadium and ofc the tablet asked for a tip. As I went to tip, the lady who gave me my food stopped me and said "Thank you, but we don't get any of that." Not sure how this is legal.

[@SentryWill]

Atrioc should tip us for watching his videos and providing exposure

[@Skiesahead]

As an Australian, I am glad that this is not a problem here.

[@menra2]

It's becoming one

[@theallaroundnerd9889]

If you tip, always tip cash and not card. If you tio card, in many places, it gets split between ALL the workers

[@quadsnipershot]

my first job we went to a new system for POS. It always asked how much you want to tip at first we would just tell them not to tip because nobody got the money aside the company. Eventually we just took the verifone away and had to press the button for people because people felt bad and still tip. I asked why we have that option enabled and apparently they could not remove it.

[@tortillachips3911]

So you don't get the tip through the POS? That's fucking ridiculous.

[@A-Letter]

I would just outright lie and say to the customers that the tipping system is mechanically broken and they should skip it by pressing 0. That should cover the outliers that still tip by virtue of adhering to rote behaviors. You can add "..yeah, we've had technical problems with the tipping system. We haven't been using the kiosk for a while and we're working on fixing it." and let their imagination run with it. People wouldn't second guess it because it's so out of the norm that someone would deliberately not take a tip. Broken is technically true, in a metaphorical way.

[@aatrophy5998]

I’ve heard from friends who work at places that use the digitized tips that they see a very small portion of it if they see any. Typically the tips go into this massive pool and then it gets distributed to different places and then the actual workers get the leftovers. One of them literally told me to just not tip where they work cause they won’t see any of it.

[@onechippyboi]

Last week I slightly flamed a Subway employee because he questioned me about responding "sure" to whether I wanted it toasted and I was like, "sure means yes" but he continued to be like, "sure doesn't mean yes, I don't know what sure means" before I just told him not to toast my sandwich out of spite. I still tipped 20%, I just don't have that dog in me.

[@joseph_M]

"Sure, I'll leave you a tip" Proceeds not to tip 😂

[@doublah1865]

nah tipping for fast food is crazy.

[@shirothefish9688]

@@joseph_Min a situation like that, I think the appropriate tip is $0.02

[@MrPerser]

As a European, this is the funniest thing ever.

[@CDrocKS]

Some places i go to have the check out employees hit 0% tip themselves before turning the thing to you to pay.

[@gefyongefiona53]

Dude why can't i disable this?

[@hunterbletz998]

As a former service worker, the tips made on digital kiosks have a number of fees and taxes taken out of them that cash tips do not have. It I’m prompted for a tip on a kiosk at a restaurant, I always select no but make sure I have some cash for the waiter so they can keep all of the money I choose to tip

[@TheBournPL]

I mean Im not from US but I see that some of the "tipping culture" is spilling into my country too. I only tip in restaurants and only of the service was exceptional. If someone from any other industry hands me that tablet with "how much do you want to tip" I make it a point to stare into their eyes and decline

[@hamishboddy1405]

As bad as flat tips are, where I live 10% is no longer an option on most tip machines. Like they start at 15% or 18%. And I have literally given no tip trying to pick another amount on accident. The card machines are criminal where I live.

[@HonkChamp]

Can we just appreciate Atriocs amazing comeback on youtube

[@potatosordfighter666]

TBH it's not hard to come back once your audience is over a certain size. At a certain point there are people who will watch you basically no matter what, which is why the end stage of nearly all washed up content creators is doing a podcast.

[@MMXVII]

In Canada they recently raised the wage for tipped positions to match minimum wage. I see a lot of these, but rarely ever feel the need to push yes to a tip. The only one that scares me is not tipping delivery drivers because I'm scared they will mess with my food.

[@SpaceSwimmer69]

Im actually scared to visit USA, because in Europe you're not forced to tip. The only time I tip, if I'm in the restaurant and the service is excellent. If I wait too long or the waiter forgets something, why would i tip lol. Tipping when you're in the line is crazy. I can see why you would tip delivery (I've done this several times in my whole life though)

[@cheesypufs]

If I owned a small business I would put a giant sign on the window that says "We won't ask for tip, because we pay our staff more"

[@SSJ_EWGF]

Hot, super unpopular, absolutely crazy take here but, maybe customers don't have to pay excruciating more than they expect, and employees don't have to be so dependent on the generosity of strangers if bosses and corporations just paid their workers adequately enough. Perhaps this entire conversation is just anyway the working class go at each other's throat while they sit back and profit off of our collective stupidity to see through it.

[@dh5874]

yea, but it’s just like he said in the video; you might make a good moral stand but at the end of the day you’re hurting the individual that does not get the tip..

[@dh5874]

but yeah. obviously that’s how it should be

[@irecordwithaphone1856]

Pretty much and a lot of people fall into that Us VS Them mentality where if they're a consumer they will think service workers are just greedy sometimes. A lot of lower wage jobs really do depend on tip money I think there's an important distinction to be made between greed and necessity

[@nighthawk2548]

They already get paid minimum wage even if no one tips btw lmao.

[@nighthawk2548]

@@dh5874 They already get paid minimum wage like everyone else why do they deserve more than peope that never get tips.

[@ghoziakbar6410]

In my country, if you leave a tip on the table, that money will be picked by random stranger

[@char1194]

I'm not american, nor have i ever travelled there, and I literally have never been asked for a tip before. When I first learnt about tipping as a teenager I was so confused

[@mystereoheart2579]

Important note about service worker minimum wage: *you only make $2.13 an hour if that + your tips = regular minimum wage or greater*. If you go a whole shift and make $0 in tips, you aren't supposed to earn $2.13/hr for that shift, you're supposed to get paid the regular minimum wage to make up for that difference. I'm sure there are companies that don't follow this rule but there is legal protection for those situations. That's part of why tipping culture isn't going away in the U.S. Waiters and waitresses usually make so much in tips that they'd rather keep it than go to a flat minimum wage salary without them. You can look it up, anytime a business tries to change their model to pay their staff a regular wage at the cost of taking away tips, there's a huge pushback.

[@PoliAstroN]

Tipping as a concept is just really weird. Why couldn’t we just pay the institution, and have the institution pay the worker appropriately?? Why do tips even exist

[@narhwallord6985]

At the little pizza shop I worked at, we averaged about $1.50 an hour in tips spread between all the employees throughout the week. After we implemented Toast POS we averaged over $4 for the first quarter. Then it balanced down to $3.50.

[@xBox360BENUTZER]

I worked in a small pizza delivery shop in europe where people don´t expect tips, minimum wage is higher and the payment screen doesnt ask for tips and I still got ~4€/h while selling to the few cutomers that didnt want them to be delivered while the drivers got 10-20€/h (they had to split with the kitchen so ~5-10€/h). Even when not pressured the rest of the world tips an average of 10% compared to usa´s 20%.

[@orionehrlich9120]

I was asked to tip on an ipad when paying $10 for a shower at a music festival I had spend nearly $500 dollars to attend. I hit the custom tip option I quickly pressed 0 and enter, cause why would I tip for a shower. I noticed too late that the custom tip option defaulted to 10%. So when I hit the 0 and enter I had accidentally tipped 100% meaning I paid $20 for a shower. Crazy

[@ollkorrect3856]

POG, then subsequently, GERS

[@CrunchRosey]

I'm autistic, I can hardly hold a conversation because of social anxiety. Sometimes when I am asked to tip I do crazy mental gymnastics regarding "Why this person deserves all my money" and eventually I always tip more than they deserve. I often do not even respect, or value, the work they are doing. When Atrioc said these tip machines are built to take advantage of awkward people, its me, but worse.

[@AnonNameless]

Prices are so inflated and on top of tipping, I don't even consider ordering any food or getting coffee. The only place I gotta tip is the barber.

[@hastyscorpion]

I would literally never tip my mechanic. Them sabotaging my car is horrible for their business. People don't come back if you do a crap job.

[@livigy]

I'm sure they find additional 'defects' instead, or really really insist that you need new brake pads etc.

[@z0biC]

As a bartender with a decent livable wage I'll take a stab. I work for small business with about 15 employees. We earn on tariff rather than minimum or set wage, with about 20-25 dollars /hour The tipping system in Norway is not mandatory but is often seen as a gesture of good service. Most norwegian, I would say about 90% do not tip and probably half considers it an unnecessary/dying practice With my hourly pay I earn slightly above 30k a year but with tips and closing in at 40k. To me at least it makes my work a viable career pursuit. I have a university degree which I can realistically either work as a copywriter, teach at highschools or work in research (all previous jobs). With the tipping system I earn slightly less, talking 10-20% of my yearly salary in teaching or research. I have to do less work, less responsibility and I can often take days off when needed. It's an absolute no-brainer to work anything else and I couldn't do that if there wasn't an implement tipping system To add on that, in Norway, tipping is considered a gift by law so businesses can't take a cut. 100% of the revenue goes to the service. But because everything is digitized we tax as if it was normal income

[@thefoxsaysno9951]

It's crazy that companies don't pay their employees enough so customers have to pitch in, tipping culture could be obliterated if people were just paid more right?

[@HectorButNotZeroni]

3:41 Excuse me, throw coins to the RUBBLE? lmao. Rabble.

[@oliverebbing6637]

I really only tip when the waiter has done an exceptionally good job. For example, on a vacation with my guys, one waiter was so funny with his jokes, that he got the whole table laughing mutliple times. He got a tip, because he was and is awesome.

[@gabeescalante1340]

i worked at a coffee shop that had cash tips and a block away was another coffee shop that had electronic tips and we would compare tips and they would always get more despite getting less business

[@NotChillin]

20% is too high

[@sinanjosephson6148]

I never knew how much I was getting tipped when I was a professional iPad spinner

[@jaden_shah]

I work service, and I totally understand where people are coming from when they say tipping is out of control (which it definitely is), but I feel like a lot of people don’t truly reckon with the fact that by not tipping, you are making it substantially more difficult for someone not to be able to provide for themselves because they aren’t being paid a living wage. That’s the real problem, the fact that we’ve normalized the fact that business should be able to outsource their own employees wage on to the consumer is insane to me.

[@sdaniaal]

I didn't go out to pick up another person's baggage, I can't believe this "free country" is still exploiting slaves.

[@tortillachips3911]

Very true. Do you work in food service? Are you working at a place that doesn't have typical waiters? If so, do you actually receive the tips that are clicked on the iPad? I want to know if my money is actually going to the people in front of me/on shift at the time I place my order.

[@turtlepope7802]

And by tipping you maintain the status quo. If people suddenly stop tipping for no reason things will get pretty rough for a bit and either the government passes legislation or market forces eventually balance things out. Tips are a band-aid, if you rely on them to keep everything afloat you'll never get out of it.

[@ThePoliticalBulldog]

It is not a customer or other fellow of the working class's responsibility to pay your wage at your job - it's your employers. Take that energy and demand a living wage & form a union.

[@thelyonking5812]

I’m a broke college student and I never tip. My own dad gives me shit, he says don’t go out unless you can afford the 20% tip. I say fuck that, it isn’t my job to pay your wage. Start or join a union and force an employer to pay you a livable wage. I don’t care if that means prices rise, because then at least I know the full price rather than having to pay extra that I didn’t expect just to eat. I work a job that pays $11/hr and doesn’t make tips, so why should I tip you when I don’t have money either, it’s basically me just handing over a $20 bill for no reason.

[@kienhwengtai8113]

I've seen in the USA, self-serve machines at supermarket on the news... ask for tips. Um, what you tipping for? You're doing all the work!

[@traderofgodsgt3518]

As a European, American tipping culture is so bizarre. I tried tipping a waitress in my country and she just looked at me weird and said "nah I'm good, keep it" (it was only 15% on a 40$ bill). I can't ever imagine paying someone 15% fee for picking up a sandwich or whatever from a glass cage for me

[@thpacemanthpiff]

The title on the thumbnail is a very clever joke, being a play on the name of a famous book by Malcom Gladwell, entitled “The Tipping Point”, as well as the act of tipping when paying for services

[@artemis-kinkyboikirby5539]

Tipping is the first step to losing workers rights

[@hastyscorpion]

12:16 the tip percentage may have gone down slightly but restaurant prices have gone up significantly.

[@adamvifrye2690]

the fact that minimum wage hasnt changed at all for like 2 decades is just absurd and openly sad.. idk why NOBODY seems to be doing anything about it... we should be at 10 dollars AT LEAST.

[@Go_ing]

I work at a local family entertainment place and we take tips on clovers. 10:29 We take how many tips we made on the clover out of the register in a day and write that amount on the days sales summary so its accounted for.

[@purpleconvict4152]

This is one of the things I love about living in Japan. There is no tipping culture. I haven't paid any tips since moving here and the one time I tried to tip a taxi driver, my friend stopped me because it can be seen as rude

[@bavier6355]

The guy at my local sandwich shop actively tells everyone to hit no tip lol

[@LunaticTheCat]

The lady at my favorite food cart quickly presses no tip before I even have a chance to press it. I love her, lol

[@Larkus]

as a barista I have to say I completely rely on tipping to pay my bills. And I still make 15 an hour base

[@IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek]

That’s actually insane, I kinda get it if it’s a small local coffee shop but if you are an employee of a chain like Starbucks then that’s disgusting that you have to rely on tips instead of them just paying what you’re owed, it’s not like they couldn’t afford it

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

Asmongold talked about tipping too, he said don't tip because you're making the same amount of money they are. "They can't afford not to be tip, you can't afford to tip them as well."

[@ezramarkos4957]

​@@IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek15 an hour isnt bad for a starbucks job, if its like a real coffee shop it should be more.

[@IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek]

@@ezramarkos4957 It's not bad, but it should still be able to cover your bills, Starbucks could definitely afford it.

[@papasalvo]

I'm so glad I'm a Hermit since I'm on a diet I meal prep everything for myself and the only interaction I have with people in regards to food is when I go to Sam's to get my pickup order and even then they just toss it in the trunk and I leave lol for real tho tippings getting a bit out of hand just charge me slightly more for whatever it is I'm buying and pay ur staff more I'm in no mood to be doing math

[@davidlazerz8564]

Just remember: If you dont like tipping dont pretend youre on some moral high ground and decide to not tip your waiter at a restaurant or any other tipped wage employee. These people literally depend on making tips if they want more than $7.25 an hour in most areas as only a few places in the US have real wages for tipped employees. Most places can legally pay them ~$2.15/hour and then let tips make up the difference. As long as they average more than $7.24 an hour the restaurant does not have to make up the difference in federal minimum wage or state minimum wage, whichever is higher. If you dont like tipping thats completely valid, but you should be boycotting places that use tipped wage employees, not using them and then not tipping. The only person you are hurting if you use tipped wage services and don't tip is the employee, and they have virtually no control over the wage laws and business wages so its like boycotting sweatshops by beating up sweatshop employees.

[@tortillachips3911]

SO TRUE!! We should be boycotting the SERVICE not the TIPS

[@ForOne814]

@@tortillachips3911 no, actually. Boycotting the tips would be way more effective, because people won't be able to sustain themselves in such positions, they'll seek other job opportunities and employers will be forced to start paying better. Boycotting tips is the way to go. No one forced the employees to sign the contract. In any economy where workers are in demand the workers control the market. Last time I've checked America is one of those countries. Every person that agrees to shit salary (as in salary THEY consider to be shit) is a traitor to his country and his people, and, more importantly, himself.

[@fabianbandaiii3304]

I applied at 7brew because the job ad said $18-$21 based on experience. Turns out it's minimum wage+ tips, which usually came out to $14/hr. I work takeout at a BJ's restaurant, they do the same, I applied to a manager position at Jersey mikes. Turns out it wasn't for a manager, it was for the lowest level employee with a chance of one day competing to be a manager in 3years when they plan on opening a new location. Payed minimum wage plus tips. This is in Arkansas. Job market sucks.

[@technetium9653]

I don't know how Americans convinced themselves that adding a gratuity charge in the bill would cause the collapse of society

[@Max_VF]

Obviously its not the only factor, but it definitely is one

[@zennacho5640]

if you had to pay 15% more for everything you would also become concerned.

[@Jasmixd]

​@@zennacho5640 You already do pay that 15% more in tips though? Or at least most people do.

[@ZacharieAlan]

Are you American? Tipping is stupid. It’s not causing the collapse, it’s just another symptom.

[@AnonNameless]

​@@JasmixdI think it became a big problem because of inflation before people didn't care that much, but now the price of everything is inflated and the tipping option is literally everywhere, no matter where you go.

[@Hhhhhsgaga]

I worked at a credit card processor in 2019. When some businesses that did not deserve a tip option would asked me to add tipping line for them, I’d either lie and say it’s there or id say it’s unavailable for their account.

[@A-Letter]

That is unfathomably based. Thank you for your service.

[@Equinox_Fox]

I work at a coffee shop in town, I can say on the note of "Do the employees get the digital tips" As far as my store goes, yea. We use clover, and the sales report at the end of the shift hand off also confirms the total tipped thru the digital system.

[@gaminggalore4210]

It’s kinda crazy how much america relies tips. I live in Australia and when I went to America for a trip, we had no cash, and just got scared by how angry they were.

[@LunaticTheCat]

Angry who was? Lol

[@gaminggalore4210]

@@LunaticTheCat The cashier

[@B-Wrecks10]

some restaurants you "get" to tip both the wait staff and the host. So usually the host misses out because the wait staff gets first dibs on cash tips unless they hand it directly to you.

[@Waffles17643]

Really just gonna steal Biggest A Clips content such trashy behavior. At least give the guy some credit

[@jcmartinez7527]

Casa Bonita in Colorado offered their employees $30 an hour on the condition they don’t accept tips. Waiters were upset at that. Stating they average 40-50 an hour with tips.

[@ATeenBeliever]

The tipping vets and non service workers is crazy. But tipping baristas is understandable. It's often an underpaid, high-stress job that is more than "pouring coffee". Starbucks has whole books to train their baristas.

[@tortillachips3911]

agreed!!

[@bestplayeralive]

Lol get a better job they will need to close or pay you more period.

[@littlecrab4101]

As an Australian that just came back from Hawaii, I feel that tipping is totally out of control. Lots of things had a 20% tip auto added and then also asked for additional tip. There was a “recommended tip” on the bottom of all receipts that started at 18% and said 25% tip was normal. Taxi drivers gave no change just expected that the few dollars were a tip. Uber tips were the worst. In Australia we never tip. I ended up spending at least $500 on tips in a week. I’ve heard people say “if you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to eat out”. Well as a tourist who’s dollar is worth 60 cents to the US dollar, I can’t afford to tip people $10 5 times a day!

[@darkumineru1681]

4:00 it was more a "don't be greedy it's not worth the chance of death"

[@longbottomleaf6918]

Just to expand on the bell ringing one person pays the tip concept, in Germany, bars have an almost stock market on drinks, the more one table and people in general buys a specific drink, the lower the price goes until it hits a bottom, a bell is rung and people have like 5-10 minutes to buy the drink until the price resets. Bars/clubs will have sections dedicated to this practice its nuts

[@Phantom_Majora]

10:30 when I was working at Tim Hortons about two years ago, there was an option to tip digitally but none of the on for employees ever saw any of that, only cash tips would be split amongst the employees, the rest of it just went to the owners of the branch. I don't know if that's normal but it does seem like a lot of the time when there is digital tipping the employees don't really see that at all, it's just the people who own the business or that specific branch. I had a friend who worked at Jack Astor's at one point and they had this weird system where you had to pay the kitchen out of your own salary in advance and your tips even that amount out, so if you don't get any tips or little to none, you're essentially losing money and being paid less than minimum wage. Maybe that's normal, I don't really know but it all seems sort of skewed and messed up.

[@LazoGT]

i cant wait to have some small talk with some guy and he brings out an ipad from his comically large pocket and asks for a tip

[@carlsoll]

5:36 I’m sorry, how is this poor woman going to find an extra hand to pick up 💩 left behind by those adorable dogs 😅😂

[@Weathers2284]

I still tip at the places you’d typically tip, at a restaurant sitting and having a server, getting a haircut, and a valet

[@tomlxyz]

If tipping is an expectation it's not a tip, it's hitten cost

[@Brandongamesall]

Yeah, I will agree that tipping has legit gone heighwire. I have also started to not tip, and I forgot that cash tips count, so when I leave a buffet, I end up feeling bad until the next time I go there