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This is how a greedy person thinks. It's morbid, but fascinating.
I am not in a financial race against the people who do not tip. And if this guy thinks I am then he failed to factor in that people pleasers probably go a lot further socially in life and thus are likely to make more money. Maybe I tip not because I want to please, but because I have more expendable income than the average self-limiting greedy asshole.
I don't think the richest people are the ones who want to please people the most, I think the less they want to please people, the richer they get. Then they run society with their wealth and the people pleasers are at their mercy
The richest people, yes certainly. But they didn't get rich merely by not tipping, and the moron who wrote the tweet is certainly not that level of wealthy. I'm just talking about 99% of people, the working class.
No your tips become profit for the greedy assholes who own the restaurant, you aren't compensating for non tippers, you are compensating for greedy cunts not paying people a living wage and the fact that most Americans can't understand this and are agreeing with the post calling people who don't tip as rude is why tipping is never gonna leave this fucked up country
I'm Canadian. Servers now make minimum wage. I have stopped tipping. It doesn't make any sense that a server who is making above minimum wage has to rely on customers paying a gratuity. Where were my tips when I was a lifeguard? Or a tour guide? I didn't get a bonus for doing a good job landscaping. I'm not angry at the servers. I'm upset at the ones who blame customers for the shady business that they help keep open.
Minimum wage isn't a lot of money, especially of you're living in a city like Toronto. There's an expectation for a server that they're getting a tip, so when you don't do that you're inherently guaranteed to give them a negative feeling emotion.
Then you should focus on contacting your representatives urging them to increase the minimum wage, not perpetuate an unfair system that forces workers to depend on the generosity of random customers. I've worked on minimum wage restaurant gigs, your tips don't get shared with the back of l the house staff who are busting their ass in the hot kitchen making the food you eat, while pretty stack racks all the tips taking plates from point A to B
Rude people don’t tip? No no friend, it’s your economic system that is fucked
Yes, at this point it’s rude people that don’t tip.
It’s like people moving next to an airport, then complaining about planes. If you don’t want to tip, don’t go to a full service restaurant.
That being said, every single order at the counter POS terminal that asks for tips can fuck right off.
It's rude that the insane hyper capitalist dictatorship forces this, but you attack your own class, exactly like the oligarchs want. They want free mercenaries to sow hate and dispute in their own class so they can win the class war. In the end when all humans die it will be because nobody attacked the oligarchy while they set up the feral slaying machine corps that will salienate the planet.
So let me understand: the owners are the ones that don’t pay a living wage to their staff, preying on the good will of the customers to cover for them so they can double dip (both by not having to pay the wages, and not having to pay taxes on the wages they don’t pay), and the rude ones are the customers?
The tipping system is fucked, but that doesn't at all change the fact that it's baked into the system. EVERYONE (in that moment) expects you to to tip; so if you don't, you're effectively stealing from the server.
If you don't want to tip, your only options are to either not eat out at restaurants, or to find restaurants that have "Hospitality Included" service (a trend which I'm thankful to see growing -- albeit slowly).
What if everyone didn't expect you to tip? You vehemently defending the tipping system is part of why EVERYONE expects you to tip.
That kind of aggressive apatheism is what makes the system continue.
The tipping system sucks, but short of passing some laws mandating a livable wage WITHOUT tips, going out now and not tipping for a full service dining experience is absolutely a bad move.
Basically you’re advocating for customers to screw over the wait staff since, as you clearly point out, the owners aren’t on the hook for the tip income.
The only way you can help increase the wages is to not tip, all it does is subsidize the owners
Unfortunately as this very thread shows, a lot of Americans are mindbogglingly not in agreement about that. Which explains a lot about the current predicament of the country.
We should end tipping culture. Wages should never be optional, and anyone working full time should be paid by their employer a living wage as described by FDR when the minimum wage was created.
Until we end tipping culture, tip your servers. You're not some edgy social justice warrior by quoting Mr. Pink and acting like keeping your two dollars is somehow helping. You're just an asshole.
The single best thing people can do to end tipping culture is to just stop tipping.
Vote for social safety nets or make donations to care for those who will be harmed by this.
But right now it's people like you that are perpetuating tipping culture.
And yes, I am an asshole - but it's not solely because of my stance on tipping.
Lol, I'm sure your reasoning is really going to make a difference to the person depending on tips to make rent. And I'm sure the owner is just going to feel terrible that his server didn't get compensated.
Maybe you should just avoid giving your business to restaurants that exploit the tip based system? You aren't ending tipping culture by not tipping, you're just taking advantage of workers just as much as the owners.
Bullshit, and that's a dangerously naive perspective. If everyone stopped tipping tomorrow, the only people that would be hurting are the people who serve.
All labor regulations exist because there will always be someone desperate enough to do anything for a paycheck. Child laborers. Prostututes. Dallas Cowboys. People will do anything for money, and the only way to prevent exploitation is with regulation. The "free market" will turn your bones into paste before it provides a living wage to laborers.
Capitalism is an unbalanced power dynamic that relies on an excess of desperation. If people didn't need to sell their time, they'd never sell it for less than it is worth to employers. So if everyone agreed to just stop tipping, service would get much worse, and servers would be working for $2.10 an hour plus kitchen scraps.
At least we agree on uour last point.
That's not. How. Tipped. Wages. Work.
Why do people insist that you get paid 2.10/hr? That's 2.10/hr + Tips IF AND ONLY IF that wage equals more than minimum wage. That's how it's always been.
If minimum wage is 7.25 (in a lot of states, it still is), then they are paid 7.25x40 OR 2.10x40+tips, whichever of those two numbers is higher. They CANNOT LEGALLY PAY YOU less than minimum wage.
So when people say "If you stopped tipping today, all that would be hurt is the tipped workers" I'm less inclined to believe them if they also parrot absolutely false information without a second thought.
But I do agree with you, tipped wage jobs suck, and the tips seem to be the only benefit. So, let's ensure they get a proper wage from their employer, stop tipping, and if service sucks until things are figured out, I guess I'm eating at home or eating shitty-service burgers because I'd rather the system get un-fucked than continue to engage in that system.
You've never worked a tipped job, have you? Estimate the percentage of employers who pay minimum wage if tips are too low. Throw out any number.
"You've never worked a tipped job have you?"
Proceeds to describe an illegal situation
Wow, you've never worked a job before, huh?
The whole point of that scene was that even a room of psychotic killers was disgusted by the idea of not tipping.
Until we end tipping culture, tip your servers.
If everyone continues to tip by default, then I believe this will delay or prevent an end to the culture. If servers don't have an issue with tipping (because everyone does so), then there is less reason to support change.
If one person doesn't tip:
You're just an asshole.
If a large majority doesn't tip:
Maybe there is a problem with tipping by default?
That's not how anything works. If you want change, you need to vote for it. You're not going to change the entire economic structure of the whole restaurant industry by being a selfish asshole. You're just punishing the people who handle your food and making life harder for everyone.
I'd find it almost funny, how much capitalism as a system seems to favor those who are most capable and willing to detach morality from their actions for capital gain, if it weren't so sad.
There are good criticisms of other economic systems that have been tried, but capitalism really seems designed to transfer the most power and resources to the greediest and least ethical.
No but you don’t understand.
Capitalism works because it pits everyone against each other and so even though every single person is greedy and unethical, they begrudgingly improve society overall because of reasons.
All we have to do is make sure we teach every child that all humans are fundamentally greedy and evil and the only ethical response is to out-greedy and out-evil them.
And then we’ll have a prosperous society!
Not tipping isn't rude.
If you're somewhere like Australia or Japan, where it's not a normal part of the culture, then fine
If you're somewhere in the US where the laws around pay are shitty, and people rely on tips to survive, then you're a cunt for not tipping
I think tipping is shit, and that people should just be paid properly, but I'm not blind to the realities of life when I travel. So I do what is appropriate to be a decent person
if you're utilizing a service that pays subminimum wage conditional on tips making up the difference, then yes, it's not rude. it's straight up evil.
if you have a moral objection to tipping, then dont use services that pay workers subminimum wage
But the evil is in the hyper capitalist mindset of your insane government
In the US, servers and restaurant staff tip like 100% of the time they go out because they know how important it is with our current pay laws, and they know that the waiter expecting that tip isn't the one making the laws or who deserves to be punished for them. So that tip is almost always going to someone else who also tips.
Btw, don't bother arguing with me that tipping is wrong so we shouldn't do it. I agree that it's wrong, but abstaining punishes the wrong people (servers, not owners or policymakers). So instead of writing a comment, write a letter to you local govt to eliminate sub-minimum wages for tipped workers, and keep tipping poor waiters and drivers til they change something.
I adjusted my tip to 10%. Yep they don't pay tax, so I adjusted accordingly
