Posted on 07/13/2024 6:31:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Awoman who refused to pay a 20 percent tip on her Subway order has been applauded for challenging a practice some online feel has got "way out of hand."
Tipping might be a common practice in America today but, in truth, there are occasions when some are reluctant to do so.
A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults conducted by Talker Research found respondents reluctantly tip $37.80 a month due to the pressure or awkwardness of the situation.
All those tips add up too, with that monthly figure equating to $453.60 a year in guilt-induced gratuity. All told, 26 percent of respondents said they felt they are always or often forced to tip more than they would like.
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Bums on the corner are not working hard serving people all day.
And I have helped several unfortunate homeless people and even housed them in my own home and got them jobs whenever I had the ability/funds. Not everyone is fornunate as I have been and tides can turn in one moment.
If it ever happens to me I hope there are people who feel the same way and know to treat others as they would want to be treated. The GOLDEN rule
As an aside, Costco has a firm no-tipping policy. I tried to tip a tire shop guy who had noticed a low tire on my car as I was parking and he was shuffling cars around. He firmly refused it. I went and found a manager and told him he had a great employee, and that I really appreciated his noticing and calling out that problem.
That's where this is at. Just like friendly Sicilian neighborhood watch 'vigilantes'.
Pay the suggested 'tip' because otherwise...
Bad luck I guess..
I never tip at Subway. Only for table service.
He said sure, so he got in. Turns out he was heading out shopping at a Walmart about 3 miles away. So I dropped him off and headed out to my destination.
A half hour later I decided to go back to the Walmart and try to find him to give him a ride back home. Well, I found him and walked around with him as he finished his shopping. When we got to the self check out kiosk, I noticed he was watching the check out item cost tabulator closely and when it reached a certain amount, he started pulling out items and setting them aside.
I then realized he was paying with a bridge card and had reached its limit. So I told him to check out those items and I would pay for everything. Total was $147.00....For what it's worth, every item was a grocery necessity, no pop, no alcohol, no chips. All his groceries filled up the back of my SUV and after we arrived at his apartment complex, the bags completely filled up the pull cart he had and it would have been heavy, especially pulling it the 3 miles back to his place.
He had no transportation and lived with his father who was disabled. When I asked him why he didn't shop at the local Meijers, which was only a short distance away, he said that the Walmart grocery prices were cheaper.
I had mixed emotions about that day. On one hand, I felt good for being able to help someone out. On the other, sad because there are so many people out there like this guy who are doing their best just to get by.
I had hoped to make it clear that, if the customer doesn't tip, he has no good cause to expect more than standard service.
It all depends upon how "standard service" is defined.
Chilled beer mugs might, under certain circumstances, be categorized as such.
If, however, they are not, then if the bartender "goes that extra mile" to note that a particular customer likes chilled mugs, and is willing to go to the extra trouble of chilling them, then I'd say that that tip was well-deserved.
On the other hand, a customer who never tips should expect nothing more than "standard service."
If "standard service" is "driving away customers," then the boss should rethink his policies.
Regards,
“cancer research”
The cancer industry has been running a one hundred year scam.
If cures are found (nanotechnology perhaps) lots of folks are going to lose their cushy jobs in non-profits, hospitals and labs.
Yup—the only way to win the “guilt” game is to refuse to play.
Huh?
Regards,
I knew you meant standard service.
I also never saw a bar with selective service based on the bartender judging your willingness to pay him extra on the side, nor a bar that would say frosted mug for him, but not for you,(or a paper wrap on the can if in a Texas icehouse).
Personally I never tipped the bartender until I was ready to leave, I won’t use a business that plays games, I expected top notch service while I was drinking and with all the frills, and when I was leaving I would tip with my last payment, even if that was 6 hours later.
Good on you.
Tips are reserved for go-getters willing to wait on customers. Not bureaucrats.
A local sweets shop has a tip jar at the checkout with the legend: “Support our workers!”
You know what: support your own damn workers!
I have taken this trend as my final signal to stay away from restaurants. Seed oils. Cheap ingredients. Over processed meats. Surly staff. I read “Fast Food Nation” years ago and it largely healed me of the desire to eat out. This trend cemented it.
I have a lot of experience in cancer research, so when I’m asked to “round up” to support it, I always ask, “what research, exactly, are you supporting and has it published any results?”
Got it!
Regards,
Yep. My rule - I ONLY tip AFTER consumption and knowing how good the SERVICE was. I MUST be paying after the service.
This idea of tipping when you pay for your sandwich at a counter, or picking up pizza, before you eat, is ridiculous. It’s about personal service, was it good or bad?
I had a purely natural response when picking up pizza, I was paying and the employee asks, “do you want to put a tip on that?”...immediately, I just reacted, “No, why would I want to do that?”. They went quiet. Now nobody asks, ever (at that pizza place).
I think COVID skewed things. We felt bad that food service employees weren’t able to get tips. So people gave tips anyway, even though they were just picking up food. Then people started asking for tips on anything, before service has been received, or even when there’s no service.
That said, I do think things are normalizing again. Seems to be happening less, at least around me.
Same here. Counter help should be making minimum wage or better. For the most part counter help does not come under DOL designation for “tipped employees”. Now if the business is lowering the basic wage and telling counter employees they are now tipped employees I believe they may have some ‘splainin’ to do. Their cheapness is not coming out of my wallet.
“””””A local sweets shop has a tip jar at the checkout with the legend: “Support our workers!”
You know what: support your own damn workers!”””””
Yep,— Sweety, I’m just here to buy some of your boss’s jelly beans, not to get involved in your personal life, or business decisions.
“The Food Assistance Program (FAP, also known as Food Stamps) helps eligible families buy food. Monthly benefits are placed on a Bridge Card. A Bridge Card is like a debit card for food. “
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