Posted on 07/13/2024 6:31:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Good approach. Also, we are all paying into cancer research via our tax dollars that go to the NIH. This is the same pot of money from which funds went to the Wuhan Virology Institute. There are so many issues with funding these days, and so much politics that I have little faith in the system anymore.
Then there’s this:
https://www.nature.com/articles/541269a
I have never seen any one tip fast food workers. Another thing is that they are making like 18-20 dollars and hour employee pay.
If Trumps no tax on tips goes through then I won’t tip more than 10 percent for full service either. And I will be tempted to not tip at all if I thought I could get away with it. Gone are the days of 20 percent or more.
I’m 77 and a vet of fast food and counter orders, Im don’t tip. But on 3-4 occasions in my life there was an extraordinary example of service on my order and I tipped them.
Did I say bums? Apologies, I meant labor challenged.
I understand the golden rule, believe me. It was probably written with the understanding that it was going to be applied with some common sense.
Thanks for giving us Social Security, by the way.
You sound like a kind person, and that’s to your great credit. Might want to read some Sowell, maybe Walter Williams wrote a book. They’re good guys, you’d probably like the read.
I only pay in cash when going to Subway ever since they put that tip option on the terminal. I pocket the change.
A buddy told me he ordered something on his phone before he even got there and the app asked for a tip. No human had even seen his order yet.
XD XD. These companies are absurd.
But people do it, or they would stop. Much like the modern day hobos that beg on the corner. They go from town to town in RVs. Look for it, you’ll see it parked somewhere close. And next week it’ll be an entirely different troupe. Workin’ the morons.
When I worked at Publix during summers they would fire you if you took tips for taking the customers bags to their car. They would actually have managers on the roof observing.
I find it interesting that Newsweek chose to run this story soon after Trump announced his no tax on tips initiative. Can’t help but think it was done intentionally to undermine support for Trump’s idea and generally make us feel bad about tipping, which seems to be reinforced by the comments I’m seeing here. We need to see through their tactics rather than engage with them.
Do you leave a cash tip on the table?
For me - adding a tip on the card is a more convenient option. And if that option is a card reader pad - so what?
I don’t tip in ANY community that has a “Living Wage”, meaning $15+/hour, as the tip is already built into the price of my food and the wage of the workers. If they don’t like that, they can go back to high school and try to actually graduate.
Along those lines.....
I paid $280.00 for a battery this week at Carquest. A nice young lady installed it for me. I tried to give her a ten spot for a tip.
She flatly refused it. I need to send a nice Google review their way.
FAP? I thought FAP was something one did in private.
Concerning tipping. I always tip on my card. Much more convenient than carrying loose cash.
But now more and more restaurants are adding a credit card fee if you don’t pay cash. I always reduce my tip by the amount they charge for using a card.
Am I the A-hole?
Look. I get that credit card processing is costing retailers millions of not billions of dollars annually. But these fees are a normal part of doing business. So why are restaurants the only ones adding this surcharge? Why don’t they factor in this routine expense into menu prices like everything else?
Look. If restaurants stopped accepting cards, they would soon go out of business. We are fast becoming a cashless society, like it or not. We have to learn to adapt.
Or just stay home.
I get something similar rom cashiers at grocery stores.
“That’ll be $28.59, would you like to round up to the next dollar?”
My response now is “I’ll flip you for it, heads round down tails round up”.
My local Arby’s is now asking you if you want to round up for their employee appreciation program, even at the drive thru. It’s really gotten out of hand.
That is actually a great 'tip'. nothing is more valuable than your time.
Brilliant!
AMEN
In Texas waiters get minimal pay so I tip. They make just a little over $2 some restaurants.
“In Texas waiters get minimal pay so I tip. They make just a little over $2 some restaurants.”
Yep, same here, where I also live. That’s also why I qualified my post by mentioning “Living Wage”, since, by definition, if they are already making enough to live on, then they’re paid enough.
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