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WSJ - The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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Unless I am frequenting an over the counter establishment once a week or more I just ignore this and opt out, barring truly exemplary service.
It is hilarious how the "no tip" button is always smaller and at the bottom of the screen. I always manage to find it though!
Barista tipping is a thing now for sure. You're definitely expected to throw in a dollar minimum for each order.
The sheer amount of tipping threads on Era show that lots of y'all Americans feel the need to tip and tip well, lest they'd upset someone.
I don't tip for something that's literally just handed to me over a counter. There is no waitstaff even involved, fuck off.
Us Americans have a hard time making a living wage for the large amount of service jobs, we have shit insurance, and we fall back on this soft socialism to lift up our retail workers because we realize they're getting fucked hard and there's nothing much they can do about it.
If a salaried worker can't empathize with an hourly retail working busting their ass for pennies to their dollars, then they're an asshole.
The pressure to tip is immense. You get the side eye from the worker, your friends call you an asshole, and restaurant owners fight tooth and nail against a minimum wage increase to perpetuate this cycle of the customer having to fund the worker's life.
I don't tip take-out or counter people. Bartender wants to grab a glass and put some beer in it? You get a thank you. Tipping is such a shitty system.
I don't tip take-out or counter people. Bartender wants to grab a glass and put some beer in it? You get a thank you. Tipping is such a shitty system.
The Emily Post Institute's recommendation is right, there's no way you tip at the counter. I don't know that there's necessarily more social pressure, as when counter service places have printed receipts they often have a "TIP" line that you can ignore.
Plus most cashiers don't actually care, they just want you to do what you need to do and leave. Most places I frequent with iPads even just turn it around for you to finish your business and walk away.
Plus most cashiers don't actually care, they just want you to do what you need to do and leave. Most places I frequent with iPads even just turn it around for you to finish your business and walk away.
The coffee shop I go to before work has this and it makes me laugh every time. I order a brew coffee and all they do is hand me a cup and I go to the machine and pour it myself. I ain't tipping for that!
A lot of the people working these jobs don't make any real money unless they get tipped.
Lol. Expected by who? The barista tipping commission?
What pressure? There is zero pressure. Obviously the UI designers at Square have done their jobs well. They've created the perception of pressure to tip where it doesn't exist.
Well, yeah, restaurants fight really hard against changing that. Was even mentioned in John Oliver's astro-turfing episode.
I usually throw a dollar to my everyday breakfast place. I then get a free coffee refill around lunch. It's mutually beneficial.
These are mostly present at super gentrified places that have pushed out all the local minorities in my area so I never give a shit when I hit "no tip." Those places are lucky to have my business at all.
The worst example of this I've seen was that I went to a self-serve frozen yogurt shop (Cuppa Yo) and served my own damn ice cream. The only thing the staff did was weigh my food on the scale and charge my credit card, and they still have this ENTER TIP touchscreen prompt.
The same forces that expect a tip for going to a sit down restaurant, barber, salon, food delivery, etc.
It's not so prominent in Starbucks or counter places that don't make tipping a thing but at more local places it is especially in NYC.
Some shops have a receipt when you pay with card to sign that has a area for a tip or a big tip jar that they then break your money into small bills for.
The debit machines in Canada force you to tip as well. Even for takeout.
You have to enter 0 to opt out. For some of them I found out you have to hit cancel. It's not stated anywhere.
See, take-out I completely agree, you don't tip. But a bartender? You have to tip the Bartender, it's a service job. dollar a drink minimum.
I'm still not seeing where there's an expectation. What's happened is options to make tipping available have been created and you are assuming an expectation.
You aren't alone, apparently. Haha.
Shit, I honestly never knew some people had pressure to tip until I read all the numerous tipping threads on this forum. Sure, I get a lot of people who aren't American don't get tipping and all that (and a lot don't understand why we tip) but I don't know many who are pressured by it or at least in my area. You either do or you don't. I tip because I know they're in a shitty system and I personally wanna help them out. If I don't got the money to tip, I don't do it. If I do? I do it. I don't think about it anymore.
Either way I find more people are confused about why you tip certain situations and whatnot.
Somebody was asking about tipping a Best Buy employee. The hell lmao.
Either way I find more people are confused about why you tip certain situations and whatnot.
Somebody was asking about tipping a Best Buy employee. The hell lmao.
Tipping in US is a mess. That Barista in Starbucks is probably making the same or close to same as a GameStop employee or Walmart cashier or deli worker in a grocery store yet you don't think to tip any of them. It's a bit arbitrary who gets tipped beyond waiters who actually depend on tips because their pay is adjusted for it.
I tap no tip, then turn the screen back towards them so they can see what I did.
Some systems have the dark pattern of making "no tip" grey. If I have to, I'll manually add zero. I'm holding the fucking line on this racist system.
Naw, that's just a scam. Pouring a beer is literally their job. It is so braindead. You literally grab a glass, tilt, pour, and hand over. You are tipping them for paying for overpriced beer. A shot? Almost as simple: grab shot glass, grab liquor, pour. You could go for something like a Burt Reynolds but it's 1 extra step. A dollar a drink is such a scam.
I never realized tipping was such a controversial thing until Era. I've worked for tips, always appreciated them when I got them.
Yeah, maybe grab a marker and circle the no tip button as well. Just don't use a permanent marker, that may make em a bit upset.
