Perhaps you’ve noticed. We have reached a tipping point in the country over tipping.

To tip or not to tip has led to Shakespearean soliloquies by customers explaining why they refuse to tip for certain things.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, customers were grateful for those who seemingly risked their safety so we could get groceries, order dinner or anything that made our lives feel normal. A nice tip was the least we could do to show gratitude.

But now that we are out about and back to normal, the custom of tipping for just about everything has somehow remained; and customers are upset.

A new study from Pew Research shows most American adults say tipping is expected in more places than it was five years ago, and there’s no real consensus about how tipping should work.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Haha I love getting help from working class waitstaff that the system has exempted from minimum wage, stiffing them, and then bragging about it online.

    Why? Because I’m an edgelord piece of shit.

    Yes, tipping culture is wrong, but the doesn’t make you some moral leader, or not a dick. You’re just a sad little person who gets off on being a douchebag.

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      11 months ago

      They aren’t exempted from minimum wage in California, one of the larger populations in the US. Are you sure you aren’t attributing incorrect assumptions to one of us?

      Look in the mirror.

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      11 months ago

      I’m not your employer. You can always suck my tip if you want something extra than what’s written on the bill.