My jaw hit the fucking floor when I read the part about the tips.
I begrudgingly tip 15% for decent/good service at restaurants, since it’s a shitty, exploitative system that should be abolished in favor of servers making normal wages, but I don’t want to take that out on a nice person just doing their job (ironically part of the emotional exploitation that keeps it alive). (The 20% “standard” nowadays is obvious bullshit fed artificially by things like automatic tip suggestions. My order more than kept pace with inflation, so get the fuck out of here with that “18%, 20%, 25%” horseshit.) Subpar or bad service gets no tip, because duh; at that point, I’d actively prefer if I didn’t have a middleman and could just do it myself. But exceptional service gets 20–25%. (Edit: Always cash too to avoid as much as possible putting it into a slush fund for their shitty fucking boss who won’t pay them a living wage.)
I always tip my barber $5 because it’s a small business, he outright does a fantastic job, he’s not afraid to push back on ideas of mine and suggest something I consider better (but not in a rude way), and he absolutely respects that I just sit there quietly most of the time. He’s definitely going above what I expect him to do.
And I’ve tipped at least a few retail employees who really went out of their way to help me when I don’t think it would be too awkward.
I’m trying and struggling to think of a less justifiable business to tip than a fucking payday loan app. Tipping culture is so fucking out-of-control; I sincerely hope someone starts regulating it somehow.
My jaw hit the fucking floor when I read the part about the tips.
I begrudgingly tip 15% for decent/good service at restaurants, since it’s a shitty, exploitative system that should be abolished in favor of servers making normal wages, but I don’t want to take that out on a nice person just doing their job (ironically part of the emotional exploitation that keeps it alive). (The 20% “standard” nowadays is obvious bullshit fed artificially by things like automatic tip suggestions. My order more than kept pace with inflation, so get the fuck out of here with that “18%, 20%, 25%” horseshit.) Subpar or bad service gets no tip, because duh; at that point, I’d actively prefer if I didn’t have a middleman and could just do it myself. But exceptional service gets 20–25%. (Edit: Always cash too to avoid as much as possible putting it into a slush fund for their shitty fucking boss who won’t pay them a living wage.)
I always tip my barber $5 because it’s a small business, he outright does a fantastic job, he’s not afraid to push back on ideas of mine and suggest something I consider better (but not in a rude way), and he absolutely respects that I just sit there quietly most of the time. He’s definitely going above what I expect him to do.
And I’ve tipped at least a few retail employees who really went out of their way to help me when I don’t think it would be too awkward.
I’m trying and struggling to think of a less justifiable business to tip than a fucking payday loan app. Tipping culture is so fucking out-of-control; I sincerely hope someone starts regulating it somehow.