Tipping Is Out Of Control in America

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  • @MangoMotors
    @MangoMotors 11 місяців тому +4189

    Tipping really is out of control. I can't believe I'm being guilt tripped by the Glizzlord to tip him for entertainment.

    • @tortillachips3911
      @tortillachips3911 11 місяців тому +38

      😂😂😂

    • @von...
      @von... 11 місяців тому +177

      $5 - Value of making the joke funny == +$20 value gained
      Jeff Bezos is my uncle, lets build my brother

    • @andrewgutierrez700
      @andrewgutierrez700 11 місяців тому +27

      You win this comment section.

    • @HDMICIDE
      @HDMICIDE 11 місяців тому +57

      He guilt tripped. You guilt tipped.

    • @cdubsb3831
      @cdubsb3831 11 місяців тому +30

      Five dollars! Are you seriously telling me you can't afford to pay FIVE DOLLARS!?

  • @mrlegodude96alt2
    @mrlegodude96alt2 11 місяців тому +506

    I was homeless, and I would go to the dennys and get like the $1.30 hot chocolate or the $2 pancakes, and I would tip 10% every time, I didn’t get refills, I was literally just there to read into a climate controlled environment and sleep in their parking lot lol, and after like a week, one of the waitresses came over and complained to me and explained that none of the waitresses wanted to help me because I tipped so little (10% of like $2 isn’t much). And I was like mam, I’m homeless?

    • @condimentking3395
      @condimentking3395 11 місяців тому +228

      Lmao fuck me for fooling myself into thinking it was gonna be a feel good story somehow. That's crazy

    • @undyla-chan1675
      @undyla-chan1675 11 місяців тому

      Holy shit and you were homeless and still took the time to tip too. Fucking hell they are so ungrateful

    • @MostGenericUser
      @MostGenericUser 11 місяців тому

      ​@@condimentking3395ain't no feel good stories at Denny's

    • @davidkelly1507
      @davidkelly1507 11 місяців тому

      Fuckin ridiculous lmfao

    • @michaelboyle7281
      @michaelboyle7281 11 місяців тому +60

      When I worked at Waffle House I'd usually be the one to take the homeless customers or the ones who didnt tip, but the funny thing was they all started tipping me and no one else since I didn't give them any shit or anything lol. Then when I actually was homeless I was so well liked at Waffle House I was just able to hang out at like any in the city and eat for free, I usually just helped do some cleaning while I was there lol

  • @TopOfLobby
    @TopOfLobby 11 місяців тому +828

    I think we should just make it the customers responsibility to pay 100% of the employees income and let the owners/execs pocket even more money that they totally need and deserve.

    • @yeetboi268
      @yeetboi268 11 місяців тому +42

      my girlmath didn't approve this

    • @shlongbongchewy
      @shlongbongchewy 11 місяців тому +4

      you know you are paying 100% of their income when you buy

    • @drumusic5665
      @drumusic5665 11 місяців тому +17

      At least you understand the issue. I legitimately can't stand that this issue is approached in any way besides blaming the uber wealthy on top.

    • @CrazyandLazy
      @CrazyandLazy 9 місяців тому +1

      I agree with this. We should tip 100% for their employees so that the owners/execs can have extra money to buy out all the rental properties. And after they buy out all the land and the apartments, they should apply 50-90% tip for being our landlords. After watching Games of Thrones, I really want to relive in that sort of medieval time era where you work in mud under a Lord's domain. If we live in that medieval era long enough, we may be able to bring back dragons and magic into to real life.

    • @Deeptunester
      @Deeptunester 8 місяців тому +3

      I don't know why this is such a hard concept for us to grasp here in America. I go to a restaurant for food, not to subsidize peoples' livelihoods. Pay your employees a full fucking wage like every other industry in this country.

  • @FroggSocks
    @FroggSocks 11 місяців тому +872

    Tipping is bizarre for someone who doesn't live in America. Like I live in Australia and you have the option to tip if you go to like a really good restaurant or whatever, but it's never expected. It's so crazy that you have to pay like 20% on top of your meal just so a person can afford their rent, even when the restaurant charges more for food then they do in Australia. It feels so damn dystopian

    • @shealarsen4335
      @shealarsen4335 11 місяців тому +28

      yeah its ridiculous my local dispensary asks 😂like imma tip you for grabbing a bag from the back not even making any food

    • @icysdemise3911
      @icysdemise3911 11 місяців тому +28

      You don't have to tip for people to afford their rent. Waiters have railed against any change to tipping culture because the truth is that if you work at even a halfway busy restaurant, you make at least triple minimum wage. Hundreds of dollars a night.
      I have a friend who's a bartender at a popular bar in a college town. He works 3 nights a week and makes around $80k/year.

    • @FroggSocks
      @FroggSocks 11 місяців тому +80

      @@icysdemise3911 you do have to tip people to afford their rent. The minimum wage is so low that you can't afford to pay your rent without tips. Yes, some people end up making really good wages just off tips, but not all servers do. All servers rely on tips to survive, and that's not a thing over in Australia because we have a (mostly) liveable minimum wage

    • @kio64x
      @kio64x 11 місяців тому +1

      @@icysdemise3911me when i lie

    • @FroggSocks
      @FroggSocks 11 місяців тому

      @@icysdemise3911 also for ur mate to make 80k a year working 3 nights a week, he has to make over triple the median tipping amount of 150 dollars a shift (512 dollars total per shift) to be able to hit that wage. If that's true (which it isn't at all), all I gotta say is damn bro they hiring??

  • @Trizzer89
    @Trizzer89 11 місяців тому +831

    I have gotten exceptionally skilled at not giving tips to non-waiters and never rounding my groceries up to the nearest dollar. I wish this skill could get me a job

    • @tortillachips3911
      @tortillachips3911 11 місяців тому +34

      im proud of you dude, great work

    • @jkizzle9953
      @jkizzle9953 11 місяців тому

      Leaving this here encase u or others don’t know, but when u “round up to donate to childrens cancer” or some shit they donate that money on their own behalf and use it as a tax write off. They don’t give a fuck about being charitable, they’re using ur kindness to lighten their tax burden lol

    • @user-white007
      @user-white007 11 місяців тому +2

      100% shit I’m needy too

    • @ManOfParody
      @ManOfParody 11 місяців тому +24

      The greatest skill I've learned is being a jerk, and not caring anymore.

    • @greenoftreeblackofblue6625
      @greenoftreeblackofblue6625 11 місяців тому +4

      That is a job you're saving money constantly

  • @ryanweigel4164
    @ryanweigel4164 11 місяців тому +100

    I work as barista, and I’ve noticed that some older folks (and tourists, for that matter) don’t always know what they’re doing when confronted with a tip screen. Whether it’s unintentional, tipping on sleek iPad-looking POS systems like Clover can be deceptive and exploitative. One older gentleman accidentally tipped $32 dollars buying, quite literally, a cup of coffee. I don’t know how he managed to mistakenly give %1000. My coworker noticed the mistake, and I dashed outside to find him. I caught him, but it makes you wonder how many instances that error is left unchecked.

  • @AkaThePistachio
    @AkaThePistachio 11 місяців тому +205

    As a british person I always found tipping weird. These massive food chains cant pay their employees a living wage so customers have to do it?

    • @HimmyNeutr0n1
      @HimmyNeutr0n1 11 місяців тому +5

      Thank you

    • @ThePoliticalBulldog
      @ThePoliticalBulldog 11 місяців тому

      They can, they don't want to, and spend the money they saved exploiting workers on lobbyists and bribes in washington to keep getting their way.

    • @dangelocake2635
      @dangelocake2635 11 місяців тому +7

      Dude, our economic system is weird. They can pay more, but they won't, so we have tipping. But nowadays, tipping shows clients the business is not paying living wages, so they don't allow tipping and don't pay a living wage at the same time.

    • @iplay9s
      @iplay9s 11 місяців тому

      The big chains and corporations can no problem, its the small and beginning businesses that can't because they are so burdened with bureaucratic restrictions and fines and regulations from our oversized government that paying their food service employees even as much as minimum wage would bankrupt them instantly upon starting.
      The American dream is to start from nothing and build success, and the government decided that to save that dream instead of cutting back on the government they could just lower tip workers minimum wage

    • @ThePoliticalBulldog
      @ThePoliticalBulldog 11 місяців тому +5

      @@dangelocake2635 You said "weird" but I think you meant "exploitative and must be dismantled".

  • @avip477
    @avip477 11 місяців тому +321

    I work at a small toy store where we do complimentary gift wrapping but aren’t allowed to accept tips. It doesn’t bother me much, but it’s so weird having customers say “no I insist” when I turn them down, and have to follow up with “no, I literally can’t take this.” Part of me is glad that no one feels pressured to tip at the store because the expectations these days are crazy, but another part of me is like, “I make minimum wage dude, let me have this win.”

    • @Rcmike1234
      @Rcmike1234 11 місяців тому +8

      If no one I'd just take it

    • @WARnTEA
      @WARnTEA 11 місяців тому +4

      I have friends that will blame businesses for having those Tip touchscreens, and what you talk about it the thing I always think of to justify why a business would allow the tip screen. There are some customers that get really pushy about giving tips, so not having a way for them give a tip will almost ruin their day, and make the whole interaction very awkward.
      As long as your job isn’t something where a tip could encourage corruption like a mechanic, I feel like its totally fine.
      I used to work at Jimmy Johns and they had a weird rule about inshop workers not accepting tips or at least not having a tip jar, which is odd because we are trained to make someones sandwich before they finish paying for the order, its literally an impressive thing that is worthy of a tip.

    • @PopeMical
      @PopeMical 11 місяців тому +15

      ​@@Rcmike1234If you ever get caught taking a tip at a job where you can't, it can be used as a reason to fire you.
      So sure you made a few extra dollars but I'd rather not risk my job for a few dollars.

    • @jimbothompson7747
      @jimbothompson7747 11 місяців тому +5

      I had a job where the policy was to deny tips twice before we could accept. I’d wait until they had cash in hand and say “No no it’s fine” and then take it

    • @allanthomson9372
      @allanthomson9372 11 місяців тому

      I’ve worked a couple jobs where I can’t take tips but if someone offers and no manager who cares is around I take it and thank them

  • @owenleynes7086
    @owenleynes7086 11 місяців тому +140

    the stupidest thing to me is the fact that the law technically says if the tips dont add up to minimum wage your employer is supposed to compensate the rest but that rarely if ever happens in my experience

    • @nighthawk2548
      @nighthawk2548 11 місяців тому +32

      Just sue the shit out of them then. An employer not paying you your wages is the easiest lawsuit to win lmao there's no way they can bs their way out of it.

    • @benelson12
      @benelson12 11 місяців тому +15

      That could be even worse than you think because to get away with that they likely are over reporting your tips to meet the law and then you get taxed on money you didn't even receive.

    • @jackmossey7107
      @jackmossey7107 11 місяців тому +9

      Its crazy that this part always goes unreported, essentially assuming that employers aren't over reporting tips, tips are just paying the employers responsibility to pay their employees, money that they would have to pay their employees otherwise. Meaning that we aren't really tipping the waiter but the business. Yes mr.owner I can spot you on this one of course! What a joke, whether minimum wage is enough or not is a different issue but this is really misunderstood.

    • @lolsalad52
      @lolsalad52 11 місяців тому +1

      @@nighthawk2548 this 100% this. like why would you work for somewhere thats gonna pay you like $80 for a 40 hour week lmao

    • @ComFurt
      @ComFurt 11 місяців тому

      I've heard that much of the time if your tips don't add up to minimum wage your employer just finds some bullshit impossible to disprove reason to fire you. Being a worker in america sounds terrible, I hate how much of their culture bleeds up north :\

  • @CB-pd4ws
    @CB-pd4ws 11 місяців тому +59

    I go to a Mexican restaurant every Tuesday for a taco Tuesday deal and the default tip options are 45% 50% and 55%. Absolutely absurd. It takes like a minute to select custom tip and manually type in the amount while the server is standing there waiting. Super cringe.

    • @vinny9256
      @vinny9256 11 місяців тому +3

      That’s wild. At my restaurant it lists 15 18 and 20 on the receipt.

    • @TaylorXIV
      @TaylorXIV 11 місяців тому +12

      it would take less time to select no tip
      considering their default values, thats all they deserve

    • @AD3SPG
      @AD3SPG 11 місяців тому

      Damn that's high I've only seen 10,15,20 at least for restaurants and that's just take out.

    • @cheesypufs
      @cheesypufs 10 місяців тому +4

      I would very loudly and audibly exclaim "Damn who in the world programmed these tips here!! This here makes me want to never come back" and then select No Tip, and custom tip with my cash

  • @theallaroundnerd9889
    @theallaroundnerd9889 11 місяців тому +177

    Fun Fact: Tip Minimum wage is not a thing in Washington state. Employers must pay the State minimum wage to all employees

    • @lurac5710
      @lurac5710 11 місяців тому +12

      same in montana

    • @theallaroundnerd9889
      @theallaroundnerd9889 11 місяців тому +8

      @@lurac5710 based

    • @winningsince1992
      @winningsince1992 11 місяців тому +11

      That's every state....you can only not pay minimum wage when tips outweigh what minimum wage would be. So that 3.5 dollars an hour is only if you made 12+ an hour if you made less then that then they have to bump it up

    • @stt.9433
      @stt.9433 11 місяців тому +1

      @@winningsince1992 oh that makes more sense cause not every tippable job makes a lot in tips. LIke McDonalds has a tips jar but only spare change goes in there.

    • @stt.9433
      @stt.9433 11 місяців тому +3

      @@winningsince1992 and in that case not tipping can be a valid stance because it forces the employer to pay for the waiter's wage.

  • @styersjohnmichael1394
    @styersjohnmichael1394 11 місяців тому +18

    I worked at Olive Garden with us getting like 2-3 bucks and hour without tips. In recent years they got rid of automatic gratuity for large parties of guests, which is great for Olive Garden and horribe for the actual employees. Especially in lower income areas like mine, a lot of people don't know that servers don't make minimum wage, and thus don't tip. A couple of friends/coworkers of mine worked a party of 40 for their entire 6+ hour shift, and were tipped $2 to split between the two of of them. The worst part is that Olive Garden has servers automatically pay a percentage of their sales to the bartends and bussers based on what they "expect" servers to be tipped. So, my coworkers because of the parties' lack of tip, lost money coming to work that day. There is supposed to be measures in place to supplement pay if servers make under minimum wage that day, but it is never actually talked about and very rarely enforced even if the server pushes for it.

    • @cheesypufs
      @cheesypufs 10 місяців тому +4

      Quit and find a job that doesn't exploit you

  • @sethyoder7996
    @sethyoder7996 11 місяців тому +90

    Cool and interesting thought. Why cant we just pay "tipping employees" a normal standard wage? And not feel pressured to tip the random guy that genuinely relies on it to make his wage. And then just ignore tf out of random "tips" from service jobs if we believe they didnt do a good job. Its gratuity, it shouldnt be a necessary thing for a worker to RELY on to make their full wage.

    • @nighthawk2548
      @nighthawk2548 11 місяців тому +14

      They already get paid a standard wage. If they don't make enough in tips to reach minimum wage the employer by law has to pay the rest to get them there. wait staff actually make an extreme ammount of money most of the time but people are too busy with shaming people into tipping to notice.

    • @FrankLloydTeh
      @FrankLloydTeh 11 місяців тому +5

      Business lobby. Owners dont want to pay for people working for their business.

    • @rumrust
      @rumrust 11 місяців тому +2

      @@nighthawk2548 minimum wage isn't a living wage. although i agree, most tipped employees make boatloads more than minimum

    • @Kangsta665
      @Kangsta665 11 місяців тому +2

      Waiters are the strongest defenders of tipping. They're making way more than the hourly cooks/bussers/dishwashers. This whole "but my hourly is only $2!" is so disingenuous. No waiter is would want to change to $15/hr when they can pocket hundreds tax free.

    • @stefan514
      @stefan514 11 місяців тому +1

      Fun fact, many of the "we can barely survive" waiters would hate that, because after tips they earn really good and the crying is part of their strategy. You'll find places that started paying them 28$ an hour and in turn getting rid of tipping... and they were furious

  • @PelicanSoT
    @PelicanSoT 11 місяців тому +48

    it even asked me to tip for my comment this is getting out of hand

  • @EpaGrom
    @EpaGrom 11 місяців тому +69

    Every single employer be like:
    "Hey, we don't want to pay any salary to the workers so let's call this tips. But people will call us greedy bastards... Alright let's force this thing to be a TRADITION! People respect traditions!"
    No we don't. Come on that is disgusting.

    • @WARnTEA
      @WARnTEA 11 місяців тому +5

      Thats what I say to people that refuse to add more states to the U.S. it wasn’t even that long ago when we added hawaii and alaska. Fuck 50 we can have 52 its not a big deal, just add more stars to the flag, its not like you are counting the number of stars everytime anyway.

    • @user-hf4dg2qh8e
      @user-hf4dg2qh8e 11 місяців тому

      i heard somewhere the employees prefer tips over higher wages because you don't have to pay taxes on wages. I read in a comment somewhere the employees protested after tipping was removed and the min wage for employees was $30/hr. I never checked it myself so i am not sure

  • @scpWyatt
    @scpWyatt 11 місяців тому +36

    I specifically choose “other amount” and select zero and breathlessly stare into their eyes until they ask me to leave.
    EDIT: fuck somebody said that in chat already that’s what I get for forgetting what happened in the stream 🤦‍♂️ not even a real glizzy guy

    • @irecordwithaphone1856
      @irecordwithaphone1856 11 місяців тому +7

      They just need to grind harder. Capitalism baby 😎
      Started from the bottom now you're still at the bottom

  • @rileythornhill8191
    @rileythornhill8191 11 місяців тому +114

    I’m in a very unique position. I am a waiter in Canada, where just last year it was put into law that all waiters must make minimum wage, we used to make under minimum. And now we have a 16$ minimum wage. We get that while piggy backing off of U.S customs of tipping your waiter. Since the pandemic I have noticed my bottom line go up because I still get an average of around 18-20% in tips while also making the standard 16/hr. It’s not uncommon for me and my peers to bring home 40-50$/hr because of this increase. It also puts me in a weird position when other places, like subway or or Tim Hortons asks for a tip, because it would be kind of hypocritical for me to expect tips but not actively give back. But I do not believe a fast food worker should be tipped the same as a waiter. And I feel as if I have to walk on eggshells around the subject of tipping for that reason.

    • @andrewadams530
      @andrewadams530 11 місяців тому +16

      Fast food workers shouldn't be tipped. Sorry. The reason you tip the waiter is because they deliver the food. Not because they cook it. The price of the chef's wage is baked into the cost of the food. Sorry not sorry.

    • @krisjohnston5569
      @krisjohnston5569 11 місяців тому +47

      I've been a waiter, a fast food worker a bartender etc. One is not inherently harder than the other, and they are all quite easy, what makes it difficult is the type of clientele and the amount. A McDondalds worker at the night shift on a Friday night in town is working 100x harder than some waiter at a family restaurant doing the Sunday lunch service.

    • @cassolmedia
      @cassolmedia 11 місяців тому +7

      the way i see it, i tip the wait staff for enhancing my experience. I have cause to interact with them over the course of my stay, so that matters. the guy at mcds does nothing but hand me a bag. tips are not wage supplementation.

    • @matthewv9169
      @matthewv9169 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@@andrewadams530the average server makes probably double the money of the cook

    • @matthewv9169
      @matthewv9169 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@cassolmediaI agree that tips shouldn't be wage supplementation but that server is either doing the same or less work based on the place than the mcds employee and getting paid maybe two to three times more due almost entirely to having the opportunity to get the job

  • @albinofroggy
    @albinofroggy 11 місяців тому +8

    I'm a server and the reduction in tips we receive has been noticeable. My coworkers that have been there longer than I have are saying they are making barely over half what they made at the same time in years past. The frequency of people leaving no tip has gone from maybe once or twice a week across the whole restaurant to us keeping a tally of who gets the most per week. I've seen nights where cumulatively we'll have 5-6 tables that won't leave anything. And the tables that do leave something are leaving 15% or less. Hell, we have several known regulars that refuse to tip, but we still have to take the table. Just this past month I had 2 different shifts where I had to be paid extra from the managers to be above the state's 7.50/hour minimum wage.

    • @atrioc
      @atrioc  11 місяців тому +5

      Interesting. This is just starting recently? Definitely feels related to people getting overwhelmed w/ tip requests elsewhere.

    • @albinofroggy
      @albinofroggy 11 місяців тому +5

      @@atrioc It has only started getting bad in the last month or so. It was manageable up until students left for college. The week right after colleges started back up everything dropped off like it usually does, but despite the business coming back the tips have stayed almost equal. It's double to triple the people and tables, but you'd never know by looking at our server banks.
      Some of my coworkers were coming out at $18-22/hour in the spring and roughly $15 during the summer after it was averaged. But now the best we get most nights might be 10-12 per hour. And that's not all of us, that's the best of the night. Unfortunately that's not enough to live here even if you work multiple extra shifts. At least 2 people had to quit and move to another restaurant because they couldn't make rent anymore. I don't think they're having much success at those other restaurants yet.

  • @orinblank2056
    @orinblank2056 11 місяців тому +29

    The lack of tipping was one of the really nice things about living in Japan. It's actually very weird there, and it was so refreshing. You get a bill and just pay the amount, with no guilt or anything

    • @Dschonathan
      @Dschonathan 11 місяців тому +1

      IIRC I heard from the Yard crossover with Trash Taste that there is no tipping but instead a culture of giving gifts to people you have lasting service relationships with.

  • @salami_tommi
    @salami_tommi 11 місяців тому +24

    It feels like everyone wants to copy what restaurants have been doing forever which is making their employees reliant on tips so they can weasel out of paying them a fair wage. In theory this is supposed to incentivize employees to work harder which at least makes a little sense when we're talking about waiters/waitresses. But when you take tipping out of the context of actually RECEIVING SERVICE then it starts to make less and less sense like why am I being guilt tripped by 15 year old cashier at a SELF SERVE frozen yogurt place when all they did was turn a tablet around, stare at me with a judgemental look on their face and say "couple questions for ya there". The responsibility should not be on the costumer to pay an employee's rent when costumers are struggling to pay their own rent.

    • @esmeecampbell7396
      @esmeecampbell7396 11 місяців тому

      How do you think any employee gets paid? The business just magics money out of thin air?😂
      Call it tips or call it wages, the customer ALWAYS pays. If institute a $15 per hour minimum wage in all jobs, all that happens is the business puts prices up and customer still pays the wages of the employee via the increased revenue to the business.

    • @salami_tommi
      @salami_tommi 11 місяців тому +6

      @@esmeecampbell7396 I think you missed the point...

    • @esmeecampbell7396
      @esmeecampbell7396 11 місяців тому

      @@salami_tommi no you "miss the point" you can't divert the ultimate responsibility of payment away from the end user. As evidenced by you saying "the responsibility should not be on the consumer to pay a employee's rent" because IT IS whether it is a "voluntary" or "discretionary" tip or just included in the cost of the food because a business charges double as soon as they legally have to quadruple their employee wages.
      I'm not pro tipping, I'm not a fucking Yank, I'm just saying if you force businesses to pay employees more, then they will force customers to pay more.

  • @Darkhunter441995
    @Darkhunter441995 11 місяців тому +141

    As a European, this shit is beyond dystopian. We tip our servers, for sure, but for good service. We're not guilt-tripped into it because we actually pay our servers a living wage.
    Novel, I know.

    • @thomasharriett
      @thomasharriett 11 місяців тому +7

      When I have visited Europe, I've been told it's rude to tip more than a euro or two. Apparently it's thought of as showing off.

    • @theCometPM
      @theCometPM 11 місяців тому

      @@thomasharriett ye the servers will punch you in the face if you tip them more than 10% over here

    • @JoicSeth
      @JoicSeth 11 місяців тому

      ​@@thomasharriettit's not this is bullshit

    • @undyla-chan1675
      @undyla-chan1675 11 місяців тому +9

      ​@@thomasharriettthat's somewhat accurate depending on the country. In Europe, if people know you're a tourist they'll generally get over any behavior that seems weird to them (unless you're being obnoxious) so I doubt they would actually be offended. If you go to Italy where I'm from workers will generally really appreciate tips, though there is a risk that the owner might take them because it's easy to exploit young people who don't have any experience and have to work illegally. It's a whole mess of its own that I won't get into, but the bottom line is feel free to tip anywhere and if they look at you weird say you come from the US where it's part of your culture. They'll understand and appreciate

    • @leoshest9651
      @leoshest9651 11 місяців тому +3

      ​​@@thomasharriettits not rude to tip more than a euro or two, lol..? It is odd though and some people might not want to accept it.
      But its not "rude" rofl
      Whoever told you this just didnt want to tip

  • @Karsin8or
    @Karsin8or 11 місяців тому +9

    I’ll say as a Starbucks employee that has a tip option for the drive thru credit card reader, I don’t expect you to tip unless your order is very large and/or your order was insanely complicated

    • @Karsin8or
      @Karsin8or 11 місяців тому +4

      Oh also Starbucks has shared tips, so your $2 tip is really like $0.03-$0.05 ish to all employees based on their number of hours worked per bi weekly pay period

  • @tobinbradshaw4059
    @tobinbradshaw4059 11 місяців тому +11

    The only thing tipping does (for non service industry positions-I.e. waiters) is offset the costs of employment for the business. They pay employees less than minimum wage and then use your tips to offset their costs. As someone who used to work a job that asked for tips like this, I did not feel bad at all when people didn’t tip. Card tips go straight to the business and you’re lucky if even 5% of it goes to the employee. Save your money or tip cash. Fuck the establishment

    • @thomasharriett
      @thomasharriett 11 місяців тому +2

      If the establishment keeps the card tips, that is a serious crime. If you ever see this, report them for wage theft. (And if you get fired for reporting them then you can sue)

  • @Chad_Maximus
    @Chad_Maximus 11 місяців тому +81

    I've seen these tipping prompts in self checkout of all places. It really has gotten out of control.

    • @fernando4959
      @fernando4959 11 місяців тому +9

      why
      do they want you to tip the machine?

    • @coasterthekid8867
      @coasterthekid8867 11 місяців тому +1

      You can just not tip. It’s an option on thing. That’s always been an option, No matter where you are in America. People are just too vain and worried about how they will look if they don’t tip.

  • @stoplewding
    @stoplewding 11 місяців тому +4

    Btw, most of those iPad tips don’t actually go to anyone but the owners of the shop. I’ve actually had plenty of service workers actively click the zero percent/no tip options for me and say if I *want* to tip to pay cash.

  • @cocoxcocoa
    @cocoxcocoa 11 місяців тому +12

    I stopped going to 3 starbucks near me because I got attitude from the baristas 7 times in a fucking row for hitting no tip in the fucking drive through.
    I also stopped going to one of my favourite restaurants because they sneakily added in an automatic 20% gratuity to every check, and then also prompt you to add a bonus tip on top that when paying. The only way you can even find out about the new automatic gratuity is if you analyze your receipt, or if you spot the super tiny sign that's out of the way when you walk into the restaurant.
    Tipping has gotten to the point where I feel like people need to just start hitting no tip on everything. Maybe that way employees will start to realize they cant rely on customers to prop up their wages, and they'll start pressuring the companies to stop cucking them.

  • @wispyssbm6561
    @wispyssbm6561 11 місяців тому +7

    If I am tipping on an Ipad I generally just hit no. I have no trust that those tips are getting to the people that I want to have it.

    • @tortillachips3911
      @tortillachips3911 11 місяців тому +1

      Recently I hit no and then put a dollar in the physical cup for tips they had 😂

  • @samboatman6688
    @samboatman6688 11 місяців тому +98

    Tipping the coffee cow just for some brew IS out of control, thank your for exposing this Big A ❤

    • @stereo-soulsoundsystem5070
      @stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 11 місяців тому

      Where tf did you come up with that metaphor?? I like it but a coffee cow? Is there an iced one as well?

  • @greenwavemonster
    @greenwavemonster 11 місяців тому +11

    Meanwhile in Europe, a Tip is a Tip not a extra payment you’re forced to pay.

    • @camhusmj38
      @camhusmj38 11 місяців тому

      This. In the UK, 5-10% is the valid range and even then there is no expectation that you tip.

    • @harrycake9407
      @harrycake9407 11 місяців тому +2

      No it's not, don't spread a fake culture. We don't want it. Tipping is a thing and it's not percentage based, it's based on how great the service was, so it's always depended on the customer.

  • @z0biC
    @z0biC 11 місяців тому +1

    As a bartender with a decent livable wage I'll take a stab. I work for small business with about 15 employees. We earn on tariff rather than minimum or set wage, with about 20-25 dollars /hour
    The tipping system in Norway is not mandatory but is often seen as a gesture of good service. Most norwegian, I would say about 90% do not tip and probably half considers it an unnecessary/dying practice
    With my hourly pay I earn slightly above 30k a year but with tips and closing in at 40k. To me at least it makes my work a viable career pursuit.
    I have a university degree which I can realistically either work as a copywriter, teach at highschools or work in research (all previous jobs). With the tipping system I earn slightly less, talking 10-20% of my yearly salary in teaching or research. I have to do less work, less responsibility and I can often take days off when needed. It's an absolute no-brainer to work anything else and I couldn't do that if there wasn't an implement tipping system
    To add on that, in Norway, tipping is considered a gift by law so businesses can't take a cut. 100% of the revenue goes to the service. But because everything is digitized we tax as if it was normal income

  • @jacobhaa2jacob71
    @jacobhaa2jacob71 11 місяців тому +20

    As a server for a Michelin star restaurant in Los Angeles…. I agree lmao the tipping shit is out of hand, especially being in the industry I feel bad for skipping the option but ultimately some positions just shouldn’t have tips for wages they should just be paid more 😂😭

    • @dh5874
      @dh5874 11 місяців тому +6

      not some, everyone

    • @sinnlos229
      @sinnlos229 11 місяців тому +1

      No, everyone should just be paid more. Tips should be entirely optional, the "tipping minimum wage" you have in the US is beyond stupid and imo, it's what's causing your shitty tipping culture and with it the crisis, the fact that said minimum wage has never increased since introduction completely pushed to the side lmao

    • @nighthawk2548
      @nighthawk2548 11 місяців тому

      They get paid minimum wage lmao.

    • @cartaphilus242
      @cartaphilus242 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@@nighthawk2548minimum wage is bare minimum lmfao.

    • @albinofroggy
      @albinofroggy 11 місяців тому +1

      @@cartaphilus242It's below the bare minimum even. Where I live in NC minimum wage is still 7.25$ an hour while houses 5 minutes down the road are selling for 7 digits. The only people who can afford anything are people moving in from out of town.

  • @ssj4922
    @ssj4922 11 місяців тому +12

    Hot, super unpopular, absolutely crazy take here but, maybe customers don't have to pay excruciating more than they expect, and employees don't have to be so dependent on the generosity of strangers if bosses and corporations just paid their workers adequately enough.
    Perhaps this entire conversation is just anyway the working class go at each other's throat while they sit back and profit off of our collective stupidity to see through it.

    • @dh5874
      @dh5874 11 місяців тому +1

      yea, but it’s just like he said in the video; you might make a good moral stand but at the end of the day you’re hurting the individual that does not get the tip..

    • @dh5874
      @dh5874 11 місяців тому +1

      but yeah. obviously that’s how it should be

    • @irecordwithaphone1856
      @irecordwithaphone1856 11 місяців тому +3

      Pretty much and a lot of people fall into that Us VS Them mentality where if they're a consumer they will think service workers are just greedy sometimes. A lot of lower wage jobs really do depend on tip money
      I think there's an important distinction to be made between greed and necessity

    • @nighthawk2548
      @nighthawk2548 11 місяців тому

      They already get paid minimum wage even if no one tips btw lmao.

    • @nighthawk2548
      @nighthawk2548 11 місяців тому

      @@dh5874 They already get paid minimum wage like everyone else why do they deserve more than peope that never get tips.

  • @rrarn-jk3ov
    @rrarn-jk3ov 11 місяців тому +3

    Hey Big A! So I work at Subway and at some point in the video you asked how much goes back into the employees check, I can't say for certain every place's policies but for my workplace it works like this, the percent you press gets taken and taxed then put directly into a future paycheck. That's the main downside with card tips is that they are taxed unlike cash tips, however cash tips are also split by all the employees currently in the store so card tips do give us more in most cases. I hope this answered a few questions, also yes we do think about it sometimes lol

  • @hunterbletz998
    @hunterbletz998 11 місяців тому +2

    As a former service worker, the tips made on digital kiosks have a number of fees and taxes taken out of them that cash tips do not have. It I’m prompted for a tip on a kiosk at a restaurant, I always select no but make sure I have some cash for the waiter so they can keep all of the money I choose to tip

  • @Dracna9
    @Dracna9 11 місяців тому +6

    I was buying food at a stadium and ofc the tablet asked for a tip. As I went to tip, the lady who gave me my food stopped me and said "Thank you, but we don't get any of that." Not sure how this is legal.

  • @gefyongefiona53
    @gefyongefiona53 11 місяців тому +10

    Dude why can't i disable this?

  • @HDMICIDE
    @HDMICIDE 11 місяців тому +3

    At a restaurant if it’s a food receipt and you sat and ate it’ll either all go to the server, get split between the servers, or it’ll go mostly to them with a small split to the hosts and such, and if it’s takeout same thing but sometimes the hosts will get 100% of the tip

  • @theallaroundnerd9889
    @theallaroundnerd9889 11 місяців тому +5

    If you tip, always tip cash and not card. If you tio card, in many places, it gets split between ALL the workers

  • @mystereoheart2579
    @mystereoheart2579 11 місяців тому +1

    Important note about service worker minimum wage: *you only make $2.13 an hour if that + your tips = regular minimum wage or greater*.
    If you go a whole shift and make $0 in tips, you aren't supposed to earn $2.13/hr for that shift, you're supposed to get paid the regular minimum wage to make up for that difference. I'm sure there are companies that don't follow this rule but there is legal protection for those situations.
    That's part of why tipping culture isn't going away in the U.S. Waiters and waitresses usually make so much in tips that they'd rather keep it than go to a flat minimum wage salary without them. You can look it up, anytime a business tries to change their model to pay their staff a regular wage at the cost of taking away tips, there's a huge pushback.

  • @onechippyboi
    @onechippyboi 11 місяців тому +21

    Last week I slightly flamed a Subway employee because he questioned me about responding "sure" to whether I wanted it toasted and I was like, "sure means yes" but he continued to be like, "sure doesn't mean yes, I don't know what sure means" before I just told him not to toast my sandwich out of spite.
    I still tipped 20%, I just don't have that dog in me.

    • @joseph_M
      @joseph_M 11 місяців тому +10

      "Sure, I'll leave you a tip"
      Proceeds not to tip 😂

    • @doublah1865
      @doublah1865 11 місяців тому +7

      nah tipping for fast food is crazy.

    • @shirothefish9688
      @shirothefish9688 11 місяців тому +1

      @@joseph_Min a situation like that, I think the appropriate tip is $0.02

  • @virginiamoss7045
    @virginiamoss7045 10 місяців тому +1

    I've noticed that some of the employees at the checkout seem a bit embarrassed; some just turn away, pretending to busy themselves, while I complete the screen. This whole thing needs to go the way of the model T. I hate tipping! Always have. Pay employees what they are worth and charge me what you need to charge. I'll either buy what you are offering or I won't buy, but I'll be far more likely to do so not having to deal with tipping.

  • @traderofgodsgt3518
    @traderofgodsgt3518 11 місяців тому +8

    As a European, American tipping culture is so bizarre.
    I tried tipping a waitress in my country and she just looked at me weird and said "nah I'm good, keep it" (it was only 15% on a 40$ bill). I can't ever imagine paying someone 15% fee for picking up a sandwich or whatever from a glass cage for me

  • @CDrocKS
    @CDrocKS 11 місяців тому +2

    Some places i go to have the check out employees hit 0% tip themselves before turning the thing to you to pay.

  • @SpaceSwimmer69
    @SpaceSwimmer69 11 місяців тому +4

    Im actually scared to visit USA, because in Europe you're not forced to tip. The only time I tip, if I'm in the restaurant and the service is excellent. If I wait too long or the waiter forgets something, why would i tip lol. Tipping when you're in the line is crazy. I can see why you would tip delivery (I've done this several times in my whole life though)

  • @iplay9s
    @iplay9s 11 місяців тому

    As someone who helped operate a small restaurant business, we paid our employees standard minimum wage not tip worker wage. We couldnt stay in business because of it in the long run. Our competitors paid tipping wage and ran us out of business with their menus lower prices.
    Our operating costs were so high because of regulatory things like commisions and inspections mandated by the government to certify us and allow us to operate. Followed up by the ridiculous amount of tax we have to pay, there was no profit to be had.
    After paying our employees full wages, and paying the government so we can exist, me and the owners worked for 4 years with no income from the business and eventually had to shut down with no light at the end of the tunnel.
    If we had instead paid our employees $2.14/hr it would have been easy to be profitable

    • @iplay9s
      @iplay9s 11 місяців тому

      Interesting info: we had just a simple tip jar in the front and it matched about 15% of the day's sales

  • @CrunchRosey
    @CrunchRosey 11 місяців тому +2

    I'm autistic, I can hardly hold a conversation because of social anxiety. Sometimes when I am asked to tip I do crazy mental gymnastics regarding "Why this person deserves all my money" and eventually I always tip more than they deserve. I often do not even respect, or value, the work they are doing. When Atrioc said these tip machines are built to take advantage of awkward people, its me, but worse.

  • @littlecrab4101
    @littlecrab4101 9 місяців тому

    As an Australian that just came back from Hawaii, I feel that tipping is totally out of control. Lots of things had a 20% tip auto added and then also asked for additional tip. There was a “recommended tip” on the bottom of all receipts that started at 18% and said 25% tip was normal. Taxi drivers gave no change just expected that the few dollars were a tip. Uber tips were the worst.
    In Australia we never tip. I ended up spending at least $500 on tips in a week.
    I’ve heard people say “if you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to eat out”. Well as a tourist who’s dollar is worth 60 cents to the US dollar, I can’t afford to tip people $10 5 times a day!

  • @walak6832
    @walak6832 11 місяців тому +6

    Im in Quebec, and you can really see the difference between tipping by card or cash, the company i work for (Timmy Hortons) we dont have an option for tip by card but we accept cash tip, my sister’s workplace has the option of tipping that appears before paying. In the end i make like 15$ max in an 8h shift while they can get close to a 100$ for the same number of hours, but usually less clients too 🤦‍♂️😂 so yeah this method makes wayy more money

  • @fabianbandaiii3304
    @fabianbandaiii3304 Місяць тому

    10:20 I have worked in a restaurant that tip shares EVERY employee, including the accountant, the head chef, the manager, the owner. And they have openly said " I just split the tips up based on who I think deserves it more that week."

  • @Skiesahead
    @Skiesahead 11 місяців тому +8

    As an Australian, I am glad that this is not a problem here.

    • @menra2
      @menra2 11 місяців тому +2

      It's becoming one

  • @aatrophy5998
    @aatrophy5998 11 місяців тому +2

    I’ve heard from friends who work at places that use the digitized tips that they see a very small portion of it if they see any. Typically the tips go into this massive pool and then it gets distributed to different places and then the actual workers get the leftovers. One of them literally told me to just not tip where they work cause they won’t see any of it.

  • @MrPerser
    @MrPerser 11 місяців тому +7

    As a European, this is the funniest thing ever.

  • @JasonEkonomakos
    @JasonEkonomakos 11 місяців тому

    Tipping used to literally only be for waiters or delivery drivers. My first job was a bus boy, I'm not going around tipping a barista on an overpriced cup of coffee. I have no anxiety turning down absolutely dumb tips, you're not going to shame me into "tipping".
    Another thing I'd like to mention is that flat tips should be used for small orders. If I go into a diner alone and only get something for 10 bucks, it's not worth the waitresses's time to only get a 2 dollar tip. Give a 3 dollar tip minimum, until the bill is high enough to warrant a 20% tip

  • @SentryWill
    @SentryWill 11 місяців тому +16

    Atrioc should tip us for watching his videos and providing exposure

  • @dolanfremp
    @dolanfremp 11 місяців тому +2

    maaan i have such a strong perspective on this, as someone who is as a bartender, its out of control. atrioc if you want to talk ill be down for explantaion.

  • @PoliAstroN
    @PoliAstroN 11 місяців тому +7

    Tipping as a concept is just really weird.
    Why couldn’t we just pay the institution, and have the institution pay the worker appropriately?? Why do tips even exist

  • @cheesypufs
    @cheesypufs 10 місяців тому +1

    If I owned a small business I would put a giant sign on the window that says "We won't ask for tip, because we pay our staff more"

  • @quadsnipershot
    @quadsnipershot 11 місяців тому +4

    my first job we went to a new system for POS. It always asked how much you want to tip at first we would just tell them not to tip because nobody got the money aside the company. Eventually we just took the verifone away and had to press the button for people because people felt bad and still tip. I asked why we have that option enabled and apparently they could not remove it.

    • @tortillachips3911
      @tortillachips3911 11 місяців тому

      So you don't get the tip through the POS? That's fucking ridiculous.

    • @A-Letter
      @A-Letter 11 місяців тому

      I would just outright lie and say to the customers that the tipping system is mechanically broken and they should skip it by pressing 0. That should cover the outliers that still tip by virtue of adhering to rote behaviors.
      You can add "..yeah, we've had technical problems with the tipping system. We haven't been using the kiosk for a while and we're working on fixing it." and let their imagination run with it.
      People wouldn't second guess it because it's so out of the norm that someone would deliberately not take a tip.
      Broken is technically true, in a metaphorical way.

  • @CianaCorto
    @CianaCorto 11 місяців тому +2

    Glad I live in the Netherlands. I never tip for anything. Not in a restaurant, not for delivery. Never.

  • @jaden_shah
    @jaden_shah 11 місяців тому +55

    I work service, and I totally understand where people are coming from when they say tipping is out of control (which it definitely is), but I feel like a lot of people don’t truly reckon with the fact that by not tipping, you are making it substantially more difficult for someone not to be able to provide for themselves because they aren’t being paid a living wage. That’s the real problem, the fact that we’ve normalized the fact that business should be able to outsource their own employees wage on to the consumer is insane to me.

    • @sdaniaal
      @sdaniaal 11 місяців тому

      I didn't go out to pick up another person's baggage, I can't believe this "free country" is still exploiting slaves.

    • @tortillachips3911
      @tortillachips3911 11 місяців тому +5

      Very true. Do you work in food service? Are you working at a place that doesn't have typical waiters? If so, do you actually receive the tips that are clicked on the iPad? I want to know if my money is actually going to the people in front of me/on shift at the time I place my order.

    • @turtlepope7802
      @turtlepope7802 11 місяців тому +13

      And by tipping you maintain the status quo. If people suddenly stop tipping for no reason things will get pretty rough for a bit and either the government passes legislation or market forces eventually balance things out. Tips are a band-aid, if you rely on them to keep everything afloat you'll never get out of it.

    • @ThePoliticalBulldog
      @ThePoliticalBulldog 11 місяців тому +16

      It is not a customer or other fellow of the working class's responsibility to pay your wage at your job - it's your employers. Take that energy and demand a living wage & form a union.

    • @thelyonking5812
      @thelyonking5812 11 місяців тому +13

      I’m a broke college student and I never tip. My own dad gives me shit, he says don’t go out unless you can afford the 20% tip. I say fuck that, it isn’t my job to pay your wage. Start or join a union and force an employer to pay you a livable wage. I don’t care if that means prices rise, because then at least I know the full price rather than having to pay extra that I didn’t expect just to eat. I work a job that pays $11/hr and doesn’t make tips, so why should I tip you when I don’t have money either, it’s basically me just handing over a $20 bill for no reason.

  • @alexneumann4904
    @alexneumann4904 11 місяців тому +1

    Meanwhile the winery I work at defaults to "no tip" and the highest it goes is 15%, or people can customize the amount. We're the lowest tip percentage winery in the valley, and yet one of the biggest wineries in it. Shit's insane.
    I agree that tips should be abolished, and employers should just give their employees a livable wage... but like that's not the world we live in, and I spend more time with our customers than a server at a restaurant (Not to compare, as my restaurant brethren should be equally compensated). We sell $100 bottles of wine. This winery makes millions upon millions every year, and I'm living paycheck to paycheck

  • @hastyscorpion
    @hastyscorpion 11 місяців тому +4

    I would literally never tip my mechanic. Them sabotaging my car is horrible for their business. People don't come back if you do a crap job.

    • @livigy
      @livigy 11 місяців тому +1

      I'm sure they find additional 'defects' instead, or really really insist that you need new brake pads etc.

  • @hamishboddy1405
    @hamishboddy1405 11 місяців тому +2

    As bad as flat tips are, where I live 10% is no longer an option on most tip machines. Like they start at 15% or 18%. And I have literally given no tip trying to pick another amount on accident. The card machines are criminal where I live.

  • @char1194
    @char1194 11 місяців тому +2

    I'm not american, nor have i ever travelled there, and I literally have never been asked for a tip before. When I first learnt about tipping as a teenager I was so confused

  • @AnonNameless
    @AnonNameless 11 місяців тому +1

    Prices are so inflated and on top of tipping, I don't even consider ordering any food or getting coffee. The only place I gotta tip is the barber.

  • @TheBournPL
    @TheBournPL 11 місяців тому +3

    I mean Im not from US but I see that some of the "tipping culture" is spilling into my country too. I only tip in restaurants and only of the service was exceptional. If someone from any other industry hands me that tablet with "how much do you want to tip" I make it a point to stare into their eyes and decline

  • @crazymonk27
    @crazymonk27 11 місяців тому +2

    I stopped going out and started cooking more to be able to tip less. Those businesses are going to suffer because of this

  • @HonkChamp
    @HonkChamp 11 місяців тому +9

    Can we just appreciate Atriocs amazing comeback on youtube

    • @potatosordfighter666
      @potatosordfighter666 11 місяців тому

      TBH it's not hard to come back once your audience is over a certain size. At a certain point there are people who will watch you basically no matter what, which is why the end stage of nearly all washed up content creators is doing a podcast.

  • @ghoziakbar6410
    @ghoziakbar6410 11 місяців тому +2

    In my country, if you leave a tip on the table, that money will be picked by random stranger

  • @orionehrlich9120
    @orionehrlich9120 11 місяців тому +3

    I was asked to tip on an ipad when paying $10 for a shower at a music festival I had spend nearly $500 dollars to attend. I hit the custom tip option I quickly pressed 0 and enter, cause why would I tip for a shower. I noticed too late that the custom tip option defaulted to 10%. So when I hit the 0 and enter I had accidentally tipped 100% meaning I paid $20 for a shower. Crazy

  • @fabianbandaiii3304
    @fabianbandaiii3304 Місяць тому

    I applied at 7brew because the job ad said $18-$21 based on experience. Turns out it's minimum wage+ tips, which usually came out to $14/hr. I work takeout at a BJ's restaurant, they do the same, I applied to a manager position at Jersey mikes. Turns out it wasn't for a manager, it was for the lowest level employee with a chance of one day competing to be a manager in 3years when they plan on opening a new location. Payed minimum wage plus tips. This is in Arkansas. Job market sucks.

  • @thefoxsaysno9951
    @thefoxsaysno9951 11 місяців тому +3

    It's crazy that companies don't pay their employees enough so customers have to pitch in, tipping culture could be obliterated if people were just paid more right?

  • @jcmartinez7527
    @jcmartinez7527 11 місяців тому +1

    Casa Bonita in Colorado offered their employees $30 an hour on the condition they don’t accept tips. Waiters were upset at that. Stating they average 40-50 an hour with tips.

  • @davidlazerz8564
    @davidlazerz8564 11 місяців тому +4

    Just remember: If you dont like tipping dont pretend youre on some moral high ground and decide to not tip your waiter at a restaurant or any other tipped wage employee. These people literally depend on making tips if they want more than $7.25 an hour in most areas as only a few places in the US have real wages for tipped employees. Most places can legally pay them ~$2.15/hour and then let tips make up the difference. As long as they average more than $7.24 an hour the restaurant does not have to make up the difference in federal minimum wage or state minimum wage, whichever is higher.
    If you dont like tipping thats completely valid, but you should be boycotting places that use tipped wage employees, not using them and then not tipping. The only person you are hurting if you use tipped wage services and don't tip is the employee, and they have virtually no control over the wage laws and business wages so its like boycotting sweatshops by beating up sweatshop employees.

    • @tortillachips3911
      @tortillachips3911 11 місяців тому

      SO TRUE!! We should be boycotting the SERVICE not the TIPS

    • @ForOne814
      @ForOne814 11 місяців тому

      @@tortillachips3911 no, actually. Boycotting the tips would be way more effective, because people won't be able to sustain themselves in such positions, they'll seek other job opportunities and employers will be forced to start paying better. Boycotting tips is the way to go. No one forced the employees to sign the contract.
      In any economy where workers are in demand the workers control the market. Last time I've checked America is one of those countries. Every person that agrees to shit salary (as in salary THEY consider to be shit) is a traitor to his country and his people, and, more importantly, himself.

  • @MMXVII
    @MMXVII 11 місяців тому +1

    In Canada they recently raised the wage for tipped positions to match minimum wage. I see a lot of these, but rarely ever feel the need to push yes to a tip. The only one that scares me is not tipping delivery drivers because I'm scared they will mess with my food.

  • @adamvifrye2690
    @adamvifrye2690 11 місяців тому +7

    the fact that minimum wage hasnt changed at all for like 2 decades is just absurd and openly sad.. idk why NOBODY seems to be doing anything about it... we should be at 10 dollars AT LEAST.

  • @Hhhhhsgaga
    @Hhhhhsgaga 11 місяців тому +2

    I worked at a credit card processor in 2019. When some businesses that did not deserve a tip option would asked me to add tipping line for them, I’d either lie and say it’s there or id say it’s unavailable for their account.

    • @A-Letter
      @A-Letter 11 місяців тому

      That is unfathomably based.
      Thank you for your service.

  • @lalochivafan
    @lalochivafan 5 місяців тому

    Yeah, I refuse to tip more than 15% and I only tip at full service restaurants. If I have to stand in line to order, get my own food, choose my own table, fill my own drinks, take my trash and plates up when I’m done, pack my own to go box or any combination thereof, I refuse to tip. I never do delivery because I would only tip what I save on gas and even then it would appear like it’s too small of a tip. I generally don’t tip on to go orders unless it’s a place I frequent. I do have a list of restaurants to never go to and those are either with poor service, bad tasting food or more frequently now, restaurants that put automatic tips regardless of party size, service charges, service fees, or employee health insurance fund. These restaurants never get my business again.

  • @purpleconvict4152
    @purpleconvict4152 11 місяців тому +5

    This is one of the things I love about living in Japan. There is no tipping culture. I haven't paid any tips since moving here and the one time I tried to tip a taxi driver, my friend stopped me because it can be seen as rude

  • @Mattadork
    @Mattadork Місяць тому

    my family doesn't tip waitresses or waiters a set amount of %, we give them more based on performance, there was a waitress at red robin, one of the worst ones i've ever seen, almost NEVER came to refill drinks, you could see her sitting over there on her phone most of the time, she does NOT deserve a tip. meanwhile we have had a waitress not only constantly checking in with us to make sure we are having a good time, but also without even needing to ask, gets us refills on the drinks AND she remembered which drinks we got to the point of arguing with my mom about what flavor i ordered lol (and the waitress was right), we gave her a 20 dollar tip, the most we ever tipped. for an average service we give around 7-10.

  • @technetium9653
    @technetium9653 11 місяців тому +62

    I don't know how Americans convinced themselves that adding a gratuity charge in the bill would cause the collapse of society

    • @Max_VF
      @Max_VF 11 місяців тому +5

      Obviously its not the only factor, but it definitely is one

    • @zennacho5640
      @zennacho5640 11 місяців тому +22

      if you had to pay 15% more for everything you would also become concerned.

    • @Jasmixd
      @Jasmixd 11 місяців тому +7

      ​@@zennacho5640 You already do pay that 15% more in tips though? Or at least most people do.

    • @ZacharieAlan
      @ZacharieAlan 11 місяців тому

      Are you American? Tipping is stupid. It’s not causing the collapse, it’s just another symptom.

    • @AnonNameless
      @AnonNameless 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@JasmixdI think it became a big problem because of inflation before people didn't care that much, but now the price of everything is inflated and the tipping option is literally everywhere, no matter where you go.

  • @tinyrodent2821
    @tinyrodent2821 11 місяців тому

    In the UK, and most of the world a tip is a bonus to the staff for their service, because they earn their minimum wage and then tips are added on after, so they get their £10.43, and keep their tip as an extra (and pay tax if they earn over £12,750 annually). In the USA any tips are taken away from their minimum wage, so if they earn $8 an hour, and get tipped $4, the company only has to pay them $4 (min wage is something like $7.80). It's unbelievably scummy. By tipping, you aren't paying the waiter, you're paying the company.

  • @NotChillin
    @NotChillin 11 місяців тому +3

    20% is too high

  • @bladeofbubbles3289
    @bladeofbubbles3289 4 місяці тому

    I work beside a subway and at some point throughout COVID they added a tip button to the machines. The lady's there are always super sweet and kind but they always tell every customer to skip the tip option when it pops up. One day I went to tip them through it and the lady asked me not to. I said I just wanted to tip her but she said there is no need and that none of the tips come back to them anyways, subway keeps it all.

    • @thetiredcynic
      @thetiredcynic 2 місяці тому

      Wtf that's scummy af that should be illegal

  • @oliverebbing6637
    @oliverebbing6637 11 місяців тому +2

    I really only tip when the waiter has done an exceptionally good job. For example, on a vacation with my guys, one waiter was so funny with his jokes, that he got the whole table laughing mutliple times. He got a tip, because he was and is awesome.

  • @user-sf9gs2pg1b
    @user-sf9gs2pg1b 11 місяців тому

    I hate the flat tip too. I once got just a Starburst at this place for like $1, and got the,” what do you want to top? $1, $2, $3,” part and decided not to tip. I got the Starburst myself, walked up myself, all they did was click a button… if I got paid by the bottom click like that, I’d be rich.

  • @artemis-kinkyboikirby5539
    @artemis-kinkyboikirby5539 11 місяців тому +4

    Tipping is the first step to losing workers rights

  • @npclucario7005
    @npclucario7005 5 місяців тому

    I work at a carwash for tips, I feel kind of guilty sometimes due to how expensive the washes are ($25 to like $50!), but at the same time, when you math it out it's the best paying job per hour I've ever had and the flexibility of the hours makes it perfect for me since I'm a student. It really sucks having to rely on the generosity of random people to come home with more than $6.15 an hour, but ironically that's like, way better than what most servers get. I'd rather get a lower overall with more hourly long term though, the stress of tips isn't worth it forever

  • @gaminggalore4210
    @gaminggalore4210 11 місяців тому +9

    It’s kinda crazy how much america relies tips. I live in Australia and when I went to America for a trip, we had no cash, and just got scared by how angry they were.

  • @narhwallord6985
    @narhwallord6985 11 місяців тому +2

    At the little pizza shop I worked at, we averaged about $1.50 an hour in tips spread between all the employees throughout the week. After we implemented Toast POS we averaged over $4 for the first quarter. Then it balanced down to $3.50.

    • @xBox360BENUTZER
      @xBox360BENUTZER 11 місяців тому

      I worked in a small pizza delivery shop in europe where people don´t expect tips, minimum wage is higher and the payment screen doesnt ask for tips and I still got ~4€/h while selling to the few cutomers that didnt want them to be delivered while the drivers got 10-20€/h (they had to split with the kitchen so ~5-10€/h). Even when not pressured the rest of the world tips an average of 10% compared to usa´s 20%.

  • @Larkus
    @Larkus 11 місяців тому +8

    as a barista I have to say I completely rely on tipping to pay my bills. And I still make 15 an hour base

    • @IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek
      @IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek 11 місяців тому +2

      That’s actually insane, I kinda get it if it’s a small local coffee shop but if you are an employee of a chain like Starbucks then that’s disgusting that you have to rely on tips instead of them just paying what you’re owed, it’s not like they couldn’t afford it

    • @greenoftreeblackofblue6625
      @greenoftreeblackofblue6625 11 місяців тому +1

      Asmongold talked about tipping too, he said don't tip because you're making the same amount of money they are. "They can't afford not to be tip, you can't afford to tip them as well."

    • @ezramarkos4957
      @ezramarkos4957 11 місяців тому

      ​@@IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek15 an hour isnt bad for a starbucks job, if its like a real coffee shop it should be more.

    • @IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek
      @IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek 11 місяців тому

      @@ezramarkos4957 It's not bad, but it should still be able to cover your bills, Starbucks could definitely afford it.

  • @bavier6355
    @bavier6355 11 місяців тому +1

    The guy at my local sandwich shop actively tells everyone to hit no tip lol

    • @LunaticTheCat
      @LunaticTheCat 11 місяців тому

      The lady at my favorite food cart quickly presses no tip before I even have a chance to press it. I love her, lol

  • @Waffles17643
    @Waffles17643 11 місяців тому +3

    Really just gonna steal Biggest A Clips content such trashy behavior. At least give the guy some credit

  • @DJwEYEred
    @DJwEYEred 11 місяців тому

    As someone in the credit card industry I just want to say TOAST charges a LOT and has liquid damage contracts.. meaning if you pay $500 a month for their software and services and try to cancel 8 months into your contract. It's a $20k cancellation fee (48m contract, 40x$500= cancellation fee) and clover LEASES are the same and iron clad. The thing is in both contracts it states it doesn't matter what the sales person said to you it the contract is all that matters and both tend to raise their agreed upon rates 1-2 times annually.

  • @ATeenBeliever
    @ATeenBeliever 11 місяців тому +3

    The tipping vets and non service workers is crazy. But tipping baristas is understandable. It's often an underpaid, high-stress job that is more than "pouring coffee". Starbucks has whole books to train their baristas.

  • @toahru
    @toahru 11 місяців тому

    i’m from california and tipping is even more crazy since waiters and waitresses are paid fully minimum wage now so then asking for 25% tip is just criminal

  • @prekatori
    @prekatori 7 місяців тому +1

    Tipped minimum is just a base wage. If tipped minimum wage + tips don't exceed the normal minimum wage then the employer has to pay the difference

  • @TDotDubzOG
    @TDotDubzOG 11 місяців тому +1

    Living in the UK, tipping is already a relatively foreign concept to me. I have never ever been asked for a tip, let alone seen a tip happen in person, albeit it does exist optionally in certain businesses with no pressure such as delivery, tattoo artists and on the screens of self service stands in fast food chains (the last one is a little predatory as the 'no' options are usually small and/or hidden between more button presses or under a 'charity' option, and almost always asked *before* any service has happened) - however the concept I don't understand more is the act of physically giving your card to the person serving you so they can scan/put the transaction through for you.
    You can usually tell someone isn't from where I'm from when in my retail job someone's first instinct is to hand me their card when paying and I look at them confused as the card machine is next to them to do themselves. I am not touching, let alone taking your card for this. It makes me uncomfortable handling someone else's money, especially if it's a stranger.

    • @joelambert7128
      @joelambert7128 11 місяців тому

      Almost everyone I know tips at a restaurant. Frankly it is bizarre that you've never seen this happen.

  • @Trash0000
    @Trash0000 11 місяців тому +1

    My friends straight up acted like i was the next hitler when i told them i dont tip at fast food or any shops that never used to ask for tips😂. The way i see it, if you dont work at a resturant where workers are purposely paid less so customers can make up the difference in tips , then im not tipping you. I work at taco bell and tips arent supposed to be accepted but yet they are. And they are definitely not shared. Which is probably what makes me so bitter about this new tipping culture seeing as im a line cook who sees not one cent of the tip despite being the one to actually make them thier food. But essentially if i can work for the very minimum wage legally allowed in my state and not recieve any tips for my work. Then there is no chance im going to tip you, probably making more than me, to sit at the register.

  • @B-Wrecks10
    @B-Wrecks10 11 місяців тому

    some restaurants you "get" to tip both the wait staff and the host. So usually the host misses out because the wait staff gets first dibs on cash tips unless they hand it directly to you.