• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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        And they’re perfect for this kind of thing! What better way to punish rude tip demands? Despite how rude it is, you don’t want to throw someone in jail over this. A fine? You risk the fine being so low it’s just a cost of business or so high you just ruined some service worker’s life. This is exactly where the pillory shines!

        Demand a tip like this? To the stockades with you! Spend an afternoon chained up by the sidewalk, while people throw tomatoes at you. No real harm done. Just public embarrassment.

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          I gu-ar-an-tea the server didn’t make up those tips, so we’re talking about the manager, or corporate flunky in the stocks, right?

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            it’s going to be corporate, In-store managers have practically no control. The person in charge of these practices is likely to be titled a regional director or similar, and even then they are going to be “translating” and implementing board/owner instructions.

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    This is why I have stopped dining out, if the business demands excess to then pay staff and without tips staff go unpaid then what is it I am supporting.

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      If I saw this I would give them exactly what I think they’re worth. $0.01 and a bad online review.

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        If you said “$.02 (point oh two) and a bad online review” it would’ve had an extra layer and sounded cooler while rhyming.

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        So, in the article, the tip amounts were 20%, 30%, 50%, and 100%. They also used capital letters correctly.

        I’m not trying to say that a 100% tip isn’t crazy, but this photo seems suspicious without any branding, incorrect capitalization and a total of exactly $95.00. Hell, I can’t even be sure that this is an actual point of sale machine, it looks like it could just be a monitor.

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      Even if it is, at current rate, one day we’ll look back and go “remember when tipping was optional, and less than 100%, we were truly spoiled back then”

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          We don’t, we will tip outstanding service for a meal say, usually just a few quid, but it’s slowly becoming more of a thing, like this at some busy bars in cities.

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          It’s creeping in all over Europe with the card machines. Tipping requests are on by default.

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    At this point I’d go full Karen asking to speak to the supervisor, then taking my business elsewhere.

    Vote with your wallet.

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    ITT.

    I love the scene where a group of sociopathic murders are all shocked at how scummy someone has to be to deprive a waitress of her wages, as if it’s justified because the owner doesn’t pay her either.

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      It is absolutely justified. Businesses are able to pay employees, it’s just more profitable to move that burden onto customers.

      Result? Customers pay more, and workers don’t have a stable income. The only winning party is a business.

      By tipping, you help the worker short-term, but aid in proliferating a system that makes it so much worse for them.

      That’s why I love cultures where tipping isn’t just uncommon, but is flat out rejected, because workers are paid well and are proud of it.