Has the tipping culture reached a breaking point?

everyone wants a tip for everything. door dash...Uber...everyone. they've all got their hand out and they get ticked off if you don't wanna tip but they get paid by these employers. if my groceries cost $200 i don't have money to tip the delivery guy. that's just absurd. door dashers get paid to deliver food and groceries. it costs me almost $20 for a burger meal here. sorry but i can barely afford the meal let alone a tip.

i don't ask for a tip for every toilet i clean and everything i do at work. we're not even allowed to take tips.
 

I don't have a problem tipping good or good service. I used to wait on tables and know how it is. Even the tip jar at the grocery store. Just this week I went to the local grocery store and left some meat I had paid for. After I got home and realized it, I figured it was gone and forgot about it. I had to go back a few hours later and the cashier stopped me and went back to the freezer and returned my package of meat. That's service.
 
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-Oy- said:
How can staff get paid below minimum wage?

Here we have a minimum wage and also a slighly higher living wage. Anyone who pays less than a living wage shouldn't be in business.
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It depends on local laws. There are certain occupations, like waiter/waitress that are exempt from minimum wage limits. I think ?, they get a base wage of 40-60% of the minimum wage. Supposedly, tips make up it rest.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
It depends on local laws. There are certain occupations, like waiter/waitress that are exempt from minimum wage limits. I think ?, they get a base wage of 40-60% of the minimum wage. Supposedly, tips make up it rest.
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true but not usually the case. as budgets get tighter so will the fists around the tip money. we'll be stuck using kiosks and picking up food like at mcdonald's.
 
I've noticed that hotel and restaurant employees in many of the countries I've traveled in provide such good service. They are constantly wanting to do something for you. Yes, they're hoping for a good tip....but....so are the employees here in the U.S. but they're often not willing to work hard to get it.

I also wonder why we base the amount of tip on the amount of the bill. For instance, if I'm out to dinner with a friend and I order the Lobster Bisque at $15 and my friend orders the Chicken Noodle Soup at $5, my tip at 20% would be $3 and her tip would be $1. The waitress takes our order at the same time, puts the order into the kitchen at the same time and delivers both soups at the same time. She hasn't put in any more effort for my soup than she has for my friend's. But I'm tipping 3x as much.

I'm a good tipper, not a ridiculously-good tipper, but I do tip 20% for anything but the most abysmal service and a bit more for good service.
 
I used to always hear about tipping cows, when I was young, but never got around to actually trying it.

And likewise... since I rarely go out to eat anymore, I've only heard about some of these tipping schemes
y'all are talking about. I do occasionally swing by Starbuck's, and they have that "tip the cashier, whatever
you'd like, (hint, hint)". It gets me a little annoyed but not as annoyed with myself after I actually do the
thing that I don't want to do... tip. (Or more correctly, Give a gratuity).

Whatever happened to the idea of boycotting such stuff?
 
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