Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: As If Being Expected to Tip for Everything Wasn't Bad Enough... Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 16:00:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 69 Message-ID: <2a4sui1b7l149k3d2mtu0t0rvqtqf1gem3@4ax.com> References: <53SdnYdXF_iBlnP4nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1682a645f8bde669cb5b0bf88bd6ec0b"; logging-data="3305907"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ACTtYcBGri9r7k51CMccCnKDinsBuYvs=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ueyj2a1e7a4UKHpCWNm0gLhv+d4= Bytes: 3942 On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:33:48 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >On Jul 12, 2023 at 9:53:27 PM PDT, "BTR1701" wrote: > >> \- rant >> >> Lately I've been noticing the proliferation of tip jars and tip prompts just >> about everywhere. You're now expected to tip the McDonald's guy who slides >> your burger bag across the counter to you, for gawd's sake. >> >> I was at a place called Souplantation, which is basically one huge >> 40-yard-long salad bar. You take a tray and a plate when you walk in the >> front >> door, you walk down the salad bar and add ingredients to your salad along the >> way, if you want one of the soups, you grab a bowl and fill it, you take a >> cup >> and fill it from the machine for your drink, and at the end there's a scale >> that weighs your items and a cashier to ring it up based on weight. And sure >> enough, there was a tip jar there and when I paid by card, I got a prompt >> asking me to leave a tip with choices 20%, 25%, and 30%. >> >> For what? >> >> I literally did *everything* myself. I made my own salad, I poured my own >> drink, I ladled my own soup, I got my own condiments, yet I'm supposed to add >> anywhere from 20% to 30% extra onto my bill to tip the guy who did nothing >> but >> push *one* button on his register to total up my order's weight? >> >> And as if this wasn't bad enough, now I'm starting to see signs like this in >> restaurants around town: >> >> >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6egz5eom3pc2n503ldusl/Tips.png?rlkey=h8sjxno4581t1hmqmvtvuc08q&dl=0 >> >> Restaurants are charging a percentage to use your credit card. Maybe they >> were >> already secretly doing this, but I've never seen one boldly state that you >> will be charged an extra 3% for not paying cash. >> >> Customers are not supposed to be paying the credit card processing fee. In >> many cases, it's against the merchant agreement. >> >> Know how people will fix this problem? They’ll take the 3% from the server's >> tip. Which means the servers are going to ultimately be the ones who get >> screwed. >> >> -/ rant > >Now the robot at the automated convenience store wants a tip, too. > >You go in the store, there are literally no employees anywhere, you pick your >item off the shelf, take it to an available self-checkout register, scan it, >swipe your card, and you're presented with a screen that asks if you want to >leave a tip with various amount choices, starting at 20%. > >Leave a tip for who? There are no employees here. Am I tipping the corporation >that owns the store? Because hell no. > >Leave a tip for what? No service was provided to me. I did literally >everything myself. > >The store is literally just a giant vending machine. I wonder when those are >going to start asking for tips, too. > You are tipping the employees that are restocking the shelves and those in security watching you on the camera.