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On 2024-03-10 20:00:48 +0000, shawn said:

> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:33:48 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 12, 2023 at 9:53:27 PM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> 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.

For a few years now banks have been continuallyt trying to push people 
into using internet / app banking rather than going to a branch. When 
you do that you're doing everything yourself, yet you still paying the 
same fees as those of us who go to the teller at a branch.

Not only that, but if you make a mistake and transfer money to a wrong 
account (e.g. paying a bill and enter an incorrect digit), the bank 
claims it's your fault, they can't reverse the transfer, and it's your 
tough luck. Whereas if the bank teller makes the same mistake, the bank 
*has* to refund you the money.

We're paying them more and more for doing less and less ... it's no 
wonder banks make such massive profits.  :-\