DrElizabethTakeda
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"Merchant decides how tips are handled."
Tip culture just needs to be replaced with.. Just paying people enough to do their job.
Sorry, random thing that pissed me off, probably hormones or something after giving birth to triplets Tuesday night.
dieselfury
It all just needs to change at once. It is awkward though to go to a no tip restaraunt (like 20-25% automatically added to the bill) and still have a tip line on the receipt. Like you said it's a no tip restaraunt why give me the feeling of being stingy
Rubyrose99
Wow just the casual "I made 3 humans at once" flex. Congrats @OP, I hope you're recovering well and fast!
Badgerbadgerson3
Absofuckinglutely not. I'm one of the people that strongly supports tipping, but 1: It shouldn't be used as a replacement for wages. And 2: It's for service beyond what you're paying for with the food and service. Hence why you tip waiters and delivery drivers, and not people in a drive thru window.
Plagen
If you don't like tipping, you could always just stop doing it.
Unknownhost7
..and one after the other, businesses are passing store costs on to tipped employees. Charging tipped employees credit card charges on transactions which now come out of tipped employees tips is the latest scam.
They are doing it with the excuse, 'after trump removes taxes from tips...'
Like anyone with any sense didn't already under-report tips.
I remember seeing kids get big tax bills(to them) because they reported tips on taxes fully not realizing they were fucking themselves.
Canigetbannedagain2
I've seen stuff like this at restaurants/ bars, they'll have a saying like " $3 tip for the staff in the back".... And I'm like, if I just came in for a beer, how did the staff in the back serve me? It's the same bartender each time. The back staff didn't do anything.
luceid
It went too far for me when the service department at the Subaru dealership credit card reader asked for a tip on a $900 repair.
veesee
Wait... you don't tip your mechanic?
putcleverusernamehere
Or how bout this: the merchant could show appreciation to its employees by paying a living wage. And could show appreciation to its customers (without who they would be out of business) by charging fair prices?
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
Just tip.... so the merchant doesn’t have to pay the employee a salary at all. /s
ricpaul
Just the tip... That's probably how OP ended up with triplets... Congrats to OP on the sex!!!
DOcelot1
DrElizabethTakeda
I always do cash tips for Uber/Uber Eats, I don't trust even the app to actually give the full tip.
Shortndeadly
As someone who does uber for a living, we do get the full tip. But a lot of people like cash anyway. Just know if you dont have cash on hand we do get all of it through the app.
Like2Fox
The apps have stolen money, yes
badgesweedontneednostinkingbadges
When I drove livery, I always liked cash tips best because I didn't have to report them. Always tip and, if you can, use cash.
FeloniousMonk13
This is why I usually prefer to hand the delivery person a cash tip
screwdriverone
In Australia, yesterday ordered at a pub from a QR code, after 1 person pointed us to a table. Ordered 3 meals for 3 people and the website/app asked on checkout if we would like to add 5%/10%/15% tip for our "servers" we hadn't even ordered our food yet nor seen it, or interacted with any wait staff or bar staff at all!
A fucking joke because in Australia, we pay our staff a decent minimum wage, so fuck off with this gratuity bullshit from a fucking website ordering system!
divingin
Congrats on the triplets!
johnvilnis
Here in Australia we almost never saw any requests for tips because workers were paid a decent wage on average. But in the last decade the idea of tipping crept in and now it is everywhere and turns me off from doing business with them.
Shmoaker
It's My money. I am paying for the service, therefore decide how the tip gets handled. You're being paid to fondle the balls too
Shmoaker
Seriously though
Shmoaker
Becker37
Yes but tips should be given in certain situations. Like I work in a hotel cleaning rooms and some of y'all are nasty fucking assholes. Of course those who do horrible shit are not the ones who tip. Thank you three people who gave me one today!!!
Kotarisu
Applicable quote (also congratulations!)
ValhallaIAmComing
Holy shit congrats and commiserations at the same time! Wow good effort.
loopadoop
I feel that, but also realistically no employer is going to pay me $30/hr to deliver pizza directly out of pocket. If it wasn’t for the tips, I wouldn’t be doing it. $10 on a $200 order goes a long way.
Lugh314159
.....so raise the prices 5% and pay a proper wage??? I don't get this mindset. Yes, you SHOULD be paid a proper wage, and YES the price charged should reflect that.
loopadoop
It’s not a mindset by choice, this is the shitty reality of the world we live in. If “should” actually translated to “will”, I would have a different opinion. No employer WILL give me a 33% raise above what I’m getting paid without increasing the cost of service by that much more.
loopadoop
The other shitty reality being that $50 for a single large pizza is exorbitant enough as is. People aren’t giving to pay $65-$70 for that same pizza. Not anytime soon anyway.
Lugh314159
shit, dude.... do you live in New York or San Fransico? Even through Uber I can't see paying 50 bucks for one pizza......!
loopadoop
Close haha. Seattle
ZAPZAPMOTHAFUCKA
Not to take away from the argument against tip culture, but corporate bonus structure needs to go too.
Thornaxe
I went to a store the other day that had a label on their card transaction thingie specifically stating to NOT tip the employees. It must be a deal to get that tip request completely removed sometimes?
mksu
I refuse to be guilt tripped into expanding my tipping behavior to novel situations involving hourly employees.
Neiot
I can barely afford the food ...
kamenhokage
Everyone here saying 'I tip the server directly'. Dudes. We should not be tipping them. They should be paid a decent wage. The idea that the restaurant will go broke if they are paid a fair wage is bullshit. Anyone who thinks tipping is a better way than actually paying the wait staff decent wages just wants to punish someone for poor service, or believes that they won't do their job to the best of their ability if they don't get a tip. That's bullshit.
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
While the system persists, you should tip, because not tipping fucks over the servers far, far, FAR more than the management. The rest of the servers tips will still get them past the Actual Minimum Wage Threshold (where such laws apply), and the owner won't have to do shit. Until we actually have The Revolution, you're naught but a greedy dickhead if you don't tip.
commentsivehadafew
I heard the owner of a local sub-shop kept all the tip-jar money, so I always handed the tip to the employee directly
SJBSavageInk
Heh there is a place by me that is getting reamed on socials cause the staff haven't been getting paid for 3 months and they were forced to put their cash tips into a jar to split but they weren't getting those either. And they wrote a nice letter to the owner saying we need our money or we will have to quit. And she freaked out on the staff and said oh you're going on strike? Guess what you're fired. Super crazy pants stuff.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Is there an article with the story? That sounds like lawsuit time for the former employees!
cgt9803
In Mexico typically the manager handles all the tips and keeps the lion's share.
sloomoo
I've started leaving cash tips.
EmsEsq
If this is a screen grab from a food delivery service, it could be as simple as the app saying that the merchant, and not the delivery service, controls distribution of the tip. More context is needed here.
DrElizabethTakeda
Dominos, at least in my area, dumps all tips made for the day into one big lot and splits it up across all employees for all shifts for that day, this includes managers. Some shifts do more work than others and pull in more tips. But those tips are still split with people with dead shifts. No company should be allowed to redistribute tips.
sleepinggreenidea
As long as they're only including tipped-wage employees (if there are any) - and not including managers in any case - it's legal. You can argue against that, but tip pooling itself isn't banned even though it's frequently imposed in ways that ARE banned, like what you describe here.
SomeDetroitGuy
That's not at all how they are supposed to do that.
yourmomscheese
Tip pooling is common, what do you mean?
sleepinggreenidea
Tip pooling may be common, but it's also implemented by employers in illegal ways. Here, the inclusion of managers is the illegal part - although if there's both tipped and untipped employees in the pool, that'd also be illegal.
mckjm2
Merchant decides how tips are handled.
Translation: Merchant takes at least 50% of the tip, f*** you, work harder.
martineb72
That is actually illegal. No body in any type of management position is allowed any of the tip. Do you tell somebody they have to do a task, and if they don't they are in trouble. Then you can't get any of the tips. So not even a sous chef would be eligible. Not that i doubt there are merchant that are breaking the law.
applesforjuice
The app just doesn't know whether the place pools tips or not. It's that simple.
Kyzyl
How about I tip the delivery person in cash when they arrive?
Mugendramon
Cash? Haven't touched that in years
Syovere
how about I tip the owner, but in the cow-tipping sense
just walk up and shove the fucker
nothingelsetodo
Ding ding ding!
Zinsaga
When I was a manager I always told my employees to just pocket tips. There was a strict no tipping policy set by the company. That company did not pay anyone nearly enough for the amount of BS we had to put up with
Hrafna55
I always do. I never add tips on the main payment.
ElChupaNuggra
See this right here, we're gonna see that employers will find enough money to require service personnel and delivery drivers to wear body cameras to ensure any tips are 'brought to their attention properly' but STILL not find enough 'extra cash' to not pay them below starvation wages.
ElChupaNuggra
And interestingly enough, if their camera isn't turned on or suffers a 'temporary malfunction' they will be swiftly and decisively punished as opposed to the Police who frequently get away with it.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
HOW ABOUT PAYING PEOPLE A PROPER WAGE SO THEY DON'T NEED TO RELY ON TIPS FOR INCOME!
CrazyGingerAle
Thats the way I do it so I know they get it
Croatoan45
I know some places that take tips or tell you you're not allowed to take it.
jethroismaxbaer5772
Also cash tips don't get run through a machine so they can choose whether or not they declare it on their taxes.
WickedSludge
I always tip in cash. It increases the odds that the money goes to the person earning it.
loopadoop
By 100%. Oftentimes the delivery person will split part of that tip with other supportive staff, so in doing so, you sort of encourage tips to get distributed more fairly in general.
When I was a server a while back, and I would give some of my tips to kitchen staff every so often. No one else did. When I needed an order made quick, I was priority #1. I made more in tips because of it, so it was absolutely worth the short term loss.
Sageypie
Just remembering all those stories about wait staff getting these astronomical tips, and how always, buried deep in the sidelines of whatever story, there was the mention how the person actually got little to none of said tip.
OdinYggd
It won't arrive. A lot of services straight up ignore orders with no tips in them.
MrImmaculate
Tips are a transaction between me and the service professional, not their employer or their CC processor. Tip in cash as much as you can.
Bigblackdick69
CausticCake
Don't forget the government. They can report as much or as little as they please
GatorConspiracy
Then you are still paying their wages instead of the company that should be paying them.
Syovere
"never do a kind thing, because it's not the perfect ideologically pure thing"
GatorConspiracy
“Keep doing stupid things that feel good in the moment so we can pat ourselves on the back but also that enable and strengthen corporate’s stranglehold over the populace, and continues to make things worse.”
Syovere
yeah you're right I should just let people go hungry
god you are just the worst type of "leftist".
duktayp
We demand to know the triplets' names
MinervaMeThis
Pickwick
DrElizabethTakeda
The identical two are Romulus and Remus. My sister will be naming the last, because she's adopting him, she hasn't decided.
MasterChristopher
I wouldn't recommend "Itachi".
MoistOwlette23
Maybe she'd like Faustulus
QueenV17
I don’t know the situation/reasoning as to why she’s adopting your third baby, but I think that’s so fucking cool. Babies still get to be in each others’ lives and both of you experience the wild ride that is parenthood. 💗
DrElizabethTakeda
Because after having her twin daughters, she was afraid to have anymore children of her own again. And while I'm perfectly well off and capeable of taking care of all three, I'm also 100% fine with sharing kids with my identical twin and her wife. TBH, all of my kids call her mom anyway, her's call me mom. and if we did DNA tests, we'd come up as the parents of each other's kids. The only difference in this case is she gets to name him, and have her name on some extra paperwork.
QueenV17
Wow, I totally wasn’t expecting an explanation - just commenting how cool the situation was. This just made it even cooler. You guys sound amazing 💗💗💗
FreaksOnWheels
Amazing all around
ricpaul
I'm taking a wild, wild guess here that having twins runs in the family...
HootSloot
Twins are something like twice as likely to have twins.
Cyrilion
Thats such a cool reason, this made my day, good luck and well wishes to you and yours :)