Tipping is such a fucked up expectation. Also lol at gig apps trying to take it overseas
Amen, tips weren't a thing in my country until recently. When I heard what tipping was I was confused, I thought "Aren't the owners embarrassed, begging customers to pay their workers for them?"
I feel like we're in the same country.
Im ok with like a courtesy tip jar at the counter, but when it becomes a substitute for actual wages they can all get fucked
In my country unions managed to abolish tipping in the 1960's. But now with the advent of gig economy bullshit the apps will nag you for tips. It really sucks.
how the fuck are young people supposed to afford tips when none of them have any fucking money of their own
You joke, but that's how it is in a lot of places. The ones working at the fancy tourist places are the main source of income for the ones working at the bars open after the tourist places close. A sort of adhoc welfare system of poor people sharing money with other poor people. A sharing of the tablescraps of trickle down tipping.
I have to imagine something like filthy rich boomers who randomly drops hundreds on tips skewing this. This has not been my experience like at all
on top of that, it may be possible that younger generations just legit have less credit lines, skewing the whole thing because older generations have multiple credit cards while many young people just use their debit, secure card or cash to tip. I certainly always tip in cash when i can which is the vast majority of time, especially for delivery or small mom and pop places i never use any card cause those fees for merchants are bullshit and cash is king.
shit like this always needs to be taken with a grain of salt, there are more factors at play than just young people ain't tipping cause that's some bullshit
Also, how many 18-25 year olds can afford to regularly eat out at sit-down restaurants, where you'd be that expected to tip as opposed to just throw change in the jar? Certainly not like Boomers love to.
It was self reported and didn't say anything about amount of the tip, just if they always tip. Some great tippers don't always tip. Usually because they're service people and if they have a bad day they don't have the cash for it. Meanwhile, the person who always tips $5 even on a $170 meal is still represented as a "better tipper".
If the young people are generous tippers these ghouls will say how irresponsible they are with their money.
Best tippers here are other service workers. The multi millionaires usually do exactly 20% even on a $10 tab. Which is fine, but the service people always leave a minimum of $5 and usually way more. Especially if they know they're making life harder for you because of getting there late or drinking heavily. Not uncommon for bartenders out here to make most of their money an hour befor the bars close from service workers just getting off and coming in to do like 5 shots and a beer before they go home.
These same assholes insist they are going to replace their entire workforce with robots anyway. Wtf do they care about tipping for?
I haven't seen the link, but given the source of the study, I'm assuming they left out cash tips. I and people I know tend to pay card and tip cash on the off-chance it doesn't go to the worker.
Good theory but this "study" is self reported. So almost meaningless and also probably from a population of like 50 respondants.
The stock tickers at the top of the article really make this. Also doesn't Uber literally steal tips from their workers?
Steals tips from workers, usurps taxi cartels, operates outside the margins of the law,
Yeah there's been a new article about some shady thing they're doing like every month for the last 10 years.
Yeah we needed a raft of new legislation to regulate the tech companies that exploit gig drivers. Idk how well that panned out, but they were operating well before then and everyone else had to play catch up.
Putting a tiny amount of my stolen wealth into a charity foundation I control. Using said foundation to dodge taxes and assert my political will to remake the world in my image.
launching my new completely unaccountable "medical research foundation" in Africa so I can write off my very important child blood infusions on my taxes
Proud to be the exception. Never less than 20%, shit I even tip drive thru fast food staff
Sucks that capitalists make consumers responsible for paying workers.
I don't eat out much, but if I do, I'm dropping cash on workers. At least 20% & round to nearest dollar. 25% if it's easy enough to do in my head.
Maybe because they don't have enough money to tip you moron
Oh and owners steal tips btw.
Schrodinger’s “millennials don’t tip”/“millennials are killing the restaurant industry”
fck off thomas hum wi dnt hav any monie u stpid boomr fuck go bak 2 yur think tank
Having worked in tipped positions before, this doesn't track with my experience.
I will say that regardless of whether or not it's true, "I don't have money to tip with" is an unacceptable response that I'm grossed out to read here. If you live in a place with a culture of tipping and choose to go to a full service restaurant and stiff your server, you're stealing from a fellow worker.
Imagine sitting down to write this article and never once thinking about just not being such a massive dork. Fucking look at this dude
