You'll tip a fellow worker whose wages are pre-stolen so that they need tips, but you won't tip the Real Estate Cartel franchisee who makes you pay as much as possible for the privilege of sleeping indoors?
Landlord tiktok is so weird to me because it is all obviously fake but it's fake in a way that make the landlords seem even worse?
Like of you have total control over the script, whay are you making yoursrlf the grossest guy possible? Are leeches that happy about being evil?
because they're playing Tik Tok. The way you win Tik Tok is by getting attention. It's like those "cooking" videos where someone puts a plate of cookie dough, deli ham, shredded cheese, and food coloring in the microwave and captions it something like "Yum! Authentic Italian cuisine!"
"If you don't shower me in appreciation for doing the minimum legally required of me (or less if I think I can get away with it teehee) then I'm going to exert my existing power over you and steal it instead. I'm the good guy though."
I feel like they know TikTok skews young, so they're trying to convince the youngins to do this when they start renting
Gonna guess that Landlord TikTok is at least 50% undercover Maoists.
Everyone freaking out about China doing a Communist Propaganda on millennials was right all along.
My guess would be that the outrage engagement makes it irrelevant whether or not they're sincere
Anyone with a brain and a heart would be pissed at a smug, entitled and condescending landlord. Subtract the brain, and you get "let's hear them out" lib engagement. Subtract the heart, and you get "fuck the haters" chud engagement
So maybe one tiktokker is genuinely a Very Special Boy who Deserves the World, and another is an accelerationist making a point, and another is just doing whatever pays the rent. It's mostly indistinguishable
probably because there's no way to look sympathetic, i don't think. like i'm trying to think of an angle and i could only come up with this: "i need tenants to pay me so i can pay back my mortgage". and i mean, it makes them look financially irresponsible at best. this is why the most staunch defenders of landlordism don't rely on sympathy to defend landlords, just on the "natural right of capital investors to returns", quite the popular hit with kids i hear. maybe they'll add some red scare if they're feeling very bold.
the guy who's on call 24/7 to make sure you have a safe home
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAHAHAH
I tip those people because they earn starvation wages. Landlords are leeches that are already taking massive amounts of their tenants money. Fuck right off with this bullshit.
You can tell this landleech is sound and stable because he makes his tenet strawman have green hair because dae women with colored hair be cRaZy xD
"Baristas serving you overpriced coffee" don't profit from the coffee being overpriced, you do profit directly from charging rent however.
That said, tips being percentages does mean that the barista serving expensive coffee makes more in tips than a barista serving cheaper coffee.
Not the barista's fault of course, just the whole Tipping system being irrational and stupid.
Tipping effectively encourages service workers to bias themselves towards upscale clientele.
I remember a number of my peers in high school and college working service sector who developed some nasty racist tendencies that boiled down to "Older rich white people tip me better". Incidentally, they also hated religious people (the Sunday Morning shift was consistently the least desirable) for the same reasons.
that's weird bc in my experience old white people with money are the least likely to tip you as a service worker
YMMV.
The folks with the money have - in my experience - been the ones who drop the biggest tips. But that tends to be as a means of impressing one another. So it depends a lot on the venue and the audience, etc.
I delivered pizzas in a working class community that also had a petty bourgeoisie element. The poor folk would dig through the couch to make sure you got $2-3 for bringing dinner to their door. Rich folk would hand over a $20 for an $18.50 order and tell you to keep the change. The class awareness was solid, but discrimination against customers based on race was common. Coworkers were annoyed when taking calls in Spanish/Spanglish and bias against black customers for "not tipping" was mentioned daily. 17yo me learned a lot at that awful job.
ah yeah i think that sort of behavior is probably more common in higher scale establishments. i can't speak to that bc that's not where my experience is.
I used to work at a restaurant that had a prominent local realtor as a regular. Older white lady, her face was on billboards in the entire metro area (1+ million people) and she would come in, demand to be seated in the unused party room. They'd have the person in the nearest section cover her, splitting their attention between their normal tables and the one isolated patron (plus one dining partner sometimes), which often led to reduced tips from other tables as you were busy with her and their service suffered.
She always, always , tipped 1 (one) dollar.
What zero understanding of who gets that revenue and who sets that price does to a mfer :lenin-rage:
next time your rent comes up for renewal, I'm going to make sure gratuity is included in your rent.
So my choice is paying more starting now or paying more starting my next rent review?
Who the fuck chooses an earlier price hike?
lmao even by its own internal logic it does not make any sense
they think the first option is preferable for everyone because the tip is "voluntary"
This is the second "tipping landlords" bit I've seen this week. The first I assumed was full parody, but this seems more genuine? Who are these people?
Also the whole "they work 24/7 for you." No they certainly do not. And even if they do pick up for emergency maintenance, all they're doing is picking up the phone and calling a maintenance worker. So by all means, tip the worker coming out to your apartment to fix the heating if you feel like it.
Also you own the home jackass, when I'm calling you about someone being broken, I'm doing you a service by letting you know you need to maintain your investment. Rent is literally the money I pay you to make sure you keep the home in order.
Gonna start asking my landlord to tip me when I report plumbing and electrical issues.
I am reminded of the time that my landlord paid contractors to strip the cabling and rewire the building and I'm sitting at home and this fuckers boot pushed through my ceiling. Instantly got photos because I knew the landlord would try to charge me for damages. He did. But the pics and the simple evidence of the way the damage was obviously not done internally was enough. They nickle and dime you then ask for tips? Fuck outta here. Parasites.
No but I gave fresh coffee to the dude that spackled everything back together lol
It gets them bazinga points at the Chamber of Exploitation meetings.
