Tipping Culture in USA?

[THIICUMS]

Things like Barbers, Waitresses and such.

What’s your opinion about tipping culture?

I usually don’t go to fancy barbers, it was my first time and I paid $35 for a cut and it was awkward because I didn’t Tip or forgot I was suppose too?

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Nguyên văn bởi Pieshaman:

dont accept being underpaid and have to live on tips, dont accept any tips, but steal from your boss instead.
to start the change you need to start at yourself.
♥♥♥♥ all lousy bosses and ♥♥♥♥ em all to death

So, commit felonies?

I don't think you realize what you are saying is not as cool-sounding as you think it is.

Maybe it would be better to not apply to crappy food service jobs in the first place?

[Γαῖα]

If no one applied to be a waitress, a shelf filler and so forth, what wages do you think would have to be advertised rather than tell a customer to get their own food despite charging them for it or making customers go direct to every food supplier or wade around in the supermarkets warehouse with a box cutter ?

Due to a system that demeans certain occupations despite in some places applying a min wage consistently behind cost of living, certain customers show their appreciation to individuals so as to demonstrate observing their individual value towards them.

[TWPanda77]

I would not be an advocate for it, and it would seem weird for tipping to be expected. Voluntary is fine though.

All of our staff are paid above the minimum wage. However, when tips are given they are collected and split equally between the staff because it is a team effort from the kitchen to the table.

[Adversary]

A tip should be a reward for exceptional service and to suggest otherwise is tantamount to heresy. Those who expect tips for their lackluster performance are as much part of the problem plaguing society as those who insist that their employees essentially panhandle while they're on the clock.

These problem children are just another issue on the pile of broken things in dire need of mending. Much like how unions and the backwards bozos who insist upon forcing such antiquated anachronisms upon the body public are similarly broken.

Course you can't mend something which was always broken. Just throw the scraps into the bin and set it ablaze at this point.

[Γαῖα]

Nguyên văn bởi TWPanda77:

I would not be an advocate for it, and it would seem weird for tipping to be expected. Voluntary is fine though.

All of our staff are paid above the minimum wage. However, when tips are given they are collected and split equally between the staff because it is a team effort from the kitchen to the table.

Tipping has always been voluntary so for an individual to expect it is just a very poor understanding of the thing itself.

While people say they pay above min wage, there is a big difference between an extra 50p an hour and £2.00 extra per hour which currently is how far the min wage is behind the living wage.
Oddly enough and im only speaking for my country but the min wage should be just somewhere below £15 an hour but as we know the first threat is that this will make prices rise despite national figures suggesting only 1.6% of all uk workers are on or below the current set min wage.

To make matters worse my country taxes tips no matter their weekly value.

The value of min wage to low wage workers is highly underestimated which could be proven simply by them all taking a month off at the same time. Min to low wage rates are a first port of call vice for businesses to protect their desired profit margin.

[Pocahawtness]

I remember being on a train station and asking a porter to help me. I was met with "how much do I get?". I told him to get lost. I mean it really gets me when the guy was probably earning more than me, that he refused to do his job without a "sweetener".

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I tip 35% on all my dining in. Except fast food places as i don't go to them.

[Xero_Daxter]

You shouldn’t be working in food service if you’re trying to make a living; especially as a waiter or waitress. Just saying…

Heck… even factory workers get more money. You don’t have to deal with people, just do your job by yourself, get paid, clock out. That’s what I do. Oh… and I have benefits, but you’ll have to do your research.

[GunsForBucks]

Honestly I feel a little offended when the place adds the gratuity. I tend to tip very well for what I spend. If anything I let them cut themselves short or if the service was terrible make sure to complain if they make me pay for it anyway.

For a 25 dollar haircut I will leave a 20 dollar tip. I have long hair and only cut it once every 5 to 10 years.

If I go to a restaurant to eat or even takeout I will drop a 50% to 100% tip. I don't eat out often just a few times a year.

yearly give xmas tips to garbage men 3 people 60 dollars each. If separate recycling crew 40/20 split
mailman 40 dollars

I don't think many people in my area give tips to trash and mail. I am fairly poor and on a limited fixed income but I know what it was like to get a tip when I worked those kinds of jobs and I never felt I should be mean with money. I have enough to get by, I feel good helping others.

It is funny that I often hear that it is the rich people who make the worst customers and give the worst tips. I totally believe that level of entitlement exists.

[TWPanda77]

Nguyên văn bởi Γαῖα:

Nguyên văn bởi TWPanda77:

I would not be an advocate for it, and it would seem weird for tipping to be expected. Voluntary is fine though.

All of our staff are paid above the minimum wage. However, when tips are given they are collected and split equally between the staff because it is a team effort from the kitchen to the table.

Tipping has always been voluntary so for an individual to expect it is just a very poor understanding of the thing itself.

While people say they pay above min wage, there is a big difference between an extra 50p an hour and £2.00 extra per hour which currently is how far the min wage is behind the living wage.
Oddly enough and im only speaking for my country but the min wage should be just somewhere below £15 an hour but as we know the first threat is that this will make prices rise despite national figures suggesting only 1.6% of all uk workers are on or below the current set min wage.

To make matters worse my country taxes tips no matter their weekly value.

The value of min wage to low wage workers is highly underestimated which could be proven simply by them all taking a month off at the same time. Min to low wage rates are a first port of call vice for businesses to protect their desired profit margin.

My understanding is that tipping is generally expected in the USA, whilst in the UK it is more like a voluntary arrangement. It is similar in my home country too.

I live in the UK now, and we own a number of restaurants, mostly in the Midlands area. The lowest paid staff in the business earn £12.50 an hour. These are typically part-time contracted staff. We have no zero hours. It is difficult to find and retain staff in the hospitality industry, especially when large retailers are offering more than the £10.42 minimum wage too.

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

I am not American, I always wanted to ask how do people manage their money with this "tipping culture" in the US and last time I heard also in the UK?

[Xero_Daxter]

Nguyên văn bởi Q-T_3.14.exe:

I am not American, I always wanted to ask how do people manage their money with this "tipping culture" in the US and last time I heard also in the UK?

I don’t tip mostly. Not saying I never tipped in my life because I have. But it’s a stupid system that needs to be changed.

Imagine a manager making someone work graveyard shift with little to no customers. The business isn’t suffering because you’re only paying the waitress 3 bucks. It takes the expensive of the business and puts it on the worker.

“The price is 40 dollars and you get to choose if the waitress eats tonight.”

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

You can't afford the ♥♥♥♥ if you can't afford to tip.

[Xero_Daxter]

Imagine if everyone just doesn’t tip anymore nationwide. I wonder if they will change the system. It’s a thought experiment.

[RRW359]

I live in the US and hate it, especially if you live in a State that has illegalized tip credit but nobody actually reads labor laws and thinks you still have to tip for servers to make as much as customers. Even in States with tip credit it isn't nearly as clear-cut as people think when it comes to if they are supposed to make minimum wage.