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‘Pure greed:’ Etiquette expert explains why tipping has gotten out of control (www.clickorlando.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Perhaps you’ve noticed. We have reached a tipping point in the country over tipping.

To tip or not to tip has led to Shakespearean soliloquies by customers explaining why they refuse to tip for certain things.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, customers were grateful for those who seemingly risked their safety so we could get groceries, order dinner or anything that made our lives feel normal. A nice tip was the least we could do to show gratitude.

But now that we are out about and back to normal, the custom of tipping for just about everything has somehow remained; and customers are upset.

A new study from Pew Research shows most American adults say tipping is expected in more places than it was five years ago, and there’s no real consensus about how tipping should work.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tipping for a service is all well and good, but what about someone who is just running a register and the kiosk asks if you'd like to add a tip? Like restaurants when I am picking up an order. There was no service involved, yet I'm expected to tip the person who hands me the bag? I think not.

Also the arbitrary way we as a society have determined who does and doesn't deserve a tip. Hotel housekeeping? Customary to tip. Shuttle bus driver, not so much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why I always love to argue about this with people. It always devolves into "you tip for good service," and nobody understands my suggestion that service should always be good regardless.

So I always ask them, "why don't you tip your surgeon then? What if they do a bad job? Shouldn't you tip them to ensure they don't do a bad job?" And I never get good responses. "Well, they already get paid well and they CAN'T do a bad job." We arbitrarily tip some jobs and not others. And there are definitely low wage jobs out there which do far more important things to our everyday lives, but people don't SEE it so they stupidly don't make the connection and say "this doesn't make sense."

People also love to argue that prices will go up without tipping since people would need to be paid more since they don't get tips. Yet again, they are too stupid to realize their actual price includes the tips already. It's not going to be dramatically more. It also sometimes reveals that people generally don't give a shit about others, in that if we paid a little more so others can have livable wages, most won't go for that in reality.

These are probably the same morons who think they pay federal income taxes and talk about "muh tax dollars" and never understand their refund gave them all of it back plus some, equating to welfare.