Tipflation?!?!

[m2711c]

[Yonder_River]

Just paid the invoice for hvac installation via that jobgetter app. Guess what? It included a tip line starting at 15%. The bill was $20k. I laughed, was about to skip it, but left a $100 for the installer since he was ukranian. It's officially everywhere now.

[AK47bp]

Just paid the invoice for hvac installation via that jobgetter app. Guess what? It included a tip line starting at 15%. The bill was $20k. I laughed, was about to skip it, but left a $100 for the installer since he was ukranian. It's officially everywhere now.

Whoa. Never heard of that one.

I figure the installation fee, labor, and service charge being the same or more than the item installed covered the wages.

HVAC guys likely make more money than me.

Hell in a hand basket I tell ya…

[TBS]

Anybody ever paid for people to NOT perform a task?

Several years ago I was in Las Vegas for a trade show. Got food poisoning. Had to go home next morning, still feeling like shit. At the pod for my gate there was a young woman with blue hair playing Cajun style fiddle - quite badly. I gave her $20 to not play until my flight took off.

[KQ]

a TikToker called out ridiculous tipping expectations after being asked to tip three times on the same pickup order


“I Nearly Lost My Mind When I Showed Up To Pick Up My Order”: Woman Goes On A Viral Rant About The Ridiculous Tip She Was Asked To Leave



In a recent survey conducted by Bankrate, more than 60% of participants admitted that they hold at least one unfavorable opinion of tipping in this day and age. Furthermore, 30% of the respondents expressed their belief that tipping culture has gotten “out of control” in recent years.

[Bunion 2020]

Was running around in Big Sky yesterday and went longer than expected so I stopped at the Hungry (cash-register) Moose for a lunch.

I grabbed a RB sammy from the to go case, bag of chips and a can of good ole Coke. 20 bucks, hence the name of the place.

They had the usual tip bullshit on the screen when I swiped my card, 20%, 25%, 35 %.

Yeah I am going to tip 4 bucks + for helping myself.

It was a pretty good sammy.

[KQ]

Was running around in Big Sky yesterday and went longer than expected so I stopped at the Hungry (cash-register) Moose for a lunch.

I grabbed a RB sammy from the to go case, bag of chips and a can of good ole Coke. 20 bucks, hence the name of the place.

They had the usual tip bullshit on the screen when I swiped my card, 20%, 25%, 35 %.

Yeah I am going to tip 4 bucks + for helping myself.

It was a pretty good sammy.

It started at 20%?

Around here it starts at 10%

[MontuckyFried]

Was running around in Big Sky yesterday and went longer than expected so I stopped at the Hungry (cash-register) Moose for a lunch.

I miss the old owners. Husband was a solid local. Was always cool and their prices were definitely more affordable then. RIP.

[Jax]

I was pleasantly surprised at a coffee shop in Salida the other day, upon checkout of my large matcha latte in my own mug, the tip options were $1, $2, or $3. On the other hand, they also sell $50 & $70 candles in smallish jars. wtf

[rideit]

Did you visit with Mr. And Mrs. Full Trucker?

[skiballs]

Probably tip these folks just because


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[Jax]

Did you visit with Mr. And Mrs. Full Trucker?

Oddly, I've never hung out with them even though I used to be pretty close to her sister and blackdog who's now in Gunni. One of those 6 degrees-of-separation kind of things. Was passing through after a trip with the folks in Santa Fe and decided to crash for the night post-fibark.

[MontuckyFried]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/npe4t_XAhYY

[yeahman]

It was a pretty good sammy.

They are good sammies for sure. But I never tip at that place.

What KQ posted rings true. Lots of backlash against tipping. I've gotten pretty brazen about not tipping at all in lots of situations. For good restaurant service I'll still tip 20%, but for okay service (kind of the norm these days) I've reverted back to the old days of 15%.

Then again yesterday at the brewery I tipped 25% just cuz they're cool cats.

[rideit]

I miss the old owners. Husband was a solid local. Was always cool and their prices were definitely more affordable then. RIP.

So was everything else!

[lepistoir]

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Yeah I am going to tip 4 bucks + for helping myself.

I wouldn't tip either on a sandwich I made myself with ingredients that I brought myself. Oh you didn't? Ok. You're actually just a cheap dipshit that wants things as inexpensive as possible regardless of who has to be exploited to do it. The workers here could be listed as cafe labor and paid under minimum wage. Lord knows minimum wage hasn't nearly kept up with the cost of living. That cost of living has risen along with all your other expenses like gas, clothes, food, and housing. But you don't see the greed of business owners behind that inflation. You only see your own isolated world and how you can take a little back by shitting on another worker. Definitely not going to ever need to team up with other workers to keep a business opener from taking away your healthcare or pension or shipping your job to a low wage country. Good thing you got ahead of that one sandwich maker by a full $4. Real winner [emoji1360]

[Lvovsky]

A common myth. It is illegal to use donated money in this manner as a tax-deductible charity contribution.

At least in Canada it is, but laws in North America are often similar, so until you prove otherwise I'm gonna say this is the same in the good old US of A.

LOL Business owners never do anything illegal especially with respect to tax chatting! /s

[yeahman]

I wouldn't tip either on a sandwich I made myself with ingredients that I brought myself. Oh you didn't? Ok. You're actually just a cheap dipshit that wants things as inexpensive as possible regardless of who has to be exploited to do it. The workers here could be listed as cafe labor and paid under minimum wage. Lord knows minimum wage hasn't nearly kept up with the cost of living. That cost of living has risen along with all your other expenses like gas, clothes, food, and housing. But you don't see the greed of business owners behind that inflation. You only see your own isolated world and how you can take a little back by shitting on another worker. Definitely not going to ever need to team up with other workers to keep a business opener from taking away your healthcare or pension or shipping your job to a low wage country. Good thing you got ahead of that one sandwich maker by a full $4. Real winner [emoji1360]

Lighten up Francis. The workers at Hungry Moose are paid better than average and given housing and ski passes too. Health insurance too if they want it. Everybody in Big Sky knows this.

[BCMtnHound]

I wouldn't tip either on a sandwich I made myself with ingredients that I brought myself. Oh you didn't? Ok. You're actually just a cheap dipshit that wants things as inexpensive as possible regardless of who has to be exploited to do it. The workers here could be listed as cafe labor and paid under minimum wage. Lord knows minimum wage hasn't nearly kept up with the cost of living. That cost of living has risen along with all your other expenses like gas, clothes, food, and housing. But you don't see the greed of business owners behind that inflation. You only see your own isolated world and how you can take a little back by shitting on another worker. Definitely not going to ever need to team up with other workers to keep a business opener from taking away your healthcare or pension or shipping your job to a low wage country. Good thing you got ahead of that one sandwich maker by a full $4. Real winner [emoji1360]

Oh fuck off. A tip is for a service to the end user not included in the direct wages by the employer. An incentive - not to be relied upon for a basic human recovery for labour provided.

What tip should be applied by the end consumer to offset all the costs/inflation/whatever that the employer should be supplying? 10%? 20%? 50%? What a stupid system for basic compensation.

And FTR, I worked waiting tables/ slinging drinks to put myself through school (at a time when tuition allowed such). Couldn’t attempt that strategy now, it would be stupid to even try in all but the most lucrative of establishments. FWIW, one hotel I worked at had a 5-Star restaurant - and all the servers were from Europe, with papered education in service. Their wage was middle-class not minimum, the percentage tip was the same as ours at the regular dining establishment (but the bill the tip applied was much higher).

[rideit]

I’m just going to start tipping Google and AI for simply answering my questions.

[summit]

"Tipping" for a premade sandwich at self-checkout is charity. There are dumber economic ideas out there, but they usually involve starry eyed college privelaged white kids talking about communism.

[anotherVTskibum]

The workers here could be listed as cafe labor and paid under minimum wage.

For what it's worth, Montana is one of the few states that doesn't have a tip credit--tipped employees have to get at least state minimum wage as base pay with tips on top; employers can't use the reported tips to make up the difference between $2.13 and minimum.

Personally, I like the impact that policy has on FOH workers (particularly that you can't get stuck doing pre- or post-shift work for $2.13/hr), but it probably hurts BOH if management is trying to keep to industry norms on labor as a percent of revenue.

[gravitylover]

I’m just going to start tipping Google and AI for simply answering my questions.

Dude that's awesome. While you're at it you should tip me for being a genius too. I have all the answers and if I don't I can make shit up with the best of 'em.

[Shredhead]

Last night I was at the Sterling. Super high end night club in Aspen.

The smoking hot waitress handed me the card reader and all I see was 3%, 5%, 7% or 10%?

Then she explained that was optional.
On top of the 22% they’d already added!


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[GimpToo]

^^^WTF!