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Would you like to give us some free money today? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Solution: ipad starts to swivel, do a 360 and walk away

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You plan to walk into the counter? Daring strat, but I can see it freaking out the cashier enough to cancel the tip himself if you also maintain eye contact while walking, like an Oblivion NPC

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 months ago (7 children)

[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The more we don't tip the more it becomes normalized. I've stopped tipping all counter service other than bartenders. At first I felt guilty but the more I did it the more it became normal to me.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Custom: -25%

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Imagine if someone fucked up the code and this worked.

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Can someone more tech-savvy than me make a smartphone app for customers to request tips from servers? i.e., the customer inputs their own bill total and the app presents a 10%, 20%, custom, and no tip option and asks for the server’s payment details and then would forward money from the server’s bank account/credit card/PayPal to the customer’s bank account/credit card/PayPal. If enough customers swarm tip-screen stores with this as a response, the stores may find their tip-screens no longer worth the time to deal with.

We fight obnoxious tipping culture by showing it a mirror.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Well sometimes there are tip pools. The server gets a large percent but the host and the other support staff get a little as well.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This punishes the lowest economic level of this power structure for simply trying to earn a living.

It's the owners of restaurants (barely), the suppliers (kinda), the landlords (mhmm...), the banks (now we're getting somewhere).

It's not the servers or cashier's that need to be doing something different. It's literally everyone but them.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The servers and cashiers obviously won’t pay the customers (and surely not out of their own personal funds). The idea is to make the system less efficient for the storerunners such that they have to change how they operate. More time wasted per customer = lower rate of sales and less work done per employee. Customers en masse turning their frustration with tip screens into an issue for a business should lead to the business doing away with the tip screens. Hell, maybe it would even be a catalyst to paying the workers a stable non-tipped wage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

So your idea is to cost them man hours by frustrating annoying, humiliating, or otherwise making uncomfortable someone who is making less than minimum wage?

Your plan is to ask a waitress to give you money while she's making $4/hr, and has other tables to serve to make tips?

I was being polite before. Your idea is bad. Like really bad.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

frustrating annoying, humiliating, or otherwise making uncomfortable someone

I’d be presenting them a screen with an equivalent offer to the screen that they have presented me. If tip solicitation makes people feel that way, then obviously the customers simply telling businesses as much isn’t changing the system. Through the employees’ voices, the storerunner can identify the tip screen as the root of the problem and remove it.

who is making less than minimum wage

Many, but not all, of businesses with tip screens are not minimum wage.

Your plan is to ask a waitress to give you money

I’m not asking a waitress. I’m asking someone whose job is to present a monitor. Their manager or corporate overlords can decide if they want to give me money for being such a good customer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ok, you got a solve?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. The solution to your bad idea is to not implement it.

The solution to servers currently relying on tips is to raise their guaranteed wage to a living wage.

The solution for multi billion businesses soliciting tips for using a machine that replaced a worker? Burn it all to the ground.

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