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*edited post title to make it clear that this is a joke

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just never back to that place and also I'm going to give them a bad review

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bro if there's a website to share this feedback.

I was just at a restaurant where it was 20%, 30%, or 40% tip, and Custom.

Food was good but fuck that, I'm done.

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

Eh, custom -> 0% works. I prefer to leave cash tips anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Can I pay just the tip?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I'm talking to a cashier instead of putting my card on the table, I haven't been provided a service that warrants tipping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Exactly, which is why I almost never tip. I'll occasionally leave a tip at Dominos or something if they were prompt in finding my pizza while being really slammed w/ orders, but there's no way it's getting anywhere close to what I'd tip at a place where I'm actually being served.

I'll occasionally leave a cash tip in a jar at a counter order place if the staff were helpful in some way (or the food was especially good), but that's also pretty rare.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Those tips are too small. It should be set at 18%, 20%, and 25% with no option for tipping less.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It should be set at 18%, 20%, and 25% with no option for tipping less.

You are, in essence, giving corporations a 18-25% discount on wages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. Which would make this theoretical POS even more consumer unfriendly then OP's 2%, 4%, and 6% choices.

More people might be inclined to tell the cashier to remove the tip when it's higher, but if it only shows percentages then people might be inclined to just hit the smallest one instead of doing the math to figure out how much they're tipping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'm guessing OP is in Europe or something where tipping is much less common, because those tipping numbers make no sense from an American/Canadian perspective where tipping is absolutely a thing. Square POS terminals already prompt for 15%, 18%, and 20% or whatever, even for counter-order, so I don't know why this picture dropped the amount so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thing is, this is at the dollar store, and you can only buy one item per transaction.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I agree. The folks who run Square are, indeed, Pieces Of Shit.

That's what you meant, right?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If this became real, it wouldn't affect me and I'm introverted and near mute in public. I already do this with the "would you like to round up to donate" bullshit. I only have problems saying "no" if it will possibly hurt a person's feelings; idgaf about the feelings of a business.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

idgaf about the feelings of a business.

Fair enough, but you should know that the money you donate by rounding up doesn't in any way benefit the business. It's your donation and iirc you could even technically write it off your own taxes (doubt it's worth the hassle though)

Also the thing about tips is that it will unfortunately hurt peoples feelings because at least in some places they probably earn below minimum wage. It's absolutely bullshit, but not participating isn't the perfect solution it might seem

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not strictly true. CVS, a US retailer, announced they would be donating $10 million to a charity and would be supporting the charity via customer round-up prompts as well.

In reality, they were including the customer donations in the $10 million, so anything customers donated saved them money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It doesn't really save them money, it just means they can report that number and get a public pat on the back. I highly doubt they were planning on donating that money w/o customer donations, they likely looked at past donations and figured this was a safe number to go for.

Donating through one of those prompts doesn't help or hurt the company in any meaningful way, other than allowing the company to take credit for your donation (not on taxes, just on public statements).

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Over the last six months or so, I haven't tipped once in any establishment whatsoever. I decided it was a cancerous practice and people deserve to be paid what they're due.

so you just go out and eat without tipping

No, I haven't been out to eat in over six months.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm Mexico a customer was beaten to death for not paying a tip. WTF, they killed a person for not paying like 5 dollars

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Big doubt, got a source? I'm guessing there was more to the story.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

When we say we're against tipping people really say "then don't eat at restaurants" as if that isn't the best thing we can do for ourselves financially. By not paying restaurant prices I only give myself more money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Where's the "Only the tip" button?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

c/assholedesign

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that's when I'm hitting cancel.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Usually it isn't the store pushing this, but Square itself. They take a percentage of each transaction so they naturally want to make the charges as high as possible.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fake news. This can all be configured in square.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As someone who uses square at our business, you can indeed customize it a little bit. Though I've never seen the "talk to a cashier button." Ours says custom tip where someone can place a zero $$ tip as well.

But to the point of square taking a cut... The entire amount (including tip) has a percentage taken by square... So they do want you to have as big a transaction as possible because they make more money.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Oh thanks for clarifying this. I thought Square as in "don't be a square" and POS for well, "piece of shit".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Yeah, maybe let's not give the corpos any more ideas

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