Comment on ‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 week agoI like that’s it’s being called our culture rather than something that was foisted upon us that everyone universally hates.
blackberry28@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
If everyone apparently hates it, why does everyone keep doing it? Just don’t tip.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you’re talking about these stupid screens, as far as I know no one does. But that doesn’t make the screen go away. It costs basically nothing to have that screen pop-up, so it’ll always pop-up.
If you’re talking about it in general, that’s not how you get rid of tipping and just punishes the people who are working for a living.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Going to a business where the worker assumes you will abide by the social contract they need to survive, then using their services and violating the contract after the fact, only hurts the worker, you’re right. It’s a fucked up thing to do and the people who do it are selfish pricks.
Not patronizing the restaurant at all is how to do it. Or as a lesser stand, getting your food to go.
These are a morally sound way to send the message. The workers is still temporarily harmed with less income, but you are the one “putting themselves out” for your protest. You are not forcing the worker, who has the least amount of power in the situation, to endure violence for your benefit. I don’t see people doing that either.
In fact, America has actively moved to doing the opposite, paying extra to another corp (food delivery) for shittier service, shittier food, and still having to either tip or hurt the worker with even less power to change anything.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As with most things, this requires a lot of organization to pull off. Not impossible, of course, but does require a lot of focused will from the general public. I don’t know if we have enough to spare right now, with so many people giving every minute to just barely surviving