Tip or skip? How US-style tipping culture is creeping into Australia

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• kurikai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  tiping on machines need to be banned

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only at places without waiters. The tip was always about attention and service (and a bunch of scummy, complex laws and cultural norms being abused by the system, but were not getting into that right now). I had a kiosk ask if I wanted to tip the other day… Damn clanker, I entered the order!..

    Ive gone back to mostly tipping in cash.

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    • kurikai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      no it needs to be banned everywhere

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• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s mostly US POS (point of sale, not piece of shit, although…) software that comes with it, possibly automatically enabled. Manager types go ‘it’s free money’ and leave it or are too clueless to turn it off. Also Megacorps like McDs.

  There needs to be significant backlash above and beyond not using it or tipping 0 or even never coming back. Make it clear that it’s UnAustralian and you’re boycotting their establishment until it’s gone. Tell the server, tell the manager, get corps email and tell them. Post corps email on socials and get others to as well. If tipping gets established it will stick and then we’ll end up paying servers shit like the US. Fuck US culture in general and tipping in particular.

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• Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Restaurants in Brazil are starting to ask for tips higher than 10% and I keep having to ask them to lower it

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    higher than 10%

    In Canada I’ve seen tip “suggestions” go as high as 40%, its fucking insane and agoyld be prohibited altogether

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If they suggested 40% I think I would spit on their faces ngl

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  SKIP

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• Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When i was in sweden they said apparently a lot of pin terminals come with the tip screen as default, but everyone just expects you to press skip.

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• nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I used to see tip buttons on payment screens a lot in the UK. That seems to have reduced recently and you have to ask for a tip to be added. There are still restaurants that add a 10 or 12% service charge to the bill though.

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I recently had to pay for a very expensive, extremely overpriced dinner and they had the fucking cheek to just sneakily add a 15% service charge there. When I asked them to remove it, the manager came asking if anything was wrong… I somewhat calmly told him that no, not at all, which is why I’m paying the bill in the first place!

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or employers could, y’know. PAY A FUCKING LIVING WAGE.

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• atrizzy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If it actually goes to the workers, thats probably not a bad thing.

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• Sims@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This particular cultural creep shows up in all the nations US have mentally colonized - even in the former socialist worker nations in Scandinavia. We will become (more) like mini US nations if we don’t get rid of US culture and political/cultural occupation.

  De-yankify at once!

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• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s that, Skip? Prevent exploitation by not tipping?

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