The digital tip jar

[Copper]

How much did you tip these guys?

And how did that work out?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Copper said in The digital tip jar:

How much did you tip these guys?

And how did that work out?

Who spit in your soup, man?

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in The digital tip jar:

The work involved in delivering a $65 order is about the same as delivering a $30 order. Pick up, drive, drop off.

Uh, no, that entirely depends.

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The digital tip jar:

Uh, no, that entirely depends.

'Splain, please?

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in The digital tip jar:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The digital tip jar:

Uh, no, that entirely depends.

'Splain, please?

Third-party delivery drivers? Yeah, there's probably nothing to that. Direct hires are very, very different.

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The digital tip jar:

Third-party delivery drivers? Yeah, there's probably nothing to that. Direct hires are very, very different.

That's what I was talking about - Doordash, Grubhub, etc.

[George K]

https://www.reddit.com/r/mississauga/comments/12nde8d/tipping_no_words/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[Mik]

@George-K that shit’s what custom tip is for - 0

Sitting at O’Hare right now.

[taiwan_girl]

Eliminate tips. LOL I have made my feeling known before, but almost any job can be considered a "service" job. Pay the workers a decent regular wage and eliminate tips.

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in The digital tip jar:

Eliminate tips. LOL I have made my feeling known before, but almost any job can be considered a "service" job. Pay the workers a decent regular wage and eliminate tips.

When the vast majority of those very same workers would adamantly disagree with you, I don't think you have much of a case.

[Jolly]

Thing is, 10% used to be an ok tip. Not anymore.

What happened?

[taiwan_girl]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The digital tip jar:

@taiwan_girl said in The digital tip jar:

Eliminate tips. LOL I have made my feeling known before, but almost any job can be considered a "service" job. Pay the workers a decent regular wage and eliminate tips.

When the vast majority of those very same workers would adamantly disagree with you, I don't think you have much of a case.

Then there is something wrong with the system in the US.

If a waiter or someone like that does their job extraordinary well, it is not the customers responsibility to pay them for doing that.

If @George-K or @Jolly or @bachophile do a great job in the operating room on me, should I "slip" them some money in recognition?

I take my car in for service, and since it will be couple hours, the technician offers to take the time to drive me home and pick me up when the car is ready? Hmm, going above his job. Tip?

Anyway, i think we have to agree to disagree. :woman-heart-man:

I just dont understand how jobs that rely on tips are so different than other jobs in the workforce.

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in The digital tip jar:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The digital tip jar:

@taiwan_girl said in The digital tip jar:

Eliminate tips. LOL I have made my feeling known before, but almost any job can be considered a "service" job. Pay the workers a decent regular wage and eliminate tips.

When the vast majority of those very same workers would adamantly disagree with you, I don't think you have much of a case.

Then there is something wrong with the system in the US.

Yeah it's everyone else. Not you. Literally everyone else. When it's their job, not yours.

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in The digital tip jar:

I just dont understand how jobs that rely on tips are so different than other jobs in the workforce.

That's because you've never done it here.

[taiwan_girl]

@Aqua-Letifer

Fundamentally, how is being a waitress and providing a service - different from other service people?

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in The digital tip jar:

@Aqua-Letifer

Fundamentally, how is being a waitress and providing a service - different from other service people?

Try it and find out.

[taiwan_girl]

@Aqua-Letifer I think you are channeling @Larry LOL

He would always answer my queries with something like, "Just go find out."

If I were in 5th year of school and you were the teacher, and we were talking about tips. And I asked, "Why do we have tipping in the US for some jobs but not for others? How is their job different?" What would you say?

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in The digital tip jar:

@Aqua-Letifer I think you are channeling @Larry LOL

He would always answer my queries with something like, "Just go find out."

If I were in 5th year of school and you were the teacher, and we were talking about tips. And I asked, "Why do we have tipping in the US for some jobs but not for others? How is their job different?" What would you say?

I've had service jobs working for tips, service jobs with a flat rate, and service jobs with a commission. I've explained my position, both in general, and with very specific examples. I outlined specifically how tipping can at times benefit everyone far better than a higher wage ever could.

But you still think you have a better solution. So okay, fine. But at least try it out before deciding you know better than others who've had that experience.

[Mik]

It's just an industry that developed differently here than other places. Servers are not generally shortchanged if they are any good, and they can make very good money once they have developed the skills. My daughter was making $25 an hour and up during summers and holidays. Nothing is broken and it doesn't need to be fixed.

[Rainman]

Taiwan Girl, make sure you don't take things personally. If we did not disagree on things, this would be a very boring place! And, I suspect everyone here gets justifiably peeved. In the end, we are all friends, except me. I hate everybody. See ya!!