r/memes • u/Designer-Chemical-95 • 9h ago

Just... ask for more money?

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u/Weak-Hamster- 8h ago

I think they view tips as "good job" even if its as small as extra two dollars

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u/Independent_Plum6618 8h ago

Oh idk i saw a lot of them seeing 2 dollars as even more offensive than not getting any tip at all

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u/LaRreinaa 8h ago

Tipping is a socially nightmare because I never know when my tip is too big or small for haircuts or something. Such a big pain in the ass

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u/An0nym0ouse 8h ago

Tipping culture needs to die. In all forms especially the US where tipping is basically you paying someones wage instead of their god damn employer.

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u/DroidOnPC 6h ago

It kind of sounds like it will die.

If Gen Z isn't tipping and complaining online about it, Gen Alpha will follow, and then both of those will raise kids not to tip.

But its gonna be awkward when the jobs that expect tips are all filled in by those generations that decided to end tipping.

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u/An0nym0ouse 6h ago

I hope itll work because tipping culture is a plague and we gotta start somewhere if we wanna fix all the shit wrong with the world 😭

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u/goodolarchie 4h ago

It also needs to die because it makes financial planning difficult, for both the tipped and the tippers. In Germany there is a tradition called Trinkgeld, "drinking gold", like tipping a service worker a beer for their day. But if people are depending on raking an extra 20-50% of their wage off the top to make rent or make another financial end meet, that creates grounds for animosity rather than gratitude.

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u/perton 3h ago

Oh, it’s even worse than 20-50% in the US, at least in some lines of work. For example, if you’re a waiter or a bartender, your tips are making up the vast, vast majority of your income, not just a portion or half of it. Shit’s wild.

That said, this is also why people working those jobs are pretty against getting rid of tipping, because they know that these businesses will absolutely never pay them the amount of money they’re getting from tips.

Source: I’ve been friends with a ton of people working service industries over the years who would absolutely lose their shit if we did away with tipping. Personally I still think tipping needs to go, just offering a bit of additional perspective as to how fucked the whole thing is.