This is tipping culture out of control.
Tipping culture is tipping culture out of control.
You should see the insane way it’s worshipped in the USA, all as an obviously thin front to avoid paying wages and giving workers rights. It’s wild.
Worshiped? What country do you live in? The biggest argument I see for it is ‘its absolutely bullshit but some jobs that’s almost all they make’
I don’t think I’ve ever, in my 41 years here, seen a single human being say it’s an amazing system.
You obviously haven’t been talking to servers that make $200 a night in cash tips they don’t pay taxes on. My fiancé works in marketing for a large winery, and some of the kids they would bring in to work the restaurant would be making tons of money from it. Those are the people who love it
They’re supposed to pay federal income tax on their tips in the USA. However, it being cash, most people take it as “under the table” wages.
I know they are supposed to, but most servers don’t. Some business will even give out your debit/credit tips in cash so you don’t have to claim them.
You’ve never gotten into an argument with someone who says they tip their mechanic and doctor and thinks everybody should do the same?
There absolutely are people in the US who believe that everybody you interact with as a customer should be tipped because they believe all the propaganda from the likes of Readers Digest and Wall Street Journal. They believe everybody must be tipped because covid and “How are those jobs any different from being a server? It’s a SERVICE!” It’s beyond ridiculous. I worked in retail and food service (not tipped) for a long time and would have been embarrassed to have to resort to begging for tips.
Tip culture worship is real. I’ve run into plenty of people online and offline who think that tips should be mandatory everywhere, of all walks of life.
there’s a great citations needed episode on the shitty origins of it and the shitty circumstances it creates: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-118-the-snitch-economy-how-tipping-and-rating-systems-pit-working-people-against-each-other
Waiting tables. Bartending. Hospitality, food delivery, beauty salons, rideshare driving. The service industry, as anyone who has worked in it knows all too well, is notorious for relying on tipping to undercut employee wages and deputize individual customers to determine how much money a worker should be able to take home. Amid increasing recognition of these injustices, a number of campaigns and new laws surfaced, pre-pandemic, to abolish or meaningfully reduce the practice of tipping.
But despite the best efforts of these campaigns, tipping remains the industry - and American society - standard. Indeed, the perverse logic of tipping has broadened into an ever-present ‘snitch economy’ - an ecosystem of tactics like mystery shoppers and Uber and Yelp rating systems designed to police the behavior of workers while outsourcing the costs of said supervision to customers and other workers.
In the process, our snitch economy pits those being surveilled against those doing the watching, and the judging. Through a ubiquitous public-facing network of rating and reviewing other people’s labor - and often the behavioral disposition they exhibit while working - people with otherwise very little power are elevated to temporary positions of authority over others, fostering a culture of surveillance rather than one of solidarity. The snitch economy serves the dual purpose of not only giving working people a false sense of power when they’re the ones being served, but also reducing millions of human interactions to opportunities for not only snap judgments, but subjective rewards and retribution.
I think it’s shopped
I could see them doing this
Corpos with their first already up your ass, now asking for more: “Come on, just
thea tip?”Hopefully it’s close to a tipping point
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I don’t remember at what company, but I’ve seen this more than once and it’s always hilarious. It’s quite funny watching my SO try and find the hidden mute or close ad button too. I’m glad I’m not from the US myself.
I can see this happening on a system originally designed for a different retail environment, and nobody bothered to get rid of the tip screen.
Please tell me this is photoshopped and these fuckers aren’t seriously asking for tips at self service stations…
Hey, don’t be so cruel. These machines are paid below minimum wage, and if you don’t tip, they won’t be able to pay their rent and student loans.
they won’t be able to pay their rent and student loans.
You mean their software subscriptions and cloud storage fees.
Yeh. Rent and student loans.
Those night classes to move up from soda dispenser to gas pump will pay off eventually.
Yeah haha definitely fake, these pumps don’t have touch screens so this interface wouldn’t work on them. Choices have to be aligned with the 4 buttons on the left and right. Second one from the top on the right side will mute the ads also.
Second one from the top on the right side will mute the ads also.
Not always.
Yeah I’ve never gotten any of the buttons to do it.
Internet wives tale.Strange, it’s worked at every pump I’ve tried
Yeah same with me. Circle K is the only place around here whose pumps play ads though, so maybe it’s just their machines it works on. Someone even scrawled “<- mute” in permanent marker next to the button on all their pumps.
Yeah, very angrily discovered this the other day while filling up my bike. Ear plugs go right back in, in spite of needing the break.
It for sure works at every Circle K I’ve been to, at least.
I’m sorry, did you just say “mute the ads”? Damn, america really is in the terminal stages of late stage capitalism
That touchscreen plays ads loudly as well.
Actually, I’m gonna need a refund
Where I live we had one gas station with full service when I was a kid, and it cost like a third more than any other gas station in the area so almost no one went there and it eventually went to self serve pumps like every other station. Aside from the one time I went there I have always pumped my own gas, and I’d feel weird if someone else did it for me lol
The cheapest gas station around me is the only full service one around. I hate it. I’ll pay extra to not have to deal with the forced interaction. Tipping cancels out the discount anyways.
A state near mine that I visit occasionally has laws in place that prohibit pumping your own gas. I always forget this and get out of the car, which leads to a very awkward confrontation with the attendant. It definitely feels weird.
You must be near New Jersey lol I think that’s the only state left that has that law
Nailed it. ;)
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He isn’t complaining about having to pump his own gas. He is complaining about the gas station’s audacity to ask for a tip.
When the robots gain sentience y’all are gonna regret not tipping your gas pumps.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Soon enough we’ll see robots argue against each other about tipping culture
Using “forced” outside of kink situations has a negative connotation. When you say “I was forced to …”, most people would take that as a complaint. Maybe that’s not the intention of the meme but still, that’s what it says shrug
Tipping is not customary in those states. Source: I live in one, and grew up by the border with the other.
Bonus fact, we can now pump our own gas in oregon… though they still have to have some pumps where you can’t. I don’t want to call those full service cause they aren’t, they call them mini service. Full service cleans your windows and such as well apparently.I’ve lived in NJ my entire life and have never ever tipped for gas. Ever. It’s absolutely not customary here at all, and it’s the only state left where you can’t pump your own gas.
my mom and gramma never pumped their own gas. grampa would never allow it (he had previously owned a gas station back when they were all full service ‘service stations’). i’ve never heard of tipping at a gas station. granted, this was well before the tipping-everywhere bullshit we have now.
Goddamn 2023. The tip screen embarrasses me at work, where I make a normal hourly wage.
“Just hit the skip button bro”
This is clearly fake. Tip screens all now start at 20 or 25% .
Let’s move away from a car-centric society, please.
Or they just display you loud ads, same intentions.
If you hold down the second button down on the right side for a second or two, it mutes the ads.
So who would that money go to?
Don’t give them anymore ideas. Mine is already already playing non stop 60 decibel ads
60 decibels would be an improvement at the corner station for me.
Second button from the top on the right is mute on most of them.
I love when they boost the volume so much it’s clipped to the point I can’t understand it :)
Is this real?! 🤯
This is a tip for me being such a good customer, right?
Can I start asking businesses for tips? Like for not committing crimes, and paying for my goods and services as agreed upon, you’re going to have to subscribe to the premium customer program.
Wait, you guys don’t pump your own gas by default? Is this some American thing I’m too europoor to understand?
Most states do (illegal to pump your own in New Jersey), but the joke is more about tipping culture in this country.
In some parts of New York you have to wait and have someone else pump your gas, they call them and attendant. I lived in New York for a while, and it was just terrible, any gas station that required you to wait for someone else to pump your gas I just drove past. Because they would always be slow as hell. Meanwhile it was a clear in and out at all of the self-service stations
