[OC] Quick Question

posted by u/JacobBreaksWindows · 2026-11-06 21:25 UTC

## Top comments

1. u/Figorix · 2026-11-06 21:30 UTC

It's baffling that tip culture even took off, it's even more disgusting that it stayed.

Get your shit together Americans. Even Texas changed, now it's good time to fix a bunch of other things like tip culture

2. u/neroe5 · 2026-11-06 21:41 UTC

Well if you have to ask for it, it's no longer a tip, you are now begging

3. u/SlowlyQuietly · 2026-11-06 21:46 UTC

It's so fucked up that its normalized for certain jobs to just, make their workers beg for the rest of their wage.

4. u/neroe5 · 2026-11-06 21:54 UTC

"Certain jobs in America", in Europe I have often seen the personal press no tip before handing over the terminal (stupid American systems)

In some Asian countries it's even seen as an insult, that you think they have to beg for your money

5. u/PTSD1983 · 2026-11-06 21:42 UTC

https://giphy.com/gifs/PkPWNoQ6Br3Aa9Oa3g

6. u/doug1003 · 2026-11-06 21:47 UTC

Also, its not MY JOB to pay YOUR SALARY, its your EMPLOYERS JOB, if they dont pay you a living wage its your problem with them, not me

7. u/Low_River_6261 · 2026-11-06 22:21 UTC

But it is your problem… you chose to participate in this when you refused to cook your own food and mix your own drink… this sentiment only punishes food service workers… for serving you food…

8. u/shigogaboo · 2026-11-06 21:51 UTC

It wasn’t baffling.

It was a concentrated effort to shift the financial burden from corporations to average citizens over several decades.

This wasn’t an accident. This is late stage capitalism.

9. u/NonReality · 2026-11-06 22:05 UTC

So many dystopian things people just accept because capitalism told them it's just the way it is lol

10. u/PENGUIN_WITH_BAZOOKA · 2026-11-06 22:26 UTC

Part of that has to be because the people who point it out do so in the most obnoxious way possible.

11. u/AmbiTheAirforceRuna · 2026-11-06 21:59 UTC

its not that baffling, it all started with patrons wanting preferential treatment, then became a thing you did to be polite and show you could afford to, and then it became something the bosses could rely on to cut wages since ''now everyone is tipping''.

Its very straight forward

12. u/Sea2Chi · 2026-11-06 22:07 UTC

The problem is customers hate it, but owners love it because they get to pay lower wages.

Servers complain about tips, but at the same time, many of them make a lot more than they would at a strictly hourly rate.

Want to piss off a cook? Have a new server complain about how little tips they made that night to them as they tip them out their 10%.

But it's now creeping into areas that it wasn't before. There might have been a tip jar by the register at a coffee shop 20 years ago, but there was no real pressure to put anything in it. Mostly people would just toss the change in there to avoid carrying it in their pocket.

But today since everything is card based, there's a little screen that stops you and requires you to decide.

There are a few restraurants around that are specifically no tip and they brag about paying their works a fair wage.

13. u/AznOmega · 2026-11-06 22:11 UTC

Doesn't help that some places are asking for tips in places that don't need it or doesn't make sense.

Gas stations might have them. Self-checkout grocery store kiosks asks you for a tip sometimes.

14. u/beejonez · 2026-11-06 22:13 UTC

It's not really, it was just continuation of slavery after the civil war. They didn't want to pay black servers and tips were how they got around it. It stuck around because corporate greed. Sooner it's gone the better.

https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/

15. u/Petrychorr · 2026-11-06 21:55 UTC

Get your shit together Americans.

Oh. Oh honey. If you're holding out hope that we're gonna be close to any kind of change, especially to that degree, you're better off hoping the water in the ocean dries up.

16. u/TheDwiin · 2026-11-06 22:01 UTC

Yeah, is gotten it of have, even Japan is working on their weird tip culture where they tip their landlords. (It's called key money though, but it's totally a tip)

17. u/ndlv · 2026-11-06 22:06 UTC

Many people are easy to guilt.

18. u/Annodyne · 2026-11-06 22:15 UTC

Even Texas changed what? Servers in full service restaurants still get paid $2.13/hour.

19. u/Figorix · 2026-11-06 22:25 UTC

I was referring to elections with this one. Texas going blue

20. u/Distantstallion · 2026-11-06 21:35 UTC

I had that in a coffee house in the UK, she flipped the stupid ipad around and stared at me while I hit that 0, gave me a dirty look.

You don't get a tip for doing the basic requirements of your job, this isn't america, we actually pay people here.