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authorEgor Tensin <egor@tensin.name>2023-12-14 01:27:30 +0100
committerEgor Tensin <egor@tensin.name>2023-12-14 01:27:30 +0100
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layout: page
title: Fuck Tipping
points:
- - title: Tipping is hostile to customers.
+ - title: 'Tipping is Hostile to Customers:'
description:
- |
- Businesses embrace the tipping culture so that they can offload the
- responsibility to pay proper wages onto their customers while
- <em>still</em> selling their products with a high profit margin.
- So the customer pays the margin twice &mdash; it's <em>already
- included</em> in the bill, <em>and</em> in the tip you're "supposed" to
+ Businesses embrace the tipping culture to offload the responsibility of
+ paying proper wages onto their customers while <em>still</em> selling
+ their products with a high profit margin.
+ As a result, customers end up paying the margin twice &mdash; once
+ included in the bill and <em>again</em> in the tip you're "supposed" to
leave.
- |
- Furthermore, tipping is manipulative in nature.
- It exploits customers by using their egos, as well as senses of guilt
- &amp; duty.
- Sometimes, even peer pressure!
+ Furthermore, tipping is manipulative, exploiting customers' egos,
+ senses of guilt &amp; duty; sometimes, even peer pressure is used.
Personally, I'd prefer to just pay the bill.
- - title: Tipping is hostile to workers.
+ - title: 'Tipping is Hostile to Workers:'
description:
- |
- Bosses can use the knowledge about their workers' tips against them.
- While the income from tips is often low &amp; unstable, bosses will
- still use them to refuse salary increases, health insurance upgrades,
+ Employers can use knowledge about their workers' tips against them.
+ Despite the often low &amp; unstable income from tips, bosses may
+ leverage them to reject salary increases, health insurance upgrades,
etc.
- Therefore, tipping destroys the power of employees during salary &amp;
+ Consequently, tipping undermines employees' powers during salary &amp;
benefits negotiations.
- - title: Tipping encourages bias.
+ - title: 'Tipping Encourages Bias:'
description:
- |
The tipping culture promotes unfairness and bias, because customers are
prioritized based on their perceived generousity (and treated
accordingly).
- - title: Tipping is awkward &amp; lame.
+ - title: 'Tipping is Awkward &amp; Lame:'
description:
- |
- Anybody can remember countless times they were trying to collect enough
- cash from people at the table to make for a "decent" tip.
- Or the awkward, rushed calculation of the number to write down in a
- special "Tip:" field that you know the waiter will inspect momentarily.
- Or the stupid iPad tipping machines that are now part of the web
- folklore?
- Jesus Christ, give me a break.
+ Many can recall numerous instances when they tried to collect enough
+ cash from the table to leave a "decent" tip, or the awkward, rushed
+ calculation of the amount to write down in the special "Tip:" field
+ that you know the waiter will inspect momentarily.
+ Or the stupid iPad tipping machines that are now part of web folklore?
+ Give me a break.
---
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col text-center">
<h1 class="display-1">Don't Tip!</h1>
- <p class="lead">Tipping fucking sucks for everybody, don't do it.</p>
+ <p class="lead">Tipping sucks for everybody, don't do it.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">