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diff --git a/src/index.html b/src/index.html index 2f84fff..9d0d628 100644 --- a/src/index.html +++ b/src/index.html @@ -2,52 +2,49 @@ 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 — 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 — 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 - & duty. - Sometimes, even peer pressure! + Furthermore, tipping is manipulative, exploiting customers' egos, + senses of guilt & 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 & 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 & 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 & + Consequently, tipping undermines employees' powers during salary & 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 & lame. + - title: 'Tipping is Awkward & 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"> |