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title: Fuck Tipping
points:
- title: Tipping is Hostile to Customers
description:
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Businesses embrace the tipping culture to offload the responsibility of
paying proper wages onto their customers while still selling
their products with a high profit margin.
As a result, customers end up paying the margin twice — once
included in the bill and again in the tip you're "supposed" to
leave.
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Furthermore, tipping is manipulative, exploiting customers' egos,
senses of guilt & duty; and sometimes, even peer pressure is used.
Personally, I'd prefer to just pay the bill.
- title: Tipping is Hostile to Workers
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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.
Consequently, tipping undermines employees' powers during salary &
benefits negotiations.
- title: Tipping Encourages Bias
description:
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The tipping culture promotes unfairness and bias, because customers are
prioritized based on their perceived generosity (and treated
accordingly).
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This bias runs the other way too; people often tip based on all kinds
of things that have nothing to do with the quality of the service.
- title: Tipping is Awkward & Lame
description:
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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.
- title: What We Should Do
description:
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Don't tip.
Ignore businesses with mandatory tips.
Don't work in a field that depends on tipping as a source of income.
If this makes sense, share this with others.
Or use as an excuse to not leave a tip; this will be good for
everybody.
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Don't Tip!
Tipping sucks for everybody, don't do it.
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