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The POS gives 20%, 25%, and 30% tip options, too.
I love that this sentence works no matter if you interpret that as “Point of sale” or as “Piece of shit”.
You can select 0% but it takes 3 extra button presses and includes 2 prompts to make sure you really don’t wanna leave a tip. And also the button is kinda worn out so you have to press it really hard and everyone knows you’re using the no tip button.
If it’s worn out it means everyone else is also doing it…
and everyone knows you’re using the no tip button.
How socially insecure do you have to be for this to be a concern?
Don’t answer that. I’ve come to realize that we’ve long since crashed through the basement floor in regards to how well socialized and confident our populations are.
It’s about the same as looking a homeless man right in the eyes as you drive off in your Benz without giving him anything.
It’s totally doable, expected even, people do it all the time. But anyone with a functioning moral code probably feels a bit shitty about it, even if the circumstances around the source of the problem are largely out of their control.
The No Tip button says “I’m fine paying money to your corporate overlord but not to you, specifically, peon.” You’re specifically opting out of the ability to directly benefit the workers of a company rather than the management.
The discussion around why tips are an expected or “required” part of this transaction is another story. But so long as food service workers are being paid $2.13 an hour plus tips I’m going to continue to tip the guy that makes my tacos, largely because I feel that’s probably the only semi-ethical way for me to excuse buying those tacos.
And before you say “if they don’t make enough in tips to equal minimum wage then the employer pays the difference”, that is true, but you should also know that it is true that those people do not retain employment.
The discussion around why tips are an expected or “required” part of this transaction is another story. B
No, it’s the same story. The reason there’s a tip economy is because there’s no pushback against it. We have allowed tipping to be expected for PICKUP ORDERS because we haven’t punished businesses for trying to subsidize paying their employees.
The best tactic of all for changing this culture would be to not buy from places that expect tips, put them out of business… but why does that seem less socially frowned-upon than just not using the tip button?
There is another option: don’t buy the tacos. Stop patronizing businesses that give you an option to tip.
So now my man is out of a job and I also have no tacos.
I do get the point you’re making though. I don’t even necessarily disagree. I just think there are a lot of factors at play and until we get some sort of meaningful change around this system - i.e. some sensible legislation around the minimum wage issue - we’ve gotta make some concessions if we expect to still participate in society. I figure that tipping my service worker is a sensible concession to make in many cases.
Now there are definitely some cases where it’s getting out of hand though. You made me some good food? Fair enough, here’s a tip, good stuff. You hand me something off a shelf and expect a tip you can fuck right off though. Anyone making a proper wage shouldn’t expect tips and customers shouldn’t be expected to give them.
Food service in particular just stands out to me because of their generally exceptionally low wage. Most of the money your waitress or your cook takes home is in tips. Refusing to engage with this system harms the worker more than it harms the company, and finding a restaurant (not fast food, strangely enough) that doesn’t engage in this “tipped wages” practice is effectively impossible. So if you want to eat a nice meal out, basically ever, you’re either going to tip your workers or be a gigantic asshole unless you have a real genuine complaint to air. It’s not right, but it’s the reality we exist in.
…Though to be fair seeing the way America is going these days the restaurant industry as a whole might just completely implode soon when people can’t afford to eat there anymore. Who knows. Maybe the problem solves itself in a fashion.
It’s $80 now, Nintendo changed it.
I regret to inform you that Nintendo is suing you for using their copyrighted trademark “Nintendo” without express written consent. That will be an additional $80/per minute to exist. Failure to pay will result in no longer existing.
I’m sorry, but your comment violates my software patent on the concept of posting jokes on social media. That will be $2500, I only accept PayPal™.
*per minute friend, corporations only care if it costs more to do it the wrong way. $2500/min vs their $80/min
“Excuse me, but my moldy bread has maggots in it.”
“Gonna have to charge you extra for the maggots.”
The goddamned library only has paid parking near me. What the fuck man.
Some disadvantaged people here are expected to fax certain forms to certain ministries. I eventually learned how and how to advise them how.
The library costs $1 per page. The insurance company across the street does it for free. I am not usually anti-library but why charge to send a fax? Like, receiving costs a small amount of toner, sure, but when scanning at the rate of $1 per page, you should be considered criminal.
That’s insane… libraries are the only place I see the ¢ symbol anymore. 10¢ per page for color in the law library I work in, and we make a profit on that.
Your library has dedicated parking?
this is literally what landlords do
worse than that.
it’s something I can existential labour.
if you rent, and are good and neighbourly, just by existing you create value. but it’s value in property you don’t own, and then you have to pay more rent or get evicted so someone will can afford to live there can enjoy to be part of the community you helped build.
there should be no friendly laws towards land parasites.
It should be illegal to rise rent prices or evict tenants who pay rent and aren’t a nuisance. if the rent is 400$and you live there for 10 years, the rent is still 400$.
if the land lord doesn’t like it, he can sell the house and get a real job.
I loved ‘The Rockford Files’ when I was growing up.
Rewatch and notice that they used exact amounts of money in the dialog. “Hey, this is a $75.00 jacket” or “$5 for a martini?”
They don’t do that anymore, because prices from even five years ago seem insane.
I always think of the scene in Pulp Fiction where they talk about a $5 milkshake. It’s supposed to be a crazy high price for a milkshake. Like something you would see and go “Whoa, HOW much? For a milkshake?!”
That’s a much better example.
I recall in iRobot they had two beers at a bar and it was like $50.
I think we’re ahead of schedule at this rate.
Edit: $46.58 for two beers in 2035.
The 58 cents is what sells it.
“you are free”
…to die elsewhere if you can’t afford to live here.
The next part of that lie is the fallacy that we have some kind of intrinsic “freedom of speech.”
People think our “freedom” gives us a view into the rest of the world and how it’s still the best thing in the world to live in the USA.
All you have to do is open your web browser in the airport of another country. We have a sliver of perspective here, we don’t get to see what challenges other countries have overcome, from healthcare to housing the homeless to giving people actual freedoms by giving them peace of mind about their future.
If nothing else, you get to see how much the rest of the world really hates the US government and would be happy if we stopped building bases and blacksites in their countries.
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Is the price in the comic raising?
Every time I leave my house, it costs me $100.
Gas,tolls,maybe some food, grab some water…whatever I actually meant to do along with that…
I tried saying no once. Like, with an empty fridge, I said ‘no’. I’m not gonna go buy food. I went to bed hungry and cried myself to sleep. Saying no is not possible.
why would communism do this
