• TKRyer@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Didn’t it really start to take over during Covid over here? All the ‘essential workers’ needed to be tipped because Uber and all the other delivery services didn’t want to pay their employees a living wage. Also all the restaurants turned to tipping for takeout as well since there was no dine in and here we are. Post lockdown and still doing this ‘goodwill’ tipping to line pockets.

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      1 year ago

      That’s part of it too, and I think the driver behind the overall “tip creep” trend, but I’d been seeing this particular brand of crap since long before lockdown

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think that’s exactly what happened.

      I used to always tip 20% when sitting down at a restaurant or bar, still do unless something is really off, but I would tip nothing or a lot less when picking up, unless I had a really good relationship and they’d hook me up. But then Covid hit and I tipped 20% everywhere for picking up because I was just glad they were open but also because I knew they were taking a risk and no one was allowed to dine-in so they wouldn’t get their normal 20%, so I thought it was fair. Now they took a nice gesture and exploited it too much. I don’t tip when picking up anymore.