Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to rant a little bit about how absurd the tipping culture is these days!
The Tipping Tipping Point
Tipping: forced bullshit these days!
I wanted to chat about something that really grinds my gears.. how every Point of Sale (POS [we may like to confuse it with Piece of Shit, IMO]) system these days does the same fucking annoying ass thing.. asks how much you would like to tip the person.
Now I'm not Scrooge McDuck, where I'm being super stingy with my money but at the same time, where is the fucking line dude? I mean come on! If I'm buying something and someone is pouring a cup of coffee for me and handing it over, not making some fancy whirl buzz bullshit with a foam heart and the tears of a newborn baby albino sloth around the rim of the lid of the cup, why the hell are you asking me if I would like to tip the person? Am I a fucking boomer on that shit?!? I certainly would hope not...
I don't know if this is just another way for "the man" to get inserted into the financial transaction of tipping. If you tip with a card, there is a clear and obvious record of that. It can then be financially tracked and likely deducted from the persons taxes or earnings at the end of the year. The thought of giving a tip with a card to me though is absolutely asinine. I tip people who wait on my table if we are out to dinner, as long as they didn't suck of course, but for someone making me a drink or the most recent example of a place that I called to order a pizza, makes the pizza and is making money off said pizza that I bought from them. Why do I have to give them a tip if I drove to the place to pick it up?
If I paid with cash, I would toss the excess change in there because I don't really love having change jingling around in my pants pocket but that type of tipping is okay to me. I don't mind giving a tip where it's some money that there is no middleman involved in the transaction. Tipping with a card for everyday things like this though is getting way too much. I would say something to these places about it but I know they don't control that shit at all, they sign up for a POS and they get sent whatever hardware and software package they can afford. It's unfortunately likely expensive so they are stressed out about that. I don't need to add a little bit of unnecessary stuff on top of it.
I can still call bullshit where I see it though! I see bullshit for sure with this obsession with tipping. For small companies I don't mind tipping, like mom and pop places. I drop them a dollar or two when I can but big places like Starbucks? I ain't tipping that shit, sorry! They make billions hand over fist, and could likely pay their workers a bit more if it came down to it. I know it may seem like a douche move but I feel like they need the tips less than the family owned pizza place down the road. The extra money there could help pay for kids school clothes, a tank of gas or something. That's where I focus my tip money on, and certainly not on a cup of coffee..
Am I wrong with this one?! I would like to not think so.. but wonder what others are thinking on this!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI.
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