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The meme says "IRS", so it's obviously intended to refer to America.
But outside of that context, they'd fucking deserve it for their shitty dark pattern UX trying to export American tipping culture into the civilised world. If people want to tip, they can do it using cash (so the money actually goes to the person you intended it to!). Or at most, there could be a little "tip" button in the corner somewhere that then takes you to a page like this. It shouldn't be shoved in our faces like this.
Live in a country where tipping is practically unheard of. Lately pay terminals have started appearing in restaurants that have asking for tip enabled by default, and restaurants often don't know how to disable it.
Well, at least there are some safeguards. I was handed the terminal so I put in my PIN code, not realising it was actually asking for a tip. I was pretty confused when it said "value too high" or something like that.
Taalen's PIN > 0001 confirmed.
The owners know how. They also know that by leaving it there they make extra money on top of sales. They also know that the person getting berated for having it there is the worker who can't change it.
I, an American, was ashamed when I had to ask that a tip be removed from my bill at a restaurant in Camden.
CAMDEN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WOKE AND Y'ALL FUCKING DOG OVER HERE
Pay your damn staff a good wage
Camden in Sydney? That's appalling. It's bad enough to be presented with a screen like in the OP. Needing to actually speak to a person to not have a tip added sounds probably illegal.
Camden Town in London actually; historically counterculture, but punk is dead at The Cheese Bar.
Ah right, cheers. Tbh my first guess was that it might be a place in Britain, but I didn't know so I Googled it and all the results were about Sydney (including one from brittanica.com...).
Well, we did almost end up in Canberra at one point, but as luck would have it the wife's boss didn't support the transfer. It's no Sydney, but anything would have been better than staying stateside. I don't really miss it, and all my friends say it's worse now 🙂
Your friends are correct.
Sorry about that. I wish everyone with the sense to leave had the option.
I wish enough people had a spine that it wasn't necessary.
Yes, if it had been in Australia. Report it when you see it.
In most places even if you tip cash they are supposed to keep that for the tip pool and it is split. Often among the cook staff and other people at the restaurant.
Who carries cash, though?
Germans.
Farmers. Farmers' mums.
Am farmer, can confirm. I also have my chequebook with me... Non-farmers, when was the last time you wrote a cheque, aside from rent? I feel like we're the only ones still using them.
Australian here. Last time I wrote a cheque, Michael Jackson was still black.
Yarp.
I do.
Me too.
Same.
People buying drugs
People named Johny for one.
Bartenders and servers
People who live in safer countries than the US.
Americunts shit on you when you tell them tipping culture is bad. Like, here in my third world country, where we all earn a misery compared to the minimum wage in burger land, we can say no to tips or just give a few cents or some more...fuck this. Food is already expensive. I am not going to waste extra cash for my food.
Who the fuck defends tipping culture, you're just making shit up to justify your hatred of an entire country
I've seen plenty of wait staff show up to defend tipping in Reddit threads. They'd rather shame customers than demand fair wages from their employers. Or maybe they were all just bots.
I think those people tend to make a lot of money off tips. There have been times I could get way more than you'd get from any paycheck a restaurant would ever be willing to pay, even with the laws changed for that sector, for "less" work. Depending on the place you work at you could have $300+ a night cash Friday-Sunday and that's me going back to what I remember from 12 years ago so who knows what they're able to get now.
I don't even make $900 a week now in a psudo-managment position in a factory. Not that the $900 is consistent there for those in food service, I just think that's one reason people would be openly resistant to the idea of changing how tipping works.
Plenty. I have had people tell me I am inhumane for criticising tipping culture, and if I point out it is related to the extreme class system and slavery history of America they downvote me to hell and try to justify that it is "land of tha free" or whatever.
They don't even have freedom from hunger or illness in their messed up country.
And tipping culture has creeped in both magnitude (i.e. 15% used to be standard, but now it's the low end) and scope (e.g. tips prompts at fucking fast food places)
Well capitists, the rich, government, industry, ect... Oh yea don't forget the capitalist boot lickers.
I've seen a lot of people, including servers and diners, defending tipping culture.
Sadly.
I'm on the side of tipping while in a tipping culture, but only because of the crap way servers are payed and they're the only ones hurt by protesting through refusing to tip. Otherwise, it's a practice that needs to die.