Yeah, I will ask workers what the tip-out policy is at questionable places (i.e. Fast Food Service), most of the places that put in these tip screens do not actually tip-out or have some insane policy to make sure workers never claim the money and/or only a small percentage. Like if a tip jar would seem out of place and/or wasn’t there before a store’s POS upgrade I generally assume the management is pocketing the tip (i.e. Five Guys Burgers, cash goes to employees but I’ve been told by a few cashiers that credit card tips seem to vanish into thin air)

If you order carryout from a sit-down restaurant, it most likely does go to the worker who's hired to get your order.

I'm not defending the practice because that doesn't seem like a situation where you should have to tip, but just sharing information

If you continually buy product from a place that doesn't pay their staff better, all you're doing is rewarding the business owner and telling them to keep doing what they're doing. It solves nothing and doesn't get rid of tipping culture to keep giving these shitty businesses your money.

Profit trumps wages. Always has.

You think the cashier is the owner?

My tipping habits are ask you boss for a raise. I'm already paying for the service through predicated prices.

About a year ago I accidentally tipped a blackjack dealer thirty dollars.

I meant to tip ten (two red chips)

But my colorblind ass tipped thirty (one red chip one green chip)

I wasn't even mad when I realized what I'd done. Figured my mistake made that dealer's day just a tiny smidge better.

In Cupertino there was a self serve yogurt shop (I think it was called Yogurtland) where the cashier only rang you up by weight, and their checkout system asked for a tip, but they never offered to tip customers for doing the majority of the work.

Fucking everywhere does this now. Are we boycotting everywhere?

It sucks that low wage workers are stuck in the middle, but corporations are also relying on customer guilt to pay their labor costs while posting record profits.

It's not really fair to blame the customer for that.

It's not my fault the system is broken. I'm not going to subsidize them. If they want fair wages they should unionize.

Me too

It's good to remember that no social media platform is a monolith of opinion.

Context is king: that cashier sees none of those tips because you used your debit card and the 'tip' goes directly into the corporations bank account.

Loblaws already has a fat enough margin with the gouging, they don't need any extra boosts from my just-about-broke ass.

When the cashier has a union and strikes, I won't cross the line. Otherwise, get over it! Spit in my food if you have too.

I'm dealing with my own workers rights problems, I can't take on everyone else's at the same time.

Servers have an established expectation of relying on tips to get a living wage, and often earn less than the minimum wage otherwise. The same is not true for cashiers. Maybe they should be paid more, but that should not be done by creating more reliance on tips to subsidize low wages.

Bosses are legally required to make up the difference to minimum wage if a tipped employee doesn't get enough tips.

If I tip a cashier, then we're taking money away from the working class to give to the working class, which means there's no net change. But if I refuse to tip, the boss has to make up the difference and the working class gets money from the capital class.

Therefore tipping is class treachery. You're depriving the workers of chances to take money from the bourgeois.

I only use cash cause fuck the bank and credit card company tracking every purchase I make and selling my data to anyone. Not getting extorted for bribes by these fuckheads is just a bonus.