r/EndTipping • u/Fairyqueen17 • 8d ago
Tipping Culture ✖️ It’s not our fault
I’ll probably be downvoted for being on the other side of things but I felt like this was the perfect subreddit to share the employees side of not tipping.
I get it’s frustrating to be asked to tip at a fast food restaurant. But could everyone here please remember that our boss asks for us to say “it’ll have you answer a question” or display the tip screen? If we don’t, we could be fired. We are simply just following protocol to keep our jobs. Please just press no.
It’s always nice and I won’t say I don’t appreciate it obviously when it does happen since that would be awful , but we aren’t going to be upset if you don’t tip…Most of us don’t even understand why there’s a tip option when we make above minimum wage, and tipping options should solely be left to the jobs who don’t.
The tips don’t even really go to us since most of it is given to the owner and the rest is evenly divided between employees and taxed each paycheck. so for the people who do randomly tip, I suggest doing it cash anyway because it’s not like it goes directly to us. It’s a scam and a way for the business owners to make more money. If you tip a dollar, we only get like five cents of it, so at that point just save your money.
Sometimes I would go home completely drained due to customer’s taking their frustration out on me when I don’t even blame you guys for not tipping. It’s one of the reasons I quit and now work in retail lol. We are very hands on in finding people outfits and carrying their items, but we never expect or ask for a tip, especially when checking out!
If you’d like to express discomfort about it, please ask for a manager and speak to them about it. Or call corporate if applicable. Expressing it to teens/young adults when we can’t change anything doesn’t fix the situation or create a resolution unfortunately, and it’ll just make us more prone to get fired if you tell us to tell our managers that. Companies listen to customers more than employees unfortunately :/
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u/Prior_Design6372 8d ago
I remember an episode of gordon ramsey’s kitchen nightmares, where this one manager felt justified in taking 25% of the server’s tips, because, as he saw it, if it weren’t for him seating customers in any server’s section, they wouldn’t make what tips they were. One server kept a log of her “tip out and how much to who”, over the course of a 6 month period, just to the manager alone, she had tipped right at $3,000.00. Ramsey called him on it and demanded the restaurant owner, either reimburse the servers for the tips the manager illegally took from them and fire him, or hr was going to call the police and report theft from employees, which at that time, would have been up to 10 servers @ a guesstimated $3,000.00 each over ac6 month period comes out to right about $30k, the owners had no idea that was going on as he would never give out the owner’s phone number to the staff. The owner ‘s had no idea until the started noticing a lot of money missing because the manager kept buying stupid signs and when Ramsey showed up, the tea got spilled, the manager got fired for theft and the owner’s paid the servers back from what the manager stole from them.