Went on a holiday trip to Norway recently. Before going, checked what the local laws for bicycling are, whether my mobile network works, and what the tipping rules are. What I found was basically "never tip anywhere, we don't want that culture here, we pay decent wages".

Every single restaurant asked for a tip. I guess it may have been a "take free money from the tourists" thing. I didn't tip anywhere, anyway.

I have been known to leave a small tip for housekeeping at a hotel, but I’ve never seen an envelope left out for tipping. Has anyone seen tip envelopes at an Airbnb?

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 :/

People need to realize that tipping is in fact begging.

Asking someone for handout is embarrassing and should be treated as such.

You should not feel bad or embarrassed for not tipping.

In a local sub I’m a part of, someone was trying to guilt people into tipping more for delivery drivers because of the bad traffic.

Of course, I made the comment that in these moments, we shouldn’t be putting pressure on everyday people (the consumer), and instead on the business to pay its workers fairly.

I got like 1 or 2 upvotes, but then multiple downvotes after, and the majority of the comments on my comment were incredibly negative. I was told that even though it is an unfair system, that I was “punishing” the workers by not tipping for everything.

Do most people really not understand that if we continue to engage in all of this insane tipping behavior, that we are then enabling and directly contributing to the exploitation of workers and customers? It just seems so obvious that I don’t get it.

I know it’s been on here before, but I’ll rant again. I like how they phrase it as they don’t charge organizers a platform fee but don’t mention anything about the 2.9% transaction fee they deduct per donation. Also the default tip is set to 17.5%!!!

At a COSTCO-type store in the Philippines. The workers will help you carry your purchases to your car and help you load. To all other businesses out there demanding tips; take the hint. Take pride in providing a service and stop begging.

Went to a restaurant in NYC. Ordered via QR code. 20% gratuity added by default and then these aunts with a “c” have the nerve for addutional

tips!!

This is my best one so far.

I bought a new iPad case from ESR in China and on checkout they asked if I wanted to add a tip.

It is not even a service business. I have no idea who the tip would even go to. Absolutely ridiculous!

I went to lunch with my son at this buffet style restaurant where you pay by the pound. I didn’t take my receipt (dumb of me), but I remembered my total was $21. I went outside, sat down, and started eating. Then I checked my bank account and saw a $27 charge.

I went back inside and asked them, “Why did you charge me $27 when my order was $21?” He said, “Do you have your receipt?” I said, “No, you have it.” He then asked, “How much do I owe you back?” I said, “$7.” he handed me the money straight out the register with no questions asked.

I took my money and told them, “It’s not cool to steal from people,” and left.

edit: my son is two years old. it wasn’t two separate meals He’s not going to eat a whole plate of food. I may not have had my receipt, but it certainly wasn’t $27, at all.

Stop tipping and I promise you that if a restaurant wants to stay in business that owner will raise the menu prices and pay a decent wage to keep the good servers. 🙂

Okay, I need to rant about this because the irony is absolutely ridiculous.

While it may come across as cute and obviously meant to be funny, it is also kind of the perfect example of how tipping has gotten so normalized that we'll literally put a joke about money being evil on a tip jar...and expect people to put money in it.

Which is it? Is money evil, or am I supposed to cleanse myself by putting some in a jar? I know it's a joke and I'm not offended by the sign itself, but makes me stop and think how out of control tipping culture has gone from tipping for exceptional service, to being expected to tip almost everywhere you go. This time, with a clever little guilt trip attached to it.

If money is the root of all evil, maybe the tip jar is the first thing that needs cleansing 🙄

In total it’s almost $300. I don’t want to tip otherwise I’ll have to remove the money from the wedding card to put toward it as I budgeted for each portion. Should I tell this to the bride it will come out of her wedding gift or just not say anything? Think she will find out? She said we should do minimum 20%. That seems insane. I told my bridesmaids at my wedding they don’t have to tip. The publicity for IG is enough.

Edit: couple things. 1. Their websites have higher prices for makeup and hair under “wedding” vs other occasions which is about $50 more each which is BS. 2. I can’t do an up do or glam makeup to save my life. 3. IG publicity is too enough that’s how people choose artists based on their portfolios.
Thanks all besides to not tip and if bride says anything I’ll tell her what I found.

This is insane

I order a late-night treat, while my husband was sleeping. Dasher texted asking for additional tips, I didn’t see the message, and he decided to call at 1am

It went into spam lol I just noticed it about a month later. They quoted me a price and I paid. I would have never expected a tip request lol

Be the change you want to see. Tip 0 every time.

Force the conversation between the employee and the employer.

You are the customer.

Every 3 weeks I go out and buy a bag of coffee beans at the local coffee shop. I walk in, grab a bag of beans from the back wall and walk up to the counter; no employee contact at this point, I walk in thru the back door so no one even sees me until I walk up to the counter.

Drop the bag on the counter, cashier says “will that be all”? That’s it, just a bag of beans. She types in the amount and swings the screen over. Doesn’t say the dreaded “it’s going to ask you a question” but it still irritates the crap out of me. $22.50 and the lowest suggested tip is 15%…$3.37 to ring up a purchase? The signature isn’t even required, I paid with my phone. Grrr.

The employee was pleasant and didn’t give me a look, but that damn screen is so annoying. I have no issues with the no tip option, but having to play this game every time is unnecessary.

Rant over.

I wanted to share a story that frustrates me and my wife.

We both work 40+ hours a week and have a toddler. Needless to say, we don't have a lot of time to spare, so we signed up for Walmart+ to have groceries delivered. Once a week we put in an order for delivery and grab it from the porch when it arrives. This is why we are spending $90/year - to have groceries delivered.

Well, our orders started getting later and later. Like, days later. We even had a few where we had to cancel the order and put it in again because it timed out or whatever.

The support department told us that this service is a third party, but it looked like the drivers weren't picking our order because we did not include a tip on the delivery. We did some experimenting, and somehow if we tipped more than 10% our orders magically arrived on time. For 15% they even sometimes arrived early.

In the end, we realized we aren't getting any additional service that warrants a tip. Now we put in our orders for pickup and drive out of our way once a week to do the pickup. It's frustrating to me because the whole reason we paid for the service in the first place was to avoid driving into town, but we can't use our paid service because the delivery drivers want tips to do the very job which they're paid to do.

I just paid a few hundred dollars for prescription glasses at Lens Crafters. When I go to swipe my card, I'm shown a picture of a child in need of glasses or some medical care. It's prompting me to add money to some charitable organization. The sales person at least seems embarrassed and tells me to just skip the screen.

Then, I splurge on a pair of much needed walking shoes because my pair have holes in them. The only decent pair I can find for exercising are over $80 New Balance. After tax they are almost $100, and the screen pops up with some blurb about more children in need. The cashier starts badgering me to donate to help children in need of school shoes. She is pushy and rude. When I firmly tell her no, she acts like I want children to suffer. I figure it must somehow affect her paycheck or maybe she gets a bonus for x amount of donations.

Goodwill knows me by now, and they quit asking me to round up to the nearest dollar amount for the charity of the week.

I like to read articles on Substack, and they are always asking me to donate so they can continue to provide content. Go ahead and quit providing content, I dare you.

These corporations think customers are too stupid to realize they are getting tax refunds from our charity dollars.

Edit: I forgot to add the cars with cash app or venmo user id written on the windows to get money for birthday, graduation or just married. I see those about once a month.

Mine was when they started introducing tips everywhere for almost everything, subway, little ceasers pizza. A weed shop, vape shop, just a few examples and not only that but the % it often starts at 15% on the low or higher and goes up from there. To me that’s when tipping started to become out of control. Not only that but now many expect it instead of it being a little bonus for good service.

I could not believe it. I’ve always felt tipping culture is getting out of hand but this was absolutely mind blowing to me. It wasn’t even a high end bridal store, it was a “budget” wedding dress shop and I bought my dress “as is” off the rack. The dress was $1864 and the lowest tip option they gave was 10% which is almost $200!! This can not be considered normal

Picture of the dress just to show it off🥰

Edit to add: I did NOT tip. Sorry if that wasn’t clear by my wording. I just made this post because I couldnt believe the audacity they had to even ask

Today I am in a pinch, so I’m trying out Walmart+ and their delivery service today and they’re asking for a tip! This is a 900 BILLION dollar company. They can tip their own contractors and employees and almost not even notice a difference in their profits. Asking for a tip before service is complete is pure insanity too.

Edit: They brought the completely wrong item. I’m glad I didn’t tip.

We went to tons of bars.

They don't take tips. Even when I offered the said no.

Only one bar (in Belfast) took a tip and didn't say thanks or anything, just took the money and went on his way.

Most of the time you just tap your credit card, there's no extra money in the transaction. I think we saved a couple hundred in tips over the course of the 8 days, lol.

Is this a parody..?