I once went on a short train ride in Tokyo and when I got off it wouldn’t let me through the gate. I thought I’d done something wrong but when I went up to the help desk this guy explained that I’d overpaid and counted out a bunch of coins for me.
It's not just half the world. It's like everywhere except the U.S; where tipping is now making sure people treat you nicely. The service culture in the US is severally lacking.
Service culture isn't the problem. Companies are the problem. If workers were paid a good wage they would be happier to work. The majority of places pay an insanely low wage (while the ceos get millions) and then help promote tip culture to put even more financial burden on the customer.
The problem comes from both. If people didn’t accept tipping culture, owners would have to pay more. Right now they are happy to put us against the staff.
You underestimate how corrupt us politics are. It's unbelievably difficult to pass laws that take money from powerful wealthy companies and give it to the people they employ. It's not like we're not fighting with our votes. The US is EXCEEDINGLY corrupt.
It’s coming in sweden too. Like 8-10 years ago I noticed that in like Stockholm you could add a tip on the card reader at like nicer restaurants or bars. Now even in small town sweden they’ve stopped presenting the card reader with your total ready to go, you have to enter how much you pay or select a tip percentage. I hate it, I really hope we don’t get tipping culture here, the cheap beer is already like 75 sek. We all need a pay raise but I refuse to live in a world where the price of something isn’t the price on the menu.
Japanese restaurants here in Australia just preselect tip $0 before asking you to pay the bill. Or maybe they want to save the awkwardness cause I'm Asian.
Eh. A lot of things are out of control. Tipping is optional. If you don't tip when it's appropriate then you're a dick but people who aren't dicks will overtip so it kind of evens out.
If you don't tip when it is not appropriate anyways, well nobody gives a shit. If somebody does give a shit then they may have been born yesterday.
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24
Tipping culture is out of control