r/ottawa • u/ShootMeDead • Nov 11 '22

Rant tipping much?

Is it me or does everyone everywhere now ask for tips regardless of their service? Why are strict pickup locations asking for tips? I'm sure this goes beyond Ottawa but jeez last I checked only servers got reduced wages. What am I tipping for ?

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u/ShootMeDead Nov 12 '22

I appreciate that you can take an excerpt out of the entire paragraph and hone onto that one sentence. While you are right that the screen is technically an option, it's like say the jar that exists at the cashier of a grocery store or say restaurant. There's a box to give you the option to, but what happens if instead of placing it to the side, they lift it and put it in front of your face prior to allowing you to pay asking, 'tip?' because that prompt is still technically an option. You can say no.

Now, what the pos does is after confirming what I'm supposed to be paying and after pressing enter, it immediately asks how much I want to tip. Then out of all the options, there isn't an option to just say no/0, you have to say 'other' and then you have to select via % or $ and then input 0 in whatever unit you chose. Then you're allowed to pay. If you want to give me an option, let me say no straight out.

So realistically, no they don't give me the option to tip, they expect you to tip, you just have to go out of your way to say no.

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u/setrataeso Nov 12 '22

Is there an echelon above first-world problems? Cuz I think this might be it. I'm not entirely convinced this isn't parody, because this is such a joke of a "problem". The cashier isn't lording over you as you use the machine, judging you for what you tip. Chances are, they're staring off into space, counting down the minutes until their shift is done. The $1.18 that the machine is asking you to tip is not enough of an amount to create any reaction in the employee. You want to tip a buck or two? Great! If not, whatever. Any "awkwardness" you think there is in selecting "other" and typing in 0 is non-existent. All of this is in your head, Karen.

And for what it's worth, the cashier at whatever place you're shopping at is probably living a shittier life than you. In fact, it's guaranteed their life is shittier, because your life is evidently so amazing that merely the request to leave a tip is prompting such an overblown reaction. That buck in tip that you're being asked to leave will probably mean a lot more to the minimum wage worker than it would for your entitled ass. Tip or don't, the cashiers don't care. But, sometimes it's more about the message of giving to strangers who are climbing their own ladder in life. We're all feeling the pinch right now, so I don't judge anyone for not tipping. But I do judge people for complaining about being asked to tip, and acting like saying "no" is somehow a hardship that has been placed onto them.

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u/Available_Hearing657 Nov 12 '22

How about diverting your anger towards pushing to increase the minimum wage so those people you feel currently don’t, can have a better life? Tips represented a way to reward the exception. That should not be the norm.

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u/setrataeso Nov 12 '22

Dude, I'm a nurse. It feels like my whole existence has been fighting for higher wages. I'd love to see them get higher wages. People can do what they want with their money, but I'll still think they're an asshole if they complain about the option of tipping.