Why Tipping Is Out of Control in the U.S. 

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Playing the devil's advocate, if the employer pays more to the employees, the prices of products and services rise. From somewhere the loss of money by paying more to the employees, needs to be replaced. The employee works his or her shift and that is that. It may work extra hours and it will receive the extra money. Yet the intricacies of operating a business, accounting, legal services, insurances, etc., and the obvious fact that it is the employer's business, he or she decides how much is willing to pay. Case in fact, see what happened in California when Gavin a.k.a "Commie-som" raised recently the minimum wage at $20.00. Thousands of businesses closed down. They couldn't stay open, because while been in inflation add the raise of minimum wage, you have to raise the prices of service and products. It becomes a perpetual cycle of raising prices, raising wages, then again raise the prices ad infinitum. Better wages should also be adjusted depending on the skill of the workers. Is the worker an specialist in a service industry that society is willing to pay handsomely? If no, then they get minimum wage. Better learn a skill or a career that makes you competitive. Mediocrity gets paid at minimum; skillsets that other people are in desperate need, are recompense accordingly. In capitalism we trust. Godspeed.

​@@yashuarazohr486yes that's the point. Either raise your prices and find a market who is willing to pay more or pack up your business. Owning a business is a privilege not a right.

Wrong way to think about it

Where do you live now?

@@adriandiaz4874 hopefully not in a third world country

Yeah, if I ever visit america, there's no way I'll fall into this tip culture bullshit, I'll tip like a normal person, zero tip most of the time, 5 or 3 % honest tip for a good service. I don't give a shit if they get mad, it's literaly your fault this has happened, and it has nothing to do with me.

@@adriandiaz4874 Singapore

@@gwrydd what's wrong with that?

Yes, the main reason I order my pizza as a carry-out is so I don't have to tip a delivery person.

@@steverino6954yeah even when they have a tip jar I don’t think they expect every take out customer to tip

I rarely tip on take out orders UNLESS I know the order required the worker to put more than average just packaging the order. For example, if they had to make a drink or had to take extra time packing the food, etc...

Or my favorite. Tipping a bartender for opening a beer bottle.

only place i’m tipping for a drink is the bar!

Ahhh the influence of puberty

Can you explain how you can tell?

He's a preachy wee child alright!

whoa.

Greedy people who make you need to tip so that their workers survive, they ruin they ruin.

They want to destroy the family, and, well...... us in general. A dude that's in climate lie propaganda said over the weekend we need to cull us because we are not ending the climate change. I'm not going anywhere, are you?

Companies should be forced to pay the workers a wage they can live off, while also not being allowed to take the tip from them if it happens. Tipping would then be very rare and not neccesary. It would be for a job done over the top and not the standard.

A non tip culture in here, Indonesia

@@Jadenyoung1 Ya, and in some cases, those tips don't even make it to workers. It gets pooled in 'The Christmas Fund' which cuts that cost out of the business too. Many such examples I've heard.

NOT paying a LIVING WAGE should be illegal! There I fixed your ignorant comment!

cook for yourself then

@@ivanmanriquezjr.9032 I DO! Same can be said to the boss of the business. YOU DO IT! You do the cooking, serving, register, take out the trash, wash the dishes. Go ahead. YOU DO IT, then tell me how much YOU want to be paid to do it then another add $5 an hour and that is how much people should be paid! I sure don't see these CEOs and Managers taking a pay cut, no they get bonuses! So yeah, I DO cook for myself and when I don't i TIP the server and the cook because I 100% KNOW their boss doesn't pay them enough and works them too hard! Anyone who has a problem with tipping clearly doesn't understand the struggle and need to DO THAT JOB for a few days THEN come back and talk to me!

Do you care what the person behind the cash register thinks about you? I don't, I like my money too, it's better in my pocket or as good on my kids bellies. No charity when we are scraping pennies.

​​@@twiztidsidfreak13no person has a right to the product of anothers labor. You get what wage you can negotiate. You get a raise when you show your value is more then the wage you started at. You want fairness, go where comm unism "worked".

Good strat

When you visit a country of course they are gonna have their own customs and rules. You don't have to follow every single part like tipping, but that comment wouldn't be my choice of words. For example, in Japan, it's common (and expected) to bow and use honorifics, but you may not be used to that so it may be awkward at first, but you wouldn't say "I am a foreigner I will not bow for you just because you expect it". I don't think you have to explain yourself how you get to use your money anyway lol!

It depends. It would be weird if you went to the USA for example and refused… not for self service obviously but it’s usually excluded from the service cost so it’s more affordable in say restaurants etc.

Absolutely, you tip because they did more than they needed, not because they showed up.

If you're a waiter somewhere that overprices their food, you'll make great money for doing the same job as someone working at a Denny's and that alone pisses me off because it seems like it's the waitresses working in low end restaurants that provide the best experiences because they know people will just tip whatever the little gratuity guide says at the bottom of the receipt

Don't come to Europe then.

lol no it’s not - you’re so dramatic

Which is exactly why I decided to stop eating out all together. Now tipping is presented for take out too...

They take the plates away which is more service than I get at most restaurants.

Its fucking disgusting how Uber works. Passengers with low rating most of the time are people who dont give tips and the lower the rating the lower your waiting time goes because some drivers dont want to pick them up. My auntie said she only wait for minutes because she has high rating but she has to pay for a good tip like wtf. This is why Tip in Asia was so appreciated than this entitled bitch ass westerns

You shouldn’t have even had that thing in your face, they shouldn’t expect a tip.

Same!

100 Euro for a haircut? Glad I learned to cut my own hair...

Im Asian and tipping in my country is appreciated even how little it is and the way they say Thank you with a smile, I would hate to tip a American tbh I live in 3rd world country and im tipping a MF who lives in 1st world country with a wage that is higher than me and lives a better life than me would beg me for tips

Just means everyone’s taxes will go up even more and that guaranteed living wage would be constantly increasing, thereby increasing taxes even more

@@vitriolveio that’s incorrect: there are dozens of countries around the world where a living wage has not produced spiraling inflation, particularly in mature economies likes those in Europe

Oh, good idea. Don't know why we didn't think of that before...Are you familiar with something called INFLATION?

Screw that!!! Stop going! Don't support that shit!

Mandatory tips? More like fucking comission lmao employees just sugarcoated.

You sound like a socialist

@@erwynbalbuena9900 right??? It’s never the government stealing everyone’s money and making everything too damned expensive. It’s the mean companies….

In Canada its like 15-20 CAD per hour in my country its like 3-5 CAD for a whole day

Little actual tip: sell the iPad and share money with employees.

They normally start with %20 here in CA 😂

What a coincidence.

@@ApertureThinking ?

The older generation in the UK tip a lot. My nan always tips like it's a religious practice 😂

5:55 it's so true it makes me feel bad but idc anymore. We should stop living in a shame based society

"brang" bruh fr?

@@rhael42 brang means bought

@@rhael42 brought* btw do u need any tissues to wipe your tears? lmk

Interesting idea.

Um roubo. Faço questão de não pagar em todos lugares que vou. Mesmo quando da R$1. Acho o cúmulo do ridículo

Why charge more? Prices are already high enough in any industry that expects tipping... regulate the industry and stop making patrons actually paying the salaries of the employees directly. Tipping should be illegal.

@@Ghett0Star77 reglementate? WTF is that?

@Ghett0Star77 good point! Don't charge more. Just pay the service people enough

​@@Ghett0Star77eat at home then. It's business not a charity.

@@averyintelligence What the hell do you mean? Do they give out food for free or something? I'm already paying for service and I'm already paying more than the food is worth. It's enough.

Weirdo.

We also have the horrid 'discretionary service charge' which is usually 12.5% in the UK, or at least in England that's how it is. It's so silly. I tell them to take it off everytime 😂 it's embarrassing but Idc I find it jinda rude tbh