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Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

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Re: Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

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Post by hn_throawlles »

polishdude20 wrote: post #25
seattle_spring wrote: post #2

Fuck that. Tipping culture is ridiculous as it is. No way in hell someone deserves a tip showing you the capabilities of an iphone. Especially not with the current POS systems that ask for a minimum of 20%.

Yeah isn't it literally your basic minimum job requirement to be showing people the capabilities of an iphone? You want me to buy your product, YOU show me why I should want it.

the point is who pays for this 'service' work? Apple? the corporation designing the devices being potentially bought

or you? the potential customer paying with a tip to the store's employee??

Re: Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

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Post by [deleted] »

no_wizard wrote: post #16

I am shocked a labor union is okay with tipping as a mechanism of compensation. Its antithetical to their own goals usually, let alone Apple is not going to take kind to this. Tipping is out of control as it is, at least in the US. Where does it stop I have to wonder. Lets just keep the fight about fair wages, benefits and working conditions first and foremost. This feels like its waiting for public backlash

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Re: Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

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Post by Apocryphon »

Title is clickbait, which this entire thread has fallen for. Tipping is mentioned in two paragraphs out of an entire article worth of eminently reasonable requests and terms. Who knows what the actual context is. Maybe this was a half-hearted idea that was tossed into a long list. Bloomberg just chose to zero in on it as a title to make the union seem deranged.

> The workers’ negotiators also want Apple to adopt a tipping system, letting patrons offer gratuities in increments of 3%, 5% or a custom amount for in-store credit-card transactions.

> “This will allow thankful patrons the ability to express gratitude for a job well done without any obligations,” the union wrote Apple. “All monies collected through this manner would be dispersed to members of the bargaining unit biweekly based on any hours worked.”

That’s it. The entirety of the rest of the article is not focused on tipping.

Re: Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

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Post by s17n »

seattle_spring wrote: post #2

Fuck that. Tipping culture is ridiculous as it is. No way in hell someone deserves a tip showing you the capabilities of an iphone. Especially not with the current POS systems that ask for a minimum of 20%.

Just don’t tip, problem solved.

(Obviously you have to tip in restaurants to not be a monster, but everywhere else just don’t do it. And if you want to not tip waiters… the world needs monsters sometimes.)

Re: Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

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Post by mdasen »

I'm guessing that the tips is more a bargaining tactic than a real ask. They're also asking for 45 paid days off for "bereavement leave" including for the death of a close friend or pet. 45 days of paid leave would be over 2 months off. It seems unlikely that a company would consider 2 months paid leave for the death of a pet. Imagine employees buying goldfish.

Re: Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

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Post by macintux »

Apocryphon wrote: post #29

Title is clickbait, which this entire thread has fallen for. Tipping is mentioned in two paragraphs out of an entire article worth of eminently reasonable requests and terms. Who knows what the actual context is. Maybe this was a half-hearted idea that was tossed into a long list. Bloomberg just chose to zero in on it as a title to make the union seem deranged.

Tipping for help at an Apple Store is so insanely absurd that of course anyone with journalist credentials is going to focus on that.
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