Two-thirds of Americans have a dim view of tipping
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Re: Two-thirds of Americans have a dim view of tipping
#2Surveys of socially desirable behavior are susceptible to [socially desirable responding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias). It's unclear how, or if, this particular survey accounted for such bias.
On the broader topic of tipping, I think of it as a tax on nice people.
Re: Two-thirds of Americans have a dim view of tipping
#3It is a relic of the old UK indentured servant system, where the only funds an indentured person could have to ever pay off his indenture was tips from visitors.
Later in the USA, this expanded to add slaves who gathered tips to gain freedom as well as indentured servants from the UK who often came to the USA on 5 year work indentures - unless of course they added to the debt at the 'Company Store' - to whom they owed their 'souls'
Re: Two-thirds of Americans have a dim view of tipping
#4This is really in the news cycles of late.
And I agree it's gotten out of hand.
The dismal wages for employees who are forced to make it up with tips. The expansion of tip-prompting to every manner of services and non-services. The shaming of people who undertip by whatever metric. The modern POS systems that are programmed to prompt, as deceptively as possible, in order to extract larger and larger tips from the customer. The practice of pre-tipping; rather than serving as a comment on how good your service was, it's a bribe to not mess with me. The indiscreet tipping that you must do directly with the service provider, rather than dropping "something" into a tip jar.
I remember a coffee house where the employees didn't work for tips, and so local regulation prohibited them from soliciting tips, and so they had, instead, a "show your love" jar or something. Appalling.
I remember when it was explained that "do you want change from this?" is a rude question. Now, it hardly occurs to them to ask.
Re: Two-thirds of Americans have a dim view of tipping
#5This is really in the news cycles of late. And I agree it's gotten out of hand. The dismal wages for employees who are forced to make it up with tips. The expansion of tip-prompting to every manner of services and non-services. The shaming of people who undertip by whatever metric. The modern POS systems that are programmed to prompt, as deceptively as possible, in order to extract larger and larger tips from the cus…
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