If someone has the mentality that they are free to spoil your food because they won't get a (good) tip, then they don't deserve to be paid at all, let alone be tipped well.
There's a lot of things the US has that are extremely strange, and the tipping culture is amongst them.
It is not unreasonable for me to expect that you complete the job you are paid to do, for the price we already agreed upon. Period. Tips used to be for good service, circumstances where you know that due to circumstance you're asking a little more of the staff.
Many of the "pickup" order sites I have request a tip. There is literally no service, and I'm not even sure how the quality of the order will be, as I've literally not gotten it.
This is not a good follow-up for the parent's concerns. I tip for the same reason parent tips: for protection. I don't want my things to be messed with. I don't care who's in the right, I don't care what the server thinks, if it's the culture that we tip, then we tip, or potentially face the consequences of being outliers of the culture. It's not my hill to die on.
Quite fitting description. But since we are no feudal lords, I would also describe tipping as the daily power trip of the plebes.
“I am rich person. I will give you some money, service person. Now smile and appreciate my lordship.”—how it feels to tip.
Driver chased me into the lobby to give me the change.
I think tips work well, if this is the case. When tips are expected, for example because otherwise the server makes much less than minimum wage, then it's not a small gift anymore, and that's problematic. But when I like a service, give a bit more, they like that, give me a bit more of a service, knowing that I'll give a bit more the next time too, then I don't think that's something I should be against.
But the base price must be fair.
The best Christmas gifts were actual things - not an envelope with $60 in it.
She gives me the exact same gift.
We’re thinking we need to increase it because of inflation.
thank you for being reasonable and for having far more patience than I
The correct term is racket. Bribery is when you get something above normal.
