Dan Scavino Jr. Tip?
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A different perspective:
I don't like the rather pushy assumption that "I should be tipped just because I'm here at my job" any more than the next person does, but . . . I stopped donating to charities when I became convinced that nearly all of them are frauds (with much or most of the money going to those who RUN the "charity") and some of them (Red Cross for a one example; the Clinton Foundation for another) are involved in child trafficking and other horrors -- or at least to harmful "progressive" BS.
A local church's food bank is one thing, but national charities are another.
Until that point, I had a hard and fast rule of not giving cash to the homeless, and I rarely tipped more than 15%.
Both of those things changed, partly because I didn't have any reason to send money to "charities" anymore and partly because the economy was tanking, and for the first time I was seeing people who had obviously just fallen from the middle class camping out in their vehicles or living on the street. Also, I knew that earning a living was harder than ever; prices of nearly everything are outpacing paychecks and that's if you can find a job -- not everyone can, given the zillions of small-business bankruptcies and layoffs at big corporations.
So I sometimes hand out money to people on the street (most of whom, in the small-town area near where I live, are not drug addicts pooping on the sidewalk -- something I've NEVER seen, btw, other than in photos) and I tip well -- extravagantly sometimes -- because I remember how hard it was for ME when I was young and working at crappy jobs -- despite the economy being MUCH better than it is now.
I don't expect this to last, but for now I'm fairly well off, and as long as I can afford to do this, I will.
I always tip in cash and give it directly to my server.
I pay every person to person transaction in cash. Screw the bankers.
Screw the bankers!
This is the way. Let THEM decide what to do with their tax filings.
tell them it's a gift, not a tip, and they won't have to claim it as income.
When I was a bartender in college I only claimed enough to equal out to whatever the minimum wage was at that time. The rest of it went toward rent and tuition.
I have been doing that lately as well.
Except a lot of restaurants require the waitresses to turn in the tips to the boss for redistribution.
I think you may have missed the point of the meme as have several other posters, IMO only. Do you tip the cashier at your grocery store? Do you tip the gal behind the glass who sells you a movie ticket? When I go to a fast food joint, which is rare, I don't expect to have to decline tipping them by having them hand me a screen after they run my card whereby I'm forced to do just that OR coerced into giving them a 20% tip for simply filling my order and handing me my sandwich. That's the point behind the meme. They aren't talking about not tipping a waitress or bartender. I tip generously, but I do so to folks who are serving me. This whole tipping nonsense has gotten out of hand.
I started my comment with:
and I thought that was clear, but to expand on it: the various ways the businesses and workers are pushing the assumption that NOT tipping is a faux pas is incredibly irritating to me. And no, I don't tip grocery (or other) clerks.
Do you go to the movie theater or grocery store and buy a single muffin? Have you ever seen a tip screen at either location?
I’ve been watching rich guys on the internet posting the equivalent of this meme since there was an internet, and they are always doing it as a “I’m just like you guys fellow struggling Americans” when in reality they have $1000 dollar suits, $500 haircuts, 3 homes, etc.
Dan Scavino Jr posting this is the equivalent of a robber baron flicking a nickel at the shoeshines forehead and telling him to get a real job.
Go to star bucks and buy a single muffin.
I've seen these tip screens in the most dumbest places where the "service provider" never asked for tips in the past. Plus now they start the tips at 20% and you have to hit custom to go lower. I can understand with inflation tips should be higher, but food is also higher. So I'm basically covering the restaurant owner for inflation and his workers for inflation. Meanwhile my wages at work are not increasing much, if at all.
I noticed they started doing this at my vape shop. Now I know for a fact those people don't make under minimum wage, so why do they need to be tipped for taking something off a shelf and ringing it up? I don't tip the grocery checkout lady for picking something up and ringing it up. There used to be a big tip jar up the road at the cleaners. I think she was collecting for her weight loss surgery if I'm being honest.
Well right it was obvious this was referring to a coffee shop, and if someone is walking into one of those and not expecting a tip screen then they may be an alien.
I'm more down with this being some super secret squirrel comms than another rich d-bag pinching a penny in the face of someone working a survival job, but the odds are on the latter.
That's very nice of you
Agree with you. I do the same even though I'm not 'fairly well off'... I figure as long as I'm not having to use credit cards for groceries, hand extra money out now cause don't know when money becomes irrelevant as economy crashes.
This word for word is me too. Same feelings.