Comments on: Guilt Tipping: Do You Feel Pressure to Tip? I Do

By: MB

MB — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 22:44:56 +0000

I’ve grown to hate tipping because of this and it’s definitely changing my behavior (less take out, eating, services, etc). Not only do they watch you, but recently at massage therapy, they’ve implemented a new system: they don’t even give you the courtesy of entering the tip yourself, they loudly ask, with other patrons around, how much tip you’d like to leave and they enter it themselves.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 21:22:40 +0000

I have always tipped when someone is providing me a service, whether it is a cab driver or someone in a restaurant.

As to donating to a charity through a grocery store I won’t do that. I will donate directly with a charity of my choice. I’m not going to provide a grocery store a huge tax write off at the end of the year.

By: Johnny Jet

Johnny Jet — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:59:44 +0000

In reply to Dan Nainan. Good tip!

By: Dan Nainan

Dan Nainan — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:02:32 +0000

Oh, THANK YOU! I am sick and tired of being asked to tip everywhere, even if someone picks up a croissant and puts it in a bag for me! My friends will tell you that I tip like a drunken millionaire, and I don’t drink. Yes I believe in tipping generously at a restaurant, or a taxi/UberLyft driver, but not at a counter, no way!

I found a great defeat mechanism to fight this scourge of being asked to tip with the cashier standing there. Just pay in cash! Agreed you don’t get points if you pay in cash, but that’s far better than being pressured to tip when you pay by credit card.

Oh yes, I never tip at the grocery store, because less than 10% of that money makes it to whomever it is intended for.

By: Mike Fawcett

Mike Fawcett — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 19:00:31 +0000

The US. has a tipping culture like nowhere else. In most places, it’s just a way of paying staff a lower wage and passing more costs onto the customer. Also, it should be illegal to pay workers less than minimum wage.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:43:27 +0000

Having owned a restaurant I told my employees “I don’t pay your wages our customers do so treat them like gold!” It worked my staff made hundreds a week in tips. They sometimes made more than I did and there was no set percentage added to the bill or expected. There service paid off for them. More service employers need to make that clear to their employees.

By: Ric

Ric — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:23:31 +0000

I agree with your article, tipping is out of control in the US. Although, when it comes to giving to a charity through the supermarket, I no longer participate. What I found out was the stores use it as a write off on their taxes which I believe it’s completely wrong. I give privately to the charities I pick not to help the supermarkets because the price of groceries are also out of control.

Keep up the good work thank you for all you do.

Ric

By: Judy jones

Judy jones — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:48:20 +0000

Craziest one lately is the dog boarding where I had to pay in advance and there was a 20% prompt for a tip on the screen. And of course he watched me….

By: Ross Copas

Ross Copas — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:37:53 +0000

We’re in the Baltics now. Tipping is almost non existent here. When you use a credit card, there is nowhere on the CC machine to add a tip. When questioned, staff say tipping is very rare. We like it. I think we will adopt this philosophy for ourselves. We’re from Canada and may join the Auzzies in the no tip parade!

By: karyn

karyn — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:28:02 +0000

Tipping has gotten out of line. And intrusive. A Doctos office where you receive a medical facial treatment. $1,000.00 treatment asking for a tip! I dont go out as much due to this tipping on screens,, the cashier stares at you; waiting.