I know that some American tourists actually do this, on giving servers cash tips as if they’re underpaid by their employer (since they’re used to it in the USA along with growing up with that mindset) but overlook the fact that servers are paid the minimum wage in the EU, as it’s not “typically” the norm. This practice is being exported it seems, in another region where that isn’t common.
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I worked enough shitty customer facing jobs that i feel inclined to sometimes give a tip. But just because i know it will make their miserable day on the job a bit better and not because its expected so eg the server can afford rent.
Whatever usefulness it might theoretically have, forcing customers to pay employees’ salaries has generally been an exploitative disaster in the States, and just one more feature of late-stage capitalism. Sure, it’s always possible to find some outlier jobs in which one can indeed make good coin from a tip system, but the point is that such cases are the outliers.
It shouldn’t even be normalized in the US. Tips should be reserved for going above and beyond; not for the bare fucking minimum because their employer pays them less than minimum wage.
No wtf just pay people
Fuck NO!
If your business doesn’t pay a living wage so requires your staff to rely on tips, your business doesn’t have the right to continue existing
oh fucking hell no!
No. Tipping is a stupid way to underpay people and have customers foot the bill. Its a hidden food tax. Just pay the workers. Pay people
Absolutely not
I came here to say exactly that, character for character.
I guess I’ll have to say something else, then.
I’d rather normalise a paying-the-employees-a-decent-wage culture, at the absolute least.
Some people are in industries where tipping is possible, others are in industries where it isn’t.
Since this is Europe and (theoretically at least) everyone is being paid a fair wage for the job they do, tipping would be unfair and should therefore not be encouraged.
If you live in a third world country where people serving you do not earn a fair wage then that’s a different matter. I’m very glad I don’t live in such a country. But if tipping culture were to become normalised it might lead to such a situation here too.
Its a virus and needs to be rooted out
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooo
No, absolutely not
Hell no!
Who the fuck even asks such a stupid question?
Let the damn businesses pay their employees accordingly to the prices they ask for. No paying you stuff (illegally) low wages and keep all the profits to yourself!
