15-20% is expected for good service and in some hotels and. restaurants an 18% automatic gratuity is added. It’s awful. I don’t know how it got this bad. But our tipping culture is out of hand like our fun culture.
But, as an American I know it’s part of the deal. Our servers make minimum wage and live on tips. For that reason I happily pay it because that’s what I would tip ordinarily. You learn to build the tip into whatever service you’re getting when you’re estimating expense. If I get a service at a salon, for instance, I’m tipping my masssge therapist $40.
I know people, on the dole making more than working families that are being subsidised by government funding, others working on Minimum wage and many other earning just above or below the poverty line here in New Zealand, where everything is getting expensive as fuck, No tipping culture, in fact it's practically looked down upon, and youth crime hikes as well as gang violence slowly spreading due to extra violent aspect of the 501 deportee problems spreading here.
Anyway, if your saying you have people over there working for minimum wage and Live on tips, we here in New Zealand are living on fucking hopes and dreams that always seem to get more and more backwards, heck the exchange rate of NZD TO USD back in February was like 1USD=0.86-0.94c NZD on PayPal at least, and now??? Holy shit, it's like 1USD=0.50-0.58c in less than 8 months, what the fuck happened?
Not only that, with the price of shit just not going down and instead getting higher and higher, wages value dropping at least a third of what it was a year ago, robbery or selling drugs actually seems like the only viable way to live and this is in the Biggest city with the largest market for work, let alone the rest of the country.
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u/Doofchook Aug 28 '24
Close the border to Aussies too, tipping for everything is fucken stupid.