Brit who regularly visits USA a few times a month… tipping is mad. I used self checkout in CVS and was asked if I wanted to tip? Too who? The computer? Madness
I have my phones background set as an image of the tip screen as a joke so I can show it to people randomly for no reason.
Made you laugh? Tip screen. Ordered food at a counter and get a tip screen? Show my tip screen back to the person who took my order. It’s fun and funny.
I also hate tipping and think it should be eliminated. Employers should pay a livable wage.
It's not unheard of for certain industries and roles. I'm in an individual contributor role and I'm required to travel at least once a quarter. I'm actually working from home today only because I had to be somewhere close to home yesterday (but not my office) and then was supposed to be on the other side of the country the next morning which was unfeasible.
My previous role was at a company headquartered in another country and it wasn't unheard of to fly to New York and work out of that office for a week before flying out to Europe to the main office to work there for another week. Etc, etc.
A lot of people see traveling for work as a privilege, and I guess it is, but it sucks and is exhausting. Yeah you get miles, and if you're lucky the credit card points if you're able to book your own hotels and flights, but I rather just have all that travel time back to myself. At least I can get a lot of reading done in the air.
Tipping at pick-up counters and other places is also a function of the systems that run the payment processing—most of those systems take a percentage of the payment for the processing service, so asking for a tip is an easy way to increase the size of the payment.
I don't know how other places do it, but the one place I know pools all of the tips across the month, and then it gets paid out to the frontline staff proportional to the hours worked that month. Ends up being a little bonus.
Now I'm going to have to use the self checkout... It doesn't ask at the pharmacy checkout so it seems unlikely they'd use different software. If I were going to to anyone there it's the pharmacist who got my prescription refilled quickly.
Would love to know what CVS you went to that asked for a tip. Maybe a donation to a charity or something, but I’ve been to CVS’s all over the country here in the US and have never once seen a prompt for a tip, self checkout or otherwise.
yeah look almost nobody tips in those situations. rule of thumb is, if people brought food to you or interacted with you beyond just being at the register, you tip. if the only interaction was paying and picking up food at the counter, you don't tip.
This is just lazy scriptwriting. They get a certain formula and just run it. They don't actually expect you to tip they just don't want to pay for modified coding.
Here in Australia we have "Order at the table" apps that restaurants use. I'm guessing it's generic software used around the world, because it has an "add tip" option. It's funny thinking that they suggest adding a tip when I've had to do the job of a waiter myselfÂ
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u/Saltyspaceballs Aug 28 '24
Brit who regularly visits USA a few times a month… tipping is mad. I used self checkout in CVS and was asked if I wanted to tip? Too who? The computer? Madness