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Tipping 'nudges' are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don't leave a gratuity, you'll hear about it. (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Tipping 'nudges' are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don't leave a gratuity, you'll hear about it.::DoorDash is the latest delivery service to nudge customers who don't tip. It shows how intrusive tip requests are, and how important tips are to gig workers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I always tip, but I'm pretty fucking over it from a company perspective. Doordash, Uber, and Grubhub are raking in INSANE profits while they stiff their workers.

These companies shouldn't be taking more than 1% or less of every transaction. Instead, they take a WAY larger cut. They do it in the worst possible way, too. There are layers of hidden fees - everything from menu items being secretly increased in price, to fees you don't see until the final second that they discretely lump (hide) under the sales tax column.

Fuck these companies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm far from a cheap tipper, but the way tipping culture has evolved in North America is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have traditionally been a good tipper. Often others will mention it.

But the recent changes have me turned into a mister pink in a lot of cases.

Anything take out or not full service I just hit no now. Also the round up for some random cause, I found companies only have to donate like 10% of those to stay in the clear.

Also in the few instances I’m getting take out type shit like pizza and hit “no” and they made a comment. I no longer go there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stick with the tipping habits I grew up with.

  • If I'm getting table service at a restaurant, I tip the waitstaff.

  • If I'm getting food delivered, I tip the delivery person.

  • I tip taxi drivers.

  • I tip bartenders. I'm honestly not sure how to tip bartenders these days though, because it used to be "$1 per drink", which seemed quite generous when drinks were less than $5. Now a single drink might be $12. Am I really supposed to tip 20% on that?

If I'm walking up to a counter and getting takeout or fast food, I'm not tipping. That's nutty. Nobody would even consider that if they didn't use these customer-facing tablets everywhere nowadays.

Sometimes I'll toss a buck in the tip jar at my favorite coffee shop or pizzeria, but it's not a percentage thing.

I've always known old people to be shitty tippers. Maybe I'm on my way to becoming one of them now, failing to keep up with social norms. But I really don't think this is the norm, and I don't want it to become the norm.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I’m mostly at the same. But coffee shops and pizza shacks etc have gotten to be the worst on the tipping thing, and being vocal about it.

I guess I’m just old now. But even at restaurants we have stopped going in the last year because the level of dgaf is through the roof and the service is shit, burgers are 17 bucks and it’s just not enjoyable. One of our favorite pizza places is like that. Get the waiter that is AirPods in, asking you to repeat your order, fucking up the order, forgetting shit or even to fire an entire part of the parties order, and the ordeal taking 2 hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I worked at a coffee shop and 40% of my wage was tips. I wouldn't be able to afford to live otherwkse. Please tip your barista.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

pay your workers a fair wage! end tipping culture!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The workers would rather work for tips. You can hide a lot of income if your wage is primarily cash.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Tips help the company a lot more than the worker. If everyone decides to just be an asshole for a while and stop tipping, the workers being exploited will quit, and companies will be forced to pay actual living wages to attract/retain workers.

But that’s not going to happen because the social pressure of tipping is just too strong… and I say that as someone who is part of the problem by always leaving a tip :/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I used Grubhub exactly once.

Fucker ate my kids chicken tendies. I'll pick up my stuff from now on.