Customers are being asked to tip even at self check-out. Some say it's 'emotional blackmail.'
www.businessinsider.com
As self-checkout kiosks are incorporating the option to include tips, customers question where the money is going.

This is a fucking insult

        • P1r4nha@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Switzerland doesn’t have a minimum wage either, but the problems aren’t as dire (yet). Several cantons have however now introduced minimum wages and these are inflation adjusted, so a lot more future proof. Also they don’t need to be renegotiated again and again as the law doesn’t expire. I only see them disappear if we get a nationwide solution that replaces the local ones. But I agree with you: They are now set by the legislature and arbitrary and they should be informed with NGO data.

  • Mister_Haste@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    I’m in the US so I tip people who rely on tips to make it by in this capitalist dystopia, like waitstaff. That’s fucking it. Anyone else asking for a tip can get rekt.

    Why is this even an issue? Are people actually tipping everyone now? Stop it! Don’t let people manipulate you and keep your money.

    • bluGill@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      More importantly I tip people who have a direct impact on quality of service to me, without negative society consequences. A waiter can pay attention to me see when my drink is empty, or can sit around talking until an alarm goes off that it is time to check. A waiter can know what is really good/bad on the menu, what drinks pair with the meal - or just take my order. Of course an overworked waiter cannot do any of this, but most of the time waiters are not over worked.

      I top for delivery, but I feel dirty as there should be nothing they can do to give me better service that is legal. I feel like sometime a company offering delivery will have a driver who speeds, and that the driver gets tips for breaking the law means the company is liable (read deep pockets and million dollar judgement against them!) for incentivizing their drivers to break the law by allowing them to accept tips).

  • vtez44@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    The machines should tip the customer for doing job well. After all, it’s him doing the work cashier typically does.

  • nameless_prole@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    This is like when fast food places ask if you want to round your order up to the next dollar to donate to x cause.

    Like, no, Taco Bell, I don’t want to pay you so you can turn around and get credit (both in terms of laundering their image, and for tax purposes) for my donation.

    • razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I was at a fast food place a few days ago and the drive tru employee asked me if I wanted to round up. I asked him for what and he didn’t know. Just wanted to round up to the nearest dollar for the fuck of it I guess. Shit is already too expensive without corporations asking for a handout.

    • Magrid@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      it ruins the value of the tip, if I want to tip you is because you did an absolutely fantastic job, not because you can’t afford living with your normal (if we can call it like this) wage

  • Uriel-238@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I would interpret this to mean this established company is underpaying staff to maximize profits. My tips, at best, would mitigate that cruelty by a tiny bit, assuming management isn’t stealing the tips.

    It means this business needs to fail, and its workers need to unionize.

  • 0235@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have noticed this that they will try to “round up” your order amount. Why on earth would I ever want to do that? £5.10 to be rounded up to £6??? how about no.

    And they will put the button to do that in the same place you just pressed twice to continue, and make it the same colour, but the “don’t round up” will be a smaller button in another place.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I find it much nicer to use the self checkouts cause I have no issues with telling a machine to fuck off with their donations or tips. I get guilted a bit by the human cashiers and end up tipping or donating, with a machine I instantly hit no.

    • Secret300@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m usually okay with tipping if I have the bread. But donating to some kids hospital or something I always say no. Makes me sound evil but there have been too many scandals with companies not giving the money away

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Even if it isn’t an obvious shady thing with the money not getting donated, even if it’s all “above board” as these things go, when you make a donation at a retail checkout counter the store then donates the money in their own corporate name and gets the tax breaks, good press, and so forth.

        I prefer to make my donations directly to charities rather than subsidizing some middleman company’s good karma.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          the store then donates the money in their own corporate name and gets the tax breaks, good press, and so forth.

          Oh, hell I’d never thought of this but it makes perfect sense. I already didn’t donate via checkout, but now I never will. Fuck that.