No Millennials, I will not tip you for putting my bagel in a bag.

Well, customer service jobs of all sorts often have some kind of way to reward employees for being attentive and friendly.

In restaurants, tipping is supposed to make me want to offer you another martini when yours is finished. Ive worked plenty of restaurants and i WILL remember to punch in that martini you ordered (which boosts your ticket total, and thus boosts my tip).

In retail, a quota and/or commission structure (if you have such a thing) is the company’s way of getting you to be nice to people who might not be you cuppa tea otherwise. Have you ever sold a living room set to someone who wants you to print out the specs of the oyster colored couch and also theNantucket Gray? You stick with because there are financial incentives to making that cash register ring.

As for to-go food and counter service places (bakeries, bagel shops, starbucks style coffee shops), it is at least a way to try to incentivize polite, considerate, efficient service.

It’s not everyone’s favorite system, but as someone who has worked all kinds of customer service jobs, it DOES feel good to know that on the whole, i’m going to walk with more money in my pocket, than someone who treats people with only apathy.

And, yes, you can draw the line and refuse to tip at these kindsa places. It’s your call.

I tip based on looks only . I dont tip men.

Its not a tip anymore if social convention forces you to do it. The service in the usa is one of the most fake I have ever witnessed. It will be completely apathic and only be fake friendly when the service personal sees a high change to make more money from you. But why would I be surprised. This one example really shows the capitalistic nature of all human interaction in the usa. That's not generally wrong, but I don't like it

semenyagoat wrote:

Its not a tip anymore if social convention forces you to do it.

Yep, fair enough. But you CAN vary your tip, based on the service you’ve gotten, and you CAN omit a tip entirely when you feel it’s called for.

I sometimes think that when a person’s pay structure has zero performance component, that things can get ugly. I gotta say that some of the teachers i had growing up, were incompetent, apathetic and kinda punitive. But, no harm in being a miserable summabitch if you got tenure?

One other ugly pay structure worth pointing out, is people who get paid by the procedure. They want to do more and more liver transplants, because they make big money at that. Doesn’t matter if they “recommend” procedures that are not in the patient’s best interests, because the insurance company pays the claim, not the patient.

And, anyway, you are right that there is a certain level of phoney baloney in customer service. I’m not defending that! Yick.

Big difference bro wrote:

Inquiring minds want to know wrote:

Are Gen Z's any different than the millennials who despise the Boomers? ?

Gen Z hate millennials and boomers equally. As millennials hate on boomers more so than gen z.

Why does Gen Z hate the millennials? Or is it that just all generations hate each other? ?

At Pizza Hut carryout last month, there was a tip bucket with a sign that read ‘uncle of our employee died, please leave tip to help’.

What's The Deal, Bro? wrote:

Big difference bro wrote:

Gen Z hate millennials and boomers equally. As millennials hate on boomers more so than gen z.

Why does Gen Z hate the millennials? Or is it that just all generations hate each other? ?

Cause millennials are entitled brats who ruined America even further than what the boomers did.

Seems like you were looking for an escort.

And $16 won't get you much

tipster wrote:

Robert Kraft knows how to tip.

This reminds me of a bad joke about a leper and a prostitute.

+1. Create value, make more money. Don't create value, make less money.

LOL. So, you told someone to get something nice with $16, then sat and stared at her, then asked her to go and sit in a dark room with you for a few hours despite your only previous exchange being the $16 and the staring.

That girl is crazy, you deserve better.

Suppressed wages by design wrote:

Don’t blame millennials, blame the system for designing tips to push costs to the consumer instead of predictable wages for the service industry.

Are you oblivious to the fact that if the employee gets paid more, that "pushes costs to the consumer?"

Usually when I go in to a bagel shop it is some old guy working. Not enough money to retire sadly.

nomil wrote:

I will tip you if you bring me my food on a plate, fill my water glass and take my plate away when I'm done. I will not tip you if you take a bagel off a shelf and put it in a bag. You fancy white touch screen with a smiley face and suggested tip percentage will not sway me. Sorry.

IT'S CALLED A SQUARE YOU DEPLORABLE. TECHNOLOGY - HOW DOES IT WORK!?

Do you add a tip when you do carry-out/to go?

Was in NYC a few weeks back ago and grabbed some food on the way back to friends place. Rather than wait for a table, we just ordered it to go/carry-out. My friend added a tip on the bill. I asked "Do you always tip on carry-out? Because I never do". He looked at me like I was committing a crime. I just said "All they are doing is cooking the food and putting it in a box. You're already paying for them to cook the food for you in the price you pay". (Fyi for table service it's not uncommon for me to tip 25%)

I tip $1 when someone pours me a pint of beer, why wouldn't I tip $1 when someone pours me a cup of coffee?

Tired of tipping 20% for waiters who already are at the "top of the food chain" - time to redistribute the tips! I now give less up top and always at least $1 to any other food service provider.

As a senior citizen collecting a meager social security allowance, should I be required to tip?

I was in upstate New York not long ago at a tiny grocery store/coffee shop combo. I went to the shelf, grabbed a couple items, took them to the register, and was met with the same fancy touchscreen suggesting various tip amounts on already overpriced food items. The guy didn't look like a millennial and the store owner certainly wasn't. I just chuckled and told the guy, "Sorry man, I'm hitting 0 on that." I will join the resistance with you!

There are a lot of situations where the base price seems like too much, and then a tip is expected, even on top of that.

My favorite one is how people hire a private ski instructor for an already obscene amount of money, and then find out that they are expected to offer an additional chunk (15 to 20%) if they thought their instructor did a half decent job. I’ve seen people kinda go pale with sticker shock.

My other favorite, is how room service in hotels is over the top price-wise, and then they realize that the person bringing them their overpriced food is a just another tipped employee who has to pay rent in some crazy resort town.

I’ve seriously said to people, as they are signing for their food wearing their bathrobe or something, “don’t worry about it! It’s really not a big deal.” Because they are just bleeding money in a resort town, and staring at that tip line with smoke coming outta their ears.