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Tipping culture is a way for companies to normalize not paying their employees a living wage

Companies are effectively offsetting their responsibility to pay their employees properly onto the customers themselves. This creates a hostile environment wherein it is both expected of you and emotionally damaging if you refuse to tip. In my province when you are handed a debit machine, they conveniently give it to you on the tipping page immediately. Most places are now defaulting to 18%. Even places where you are just going in to pick an order up are now expecting tips. It’s ludicrous at this point. Never forget that tipping is just a way for companies to grossly underpay their employees and create unnecessary tension between customers workers.


Companies are effectively offsetting their responsibility to pay their employees properly onto the customers themselves.

This creates a hostile environment wherein it is both expected of you and emotionally damaging if you refuse to tip.

In my province when you are handed a debit machine, they conveniently give it to you on the tipping page immediately. Most places are now defaulting to 18%. Even places where you are just going in to pick an order up are now expecting tips.

It’s ludicrous at this point. Never forget that tipping is just a way for companies to grossly underpay their employees and create unnecessary tension between customers workers.

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