A new trend in tipping emerges

Congrats, you managed to alienate 85% of political financial backers.

You got my vote.

Lost me at guns, everything else I agree with.

The motto of the US is in god we trust, which is why it's on money. It became the motto in the 50s when Christian nationalism became a prominent position, which is the root of the evil that is the gop. The gop would need to be a minority in government in both houses of Congress in order to change the motto, unfortunately.

It's a change that is definitely needed, however the Christian nationalists are controlling the conversation, as was designed by McCarthyism. In TX, schools are required to hang a poster that says the motto if it is donated by a citizen. In the last legislative session, there was also a bill that would have required every classroom to post the ten commandments.

It is going to take an effort to go vote by the populace at large. In 2022, only about 80% of the Voting Age population was registered and of that 80%, only ~46% cast a vote despite the fact that it was a major election. A large portion of the judicial branch, almost all of the executive branch, and the entire legislative branch of TX were up for election and we only got 37% of the Voting Age population to the polls. Even with polls open for at least 9 hours a day the first week of voting and 12 hours the second week and final day of voting. Being the first state to have early voting, it's common knowledge that there is virtually no line during early voting, but we still don't have turnout.

Anyway, on top of needing people to go to the polls, we need a cultural revolution that rejects far-right ideology. McCarthyism purged centrist and left leaning ideology from the country and we are only in the last couple decades starting to see more centrist policies come into play.

Americans will never be disarmed. Look up the process for changing a Constitutional Amendment when you feel like learning something new sometime.

I keep forgetting that there are people who still use cash.

Modern US currency is somewhat colorful.

The first and the last bullets are never going to change sadly. Tipping is only on the increase, guns are just like an inherent part of America now - kids are getting slaughtered by them daily and it's just like normal. Gun control is a laughable proposal in the US. If it hasn't changed with all the reasons to change, it's not going to. SUVs are actually becoming MORE popular. Healthcare is fucked.

I agree with you except the weapons.

Agreed, though keep your filthy fingers off my gas guzzler

Edit: people calm down. I'm just joking - it's actually a diesel

• Tipping isn't bad. Being underpaid is bad. If we as consumers want to add a little more for good service, I don't see a problem.
• Make dollar coins a thing again.
• Remove presidents too.
• Guns are for weak people. 100% of gun owners I know are massive cowards. Tell your friends. If we can't get legislation, maybe we can change the culture. SUVs are fine, it's the massive pickup trucks that are getting out of hand. Give us the Hilux already, and make it electric. Healthcare should be universal and single-payer. End the health insurance industry.

We are trying...

Edit: Please tell me why you disagree, don't just downvote me. Downvote is not a "disagree" button. I'm just trying to share my thoughts the best I can.

I believe if you were to take this to your bank and tell them that someone tipped you this and you just want to check it it's counterfeit or real, the FBI would suddenly be involved

Have they ever charged those churchs who hand out chic tracks on fake folded 50s?

It is remarkably close to a real bill. If not for the numbers being obviously wrong, I can imagine someone mistaking this for a real bill.

A year 2024 bill denomination? Doubtful. Courts have long protected the right of parody money as long as it was clear that it's not real. And making a bill that doesn't have a dollar amount on it and is clearly political speech would likely be protected.

You're not wrong, but anyone who leaves shit like this or the stupid church dollars as a tip is a special kind of asshole.

Who the fuck is downvoting this?

If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to eat out or order delivery. Just because the tip system is a terrible system doesn't mean you have an excuse to fuck over the victims of it.

Until there's a national strike on tipping that could lead thousands of tip reliant workers to quit (like the writers strike), be a decent person and have some sympathy. Instead of eating out and not tipping, don't eat out. The restaurant gets the same amount of money whether you tip or not, I guarantee they don't give a shit.

That's actually inaccurate.

You can be charged for theft of service for refusing to tip someone. It's happened.

If you try to explain this they'll just go on a unhinged tangent about how Trump single handedly saved the service industry. That, or something equally stupid.

Assholes like this love tipping culture. It gives them a feeling of power over people they see as lesser.

I find these types don't hate tipping, they think servers deserve to beg for scraps. They also just don't think it should be them doing the tipping and act like what they gave you is more valuable than the money.

These are the same idiots that will go into a store on Christmas to shop and then rant to the cashier that they shouldn't be open on Christmas. They refuse to have self awareness.

While I do believe the minimum wage is too low and I am wanting it raised, I don't think raising it will stop restaurants from keeping tipping culture. Unless they implement laws to dissolve tips, it makes no sense financially for restaurants to end tipping. Even landlords are getting in on tipping.

That's kind of insulting to cult leaders bruh. Most cult leaders have some really honed charisma and at least some specific intellectual strengths.

Plenty fine. There's a lot of them even claiming that Trump is literally the Second Coming, or a prophet thereof. I've even had one tell me that he and Pence (before they all turned against Pence) were the two prophets of the End Times in Revelations.

I think the Republican party stopped caring about the evangelicals back in 2010 when the Tea Party thing happened. By 2012 their candidate was a Mormon and then we all know what happened in 2016.

Trump is their god emperor

Omg I didn't even notice that. Jfc

Anyone hard rooting for any politician is a moron. All D and R marked politicians are lizards looking to suck your wallet dry and deprive you of free will. These ultra Trump people are are cringey as the baffoons that think Biden is a good president.

Yes, but sadly the contrary is happening. Restaurant owners now have a sneaky trick to increase tips in order to lower wages: you know those receipts & terminals that have a “suggested tip”? Yeah, those things.. they keep increasing. I was handed a PoS terminal in Netherlands (where tipping norms are like a couple euro), and the terminal asked me to tap for how much I want to tip which suggested as much as 25%.

It’s working, too. A recent article described how this trick is causing average tips to increase. So the #warOnCash is part of the problem.

I agree with the sentiment, but I think it's important to remember that it's the employers we should be mad at, not the employees.

It has nothing to do with advertising and everything to do with showing dominance. While liberals are too afraid to say this or that because it might hurt someone's feelings, these right wing lunatics have no problems being very bold and in-your-face about their candidate of choice.

What you're supposed to do with these and the bible verse ones is at least leave a decent tip to go along with this so the server finds it at the end of their shift with their money. Instead, people just leave these pieces of trash.

Worked in a resort area and some big church group showed up and tipped using money like that. Like a party of 20 people type group.

Everyone started calling around to establishment saying if you get a group of 20 and they all look like Jesus folk tell them to leave.

Trumpism isn't a cult, it's a mainstream religion. Unless you want to make the argument that Trumpism is a sect of Christianity devoted to worshipping the Antichrist

I, uh, wouldn't really trust touching that to my skin. I bet they went with the lowest bidder by far that uses some lead-based ink or some shit like that.

It's less than worthless my boy!

If it's close enough to the real thing that someone tries to use it as real currency, then it's considered counterfeit. Personally, imo anything dollar-like that's used in place of a tip should be considered an attempt to use counterfeit money.

Nope. It's pretty obvious that this isn't really money

by some Trump supporters, yes

Obviously not

Sounds like a great way to make an angry hourly employee into an ardent anti trump voter.

Yeah but by continuing to support the tipping system, nothing will ever change. The best thing to do is stop giving business to restaurants with a tipping culture.

If enough people refuse to eat at these places, eventually employees will start quitting and restaurant owners will have to start paying their workers a decent wage.

There are plenty of restaurants with delicious high-quality food and no tips accepted. You don't have to be waited on by a server.

In practice, if you report so little tips you cant hit minimum wage management will assume you are (a) lying to the IRS, (b) providing awful service, or (c) business is too slow to justify you being there. Any way you look at you probably wont work there much longer.

Wait so they get paid less than the minimum wage? What’s the point of minimum wage if they have to make up for it with tips?

so the solution if it never happens, is to enforce it, not say fuck it and having the consumer do their duty for them

Yes, restaurants should be required to pay a proper wage.

This almost pisses me off enough to invent time travel, go back in time, kill my grandfather, and destroy the universe, sleep with my grandmother, become the mighty one, travel into the future, save the universe

FTFY

For the "bill" itself, we can't see the other side, but there's enough differences that you wouldn't mistake it for real currency at more than a glance. Fake bills for movie/tv sets look far closer to real bills (basically with obviously fake serial numbers and "for movie use only" stamped on it.

For leaving it as a tip, it's not being used to satisfy a payment. While tipping is expected, it's not required and there's not an agreed upon amount between the parties. So they're just leaving a scummy flyer behind. Not any different than the people that 'tip' with Chick Tracts. If they were to use it to try and pay the bill, it'd be illegal.

It is clearly marked as not being a $20 bill. That 2024 is huge compared to the real thing. The flip side probably includes a picture of Donnie T instead of Jackson.

If you accept that as legal tender, it's on you. On the bright side, there's no indication that they were trying to pass it off as real money. It's like those screeds where it looks like a $20, but you open it and it says, "I bet you would have been happy if this was real money, but let me tell you, Jesus is better than money."

Gee, thanks. Let me ask the HEB of they'll accept Jesus in exchange for milk and beef.

Here you go

Assholes should get a tip. Preferably rubbed on their bread

But consistent with Trump’s complete lack of ethics.

I’m willing to be 2024 dollars that it’s Trump’s face

Here you go

I would say they're not dumb enough to go back, but, you know, Trump supporter.

citizen-arrested

Don't do this. In almost every case it's technically illegal imprisonment -- leaving you at the mercy of a prosecutor.

Maybe, but also only if it's trying to be used as cash. Trying to pay for groceries, meal, depositing it at a bank, etc. would be an issue. Leaving it as a tip, while a scummy thing to do, isn't on the same ballpark since it's not an agreed upon transaction (i.e. no price for a tip is agreed upon by the parties), and you'd have to prove intent to pass it off as cash and not just a flyer/pamphlet.