It's a bit more difficult when your building gets bombed and now your wife and child are dead and it will keep happening unless you do something about it.
Unfortunately it's catching on, and if you read half the comments here you will find people backing it up because the poor workers won't be paid any other way almost as if restaurant workers weren't paid another way in the past.
Fair although I still think there's a debate between 15% and 20% being the default. Also I can totally eat out and avoid this issue all together, just eat at places that don't have tipping.
I mostly decrease eating out which is arguably worse because now they get a 0% tip. If enough people avoid establishments that abuse tipping then the problem will solve itself.
I have to put my money where my mouth is. Generally speaking i have decreased eating out and generally avoid dining in locations where tipping is customary. I absolutely avoid like the plague locations that automatically suggest the minimum tip should be 20%+. That said even the completely automated car wash down the way asks if I want to tip now so I have doubts that tips go to that individual worker or to the workers at all in every circumstance.
If everyone behaved the same then this culture of businesses offloading their employees income directly onto individuals would end very quickly. Tipping wasn't always like this, the tip used to just be a little extra people gave sometimes and now it's been weaponized by unscrupulous business owners.
Seems to be a global phenomenon. Personally I think it's the end result of online algorithms favoring or even directly employing rage bait to increase engagement. Nearly everywhere is becoming more polar and aggressive. CGP Grey had a good Video about this from over a decade ago.
Irl, culture. 15% is becoming an insult but is still normal or acceptable most places. If you ever want to return to a restaurant and not have your food tampered with its best to keep with some agreeable norm. At 10% I wouldn't suggest being a frequent visitor anywhere for your health and wellbeing. To zoom out a little, there's been no country I have lived in where the culture was 100% agreeable even to the majority. We're all policed in some way or another by it.
How to think about it? It's like an alien egg has landed and it's gestating and we're helping it grow while also kind of attempting to figure out how to control it when it's fully formed so it doesn't kill us all by accident. Also to help it grow we're feeding it tons and tons of resources which is having a substantial impact on our already collapsing environment.
These days I've seen people trying to push 30% to 40% as the minimum tip. Either that or they sneak it in with service charges or gratuity fees with a suggestion of a 25% tip on top.
Don't worry American citizens are also confused by the expensive tipping culture in the US. I still maintain 15% for a good job, 10% for a mediocre job, 5% for anything below. Giving above 15% is just subsidizing the pay the employer should be giving. It's a symptom of the fact that wages have stagnated for over 50 years. The pay that once supported someone and even a child is now far below the poverty line for even an individual. So instead of increasing pay to match what it once was many businesses have turned to aggressive tipping over just increasing the prices of their service / products.
These days I've seen people trying to push 30% to 40% as the minimum tip. Either that or they sneak it in with service charges or gratuity fees with a suggestion of a 25% tip on top.
Don't worry American citizens are also confused by the expensive tipping culture in the US. I still maintain 15% for a good job, 10% for a mediocre job, 5% for anything below. Giving above 15% is just subsidizing the pay the employer should be giving. It's a symptom of the fact that wages have stagnated for over 50 years. The pay that once supported someone and even a child is now far below the poverty line for even an individual. So instead of increasing pay to match what it once was many businesses have turned to aggressive tipping over just increasing the prices of their service / products.
Would be an interesting circumstance if this was like a USS Main / USS Maddox type situation. It would be a very easy way to get out of any agreements.
Insurance companies would find some way to have record profits. No one spends money more frivolously than the US federal government. Most likely the government would make deals with preexisting medical care providers instead of building out their own national healthcare.
Pay off all your debts, six months of needs liquid in a high yield savings account for your emergency fund. You can save for a house and put the rest in an index fund after matching whatever incentive your job gives for the 401k. Even the best investment firms really don't beat the market in the long-run so I wouldn't suggest getting fancy with your investment strategy. Watch out for dumping your money into a new car or other things that really don't have a return but also make sure to set some money aside to enjoy life. The general rule is 50/30/20, don't exceed 50% on needs, 30% on wants and put at least 20% into savings & investment. That said with your current situation you could build a good base for yourself and do 15/25/60. I'm not sure where you are but assuming the US housing market if you could put away 80K that would be helpful but not necessary.
If you have student loans or really any debt might be a good time to clear it out completely if you want. It's very freeing.
True but one can mitigate engagement. View < comment < like < share < follow and so on (not exactly sure of the order but you get the idea). Maybe the best would be to block the account after following or report the content, that is short of leaving the platform all together.
Are you team red, yellow, neon yellow, orange, or teal? Funny enough you could probably do nearly the whole flag with power tools.