• zyros@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m a dasher. Yes, drivers do get tips, and our livelihoods depend on people tipping. Yes, you should tip, yes, you’re just being cheap if you don’t. Yes, it is bullshit that doordash doesn’t pay us more, yes, tipping culture is bullshit. But you still eat out at your favorite greasy spoon knowing full well the staff depends on tips to pay their rent so you tip them.

    If you don’t want to tip, get off your ass and get the food yourself. We’re dying out there and don’t need a hundred 15-mile-0-tip deliveries declined a day dragging down our acceptance rates. Just treat us like fucking humans, ffs. Please. Tip. Your. Drivers.

    • feecoomeeq@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      If I’m not happy I should drive for it myself? If you’re not happy go change your job

      The problem are not the customers, it’s the employers.

      Also keep that attitude up - people ordering less, driving by themselves because of the expected tips and you end up redundant.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It’s your employer who doesn’t treat you like humans. Stop blaming the customers for it.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society’s fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.

        You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You’re free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you’re intentionally being an asshole, not protesting a perceived injustice.

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          11 months ago

          I’m in Canada where the minimum wage is the same for all employees, regardless of tips or not (with one small exception in Quebec, where it’s $10.80 instead of $13.50).

          I just looked up the US law and it seems so circular. There’s a smaller minimum for those considered ‘tipped employees’, but the definition of ‘tipped employee’ is one who makes at least $30/month in tips in general.

          So you could say it’s incumbent on customers to pity these employees and top up their salaries, but it seems just as reasonable to stop tipping them so they no longer fit that definition and they get the actual minimum wage.

          In other words, they only get a smaller minimum wage because they prefer being tipped employees. If they didn’t, they would just refuse the tips.

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      11 months ago

      No one is holding a gun to your head to be a dasher. If you don’t like it, do something else. This is entitled af.

    • sneezymrmilo@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yeeaaahhh fuck that honestly, its not the responsibility of the customer to pay the employees of a company, that’s your boss/HRs job. Tips should be something paid out to someone AFTER they do a service for you that you are satisfied with, not before. Why tf would I pay someone an extra $5 before they do a service for me? There’s no obligation for them to do a good job, they already have the money. Case in point, I’ve ordered from Door Dash before and tipped like $6 bucks, I got my food like an hour and a half later and it was cold. Fuck that shit.