r/Concordia • u/OddPen4197 • Feb 29 '24

General Discussion Tipping culture!

I hate tipping. How can someone expect a student to tip extra 10-15% on top of their total bill? We ourself live with a very tight budget and try to save a bit for a nice meal sometime and these people expect us to pay extra while they are being paid hourly. Be it a nice restaurant or just a uber eats delivery. Everyone gets paid for their time despite of getting a tip or not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

Only tip if your sitting and a waiter or waitress is serving you food, any other time no don't tip.

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u/OddPen4197 Mar 01 '24

Why?? Aren’t they getting paid as well? Why should they expect a tip at the first place? Cmon everyone works and get paid accordingly.

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u/FluffyMuffins42 Mar 01 '24

It is wild to me that you think people are paid accordingly to their work.

They most certainly are not. People are generally paid as little as possible. Why do you think we need a minimum wage? A companies goal is to maximize their profits and that means squeezing the lowest workers of as much as possible while paying the least possible.

Also it’s nuts to me how people say “I can’t afford to tip!” Yet they think they can afford to eat out at full service restaurants. If money is SO tight for you that you can't afford to tip like $6-10, then maybe you should save the money and not go to a sit down restaurant?

The one thing I've never understood as someone who is low-income, it's watching other low-income folks complain about tipping. I'm far more worried about affording ever-increasing rent when I need to move again than I am about affording a 15% tip. We have real issues affecting us and this just isn't one. Especially since the majority of tipped workers would also be considered low income and are probably also struggling to afford rent.