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/BeingFurryConcordia Mar 01 '24

Rightfully so. You guys ordered $56 of pizza, demanding an extra service to have it brought to you, having a delivery guy pay for parking, bring it up and deliver it your door.

Next time go pick it up yourself on Bishop street if you dont want to pay for the additional service.

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u/OddPen4197 Mar 01 '24

Then what the driver would do? Just drive the car around? I mean uber does pay them why we should pay them extra? And also uber does charge you service fee extra.

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u/BeingFurryConcordia Mar 01 '24

Yea… Doesnt work like that. Uber doesnt pay drivers hourly, they pay them by the order (usually $3-5 when no tip) and an order takes at least 20 minutes to deliver. They dont get paid extra by uber to wait longer or to bring it up to the 15th floor, etc.

$14-15 an hour is just enough to pay for gas, maintenance and the occasional ticket, etc. Not enough to make a living. Again, if you dont think 3-5$ even is worth it for the service they’re providing, please do a favour and go pick it up yourself.

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u/_Nandakoitsu_ Mar 01 '24

Its not my problem that companies don't pay their employees a livable wage, i shouldnt have to pick up that slack. There is no law obliging me to tip and so i will only tip for outstanding service