*edited post title to make it clear that this is a joke
America will do anything but pay workers a living wage.
I’ve completely lost my chill with forced tips. If that was take out I would tell them they could keep it.
Jesus Christ that’s cold.
For real why dont they do round up tips? if the total is 18.06, show a tip option of 1.94 and indicate the toal would be 20. Im from a country where tipping isnt done but often people would just give a 20 in cases like this and say keep the change. The change is the tip.
This is already the norm in quite a few places in England. They auto-generate a tip on the bill and if you want, you can request the tip to be removed after.
And I did that every single time, when I was in London some time ago
They should auto generate it into the prices and auto generate it into the salary. Crazy concept
They should, but they instead taught the staff to demand why you don’t want to. I refused in one place and was confronted with them demanding why I wasn’t giving them one.
“Was there something wrong with my service? You know that the tip is shared between us and the kitchen…”
I’m not joking.
God, I encountered this once and had to ask for it to be removed. I countered with “are they paying you enough?”
A little backbone from a few customers will make them hate using this system enough, it can be hoped.
Time to leave your shit on the counter and leave. Vote with your wallet.
I’ve genuinely seen people tape over the no tip section of the screen on smaller pinpad type devices. Not well enough that I tipped, but they tried.
I would’ve pulled off the tape for spite.
You have typed $1.00 $2.00 $3.00
Did you mean 15% 25% 40%?
I’d just turn around and leave without paying and leave what ever it is I was gonna buy right there at the counter
Well you’ve already been charged so…
No. The machine asks you for a tip before you pay.
Cancel button in this case and leaving WITH what you’ve paid for in your case.
The cancel button is top right
I just never back to that place and also I’m going to give them a bad review
Bro if there’s a website to share this feedback.
I was just at a restaurant where it was 20%, 30%, or 40% tip, and Custom.
Food was good but fuck that, I’m done.
Eh, custom -> 0% works. I prefer to leave cash tips anyway.
Custom -25% inconvenience fee.
I wish that worked…
I also wish I could charge businesses for my time dealing with their BS. For example, I needed to go down to the bank to open a new account because they couldn’t identify me, but when I showed up, there were no bankers present. So I made an appointment, and still had to wait for a banker. Or when I had to wait on hold for half an hour just to cancel a credit card because there’s no way to do that online (and they have no branches), and they do that just to have a chance at convincing me to keep it.
If companies can charge me a fee for “maintenance” or “convenience” or whatever, surely I should be able to charge them a reasonable per-instance inconvenience fee (i.e. my hourly rate at my job, or what I’d charge for contract work).
Dude I think I’d be switching banks, if it’s that much of a hassle to get established, I don’t want to know the hassle if something actually needed to be done
I mostly did it for a signup bonus, so I was technically compensated, but I’ve had BS like that with all sorts of other businesses, like waiting on hold to talk to someone to fix a mistake they made. Maybe that’s an airline, insurance, or retailer. Waiting for 5-10 minutes is fair, waiting over an hour is not.
These orgs can charge a late fee if my payment is late by a day due to things outside my control (e.g. an error in their payment scheduler), but I can’t charge them for wasting my time due to them cheaping out on support staff.
It’s a pretty common problem IMO, but the customer has no recourse.
Can I pay just the tip?
If I’m talking to a cashier instead of putting my card on the table, I haven’t been provided a service that warrants tipping.
Exactly, which is why I almost never tip. I’ll occasionally leave a tip at Dominos or something if they were prompt in finding my pizza while being really slammed w/ orders, but there’s no way it’s getting anywhere close to what I’d tip at a place where I’m actually being served.
I’ll occasionally leave a cash tip in a jar at a counter order place if the staff were helpful in some way (or the food was especially good), but that’s also pretty rare.
Those tips are too small. It should be set at 18%, 20%, and 25% with no option for tipping less.
It should be set at 18%, 20%, and 25% with no option for tipping less.
You are, in essence, giving corporations a 18-25% discount on wages.
Exactly. Which would make this theoretical POS even more consumer unfriendly then OP’s 2%, 4%, and 6% choices.
More people might be inclined to tell the cashier to remove the tip when it’s higher, but if it only shows percentages then people might be inclined to just hit the smallest one instead of doing the math to figure out how much they’re tipping.
Yeah, I’m guessing OP is in Europe or something where tipping is much less common, because those tipping numbers make no sense from an American/Canadian perspective where tipping is absolutely a thing. Square POS terminals already prompt for 15%, 18%, and 20% or whatever, even for counter-order, so I don’t know why this picture dropped the amount so much.
Thing is, this is at the dollar store, and you can only buy one item per transaction.
Then how did they get a bill of $49.08? Nothing at the dollar store would cost that…
I agree. The folks who run Square are, indeed, Pieces Of Shit.
That’s what you meant, right?
I don’t get why people talk shit about you, your comments are funny
If this became real, it wouldn’t affect me and I’m introverted and near mute in public. I already do this with the “would you like to round up to donate” bullshit. I only have problems saying “no” if it will possibly hurt a person’s feelings; idgaf about the feelings of a business.
idgaf about the feelings of a business.
Fair enough, but you should know that the money you donate by rounding up doesn’t in any way benefit the business. It’s your donation and iirc you could even technically write it off your own taxes (doubt it’s worth the hassle though)
Also the thing about tips is that it will unfortunately hurt peoples feelings because at least in some places they probably earn below minimum wage. It’s absolutely bullshit, but not participating isn’t the perfect solution it might seem
Not strictly true. CVS, a US retailer, announced they would be donating $10 million to a charity and would be supporting the charity via customer round-up prompts as well.
In reality, they were including the customer donations in the $10 million, so anything customers donated saved them money.
It doesn’t really save them money, it just means they can report that number and get a public pat on the back. I highly doubt they were planning on donating that money w/o customer donations, they likely looked at past donations and figured this was a safe number to go for.
Donating through one of those prompts doesn’t help or hurt the company in any meaningful way, other than allowing the company to take credit for your donation (not on taxes, just on public statements).
