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I'm in the US so I tip people who rely on tips to make it by in this capitalist dystopia, like waitstaff. That's fucking it. Anyone else asking for a tip can get rekt.
Why is this even an issue? Are people actually tipping everyone now? Stop it! Don't let people manipulate you and keep your money.
More importantly I tip people who have a direct impact on quality of service to me, without negative society consequences. A waiter can pay attention to me see when my drink is empty, or can sit around talking until an alarm goes off that it is time to check. A waiter can know what is really good/bad on the menu, what drinks pair with the meal - or just take my order. Of course an overworked waiter cannot do any of this, but most of the time waiters are not over worked.
I top for delivery, but I feel dirty as there should be nothing they can do to give me better service that is legal. I feel like sometime a company offering delivery will have a driver who speeds, and that the driver gets tips for breaking the law means the company is liable (read deep pockets and million dollar judgement against them!) for incentivizing their drivers to break the law by allowing them to accept tips).
We need a tip for using the checkout
This is like when fast food places ask if you want to round your order up to the next dollar to donate to x cause.
Like, no, Taco Bell, I don't want to pay you so you can turn around and get credit (both in terms of laundering their image, and for tax purposes) for my donation.
I was at a fast food place a few days ago and the drive tru employee asked me if I wanted to round up. I asked him for what and he didn’t know. Just wanted to round up to the nearest dollar for the fuck of it I guess. Shit is already too expensive without corporations asking for a handout.
Taco bell doesn't get a tax credit. I don't know about the charity they donate too, but most fast food charities are actually pretty good uses of money and $.50 makes your accounting easier while works out to millions to a good cause. For sure check what charity they give the money too first, but in general this is an easy way to make a difference.
Just like CVS did though, it’s a good way for companies to offload their legal obligations to their customers too.
The machines should tip the customer for doing job well. After all, it's him doing the work cashier typically does.
they might not know it but they do tip me
Great work me! Here you go bud.
scans two bags of cheese together
Grate work m8.
meat is also cheese.
This is why every item gets it's own bag when I'm using self checkout (the bags are useful to me). They gotta pay some kind of tax for my service
Asking for tips is always an insult.
Asking for a tip? Just tip the machine over!
anyone asking for a tip is a fucking insult
it ruins the value of the tip, if I want to tip you is because you did an absolutely fantastic job, not because you can't afford living with your normal (if we can call it like this) wage
let's hope it trains people to respond "NO" to such nonsense.
That means you get a discount, right? Right?
I would interpret this to mean this established company is underpaying staff to maximize profits. My tips, at best, would mitigate that cruelty by a tiny bit, assuming management isn't stealing the tips.
It means this business needs to fail, and its workers need to unionize.
CVS used the donations for legally binding obligation. If you want to donate, donate yourself. Money donated here is wasted.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/metro/heres-why-cvs-was-sued-over-fundraising-fraud-checkout/
Dear owners of these machines. Just because you automate some of your positions doesn't mean you can also subsidize the wages of the employees you still have to pay. Just pay your employees and shut the fuck up. I will never tip a kiosk. Or anyone that does nothing but hand me a bottle of water. You can emotionally make me feel guilty saying "they depend on those wages". What I am saying is an employer should not depend on me directly paying their employees for them. Pay your bills Mr. Business owner. If you love the free market so much, if none of us tip those workers they will find another job to survive. Making the owner have to pay more to remain operational. Don't manipulate me into keeping your business sustainable.
I have noticed this that they will try to "round up" your order amount. Why on earth would I ever want to do that? £5.10 to be rounded up to £6??? how about no.
And they will put the button to do that in the same place you just pressed twice to continue, and make it the same colour, but the "don't round up" will be a smaller button in another place.
I find it much nicer to use the self checkouts cause I have no issues with telling a machine to fuck off with their donations or tips. I get guilted a bit by the human cashiers and end up tipping or donating, with a machine I instantly hit no.
I'm usually okay with tipping if I have the bread. But donating to some kids hospital or something I always say no. Makes me sound evil but there have been too many scandals with companies not giving the money away
Even if it isn't an obvious shady thing with the money not getting donated, even if it's all "above board" as these things go, when you make a donation at a retail checkout counter the store then donates the money in their own corporate name and gets the tax breaks, good press, and so forth.
I prefer to make my donations directly to charities rather than subsidizing some middleman company's good karma.
I'll drink to that
Tipping waitstaff is good, this is not.
Please donate to charity to allow this multi billion corporation to earn a reduction on its tax.
That's not how taxes work.
But like so much else these days, these giving opportunities have become controversial, in part because some critics insist retailers are taking a tax benefit for their customers’ donations.
The store serves only as a collection agent for your gift. Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.
As a customer, the donation will appear on your receipt and you can claim it as a charitable deduction when you file your income tax return.
tl;dr: You are still the one making the donation and eligible for the charitable deduction, not the business through which you donated. Businesses like it because they can say things like "Walmart facilitated donations of $n to agreeable charity in 2023." It's a company exploiting your generosity for good press, not for a tax scam.
This is one of the most infuriating misconceptions, and it can be corrected with some simple research. Yet people continue to parrot this basic falsehood because "corpo bad".
This is one of those things that people repeat without checking because it agrees with their worldview. I have to admit that the first time I heard it I didn't check it myself, although I didn't repeat it to anyone else before I saw it debunked elsewhere and confirmed they were correct. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves to be better.
Depending on what store is asking for donations, the charity might be run by friends and family of the executives or board of directors of that store.
The charity will then spend an awful lot on compensation to the people running it. The absolute worst offender in the space was Susan G Koman. (since fixed)
The point being, there are some charities that are better than others, it's often best to donate to them directly instead of going through a third party.
There was a case in which a company used the donation to fulfil its legal obligation - used the money from customers to give money the company was required to do due to a settlement. So it is a scam.
The reddit parroting needs to stop.
It’s more like give to this donation to pay to do PR for the business