As a non-american, the fact that employers can make your pay so low and subsidise it with Tips, making you rely on generosity of others, instead of just paying an actual wage, is baffling and terrifying.
Its a misunderstanding of how tipping works. You get minimum wage OR tipping wage + share of tips, whichever is GREATER. Unfortunately a lot of employees don't know this and basically get robbed by their employers.
@@Tyneras they already get robbed by their employers when they work in a restaurant. Robbed of their smell and then that smell is replaced with french fry smell.
I was a terrible waitress. I guess my shitty resting bitch face and short term memory just don’t work for it. I would make less than minimum wage every night. It was sad. So I went to delivering pizzas. So much better for workers w a bad attitude. 😂😂😂
Here in Australia, we don't tip anyone. It's your job. The only time people tip is if the service was actually good and if it's not a megacorp. It means more if you get one here.
I worked at Starbucks when they made the transition from cash only tips to the phone prompt and oh my god was it humiliating for me when a customer would stare at the phone, then stare at me and say, "you want me to tip you after I paid $24 for 2 hot chocolates?!" Like just kill me, please, that can be the tip.
@ckorp666 that logic is insane. The point is the customer is right, and Starbucks is exposing their lowly barristas to further indignities by having them de facto BEG for more money. Just pay those people a living wage and stop begging customers already paying an undeserved premium price.
@@keepingitkianatural im not the ceo of starbucks, that title belongs to the union busting psycho they brought on to depress wages further. "just pay a living wage" glosses over the long struggle required to fight for that, and in the meantime, tipped employees got bills to pay. refusing to tip based on high-minded principles and checking out of the social contract just means ur selfishly benefitting from their exploitation, congrats
worked for years as a barista, cook, bartender. i always appreciated the tips because the pay in those job is borderline illegal. that said, a correct salary is always better. tips mostly go right out the window and usually don't land on your bank account. from my own experience and what i've seen with coworkers, it's mostly used to decompress from a stressful, low paying job. so everyone buys drugs and alcohol from their tips. a lot of the time when people pay and tip via card or app, the workers never see any of that anyways. i worked for a bunch of places that take tips via card and app, but these tips only get paid out every so often. if you work in a place for a short time they will just forget you and there is no legal way to force them to pay you your amount of tip. and other places only allow so much tip until the surplus goes to the management or they make the prices in such a way that tipping is minimized. nowadays tipping has gone crazy, too. even chain stores have tip jars now and i don't trust them.
honest question I'm dumb I probably do it wrong but just thinking is $1 per drink even considered OK these days? That's chicken feed which is why I feel better tipping on a tab.
That's why in all my years as a service worker: cook, server, barista, I never worked for a corporate establishment. Have I experienced wage slavery? Have I been screwed over by my bosses? Oh hell yes. But it's much easier to track and see when it does happen, and it's easier to advocate for yourself and your co-workers to get the problem fixed, or you all just go out on your next day off and find another restaurant or coffeeshop that's hiring.
I'm glad you mention the Tipped Minimum Wage, but I want to emphasize this - 39 States and US territories have a Tipped Minimum Wage less than the Federal Minimum wage. Also, most employers forbid employees from telling customers if tips are actually paid to employees. That's right - at least where I live, an employer can sometimes just keep tips for themselves and will fire employees who tell that to customers. That tip you thought was going to help pay an underpaid employee might just be profit for the owner.
@@Chucanelli Nothing illegal at all about paying an entire serving staff $2.16 per hour and then making sure everyone gives their tips to the manager so they can do "tip share" at the end of shift, where the manager keeps 25% of the tips.
Finally someone is speaking on how tipping screws over the employees and stems from classicist and racist origins. It’s so frustrating how many ppl are brainwashed into advocating for tipping. They’re playing right into greedy employer’s plans to spend as little as possible on their labor costs.
Some of us are just skeptical when we've seen changes meant to do more for workers become another tool of oppression that robs us even more. There would have to be more enforcement to back up new legislation for me to trust they won't just F over workers & replace tips with nothing.
Americans fail to realize we are the only developed country with this kind of tipping culture. Just pay people better wages and stop this tipping nonsense
@K.C-2049 It depends on the kind of place they serve at. Working at Dennys, most of my coworkers were pro wages vs tips. At the local hipster culinary places I worked at, they preferred to stay on a tipping system. I've noticed when reporting on those issues the news usually interviews the hipster or fancy places, & it distorts & leaves behind workers who aren't serving a high-tipping crowd/environment.
I worked at a chain fast food in Poland and accepting tips was forbidden. 1) the cashiers were paid above minimum wage, 2) the service was supposed to be always excellent, not just for generous patrons; 3) it would be unfair to the cooks and other stuff, who had no option of receiving tips. I don't know if this policy was in every fast food restaurant chain. I don't think it was mandated by law, since other places accepted tips or had tip jars, and maybe something changed since the pandemic, but it seemed fair back then and should be a standard for the service industry.
I will not tip since that is not my culture. That is why I don't go to locations that ask for tips. Once I learn they ask for tips, then they lose me as a customer. For perspective: I do not drink alcoholic beverages; I don't dine out; I don't buy coffee.
my personal rule is that tipping is exclusively mandatory if it’s an establishment using tipped wages. other than that, whatever, but the workers who take those jobs are the ones who really don’t have any options and while it ///shouldn’t/// be our responsibility to make up for the fact that the business owner is screwing them, i feel like if i’m going there for service it’s only right to pick up my piece of the slack. also, doordashers only make $3 an order before tips and (when i did it at least idk if it’s different) only sign up for an hour of work at a time so if you’re in a rural area where there aren’t a lot of orders coming in they REALLY need those tips.
I think tipping should stop, but im unsure how we can get there. Seems that the most effective means would be to stop tipping altogether, but that impacts workers who are not being properly paid.
@@Geist1027I know but lobbying is so bad in the US it's hard to get legislation changed. Maybe more Unionisation would help to change legislation? I'm not sure though-its different over the pond/Europe so I can't say for sure, all I can say is things are bad in the US for tipping, on the other hand things are bad where I'm from with the cost of living crisis. I hope our General Election on July 4th changes things because the Conservatives have been in power for far too long (not that I've much more faith in Labour but it's time for a change at least despite me not voting Labour since I badly want Independence from Westminster even if I don't see it in my lifetime)
i always tip when there is a middleman (server at a restaurant, food delivery driver, etc.), but when i order something at a counter i seldom tip. coffee shops and grab-and-go food places feel more like stores than they do restaurants, so i don't feel as much of a need to tip
it’s so funny i’ve always worked retail where we don’t get tips and just got a new job in food service where i rely more on tips and having to flip the ipad around for the tip is so humiliating especially after seeing all those memes 😭
Sometimes the youtube algorithm is crap and sometimes it leads me great places like this channel, ive been going through your old catalogue of videos and have loved each one, this is exactly the kind of content Ive been trying to find more of and I'm so glad I have
strange abdimal pain moment; i thought my appendix was going early 2023 and went to the ER for it. turns out my IBS flared really bad and they gave me gut antispasmodics & a $600 bill WITH INSURANCE
damn six minutes! excited for the video harland, always a banger!! thanks for all your hard work, you’ve been one of my favorite content creators since i found your channel. not only are you funny but you’re also smart and kind! it’s very refreshing and i always look forward to seeing your videos!! hope you have an amazing day/night (also the hair looks great!)
This sounds like an exclusively american issue. Over here in Europe we don't give much thought about tips. There's no mandatory aspect to it. At worst you might get a side eye if you ordered a lot, but it rarely happened ever that I know of. Even the tips aren't dictated by any set figures (10/15/20%). Most people I've seen just used to leave a euro or two if they wanted to. Also people over here don't really tip couriers that much as the service fees are already high enough to warrant the need of shelling out even more money for take out. If you look over in some parts of asia like south korea or japan, it's straight up considered insulting to tip someone due to their culture norms which is an interesting thing. American food service sectors must be just unsustainable if they expect to subsidize tipping culture from customers for fair wages of their employees. And you know what unsustainable businesses deserve? They deserve to shut down.
When I worked at a theater in the late 2000s, one end of the concession area was essentially a tiny Starbucks. When I was stationed over there, I got tips but when I was 6 feet away at the regular concession area, I didn't. Whenever no one was stationed there, customers would have to order coffee drinks from the regular concession area. They would watch me walk over to the coffee area, make the drink and bring it back but in that scenario, I was never tipped. My conclusion (though I could be wrong) was that people's societal conditioning only seemed to kick in when they were standing at the Starbucks-themed end of the counter because they were expected to tip at a Starbucks but not at a movie theater, even though making the coffee drinks over there was WAY easier and slower paced than working the concession area where tips would have been more deserved and appreciated. It seems that most people only tip when and where they've been trained to out of fear of feeling indoctrinated shame if they don't and logic doesn't factor into the decision for them and that's one of the reasons tipping got so out of control.
i mostly agree, but also: i live in Oregon. one of the nice things about this state is the lack of a sales tax. if you pick up a five-dollar item in a grocery store, it actually costs five dollars. it's wonderful. (only tangentially related, but also Oregon doesn't have a separate tipped wage, so the minimum wage for all employees in a given location is the same, that should be the case everywhere) but here's my take: i know it doesn't happen because there are many people who *would* be upset, but i am distinctly in the camp that would be okay with higher prices in exchange for no tipping. just pay your employees, and tell me what the real price is upfront. no extra charges at the end of it. it's so much nicer.
The $2.13 per hour is the federal minimum wage for tipped employees. It is the standard in my state of North Carolina also. I have had jobs where not only did my employer pay me this measley minimum, I was also required to tip out around a quarter of my earned tips to the cooks, thereby also supplementing their income and saving the boss even more money. Add to that, 1/3 of my time clocked in for $2.13 would be spent prepping or cleaning before and after open restaurant hours. It is literally wage slavery and wage theft.
Do my ears deceive me, or do I hear a jazzy rendition of "We Three Kings" in the background? Well...that's a...that's a choice...a choice made on such a warm summer's day. You are one interesting cat, you know that? 🤣
Honestly, I just needed something that was mellow. I’ve gotten so used to music playing throughout that now something feels off without it and I’ve dug a horrible time consuming hole for myself to find royalty free music that isn’t distracting and also kind of fits. I don’t always nail it.
@@harlandspinks Hey, don't even mind me, in fact I thought it worked fine. It lent your narrative an interesting flavor. You just keep doing what you're doing my brother. BTW, loved the Branson video. That's a weird little place.
I'd be lost if I visited the US I think when it comes to tipping. There's no "rules" where I'm from as such but about 10-15% seems to be the norm for somewhere with table service especially in a cafe or restaurant and it's not necessary if a service charge is added to the bill (although I do tip at certain places like a small business if I'm going in for a take-away coffee and a sweet bun or whatever as I know that the tips are definitely going to who's working behind the counter)
My only regret is that I have 1 "like" to give. It's gotten out of hand, and it is a huge factor into where I eat. If you feel underpaid and unappreciated, take it up with your boss. If they are going to shortchange their employees, don't complain when they leave the industry because customers are sick of subsidizing crappy wages.
I also think this is a Square problem too. Is there not a traditional POS sequence that they provide?! Aside from the systemic inconsistencies at the heart of our economy...... Square is a secondary villian here. This problem became more ubiquitous as Sqaure started popping up in more businesses.
I would feel bad having a song sang when I tipped, would ask them not to sing. It feels like the monkey performance on street with a chain around their necks. I use to Uber rides because Uber eats felt way too close being a waiter and paid really low relaying on tips. One thing I hated about some of the riders that I took to their multi-million dollar home "Oh I'm going to tip you really well, everything is great" blowing smoke up my butt and only receiving a $1, $2, or no tip.
I am fairly certain I have a polesaw in my garage, and yet my brain immediately translates the word to 'polecat' and I am absolutely imagining there's just a ferret in that box.
I’ve been using cash more to buy my items. it makes me feel more in control then with my card. It also feel more real to tip with cash. Like the concept of money is already made up by us, but now it’s just a number on a screen it feels even more fake.
fuck you need more viewers, man. your content is actually intelligent, engaging, and thought provoking (don't get me wrong, everything you've said in this video is shit I've thought myself). But I'm glad someone else is saying this shit, just sad that you only get 5k views. If more people watched this, maybe we'd be able to do something about the current state of tipping. Love your videos!
Just add 20 percent to all the prices and pay people better...and then cut those prices a little bit hopefully...But life would be so much better without tips.
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I don't buy things from places that expect tips if I know the business is expecting tips to make up for wages because I feel guilty supporting a system that keeps people in poverty. I don't go to restaurants because even if I'm the best customer they've ever had, I can't change the fact they're being paid pennies on the dollar to basically be marathon runners for karens. I'll stick to my subpar homemade burritos if that means I'm not contributing to capitalism, a system I never consented to.
Sisyphean. It's an impossible task or an act of futility. It's comes from the story of Sisyphus being doomed to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. I'm basically saying it's impossible to survive on minimum wage. Hope that helps!
"I don't have a problem tipping!" Well, theres's your problem. you reap what you sow. Tipping has always been theft, don't stop now that you feel that they are being dishonest, because they always were. If you're not yelling fuck you and your tips at the top of your lungs every time you hit zero you're not making a difference.
We definitely thought differently about workers when we were kids. Even as a young teenager I knew that if you were older than like 25 and worked at McDonald’s you must’ve screwed up with your life or must’ve been in prison or something. Also tipping is the biggest joke ever and if you’re not a waiter, bartender, or delivery person you won’t get a dime for me I did a job that I made money from tipping and guess what I need up getting a skill job that paid much better I never looked back
Does tipping reveal something contradictory about the expectations of work incentives under capitalism? If we just get wages doesn't that mean we don't have any material incentive to do good work?
Nothing like getting the stink face after not tipping the bartender for 2 beers for $32. Not my problem, tell your boss, give me the drinks, chop chop.
This is a more nuanced take than most I’ve seen online but you’re missing some serious points. Tipping is a social norm and an etiquette issue. There is no opting out. The etiquette rules vary by occasion. I don’t understand why so many people don’t get this. The rule for restaurant servers is 15-20%, the rule for delivery is 10-15%. Other places, like counter service is optional, usually 10% if you feel like it. It is never optional at sit down restaurants because they are paid $2/hour. I am sorry but you don’t get to ignore all of the unspoken societal norms just because you personally disagree. Sociology 101 Seriously this is one of the only issues where people think they can get away with not complying with norms because they personally disagree. You wouldn’t go to court in pajamas because you think judging people off dress is stupid, why are you not tipping appropriately because you personally think it’s stupid. You are not making a statement or changing anything by not tipping your server. You’re just fucking them over. I would like to see tipping eliminated or de-emphasized over time by legislation. Individual people not tipping will NEVER cause this. (Again I am only referring to those making the tipped minimum wage)
I get it, guys. The Christmas music is distracting. It was an accident. We don’t need to comment on it further.
I gotta go get sum boba after that
What is this christmas you speak of? Is it some kind of person ?
Christmas in July is its own tradition.
As a non-american, the fact that employers can make your pay so low and subsidise it with Tips, making you rely on generosity of others, instead of just paying an actual wage, is baffling and terrifying.
Dude our supreme court made bribery legal.
Its a misunderstanding of how tipping works. You get minimum wage OR tipping wage + share of tips, whichever is GREATER. Unfortunately a lot of employees don't know this and basically get robbed by their employers.
@@Tyneras they already get robbed by their employers when they work in a restaurant. Robbed of their smell and then that smell is replaced with french fry smell.
I was a terrible waitress. I guess my shitty resting bitch face and short term memory just don’t work for it. I would make less than minimum wage every night. It was sad. So I went to delivering pizzas. So much better for workers w a bad attitude. 😂😂😂
@@threeofeight197 I stayed in the kitchen most of the time...that and bartending.
Here in Australia, we don't tip anyone. It's your job. The only time people tip is if the service was actually good and if it's not a megacorp. It means more if you get one here.
I worked at Starbucks when they made the transition from cash only tips to the phone prompt and oh my god was it humiliating for me when a customer would stare at the phone, then stare at me and say, "you want me to tip you after I paid $24 for 2 hot chocolates?!" Like just kill me, please, that can be the tip.
if they can afford to blow their money on that, they can afford a few extra on the top
@@ckorp666 lol no , your problem
@ckorp666 that logic is insane. The point is the customer is right, and Starbucks is exposing their lowly barristas to further indignities by having them de facto BEG for more money. Just pay those people a living wage and stop begging customers already paying an undeserved premium price.
@@keepingitkianatural im not the ceo of starbucks, that title belongs to the union busting psycho they brought on to depress wages further. "just pay a living wage" glosses over the long struggle required to fight for that, and in the meantime, tipped employees got bills to pay. refusing to tip based on high-minded principles and checking out of the social contract just means ur selfishly benefitting from their exploitation, congrats
@ckorp666 not having the money to pay more money on top of an already inflated price is a "high minded principle"? Oh wow.
worked for years as a barista, cook, bartender. i always appreciated the tips because the pay in those job is borderline illegal. that said, a correct salary is always better. tips mostly go right out the window and usually don't land on your bank account. from my own experience and what i've seen with coworkers, it's mostly used to decompress from a stressful, low paying job. so everyone buys drugs and alcohol from their tips. a lot of the time when people pay and tip via card or app, the workers never see any of that anyways. i worked for a bunch of places that take tips via card and app, but these tips only get paid out every so often. if you work in a place for a short time they will just forget you and there is no legal way to force them to pay you your amount of tip. and other places only allow so much tip until the surplus goes to the management or they make the prices in such a way that tipping is minimized. nowadays tipping has gone crazy, too. even chain stores have tip jars now and i don't trust them.
honest question I'm dumb I probably do it wrong but just thinking is $1 per drink even considered OK these days? That's chicken feed which is why I feel better tipping on a tab.
That's why in all my years as a service worker: cook, server, barista, I never worked for a corporate establishment. Have I experienced wage slavery? Have I been screwed over by my bosses? Oh hell yes. But it's much easier to track and see when it does happen, and it's easier to advocate for yourself and your co-workers to get the problem fixed, or you all just go out on your next day off and find another restaurant or coffeeshop that's hiring.
I'm glad you mention the Tipped Minimum Wage, but I want to emphasize this - 39 States and US territories have a Tipped Minimum Wage less than the Federal Minimum wage.
Also, most employers forbid employees from telling customers if tips are actually paid to employees.
That's right - at least where I live, an employer can sometimes just keep tips for themselves and will fire employees who tell that to customers.
That tip you thought was going to help pay an underpaid employee might just be profit for the owner.
That sounds mad illegal
@@Chucanelli Nothing illegal at all about paying an entire serving staff $2.16 per hour and then making sure everyone gives their tips to the manager so they can do "tip share" at the end of shift, where the manager keeps 25% of the tips.
Finally someone is speaking on how tipping screws over the employees and stems from classicist and racist origins. It’s so frustrating how many ppl are brainwashed into advocating for tipping. They’re playing right into greedy employer’s plans to spend as little as possible on their labor costs.
Some of us are just skeptical when we've seen changes meant to do more for workers become another tool of oppression that robs us even more. There would have to be more enforcement to back up new legislation for me to trust they won't just F over workers & replace tips with nothing.
My dad's boomer joke about tipping: You look at the machine after they turn it around and say, 'woh, you guys are offering happy endings?!'
Americans fail to realize we are the only developed country with this kind of tipping culture. Just pay people better wages and stop this tipping nonsense
It makes me so glad I dont live there learning about this stuff
@K.C-2049 It depends on the kind of place they serve at. Working at Dennys, most of my coworkers were pro wages vs tips. At the local hipster culinary places I worked at, they preferred to stay on a tipping system. I've noticed when reporting on those issues the news usually interviews the hipster or fancy places, & it distorts & leaves behind workers who aren't serving a high-tipping crowd/environment.
Those states with the scary minimums really do use them. When I was a server in Tennessee in 2018 I was paid $2 an hour.
Idk if this is weird but the fact that you keep the bloopers in adds a strange sincerity to all of your videos
Nah this is the age of authenticity. People appreciate effort and it make it more relatable
"hoarding all that burger wealth. that's so dumb"
yes, and it's hilarious
I worked at a chain fast food in Poland and accepting tips was forbidden. 1) the cashiers were paid above minimum wage, 2) the service was supposed to be always excellent, not just for generous patrons; 3) it would be unfair to the cooks and other stuff, who had no option of receiving tips. I don't know if this policy was in every fast food restaurant chain. I don't think it was mandated by law, since other places accepted tips or had tip jars, and maybe something changed since the pandemic, but it seemed fair back then and should be a standard for the service industry.
what year was this? 1982?
All 3 points you make are spot on...especially #2
Both of my neighborhood liquor stores have tip jars, wtf
Ya know of all the service workers to tip, the liquor store clerk probably deserves it. That's gotta be a depressing ass job.
@@plantain.1739 Agreed, tho they usually pay better than other retail.
I will not tip since that is not my culture. That is why I don't go to locations that ask for tips. Once I learn they ask for tips, then they lose me as a customer. For perspective: I do not drink alcoholic beverages; I don't dine out; I don't buy coffee.
my personal rule is that tipping is exclusively mandatory if it’s an establishment using tipped wages. other than that, whatever, but the workers who take those jobs are the ones who really don’t have any options and while it ///shouldn’t/// be our responsibility to make up for the fact that the business owner is screwing them, i feel like if i’m going there for service it’s only right to pick up my piece of the slack. also, doordashers only make $3 an order before tips and (when i did it at least idk if it’s different) only sign up for an hour of work at a time so if you’re in a rural area where there aren’t a lot of orders coming in they REALLY need those tips.
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This!! Like until there’s no more lower wage for tipped workers, customers have to hold up the bargain and tip those workers
Abolishing service work is definitely more ethical than getting people to start tipping.
I've worked in food service my entire life. Im a generous tipper because of that but just pay us a living wage ffs. $22cad/hr aint shit.
same, same.
Former server here. Yeah, same. I factor it into my budget for the outing or delivery.
I think tipping should stop, but im unsure how we can get there. Seems that the most effective means would be to stop tipping altogether, but that impacts workers who are not being properly paid.
Step one, legislation to make companies pay their employees.
@@Geist1027I know but lobbying is so bad in the US it's hard to get legislation changed. Maybe more Unionisation would help to change legislation? I'm not sure though-its different over the pond/Europe so I can't say for sure, all I can say is things are bad in the US for tipping, on the other hand things are bad where I'm from with the cost of living crisis. I hope our General Election on July 4th changes things because the Conservatives have been in power for far too long (not that I've much more faith in Labour but it's time for a change at least despite me not voting Labour since I badly want Independence from Westminster even if I don't see it in my lifetime)
you give off “based uncle” energy which is great to study bc i wanna be ready for when my nieces are older
Tips =/= Fair wage.
Tips are almost always an indication that there isn't a fair wage.
@@BunchaNothin yeah that's why i said it
i always tip when there is a middleman (server at a restaurant, food delivery driver, etc.), but when i order something at a counter i seldom tip. coffee shops and grab-and-go food places feel more like stores than they do restaurants, so i don't feel as much of a need to tip
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Looks good on Harland.
Tipping was a bad idea to begin with.
Just make the boss pay people reasonsble amount
it’s so funny i’ve always worked retail where we don’t get tips and just got a new job in food service where i rely more on tips and having to flip the ipad around for the tip is so humiliating especially after seeing all those memes 😭
If it helps, some of us really love tipping. I feel good giving someone extra for a hard job they do gracefully.
In all seriousness this is a really well done exploration of the topic
Sometimes the youtube algorithm is crap and sometimes it leads me great places like this channel, ive been going through your old catalogue of videos and have loved each one, this is exactly the kind of content Ive been trying to find more of and I'm so glad I have
I'll leave a like and a comment but only because I'm feeling charitable, not because I am feeling pressured by the tip culture
strange abdimal pain moment; i thought my appendix was going early 2023 and went to the ER for it. turns out my IBS flared really bad and they gave me gut antispasmodics & a $600 bill WITH INSURANCE
damn six minutes! excited for the video harland, always a banger!! thanks for all your hard work, you’ve been one of my favorite content creators since i found your channel. not only are you funny but you’re also smart and kind! it’s very refreshing and i always look forward to seeing your videos!! hope you have an amazing day/night (also the hair looks great!)
This sounds like an exclusively american issue. Over here in Europe we don't give much thought about tips. There's no mandatory aspect to it. At worst you might get a side eye if you ordered a lot, but it rarely happened ever that I know of. Even the tips aren't dictated by any set figures (10/15/20%). Most people I've seen just used to leave a euro or two if they wanted to. Also people over here don't really tip couriers that much as the service fees are already high enough to warrant the need of shelling out even more money for take out. If you look over in some parts of asia like south korea or japan, it's straight up considered insulting to tip someone due to their culture norms which is an interesting thing. American food service sectors must be just unsustainable if they expect to subsidize tipping culture from customers for fair wages of their employees. And you know what unsustainable businesses deserve? They deserve to shut down.
When I worked at a theater in the late 2000s, one end of the concession area was essentially a tiny Starbucks. When I was stationed over there, I got tips but when I was 6 feet away at the regular concession area, I didn't. Whenever no one was stationed there, customers would have to order coffee drinks from the regular concession area. They would watch me walk over to the coffee area, make the drink and bring it back but in that scenario, I was never tipped.
My conclusion (though I could be wrong) was that people's societal conditioning only seemed to kick in when they were standing at the Starbucks-themed end of the counter because they were expected to tip at a Starbucks but not at a movie theater, even though making the coffee drinks over there was WAY easier and slower paced than working the concession area where tips would have been more deserved and appreciated. It seems that most people only tip when and where they've been trained to out of fear of feeling indoctrinated shame if they don't and logic doesn't factor into the decision for them and that's one of the reasons tipping got so out of control.
here's your tip harland: your new haircut looks great bro
Hope he tipped the barber.
i mostly agree, but also: i live in Oregon. one of the nice things about this state is the lack of a sales tax. if you pick up a five-dollar item in a grocery store, it actually costs five dollars. it's wonderful. (only tangentially related, but also Oregon doesn't have a separate tipped wage, so the minimum wage for all employees in a given location is the same, that should be the case everywhere)
but here's my take: i know it doesn't happen because there are many people who *would* be upset, but i am distinctly in the camp that would be okay with higher prices in exchange for no tipping. just pay your employees, and tell me what the real price is upfront. no extra charges at the end of it. it's so much nicer.
Me shoving people out of my way cause Harland posted a new vid
Genuinely enjoy your topics and editing style, always great work, and funny but down to earth takes 👍
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I don't know if Pole Saw consents to be nude for us.
I'm gonna start using "Ford toddler plow"
The $2.13 per hour is the federal minimum wage for tipped employees. It is the standard in my state of North Carolina also. I have had jobs where not only did my employer pay me this measley minimum, I was also required to tip out around a quarter of my earned tips to the cooks, thereby also supplementing their income and saving the boss even more money. Add to that, 1/3 of my time clocked in for $2.13 would be spent prepping or cleaning before and after open restaurant hours. It is literally wage slavery and wage theft.
Do my ears deceive me, or do I hear a jazzy rendition of "We Three Kings" in the background?
Well...that's a...that's a choice...a choice made on such a warm summer's day.
You are one interesting cat, you know that? 🤣
Honestly, I just needed something that was mellow. I’ve gotten so used to music playing throughout that now something feels off without it and I’ve dug a horrible time consuming hole for myself to find royalty free music that isn’t distracting and also kind of fits. I don’t always nail it.
@@harlandspinks Hey, don't even mind me, in fact I thought it worked fine. It lent your narrative an interesting flavor. You just keep doing what you're doing my brother.
BTW, loved the Branson video. That's a weird little place.
@@harlandspinksI liked it. I thought it was funny lol
Thank you for illustrating that staring contest comment with aaron paul. His stares go hard.
Dude is spouting facts over a trumpet playing 'We Three Kings' on the week of Independence Day. Straight Classic. 10:21
Yea the dr doesn't set the prices, the ER/hospital is what's gouging you
I'd be lost if I visited the US I think when it comes to tipping. There's no "rules" where I'm from as such but about 10-15% seems to be the norm for somewhere with table service especially in a cafe or restaurant and it's not necessary if a service charge is added to the bill (although I do tip at certain places like a small business if I'm going in for a take-away coffee and a sweet bun or whatever as I know that the tips are definitely going to who's working behind the counter)
My only regret is that I have 1 "like" to give.
It's gotten out of hand, and it is a huge factor into where I eat. If you feel underpaid and unappreciated, take it up with your boss. If they are going to shortchange their employees, don't complain when they leave the industry because customers are sick of subsidizing crappy wages.
I also think this is a Square problem too. Is there not a traditional POS sequence that they provide?! Aside from the systemic inconsistencies at the heart of our economy...... Square is a secondary villian here. This problem became more ubiquitous as Sqaure started popping up in more businesses.
Great video! The new hair is looking great, brother.
My dyslexia told me the tile of this video is “Tripping has lost all Meaning”; which is actually kind of the point of tripping, but I digress.
Haha. I love your set. It’s cool. 😎
Your haircut looks amazing!!
I would feel bad having a song sang when I tipped, would ask them not to sing. It feels like the monkey performance on street with a chain around their necks. I use to Uber rides because Uber eats felt way too close being a waiter and paid really low relaying on tips. One thing I hated about some of the riders that I took to their multi-million dollar home "Oh I'm going to tip you really well, everything is great" blowing smoke up my butt and only receiving a $1, $2, or no tip.
I am fairly certain I have a polesaw in my garage, and yet my brain immediately translates the word to 'polecat' and I am absolutely imagining there's just a ferret in that box.
wait no shit that wasn't meant to sound like a sex euphemism
There is actually not a polesaw in my garage. There is a chainsaw, but it doesn't work. There is a broken ferret in my garage.
Very long very skinny ferret.
I’ve been using cash more to buy my items. it makes me feel more in control then with my card. It also feel more real to tip with cash. Like the concept of money is already made up by us, but now it’s just a number on a screen it feels even more fake.
I prefer to tip cash bc so many bosses steal from employee tips.
fuck you need more viewers, man. your content is actually intelligent, engaging, and thought provoking (don't get me wrong, everything you've said in this video is shit I've thought myself). But I'm glad someone else is saying this shit, just sad that you only get 5k views. If more people watched this, maybe we'd be able to do something about the current state of tipping. Love your videos!
Ok the Christmas music threw me off lol
I wonder if you asked Calexico if they'd let you licence for cheap. Or Huevos Rancheros, Canadian indie instrumental music comes cheap.
Any place asking for ridiculous tips get 33¢.
Back to cash, exact change baby!
uncle is back!!
I love pole saw!
Just add 20 percent to all the prices and pay people better...and then cut those prices a little bit hopefully...But life would be so much better without tips.
TEAM POLE SAW
Thank you for looking out for my favourite implement I don't understand yet nevertheless feel affection for.
EDIT: that colour flatters pole saw
I don't buy things from places that expect tips if I know the business is expecting tips to make up for wages because I feel guilty supporting a system that keeps people in poverty. I don't go to restaurants because even if I'm the best customer they've ever had, I can't change the fact they're being paid pennies on the dollar to basically be marathon runners for karens. I'll stick to my subpar homemade burritos if that means I'm not contributing to capitalism, a system I never consented to.
What does sasiffian mean? Don't think I'm spelling it correctly because I can't look it up/
Sisyphean. It's an impossible task or an act of futility. It's comes from the story of Sisyphus being doomed to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. I'm basically saying it's impossible to survive on minimum wage. Hope that helps!
That's a smart haircut! Lookin handsome!
"I don't have a problem tipping!" Well, theres's your problem. you reap what you sow. Tipping has always been theft, don't stop now that you feel that they are being dishonest, because they always were. If you're not yelling fuck you and your tips at the top of your lungs every time you hit zero you're not making a difference.
Polesaw gang rise up
We definitely thought differently about workers when we were kids. Even as a young teenager I knew that if you were older than like 25 and worked at McDonald’s you must’ve screwed up with your life or must’ve been in prison or something.
Also tipping is the biggest joke ever and if you’re not a waiter, bartender, or delivery person you won’t get a dime for me I did a job that I made money from tipping and guess what I need up getting a skill job that paid much better I never looked back
S/O to Terrence H. the old head version of Jaden Smith
Terryology?
Does tipping reveal something contradictory about the expectations of work incentives under capitalism? If we just get wages doesn't that mean we don't have any material incentive to do good work?
where's ur hair?
Harland 2.0
Nice haircut harland
Nice haircut!
Like the haircut
unfortunately, i love your haircut
20%
Love me a pole saw.
Polesaw non-binary, confirmed.
you got a haircut …….. ?
im a polesaw truther
Pole Saw is pure.
Nothing like getting the stink face after not tipping the bartender for 2 beers for $32. Not my problem, tell your boss, give me the drinks, chop chop.
Please tell Polesaw I love them
I think Harland uses Pole Saw's pronoun as "they/them".
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 thank you so much, I corrected the pronoun for the baby 💞
from a certain angle you look like brat pitt :)
This is a more nuanced take than most I’ve seen online but you’re missing some serious points. Tipping is a social norm and an etiquette issue. There is no opting out. The etiquette rules vary by occasion. I don’t understand why so many people don’t get this. The rule for restaurant servers is 15-20%, the rule for delivery is 10-15%. Other places, like counter service is optional, usually 10% if you feel like it.
It is never optional at sit down restaurants because they are paid $2/hour. I am sorry but you don’t get to ignore all of the unspoken societal norms just because you personally disagree. Sociology 101
Seriously this is one of the only issues where people think they can get away with not complying with norms because they personally disagree. You wouldn’t go to court in pajamas because you think judging people off dress is stupid, why are you not tipping appropriately because you personally think it’s stupid. You are not making a statement or changing anything by not tipping your server. You’re just fucking them over.
I would like to see tipping eliminated or de-emphasized over time by legislation. Individual people not tipping will NEVER cause this. (Again I am only referring to those making the tipped minimum wage)
you can tip less by consuming less services. 😊