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ความคิดเห็น • 54

  • @kara6320
    @kara6320 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The sentiment about Instagram/Tik Tok "you spend hours consuming other people's lives and wasting your own" how true is that...Really enjoyed the chat about becoming your higher self!

  • @sarahiroman8201
    @sarahiroman8201 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Don’t feel bad about not tipping. It’s getting ridiculous everywhere. Employers are expecting customers to make up for the money they don’t want to cough up. 🙄

  • @13kristaa
    @13kristaa ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I totally agree with the whole tipping thing. It's gotten ridiculous in Canada. The whole point of tipping is for the service provided. I give a little tip for delivery if i get take out but I'm not going in to eat, specifically because I don't want the service so I'm not going to tip for it. I wouldn't tip for a drive through coffee either!

  • @madhadder5
    @madhadder5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The bathroom higher self pep talk 🙌🏼 Thank you for sharing. It definitely helped ya girl out today.

  • @ic3482
    @ic3482 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That hair length and curls you did for the boat ride suits you so well!!

  • @itsmitzi
    @itsmitzi ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I mean no offense to people
    working in the food industry. But the tipping system means they’re not getting paid enough for their job and employers are relying to customers to fill that gap. If we promote tipping, sooner it will be mandated like in most establishments in the US. Already considering the prices of the items, adding tip is just too much. The companies’ executives get ridiculous amount of money, employers should be able to allot some of that to the rank and file.

  • @katrinacool
    @katrinacool ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really loved this week in the life - and thank you for sharing Tika with us! 🥰❤️😊☺️ Adorable! I'm organizing my bathroom this week and purging stuff I'll never use. Gratitude is essential to mental and spiritual health. I tip twenty percent at a restaurant but the drive through is ridiculous. However it's becoming the new normal. Thank you for an informative video and hugs to you and Tika! Plus your hair is looking lovely lately! ☺️😊🥰❤️🌴🦩☀️🥰

  • @VanessaShowShow
    @VanessaShowShow ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love your vlogs - slices of life that I appreciate you presenting and speaking on some topics like a distant friend is here

  • @JenniferxKi
    @JenniferxKi ปีที่แล้ว +1

    put your reuseable bags in the car and also already put your wallet in one and another bag as well! you just have to get used to it, its sooo easy!

  • @gabbyiversen8915
    @gabbyiversen8915 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this whole vibe of this Vlog!! It helps motivate me as well to be my higher self. Thanks Melissa ❤

  • @user-rz5nu9mg7c
    @user-rz5nu9mg7c ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I LOVE Tika! omg she makes my day so happy. More please.

  • @allthingshealthy2314
    @allthingshealthy2314 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My husband and I talk about the excessive tipping culture all the time. There was a grocery store where we used to live and there was a tipping screen that would come up at checkout. It was like omg I literally got my own groceries and you just rang me up what the heck? We only do it at restaurants

  • @ervinsmoviecorner8748
    @ervinsmoviecorner8748 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A nice week in the life vlog, Melissa!❤❤

  • @karenhothi1520
    @karenhothi1520 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I only tip at sit down restaurants - fellow cdn here- the tip option is ridiculous

  • @terrib9664
    @terrib9664 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In reference to the Starbucks tipping- absolutely not. My hubby and I experienced this just last week at our own Starbucks drive through. We sat in line for X number of minutes waiting, so hard pass on that. I believe tipping culture is out of control, so I've had to become quite comfortable skipping/declining this option when presented to me at walk up services (from the US btw).

  • @aakankshasingh8893
    @aakankshasingh8893 ปีที่แล้ว

    loved the blue dress, you looked really pretty!

  • @Kat-dw5xk
    @Kat-dw5xk ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don’t tip for that either lol awkward but wtv 🤷‍♀️ I only do it at restaurants where I’m sitting down and getting served

  • @mildapra
    @mildapra ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you tried heatless curls? Might be a nice option to try😊

  • @jenniferhall4352
    @jenniferhall4352 ปีที่แล้ว

    MY FAVE videos of the week ❤ where is your outfit from at the beginning of the vid (blue dress and shirt)?!

  • @maliaferrozzo435
    @maliaferrozzo435 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    From WA state and when it comes to coffee specifically when tipping I am more likely to tip at an Espresso Stand because it is a local business versus Starbucks is a corporate company. Not that I don't think the barista at Starbucks deserves a tip, but since Starbucks is corporate I am unsure if the tips are actually going to them, idk I question that

  • @lexipasm
    @lexipasm ปีที่แล้ว

    60th Anniversary 🎉❤Wow that’s amazing!

  • @leoneboshoff9717
    @leoneboshoff9717 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your hair looks so pretty curled. ❤

  • @alexst.germain1545
    @alexst.germain1545 ปีที่แล้ว

    There are restaurants where I live that don't have tipping and instead pay their employees above minimum wage, give health and financial benefits, and paid sick days. There is no a fight for the high volume days because you make the same prepping stations and wrapping cutlery on a slow tuesday afternoon as you do on a busy saturday night. There's no competition amongst servers for regular clients who are better tippers or "thats my section". And if they need to take a day off, getting the shift covered is much easier. It's gotten rediculous that patrons of a business are expected to offset with 20+% tipping the shitty pay that the restaurant industry allows, all while the owners and operating businesses get to use salaries as a business expense to offset revenues. Servers often have multiple jobs to just live and it is my opinion that if you work 40 hours a week for any business that you should be able to afford to live.

  • @DidiLeahLaurenKenston1111
    @DidiLeahLaurenKenston1111 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love tipping but I go to Starbz every day so I feel like I have to tip every single time. I have the app and sometimes forget to use it, if you use the app, they don’t ask to tip.
    Your skin looks awesome.
    Xoxo

  • @crystalbennett249
    @crystalbennett249 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do they even divide up the tips? 20cents each? Or wait for a certain amount?

  • @catharinailg9269
    @catharinailg9269 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Melissa, we just always leave at least one re-usable bag in the car, so that we always have one when we you shopping.

  • @keyos27
    @keyos27 ปีที่แล้ว

    What do you think of the current tip situations in Vancouver?

  • @nab8326
    @nab8326 ปีที่แล้ว

    I only when tip the service was amazing and the waiters paid me enough attention whether when I’m placing my orders or when they are bringing my food. Some don’t even put the on my table properly. Otherwise I’ll never tip.

  • @lindsayvlogslife
    @lindsayvlogslife ปีที่แล้ว

    I pay with my Starbucks card so the app doesn’t prompt me to tip until after I’ve left the drive thru lol I don’t tip at Starbucks, Tim Hortons, or any fast food/drive thru place. It’s not like a restaurant where they make a server’s wage and their tips are meant to make up the difference between that and minimum wage or higher.

    • @lindsayvlogslife
      @lindsayvlogslife ปีที่แล้ว

      Also for what it’s worth, I’ve seen Starbucks employees complaining about the tip option on the Starbucks subreddit lol lots of them say they just hit “no tip” before even handing it to the customer to avoid the awkwardness!

  • @oliviaryan5438
    @oliviaryan5438 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just curious when you moved away from downtown and what prompted the move? It sounds like such a pain living so far out!

    • @MelissaMerk
      @MelissaMerk  ปีที่แล้ว

      Bought this condo years ago and its in the town I grew up in

  • @laurenrands
    @laurenrands ปีที่แล้ว

    At Starbucks I tip every so often! Not every single time

  • @desireed8386
    @desireed8386 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love when Tika is in the videos! She is so cute! I really like your hair natural, I like it better than the extensions too. I am also a no to the Starbucks tip. Sorry, not sorry...;)

  • @crisramcas4726
    @crisramcas4726 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tika cutest ❤

  • @manfredbismark6688
    @manfredbismark6688 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful Melissa! Rudi.

  • @easnider
    @easnider ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve noticed more and more places are adding tipping, i haven’t seen it at a liquor store yet but I’m not about to tip the guy putting my liquor in a bag for me lol

  • @trueblonde89
    @trueblonde89 ปีที่แล้ว

    I heard sometimes the tips don’t go to the staff. I just don’t. I feel uncomfortable, but then I just remember that 😅

  • @ericavigil9567
    @ericavigil9567 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the recipe at 5:29 ???!

  • @julirudas
    @julirudas ปีที่แล้ว

    Where’s Tika’s watermelon toy? 😂🍉❤

  • @brigettegarcia4623
    @brigettegarcia4623 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kool

  • @haleyja
    @haleyja ปีที่แล้ว

    I leave my reusable bags in the back of my trunk!

  • @Juliaev
    @Juliaev ปีที่แล้ว

    Stevens angles 😂

  • @Elizabeth-M2024
    @Elizabeth-M2024 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tipping has gotten so aggressive these days. So many places start at 18 or 20% now. What happened to 15%?

  • @grezb7828
    @grezb7828 ปีที่แล้ว

    First one! 😊❤

  • @tayebehshalmani6157
    @tayebehshalmani6157 ปีที่แล้ว

    I die for your dog 🥹🧡

  • @user-rz5nu9mg7c
    @user-rz5nu9mg7c ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is cousin steven? I know I keep asking. I miss him.

  • @crystalbennett249
    @crystalbennett249 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just wanted you to know that you look a little like Jenna dewan

  • @ambergryziec5881
    @ambergryziec5881 ปีที่แล้ว

    Places of employment should pay a lieabke wage instead of guilting customers into paying more for little to no service.. it's a money grab and everyone needs to see it as that. Unless they actually provide some type of service directly to you such as waiting a table or your hairdresser, nail tech. Etc there is no reason to be tipping.

  • @crista3543
    @crista3543 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, I’d tip in the Starbucks drive through. What’s the difference between the level of effort and service compared to when you’re at the register? I’d say it’s the same, if not more.

  • @meowk5812
    @meowk5812 ปีที่แล้ว

    The tipping has been getting really ridiculous!

  • @YolandaChenYT
    @YolandaChenYT ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The North American tip culture is getting absurd

  • @JamieMilkz
    @JamieMilkz ปีที่แล้ว

    "If I don't tip I just feel so uncomfortable..." The exact demographic they were targeting when they came up with the idea... don't be a part of that... "The weak shall inherit the earth clan." Get over it - it's just a tip. Looks like you are a pair and didn't tip - good job.
    ** what I don't get is that you were hesitant about people coming at you for getting plastic bags - yet you buy large plastic garbage bags. Don't worry I'm not hatting on you - its just that we are stuck in the stupid loop of a super woke society and whatever you do its going to be wrong.

  • @PsycheSowl
    @PsycheSowl ปีที่แล้ว

    It seems you don't want a man in your life, how long do you still want to be single