feel like I’m encounterimg tip requests with increasing frequency, but not jazzed about the prospect of adding a 20% charge at every point of sale.
feel like I’m encounterimg tip requests with increasing frequency, but not jazzed about the prospect of adding a 20% charge at every point of sale.
No, totally valid. I used to drive pizzas, so I always make sure to at least fork out $3 because of gas, etc. The nice thing about the job was it was very minimal on the kind of “playing nice” shit - I’d show up, give the person the pizza, get the money. Once I started working as a driver, I realized how much goes into the other tipping professions that I wasn’t responsible for (i.e. small talk), so I made sure to take care of them as well. Even though pulling a beer off the draft isn’t nearly as difficult as driving to someone’s house, the bartender also has to keep an eye on me, make sure to offer a new draft, etc. I think that
at the end of Bullshit Jobs really hits things home with the emotional labor/care work stuff. That’s the real value of the waiter - a robot could easily move food 50 feet, but it couldn’t tell the customer what’s good or not, etc.
Sure. Emotional labor also includes hoping your car makes it up that hill in a blizzard (praying like a bastard), and then making it back down again without banging against a curb, at best. All the while knowing before you left on that run the most you can make is $2.