This is a fucking insult

  • Syldon@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The US really needs a minimum wage. Without it this will never stop.

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        Minimum wage limits need to be set by an NGO independent body. The UK uses a living wage criteria. My opinion that even the voluntary real living wage is set too low atm. This also does not take into account for the rent increases that are hitting kids due to interest rate rises. Even so, I still see this as a massive leap over the shambles that the US is. The current government is trying extremely hard to implement US limits in the UK.

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          Switzerland doesn’t have a minimum wage either, but the problems aren’t as dire (yet). Several cantons have however now introduced minimum wages and these are inflation adjusted, so a lot more future proof. Also they don’t need to be renegotiated again and again as the law doesn’t expire. I only see them disappear if we get a nationwide solution that replaces the local ones. But I agree with you: They are now set by the legislature and arbitrary and they should be informed with NGO data.

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    1 year ago

    The machines should tip the customer for doing job well. After all, it’s him doing the work cashier typically does.

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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.

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      I feel that in recent years corporations and businesses in general have found that guilting customers into tipping their staff cuts their costs down. So instead of raising salaries, they just place jars on the counters and add screens with tips.

      I resent tipping anyone that doesn’t make $2.86 an hour. Separate of that, I also resent tipping wait staff, because again, the employee’s salary should not be the responsibility of a customer, but that’s a rant for another time.

      People get paid more than me and I should be tipping them for literally doing their job? Since when is this the new normal? Oh hur dur but it’s service job. So wait, is a cashier at Walmart not performing a service? Should we start tipping them? Or retail workers in general? They don’t perform a service? Is the ER nurse performing a service when I need stitches? Should I tip her a percentage of my co-pay? Fucking insane. Is it only food-related jobs? A chef who hustled to cook your food in a kitchen that’s 120° doesn’t get tipped though, but a “barrista” at your local coffee shop who makes the same an hour is entitled to a tip because they pressed a button? Then you have a massage therapist who makes 50% of $120 in under an hour… but somehow they need a tip too… For what?

      Anyway. Fucking hate this shit. But companies have found this loophole where you’re the asshole for not tipping instead of them being the POS employers that don’t pay enough, so that’s the world we live in. Fucking embarrassing.

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      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).

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    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.

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      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.

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      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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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          the store then donates the money in their own corporate name and gets the tax breaks, good press, and so forth.

          Oh, hell I’d never thought of this but it makes perfect sense. I already didn’t donate via checkout, but now I never will. Fuck that.

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    Please donate to charity to allow this multi billion corporation to earn a reduction on its tax.

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      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.

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        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”.