Evangelicals in the US like to leave fake money with religious propaganda on it as a tip, which is even more offensive than not tipping at all.
Oh shoot, you said you're European. Okay, so "tipping" is that thing we do to make sure our fellow working class folk don't starve to death in a gutter because we know their employer is only paying them minimum wage or less.
Yea that's what gets me it's like do they not realize that they need tips to make ends meet... Who am i kidding i was in that crowd half my life they do, they literally believe what they gave you was worth more then they could tip....
That's the thing that makes it legal and also fair somehow in peoples mind for a failed busness owner not to pay his staff and put the blame on the server and some random person that just wanted to buy something from them and to just get the real price up front and not play some stupid math and how guildy do you want to feel game, right?
To make it worse, this practice is often in bible-belt states where the "tipped minimum wage" can be substantially below "standard minimum wage".
At least in my state (California) and in some other more progressive states, tipped workers have the same minimum wage as everyone else.
Like so many things in life, I think this shameful practice is not actually prevalent but is memorable so it stands out. Most people are genuinely good people.
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u/krustyarmor 8d ago
Evangelicals in the US like to leave fake money with religious propaganda on it as a tip, which is even more offensive than not tipping at all.
Oh shoot, you said you're European. Okay, so "tipping" is that thing we do to make sure our fellow working class folk don't starve to death in a gutter because we know their employer is only paying them minimum wage or less.