Tipping ‘nudges’ are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don’t leave a gratuity, you’ll hear about it.::DoorDash is the latest delivery service to nudge customers who don’t tip. It shows how intrusive tip requests are, and how important tips are to gig workers.

  • imapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is it about helping out workers any more? Or is about companies - often big, profitable companies - not paying their employees a livable wage and pressuring customers to come to the rescue? At the very least, the situation is so confusing now that it’s impossible to tell whether a tip is a legitimate thing to do, or whether it’s giving in to corporate greed and cynicism.

    Just to clarify, I worked in food service as a tipped employee from age 15 into my late 20s. I totally get it, and I always tip waiters, taxi drivers, and other traditionally-tipped employees. But I don’t know what to do when everybody expects a tip. And when corporate money-lords add their voices to pressure me, it just sounds too cynical.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Any method of paying workers more necessitates customers paying higher prices. The money is always going to come from the customer

      Restaurants, specifically, have razor-thin margins.

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        1 year ago

        You act like we’re not paying higher prices

        My sandwich isn’t 12, it’s 13.50. The drink wasn’t 4 it was 5.

        The higher prices are there but the owner doesn’t get taxed on it