via Google news, I landed on an opinion piece on USA today (I clicked the wrong link, I was crying so happily) that was like, “no, don’t worry, straight-marriage will win out, it’s not going away.” like now straight marriage is banned or something.

Our tipping system, as you can see, is complicated even for those of us raised here. I can’t imagine how incomprehensible it would seem to outsiders. When it comes down to it, you’ll always be fine if you tip 20% and treat your server decently. Even if your tip isn’t great, no one gets upset about a mediocre tip from…

I’ve been training my nieces on “mental math” by having them calculate the tips (move the decimal for ten percent, times two, round up to the next dollar) and have always emphasized this point, because a) we use a lot of coupons, and b) I suspect their parents wouldn’t do it either from ignorance or being cheap. I…

Similar to reply to McGibblets - Is there a sticky on tipping/general being a good customer that includes this kind of stuff - It’s not as obvious as you may think. I honestly never knew this was the practice before today, and never even thought about it. Just learned I’ve been the asshole stiffing the waiter. I don’t…

I definitely think that’s part of it. When I was in high school, I went out to eat with my mom, and she had a coupon for one of the meals off. I was a very good tipper even as a teen, but it never occurred to me that - if I had been paying - I should have paid based on the total pre-discount amount until my mom…

Man. I’m a shitty customer. I tip generously as a rule (nothing but respect for people in food service), and can’t imagine leaving a $2 tip like this asshole did, but I’ll admit that if I’d been in that situation my first instinct would be to tip based on the bill total, too. This is a helpful corrective for me.…

Wow. That’s crazy. A gift certificate is not even a ‘discount’, it’s just money you didn’t have to pay out of your pocket. How dense/cheap do you have to be to not know to tip on the full price.

Whenever I go to a place, I try to make everyone’s job just a little harder than it needs to be because “it is their job” and “I’m a huge douchebag who lacks empathy”

I refuse to use my phone because in my head berating myself for not being capable of mental math until my self esteem tanks is a far better method. Ex. “Everyone can do this, WHY CAN’T YOU??? Don’t get your fucking phone, just try to think for once, you idiot!”

No! At our theater, as soon as the credits roll, the ushers are standing at the end of the aisle, staring pointedly, holding trash bags. Throw your s*** away.

-Tip 20%. Always.

I mean, janitors are paid to clean, too, but that doesn’t make it okay to shit wherever you want.

Once upon a time this was definitely a thing and there generally weren’t large trash cans on your way out like there are now. I definitely remember my mom doing that the first time I remember going to a movie which would have been the late 70s. But theaters don’t employ nearly as many people to clean up as they used…

Yeah, but let’s be honest here: if tipping really ended, most waitstaff positions would become minimum wage. There’s not a ghost of a chance that an industry willing to fuck employees over on things that don’t actually help the bottom line would hesitate to do so when real money is involved. As horrifying as these…

I always tip 20% and up because I used to work in food service and I have a functioning conscience, but I’m terrified that servers hate me because it takes me forever to figure out how much to tip because I suck at math, but I’m sure it looks like I’m really sitting there deliberating on whether they deserve a good…

I went on an OKC date at a bar I frequented. We got a few comped drinks and the guy refused to tip full price rates. Same deal as you, I very pointedly added up the true total and calculated how much the tip should be, then counted out cash for both of our drinks.

Somebody is supposed to come in for like five minutes and sweep up a little bit and see if there are any serious spills that need to be mopped up to avoid accidents. That’s really all that there is time for on a busy weekend. When it isn’t the summer or Christmas vacation, they might not even hire a person to do that…

That’s the thing. This guy may not have been a raging asshole on the surface, but he KNEW perfectly well what he was doing, and he knew he could get away with it. I’m sure that if he went to work and was told that he would only be getting $2 for these two hours because the customer got the items gratis, he would not…

i used to go to a club that had free well drinks on sundays (for everyone, not just ladies night or anything) from 7-11. so you know the bartenders got almost nothing on the free drinks. i always tipped at least a dollar per drink, more if i had gotten overtime on my last paycheck. and my friends didn’t get it, never…

I used to have a roommate like that. For two years, the four of us would each separately order from the same Chinese delivery place at least once a week, usually the same driver. Of course the driver started throwing in free stuff/double orders. Despite all three of us trying to explain it, the one dude just would not…