Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/EndTipping/ to dismantle this crappy American tipping system altogether.

WTF, Lifehacker!

I hope that folks in a market where YouTube Premium is available will pay for that instead of cheating creators out of ad revenue. It’s a win-win: you get to remove the annoying ads, and creators get a cut of your monthly payment.

Thank you for this! As a huge fan of a cappella, the Pitch Perfect movie, and the talented women in it, I really thought this was a pretty lame thing to target. Your comment cheered me up. Also, I think fiddling is awesome!

Still no Carplay / Android Auto, no thank you at any price

“I don’t particularly care for animation” is something I’ve heard with surprising frequency, actually, so you’re hardly alone in that. But I think it’s frankly misguided. It’s kinda like saying, “I hate all live action movies.”

I mean... animation encompasses a huge array of movie types. Action, adventure, romance,…

Well, yeah, the entire system DOES suck.

And if someone rounded up $2 on every transaction each day, that could lead to a significant chunk of change for that person.  That seems like a bad thing.

Do you tip your bus driver? Your kids’ teachers? Your nurse? Receptionists? The day laborers who pick the cheap grapes you buy at the market? Heck, even the checkout clerk at the market?

No?  Wow. You must not be very kind. :(

Visit Japan.  Enjoy amazing food, great service. Soon you’ll be like other enlightened peeps and hate the stupidity of mandatory tipping.

Somehow the rest of the friggin’ world manages to sustain great restaurants with fine food and strong service... without mandatory tipping.  

My uncle was a landscaper. Shitty, hot, exhausting work. Didn’t get tips. My mom was a junior high teacher in a rough neighborhood; dealt with knives in the classroom, hugely troubled kids, etc., got no tips.

So forgive me when I pull out this tiny tiny violin for people making coffee drinks in an air conditioned…

You could also treat them like professionals and thank them, give them a compliment for... doing their job well.  What a crazy concept!

“Ask the Overworked Nurse: Should I tip my nurse for taking care of me?”
Answer: If you’re wondering why we tip a barista pushing buttons but not a nurse wiping asses, then maybe you’re realizing how messed up American tipping culture has gotten.

Employers should be responsible for paying their employees. Period. Tipping should be for above and beyond amazingness, not charity, not “he needs a buck more than I do” etc. That’s what actual charitable donations are for.

Be grateful you don’t have *wrong* foot issues!

More than a year later, thought I’d weigh in:
I just binged the whole first season on... Netflix. Haven’t yet started watching the second season. I knew there was a massive twist and I think even suspected that the Good Place was the Bad Place... and yet, I had no idea that Michael was in on it, and the ending totally…

This. So much this.

Have you considered temporary tracking?

Dozens of comments, with most rightly noting that tipping is a terrible practice and that in the U.S. and other places service workers are paid crappy wages... BUT NOT A WORD ON HOW TO FIX THIS SYSTEMICALLY.