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Comment by FartyMcFarter | Hacker News Reader

Good. Tipping creates so much mental overhead and unnecessary bad feelings on everyone's part.

The thing I hate the most is tipping at bars.

20% tip when all you do is pour my beers, which I have to order at the bar and bring to my table myself? Insane.

Just don't tip 20% when all you got was beer? I tip $1 a beer (at most) when the beers are $8. Sometimes I only tip on some of the beers.

I hate that some workers depend on tips and that creates an obligation on me, but I do like to tip because I know how great it feels to get one. At work I sometimes get a bonus and what’s that if not a tip?

I benefit too. It’s a way for me to express gratitude.

Exactly! Thank you for expressing this so consciley. The fact that some people can't imagine enjoying giving (and receiving) a nice tip is really gross.

We prefer paying proper price for the meals with all costs included, to see those prices upfront, knowing that workers are paid fairly already and they just do the job expected from them. It means they can have decent lives regardless of their physical attraction, race, if they are sick or any other reason disadvantaging them compared to others. It also means I don't need to ever worry if waiter spit in my burger just because I look like somebody who won't tip enough.

Do you also tip every single time bus driver, colleague, bureaucrat handling your request or your child because they did their work as expected? Because why stop at some imaginary border.

I think everybody (except maybe some unethical employers) want to see employees paid a fair and livable wage for their work.

Everybody has different ways of expressing gratitude. That bus driver may be well paid and just doing their job, but I'm still grateful they are doing it and will thank them as I get off the bus.

You're telling on yourself.

Most people I know are happy to leave a tip - especially to reward great service as part of a great night, or in cases where you have a long term relationship with an establishment and its staff.

I can only imagine the staff is likewise happy to see the nice tip from us at the end of the night.

If you can only imagine "unnecessary bad feelings" - I can only imagine the tip you leave and how the staff feels about you. If you are so poor, you won't enjoy the price hike either and if you are not poor then just tip properly and move on.

What an incredibly obnoxious comment.

"If you are so poor"

Is poverty the only reason to dislike tipping in your eyes?

I'm absolutely fascinated by how sheltered you are, and I'm desperately trying to be charitable here as that's one of the more cunty things I've read on this site.

It is the only semi sympathetic reason.

> You're telling on yourself.

Thank you for proving his point. This whole accusatory nonsense is why tipping sucks. If you have to pay it to not be an asshole its not a tip and should be included in the menu price.

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