“WTF am I doing in the US?”
Real answer: “WTF am I doing in an AI-generated rage bait picture?”
Downvote the OP and report it.
Why do you think this is Gen AI? Not arguing, just nothing obvious pops out at me as Gen AI.
The text on the whiteboard looks fake, her hand is weird, her arm is stumpy, the bar appears to be named “Bajmq” or something judging by the blurry text on the window, the background is blurred in ways that clearly disguise artifacts (and no actual camera of even moderate quality would do that these days)…
Edit: Oh, and don’t forget the background people. Ugh.
It’s slop. And the account posting it appears to be a bot.
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Find the nearest embassy and try to get home asap.
Walk out?
It’s $ so idk, in the UK service charge is just a pay of the fee usually
I’d walk right back out the door
That people who eat there are assholes.
“What a sad and poor country”.
People should get a decent salary when they’re hired to do a job, not hope for customer’s tips to earn their living.
I would also be tempted to say that a poster that openly hostile to customers may not be the wisest choice to help them learn… anything.
Same thing I’d say if I saw this picture on Lemmy - “why is this weird Facebook engagement bait breaking containment?”
Not in a tipping country… But iff i saw that… I gonna look for an other restaurant.
And 40 %? I would say iff you think thevtipping dystem is good. You tip for the work. One hour on the table = one hour off pay but : by 5 or 6 depending how manny other tables there are.
It’s really sad to see how good the propaganda has worked on these people. All the blame is shifted to each other instead of the elite asshole whose responsibility it actually is to make sure you get paid.
first thought: tipping culture in the US is fucking stupid, I should not be subsidizing your employees wages simply because you can not be bothered to pay them properly yourself
second thought: despite being stupid, I still tip because they still deserve a living wage, however I usually tip 15%. Maybe 20-25% if they did an exceptional job. 40%? 40% is fucking insane. That server is either giving me a table-side blowjob, or they’re fantasizing, because I have not yet seen nor can I properly imagine service good enough to earn double what I normally tip for great service. What does that even look like? I think the server would have to start bringing things I want before I even have the chance to ask for them, and at that point, why are you waiting tables if you can read minds?
And if it’s just that they instead expect double the money for the same amount of effort, haha, fuck off, ask your employer for a raise not me.
I still tip 15%, even though many of the automated prompts now suggest 20%, 22%, or higher. Tips already are adjusted for inflation.
That’s for someone to come to the table to take my order, bring my food, refill my drinks, and ask occasionally how things are and if I need anything else.
I come to your counter and order food, then come back to pick it up? You’re a cashier. I’m probably not tipping at all, but if I do, it won’t be when I pay up front having received zero service.
Oh yeah, no, those screens asking me to tip for fucking cashiering can fuck all the way off. Same goes for when ordering through a pizza place app and it asks if you’d like to leave a tip for fucking carryout. I’ve never gotten tipped anytime I’ve worked a till when all I did was press buttons and count change, and I’m not about to start tipping others for it.
I regularly tip around 30%, often above it, and I consider myself a pretty generous tipper. It’s absurd to act like 40% is standard.
Sometimes receipts will show suggested tip amounts and those are usually 18%, 20%, and 22% or something like that. Maybe 25%.
First thought: How did I end up in an AI-generated bullshit pic designed to inspire anger against hard-working service employees of restaurants?
Second thought: Fuck aaaaaaaall the way off with this intentionally divisive garbage.
40%? Delusional, especially with that attitude.
My first thought is that you picked the wrong community to post this in and it should be deleted. My second thought is that 40% is implausible. My third thought is that even if someone was dumb enough to think it was a good idea, anyone doing that irl would quickly be told to knock it off.
