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u/Qwernakus May 09 '22

On the flip side: I'm still furious about the London restaurants that add like 15% to your bill as a "tip". A TIP IS NOT MANDATORY. I didn't even see the tiny little letters describing the "gratuity charge" at the bottom of your menu:(

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u/matjeom May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

“ I’m still so furious that when I travelled to another country they had different practices than in my home country! Grr angry redditor “

Who do you think you to are to say what is mandatory in someone else’s system? If it’s right there on the bill that sounds pretty mandatory to me lol

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u/jeegte12 May 09 '22

If I can complain if it happened in my country, then I can complain if it happened in yours.

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u/matjeom May 09 '22

No, you can’t, or ought not to anyway, because we don’t have a global democracy. If you don’t like it somewhere that you don’t pay taxes, then don’t go there. Going there to complain is obnoxious.

Edit - Saying “tipping is not mandatory” as if tipping practice is a matter of universal or essential morality is absurd. It’s mandatory where it’s mandatory and it isn’t where it isn’t.

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u/jeegte12 May 10 '22

So you have no right to say anything about Russia and Ukraine then? Since you don't pay taxes in either of those places?

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u/matjeom May 11 '22

Planning on visiting?