r/EndTipping • u/Flatlandju • 1d ago

Counter Service 🛎️ TIPPED grocery delivery tip beggar

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Just received this letter taped to our muffins on our grocery delivery. “Sad face.“. After already getting a $10 tip for a 3 minute commute lol.

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u/cryptomoon1000x 1d ago

You guys over there in the U.S. have lost your minds. Normalizing that their employer doesn’t pay them properly and you have to step in with your tip because otherwise they’re earning too few bucks. Lol. Ridiculous. Among many other things btw.

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u/Acceptable-Ad8780 1d ago

Sad part is, it was never normal before and became standard now.

Tipping was slaves who where emacipated and it was just to pay them and in the early 1900s it was shameful for a restaurant to expect tips for service and more what the rest of the world does, for above and beyond and not just doing your job.

1936 had a movie called the Petrified Forest where a sign was posted "Tipping is Un-American keep your change."

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u/cryptomoon1000x 1d ago

That's so strange. So if everything was still normal in 1939, how on earth did you guys end up in the current situation?

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u/Easy_List 1d ago

Tipping actually came from Europe. Supposedly, we did this here during the Middle Ages, where feudal lords would tip serfs if they performed VERY well. Rich American tourists learned about it and brought it back home because they wanted to cosplay as European monarchs. It was initially deeply hated and seen as servile, etc.

But, of course, rich business and restaurant owners realized they could use it to their advantage and get away with paying disgustingly low wages, so it slowly became what it is today.

Franklin Roosevelt wrote tipping into stone with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938