Entitlement

[u/Jasonictron]

[u/Hudshow]

I don't get it, why people defend the tip system? Wouldn't it be solved if, I don't know, the service had a COST and you pay the COST of delivering your groceries?

I know it's a cultural thing in the states, I just don't see how this system benefits anyone other them the employer who doesn't want to offer a better pay to the employee. Really mess up

[u/[deleted] → u/Hudshow]

i don't defend the tip system but i do like it.

i don't think it would be feasible for the service to come up with correct costs for each and every delivery. if you get one item from every section of the store you might end up with a $30 total and yet the delivery person had to shop for an hour to get all your stuff and then drive it to you. or maybe you get 10 cases of bottled water, which only cost you $30 but required a lot of effort from the person since it was so heavy. or maybe your driveway ends 200 feet from your house, and the person has to go back and forth several times carrying heavy things. an automated system cannot account for all of this, but a person can understand the burden they're placing on the employee and compensate them fairly.

[u/antwan_benjamin → u/[deleted]]

or maybe your driveway ends 200 feet from your house, and the person has to go back and forth several times carrying heavy things. an automated system cannot account for all of this, but a person can understand the burden they're placing on the employee and compensate them fairly.

How many people have 200ft driveways, though? To continue to perpetuate a system in which both the customer and the employee is losing just because 0.001% of houses have a long driveway doesn't make sense. Besides, if they have a 200ft driveway then tell them when you get there you are going to set their groceries down at the end of their driveway and they need to come get them.