Skip the Tips — Can You Escape the Tip Screen?
skipthe.tips
Many dark patterns stand between you and 'No Tip'. A free browser game about tipping culture, guilt, and tiny buttons.
  • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    I wonder if everyone who writes popups of all stripes is cognizant of how many of us just dismiss them all instantly without nary a glance.

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      I’ve written a few popups. Yes, we are aware, I generally dismiss them too. They’re almost always an anti-pattern / anti-user design anyway, so I try to avoid them. They are, I think without exception, thought train breakers and annoyances, even in cases where they may actually be useful.

    • Randelung@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Apps love popups right when you start it to tell you something important. Guess I’ll never know because my muscle memory was quicker than my eyes.

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    39·
    3 days ago

    Am I the only one who’s pro-tipping? I feel the need to apologize for making people do work. If you told me I wasn’t allowed to tip I’d be leaving cash on the counter and running off.

    • aaa@lemmy.zip
      14·
      2 days ago

      In the region of the world I’m from, waiter unions themselves are against tipping. The reasons I have heard are that

      1. wage negotiations should not happen between customers and employees
      2. the principle of everyone’s salary being enough to cover all costs of living
      3. neither customer nor employee will benefit from service staff having too low wages
      4. worker’s rights cannot practically be built using funds from tipping
      5. normalising tipping will be used by the employer as an argument to pay below liveable wages

      That being said, waiters are given a liveable wage here. And locals also sometimes tip for great service. But that’s just a bonus for the waiter, not the expectation.

      I would personally suggest you reevaluate your pro-tipping stance given the above, but I don’t know where in the world you’re from, nor how waiters are treated or paid there

    • skrlet13@feddit.clOP
      27·
      3 days ago

      Unfortunately tips in many places are used so employers don’t have to pay fair wages. The point of “no tips” is to demand fair wages from the start.

    • CXORA@aussie.zoneEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I think you’ll find most people have no problem with tipping, only with forced tipping or the cultural pressure to tip. Most people dont want to stop you from tipping if you would like to.

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      I’m generally anti-tipping since it gives shitty employers a fig leaf to pay their workers an unlivable wage, but I still tip if I’m at an establishment where workers depend on tips. The system ain’t their fault.

    • attempt@lemmy.world
      21·
      3 days ago

      Would you tip at McDonalds, a gas station, or a grocery or department store? I tip to show appreciation for the value of service provided, doing the basics of one’s job isn’t a tippable event just because they ask for free money.

    • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
      32·
      3 days ago

      Not my job to make up for the fact that their employer can’t pay a living wage.