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brain54:
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I understand tipping for good or exceptional services. Like when my barber gives me a good haircut that impresses me and I really like once in a while.


But I can't understand why I should be forced, mandated or compulsorily pay tips for service rendered all the time when someone has a company or boss who he works under and whose duty it is to make sure he gets payed or compensated adequately for his job by paying him salary or wages.


It could be the Nigerian/African in me but I never understand it.


Most Western/European countries have the culture of tipping but seems the US has taken it to a whole different level.

To me It's even more confusing and weird because there is no standard or regulated accepted amount that should be tipped!

Pacesetter123:
That's a lie,a very big one at that.
Which $2 is equivalent to #4,000?
I just changed dol and it's #1,400 per dol.
So $2 is #2,800.
Stop misleading the reading public!

Cousin9999:
Americans have been brainwashed into blaming and demonizing each other for what the 1% (mega rich) should be doing. So, they don't vote to establish fair wages under the law. They don't create/join unions to create a fair/safe work environment with appropriate wages and benefits. They don't vote for controlled immigration. They don't vote for controls on the cost of living and a stronger safety net. And they're pathologically racist and vote against anything they believe benefits black people.

Instead they get angry at people for being "cheap" or "broke" or even hating poor people when they don't tip. And they blame them for why they can't pay their bills. There used to be a time in America when a waitress could afford an apartment just from being a waitress, not a nice apartment, but still decent housing. The 1% destroyed that.

They claim that unions are full of lazy people. They ignore how the 1% carefully crushed unions.

They claim rampant illegal immigration doesn't displace millions of Americans from decent paying jobs. They claim people are imagining it or making it up. Yet whenever those places get raided, magically Americans are working there. And Indians have all but invaded America in the last 15 years to fill fabricated shortages. Engineers have struggled with getting jobs for decades. Americans were told to get IT education, they did and now they can't get jobs and are getting laid off by the thousands.

They vote against more and denser housing, which makes affordable, decent housing available to everyone, and close to jobs and essential services. They vote against development of more public transportation, which would reduce the cost of living and make employment and services more accessible for everyone. They're anti "welfare," which elderly, sick, unemployed, and others need.

They're obsessed with black people not having anything to the point that they will vote against their own interests to prevent it. There are white people with major health problems who cannot work that are losing access to healthcare, food, and housing benefits because they voted for Trump. Toni Morrison talks about the deleterious effect of the profound psychosis known as racism. This is one of the motivations behind these behaviors. Some of it is probably also their neanderthal DNA.

ETA: They vote against the 1% paying taxes, which would probably clear all of America's debt and finance a bunch of stuff the country desperately needs.

Zonefree:
@bolded
Abi the village in you?

Pacesetter123:
Between 15 and 20 %?
Anything that has a benchmark is no longer voluntary.
Tipping should be voluntary,but when you placed a cap,then you make it involuntary which is not proper.

OlujobaSamuel:
It's never a Nigerian thing ooo. Although I rarely give to security dudes, but I do give attendants or cashier.
The reason why I don't give them is due to the way they treat people at times. They can rubbish you for a big car that might be driven by a messenger

Pacesetter123:

Your last line though!

Pacesetter123:
Then if there is this kind of understanding about tipping system even in developed nation like the US,why do we always make it look as if it is a Nigeria thing?
People go to media houses or make videos and post in social media to castigate Airport workers,police on checkpoint,supermarket and hotel securities and bar Waiters for being notorious for "Corporate Begging".
They try to make us know that such "bad" culture can never never be seen in saner climes.
So,is the US or Canada no longer saner climes?
Though I don't support a culture of making tippings look compulsory or be like a constitutional rights that you must give for services provided,but I think it is appropriate to "appreciate" some lowly paid workers in some corporate environments VOLUNTARILY for services rendered to you.
I went to a supermarket for my weekend stuff last week,I picked a basket and was going round to pick stuff.One of the staff there,a young lady, just walked up to me and said, Sir,let me help you with the basket.
She carried the basket and followed me around the supermarket till I finished picking what I wanted and she took it to the counter.
I finished paying,she greeted me bye without asking for anything.
I was the one,out of appreciation ,who called her and voluntarily gifted her something.Cos to me,she deserves it.

So my point is that,as from today that I am hearing this news, nobody should make corporate begging a Nigerian thing again.
If any staff in an airport, supermarket, restaurant,etc ask you for a tip,if you want to give, give and if you don't want to,pass and go your way.They won't beat you.
Stop shouting in every news media that people beg you for tips only in Nigeria that you can't see such a thing in America or Europe when you haven't left the shores of Nigeria before.
This message is only for those that always make this unfounded comparison.

lagonovo:
The same thing happened to my friend Linus in 1991

Amalekki:
Tipping is only for specific services. Are you sure you didn't make this up?

madridguy:
weird" when buying a bottle of water and "they try to get a tip for doing nothing".

Pacesetter123:
➜Then if there is this kind of understanding about tipping system even in developed nation like the US,why do we always make it look as if it is a Nigeria thing? People go to media houses or make videos and post in social media to castigate Airport workers,police on checkpoint,supermarket and hotel securities and bar Waiters for being notorious for "Corporate Begging".
➜ They try to make us know that such "bad" culture can never never be seen in saner climes. So,is the US or Canada no longer saner climes?
Though I don't support a culture of making tippings look compulsory or be like a constitutional rights that you must give for services provided,but I think it is appropriate to "appreciate" some lowly paid workers in some corporate environments VOLUNTARILY for services rendered to you.
➜ I went to a supermarket for my weekend stuff last week,I picked a basket and was going round to pick stuff.One of the staff there,a young lady, just walked up to me and said, Sir,let me help you with the basket. She carried the basket and followed me around the supermarket till I finished picking what I wanted and she took it to the counter. I finished paying,she greeted me bye without asking for anything. I was the one,out of appreciation ,who called her and voluntarily gifted her something. Cos to me,she deserves it.
➜ So my point is that,as from today that I am hearing this news, nobody should make corporate begging a Nigerian thing again. If any staff in an airport, supermarket, restaurant,etc ask you for a tip,if you want to give, give and if you don't want to,pass and go your way.They won't beat you.
➜ Stop shouting in every news media that people beg you for tips only in Nigeria that you can't see such a thing in America or Europe when you haven't left the shores of Nigeria before. This message is only for those who always make this unfounded comparison.

Kobojunkie:
1. What you have in Nigeria is not the same as this tipping culture, which is regulated in the U.S Department of Labor.

2. Basically, tipping culture in "Saner climes" is government-regulated, voluntary, and almost non-predatory compared to that which you find in Nigeria.

3. From your story, are we to guess that the lady in question is an employee of the supermarket and her job is to help carry baskets around? If that is the case, does the establishment implement a tipping system? Or did you just assume that maybe her pay depended on your tipping her for the time she spent following you around the store? I am not certain how you arrived at comparing that situation to the one in, say, the US. Or Canada.

4. Your point is moot! Again, tipping culture is not implemented by all businesses in the U.S. or Canada. For instance, you do not go to the hospital to tip your nurse or doctor; your mechanic, airport worker, or police do the same. In such cases, your "tips" may be considered taxable gifts or bribes.

5. Nigerian begging, or the "Oga, find me something, abeg!" culture is not the tipping culture we dey discuss for here!

emmy512:
Lol, i had to go check my dashboard and turns out it was 2021 sef.

this was just 2 years after i started fiverr and i have never gotten tips talkless of something huge, i think because of the things i got exposed to and the good work. that was a 20% tip just like that

before he gave me this job he asked if i was a christian and i said i'm not a church person, he then asked what i think about working for a gay person and company, and i told him i dont care.

I still be Linus or Mba?

QuinQQ:
I bet no Nigerian who actually lives in America will agree with you. Just like visiting WC fans are surprised what a wonderful country US is!

Pacesetter123:
It is the same thing. Whether Nigeria, Canada or US, tipping or expectation of it after service rendered is still tipping....

Cousin9999:
I live in America. And I never said it was a s**thole. But it has real problems. And many of these problems are part of a global issue. The 1%.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caBDPFx2et4?is=YRCmUz0lo_W9Ndw6

QuinQQ:
An obvious lie.😅
No Nigerian who lives in US will write what you wrote

Cousin9999:
Stop trolling, bro. 🙄

PulaPower:
In the US, staff at some restaurants and bars are paid just over $2 (£1.50) an hour, and they expect customers to tip about 20% of the total cost of the bill so they can earn a living.

Frustrations have also been shared by hospitality staff, with one bar owner telling the BBC that many World Cup tourists have been bad tippers.

Lol..

Alman-Jiri USA version. The level of poverty in USA is alarming. Instead of their president to focus on that, he’s busy wasting money on frivolities..

You won’t know how overrated USA is until you arrived there. All those propaganda you do read on their media go first of all clear for your eye..

Ironfaceman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tnlb4BWnjY?si=xj6UUYFMYOOwm662



https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyxgjykx7lo

iykololo:
Abegistan 2

MadamDMadam:
It’s not as compulsory as the media portrays it to be. I only tipped those who gave great service and I wasn’t harassed or called out by those I didn’t tip. For reference, in New York and Miami.