Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 29, 2024

Pig, just remind yourself that it’s a cafe and he probably calls himself a “barista”; if anything, they should pay you for putting up with it all.

The guilt runs deep with this one.

not to mention the grocery store hitting us up for donations!

Dumb as_sssss

Use Cash!

Apparently this is baked-in to most POS systems nowadays. There’s a few places I’ve been to that will click “no tip” or 0% before spinning it around because they hate it and know it makes people feel awkward.

This is a circumstance in which I let my antisocial tendencies have free rein. The word “tip” is taken from an acronym; To Insure Promptness. To me, that implies some level of service is involved. The act of taking my money is not a service in that sense. It is a necessary function for the business to operate. Cashiers, receptionists, order takers and CSRs, are paid at least the minimum wage, unlike service employees such as servers and busboys whose hourly minimum is much less. Important caveat: If this individual is actually preparing your half-soy, half-organic mochiatto with an espresso shot and foam on the side, then delivering it to you at a table somewhere in the establishment, then by all means tip them.

Pig over tipped him, whereas Rat would tip him over.

Tips are supposed to be offered at the end of the service, not before. If you are paying before the service is rendered, how are you going to judge how good the service will be, and how much to tip?!?

That’s one expensive coffee.. must be Starbucks

Very generous of you, Pig!

I do not tip with my card, usually give them a cash tip instead, they seem to like that better!

It’s a Guilt Tip, man!

I’ll never undertand america’s silly tipping culture.

Just give the waiters decent living wages!

lmao yep.. hard to say no. But yeah, I do, at the drive-through anyway.

Remember, 1619 Project says tipping is a sign of white supremacy: be decent and don’t ever tip.

That’s why pay stubs are sent over email these days. Cashiers are ashamed to hand them over without a tip… :D

Fifty dollars tip? Pig must be feelthy reech!

I’m not going to be guilt-tripped into tipping someone who is already getting $12 – $15/hour.Counter service does not warrant a tip.

I once saw a tip jar at Circle K cash register.

Electronic kidnapping and extortion by small business. America at its best.

I tip if I feel like it.If they don’t like,too bad.

I saw a funny video where a TSA agent pats down a guy and then holds out his phone for a tip

Tipping in the US has gotten out of hand. One of the many reasons we don’t eat out much anymore.

I stopped going to places that have those tip screens long ago.

Can we stop calling it a “gratuity” now?

I hear that’s what Rabbi’s work for?

Skip the coffee shop. They’re using local tap water. Do you really want that?

I have no issues with selecting no tip or leaving a custom amount I feel is appropriate. There is a locally owned grocery/meat market near me that actually allows the cashiers to have tip buckets. It’s getting ridiculously out of control

..stop it.. just stop it..

Put in a negative number…

That guy did a real good job at gaslighting Pig, didn’t he?

All of this has been planned, Pig.

Wait until he turns his back on you when he goes to make the coffee

When I was a kid ‘good service’ was something that was owed to the customer, not something extra.

The tip to leave is “Tell your boss to give you a raise”.

I’m so sick of this tip bulloney – now I look them straight in the eye as I hit “no tip”. (I dread the day when that option disappears from the screen.)

The tip should be taken from the exorbitant price! After all, it’s just coffee which the machine made, all you did was hand me the cup.

Awwwww . . . Pig is an old softie.

My wife stopped going to Starbucks because the tip screen makes her uncomfortable. Weird but true.

Gotta love that beginning monologue scene in “Reservoir Dogs” of Mr. Pink’s rant on no tipping. Enough said and very true.

New rule about tipping… if you order your food standing up, no tip is required.

Always carry cash.

Ahhahah! NO.

I only tip a canoe

I don’t understand why so many people feel awkward about this. Pretty much none of the screens I’ve seen at coffee shops are viewable by the barista when I click “no tip”, so I’ve never felt pressured to select otherwise.

I was at a Rangers game and went into a kiosk area where you get a beer out of a cooler, go to a scanner and pay for it. No people involved. The machine asked how much I wanted to tip. I left a big tip so when our AI overlords take over, I will be spared.

You know that there is a custom button where you could put in zero or there is a button that says no tip.

Good

I don’t tip nor anyone else in my country. It’s like paying tax to someone who hates their job & I’m like welcome to the real world.

If you see a “tip jar”, anything in it usually goes to management. And the reason tip jars – and “Add A Tip” screens – are there is so management can evade minimum wage laws.

So, what’s the answer I hear you ask? Easy.

Make the minimum wage apply to everyone; make it responsive to the rate of inflation, and set it high enough that one wage-earner working a 40-hour week could support a family of 4 above the poverty line.

And before all our friends from the Party Of Only Helping The 1% chime in that that plan would cause a massive shut-down of small businesses and a proportional rise in unemployment, know that they used that argument to oppose the minimum wage in 1938 when it was established, and to oppose every hike since – and it has never happened.

The trickle-down dimwits like to pimp for tax cuts on the rich by saying “A raising tide lifts all boats”; well, they’re right. But you see, I’ve been to the ocean, and I know the tide rises from the bottom up. Give the rich more, they will park more in off-shore accounts and other tax-dodge scams. “They’ll create jobs”, you say? Balderdash! The rich don’t use their own money for business; they borrow.

The poor, on the other hand, will spend it – because they have no choice; they’ll be buying food and medication in the same month. That will increase the demand for products, which will increase the need for workers, which will increase the demand…….

Cue the Jerry Seinfeld comedy act for this.

As for me …. “I want a second option.”

Ten percent goes to Quid Pro Joe Biden.

Cash is King

I make my coffee at home, so no worries for me!

I have no problem tapping “no tip” in those circumstances. Besides, when I tip, I tip in cash.

Pig should just move to Japan, I heard tipping isn’t allowed there. No more guilt!

The tipping rage is out of hand. It’s everywhere. Where is it mandated to tip someone for handing food out a window? Do away with the tip jars already and start thanking your patrons for their business.

Way too much money, Pig

Since tipping is an economic necessity in the US, just consider it a sales tax.

suggested tips now start at 15-18%.

If you want to tip, use cash. Otherwise your tip also benefits the point of sale company who receives a percentage of all debit/credit card transactions.