Noticed this while checking out. I can understand tipping in person for an espresso made for me, but for an online order of equipment? Thoughts on tipping culture?
by sse2k
45 Comments
ikisstitties
lol absolutely not
sheldoneousk
Choose none and move on…it ain’t that serious.
Gooseberree
Thoughts on tipping culture? I dislike it.
Sancho_IV_of_Castile
I just tried to enter a tip for $100,000,000,000,000,000 and it won’t let you tip more than the total dollar amount in your cart. Lame!
It’s an option and none is default, why is it an issue
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agmanning
I don’t have a problem with this in principal, but wouldn’t do it without a public statement by the company that the tips are actually passed on, and are not just pocketed as extra revenue.
jaw719
If I am not being served food, drink, etc I am not tipping. I went to a take away place where you literally get your own food from a fridge, chips, drink. I went to check out and they asked for a tip.
c1h9
This is the same asshole who would stop coming in and be real loud if the prices were raised by a dollar across the board.
Solintari
I’m going to start asking for tips at work when I finish projects.
Let’s see, looks like 1.7 million in revenue…
5% – bad service 10% – good service 20% – great service! Show your support for your project team ❤️
340k dollar tip, tax free please. Gobless you.
Kichigax
It’s the standard Shopify template. Just ignore it. Normcore leaves it there as a way to make custom orders. I know because I have done it.
The Palm Tamper v2 only comes with the steel base, but I wanted the PVD coated base instead, so Support told me to add $X amount as a tip and indicate in the comment my customisation.
They’re basically saying “we pay our employees shit wages, so can you please help out, on top of being a customer?”
B14ckbrook
This is standard Shopify stuff and you see it on lots of vendors’ websites.
I have used it with places I know well – independent places run by passionate individuals – but I wouldn’t tip Normcore personally. I love my tamper but that doesn’t justify a tip.
Dangerous-Lime939
It looks like they’re using Shopify or a similar platform for their site. I really hate modern tipping culture, it feels like a push driven by payment processors, since their fees also apply to tips. They’ve all redesigned their systems to aggressively promote tipping.
Early_Alternative211
It’s fair to assume that people buying their overpriced products would be the sort to add a tip to a digital transaction.
natte-krant
Gonna be honest; this is fucking ridiculous.
eatslead
No. Their stuff already costs more than most similar products. Another reason to avoid this company.
iRizoto
Don’t understand who are you tipping in this process. The Webmaster ?
NoRandomIsRandom
This should be heading to r/WTF
Darksept
I think businesses realized they could make a ton more money simply by asking for it. This is happening in all the businesses that never had tipping as an option before. It’s just a donation request. I think things like GoFundMe and streaming culture has made asking for money a normal thing. For the first ~30 years of my life, this sorta thing was reserved for waitresses and the homeless.
It’s kind of a hack for shy socially awkward people that have a fear of disappointing others. They end up donating money out of guilt. Long story short, I think it’s scummy most of the time.
darknessblades
American Tipping culture gets out of hand.
Did they help you in ANY way to make that purchase: YES 0% tip, NO 0% tip
OmegaDriver
They’re free to ask. You’re free to say no. Hopefully the default was set to none. Personally, if I saw this, I wouldn’t be buying from them again. There are too many good options out there to waste time dealing with this.
EchoOfLaLoba_481
What. The. Fk? No. This is getting absurd.
nyne87
Absolutely not. Hoping that’s a mistake, really disgusting for them to ask for a tip.
amprawr
I read it as Normcore Tripping? They most def. are tripping.
Ok-Switch9308
Amazon will probably add this on checking out
nerferderr
I’m gonna have a sign out when saying goodbye to passengers…
*Tips appreciated for a good landing!*
/S
Zestyclose-Kick-7388
Hell no. I barely tip baristas, I walked up to the counter and then stood near the counter to wait for my order, tf am I tipping for. I don’t even know what my coffee tastes like yet
eandi
It’s default on in Shopify. I have a small shop and didn’t know it was asking until people started tipping me. I’ll leave it on because they do LOL
MichaelW24
My favorite is the round up donate to xx cause.
You spend more money, and the company donates on your behalf which they get to write off on their taxes. Lol no, I’m not helping you avoid taxes on your multi million dollar company.
If I want to donate I’ll do it myself and get the write off for me.
Good_Air_7192
That’s fucking atrocious
R_Thorburn
All visiting another country that didn’t have this is part of the culture. It was quite enjoyable here in America. I really enjoyed when tipping was optional if the server did a good job and you wanted to give them a little extra now it’s become a way for restaurant owners to pay their employees less and pass on the cost to Suzet consumer and it’s become Expected. It’s a weird one because on one hand, I feel bad because these guys aren’t getting paid a whole lot but then at the same time it’s frustrating because I don’t feel like I should tip if they didn’t do anything service why is really we’re not that good
PelioCitus
On one hand, I get it. If you can just ask for more money and people pay it? Why wouldn’t you. On the other hand: ABSOLUTELY NOT AND THIS MADNESS HAS TO END. Pre-covid I used to tip 20% everywhere, and 30-40% on the places I was a regular at. It was an unspoken agreement that I’m basically paying for better service (i.e. I’d always have a table available even if the restaurant was ‘full’). Post-covid, tipping culture has *completely* jumped the shark and I don’t even want to tip anything anymore. I still do for service industry, because I’m not going to stiff the server who is stuck in the system, but I also want to dismantle the system. I completely refuse to ‘tip’ for retail, especially online retail. CHARGE THE FULL PRICE UPFRONT AND MOVE ON.
thecookielord
I’ll be honest, if I’m purchasing something online and there’s a tip screen, I just won’t buy it.
Expensive-Trip4817
This is just normal now, only exists because morons feel pressured to do it and give in.
blindgorgon
As with many topics, tipping culture is nuanced and laden with landmines.
For example: did you know that depending on which US State you’re in it can be legal to pay someone <$3/hr if they make money on tips? It’s called the subminimum wage, and it’s there to be abused by employers. Note: the exact <$3/hr amount they pay is nearly always based on the wage’s tax rate, meaning these employees often make exactly $0.00 without receiving tips.
While I completely agree that these poor souls’ wages should not be reliant on tips alone this is a reality of current laws. Until we can fix those laws not tipping is effectively being complicit in condemning these workers to work for free—and actually, if they pool tips it could amount to them _paying_ to work. Yep. You read that right.
That _doesn’t_ mean we need to tip in all cases though. In my state there is no subminimum wage, so at least people have to get paid a minimum wage (even if that’s still too low…). Also with cases like this—there’s not even an employee involved in your transaction.
It just goes to say: you need to be informed about what the problem really is—which could even be different regionally or per business—before you can make a reasonable decision about whether or not you want to tip.
And please—anyone reading this—work toward abolishing these 99-percenter laws. Change happens slowly. Change happens locally. Make it happen. 👍🏻
__hydro
Highway robbery!
ahundredthousandbats
lololllllolol no way, get fucked! 😂
JacksOnF1re
I read “no more core wars” and thought I was in one of my geeky subs. Then realized it’s espresso. Same, but different.
ChemicalConnect739
Tipping has inflated with inflation. When I grew up the average was 5%, 10% was a BIG tip, and 20% was crazy high. Now there are places where 20% is the expected tip.
Maybe so they don’t have to raise the price of their stuff, they keep their margin by not raising the salary of the servers, and make them survive on tips even more than in the past.
Gizzle99
I will only tip when a service is provided. Tip size is based on the quality of that service. If I have to stand in a line to order food then come back to get it “no tip”. If I have food and they have a check yourself out kiosk “smaller tip”. If I’m dealing directly with the owner of a business “no tip”. He gets to pay himself what he wants and gets all the profits.
Independent-Paper937
As someone who has worked extensively in the service industry it physically causes me pain to select no-tip. However this should not be a thing. I do not know what happened during covid that has made every industry think it is fine to ask for customers to subsidize their employee wages but it is really harming people in the service industry that rely on tips to survive. People are getting fed up.
I have a feeling this would not go to anyone actually on the ground level of this company.
45 Comments
lol absolutely not
Choose none and move on…it ain’t that serious.
Thoughts on tipping culture? I dislike it.
I just tried to enter a tip for $100,000,000,000,000,000 and it won’t let you tip more than the total dollar amount in your cart. Lame!
https://preview.redd.it/n0zozx2v0mwe1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59ccc72a00296d06468fa80984b22ccd41337eb4
It’s an option and none is default, why is it an issue
[deleted]
I don’t have a problem with this in principal, but wouldn’t do it without a public statement by the company that the tips are actually passed on, and are not just pocketed as extra revenue.
If I am not being served food, drink, etc I am not tipping. I went to a take away place where you literally get your own food from a fridge, chips, drink. I went to check out and they asked for a tip.
This is the same asshole who would stop coming in and be real loud if the prices were raised by a dollar across the board.
I’m going to start asking for tips at work when I finish projects.
Let’s see, looks like 1.7 million in revenue…
5% – bad service 10% – good service 20% – great service! Show your support for your project team ❤️
340k dollar tip, tax free please. Gobless you.
It’s the standard Shopify template. Just ignore it. Normcore leaves it there as a way to make custom orders. I know because I have done it.
The Palm Tamper v2 only comes with the steel base, but I wanted the PVD coated base instead, so Support told me to add $X amount as a tip and indicate in the comment my customisation.
[https://www.normcorewares.com/products/normcore-coffee-palm-tamper-v2-built-in-spring?_pos=1&_psq=Palm+tamper+v2&_ss=e&_v=1.0](https://www.normcorewares.com/products/normcore-coffee-palm-tamper-v2-built-in-spring?_pos=1&_psq=Palm+tamper+v2&_ss=e&_v=1.0)
https://preview.redd.it/vfgu9ldm3mwe1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f68edb11f41d27930fb430f7b17bd517ea37e2ef
If you don’t tip, we will spit in your basket.
THE AUDACITY
They’re basically saying “we pay our employees shit wages, so can you please help out, on top of being a customer?”
This is standard Shopify stuff and you see it on lots of vendors’ websites.
I have used it with places I know well – independent places run by passionate individuals – but I wouldn’t tip Normcore personally. I love my tamper but that doesn’t justify a tip.
It looks like they’re using Shopify or a similar platform for their site. I really hate modern tipping culture, it feels like a push driven by payment processors, since their fees also apply to tips. They’ve all redesigned their systems to aggressively promote tipping.
It’s fair to assume that people buying their overpriced products would be the sort to add a tip to a digital transaction.
Gonna be honest; this is fucking ridiculous.
No. Their stuff already costs more than most similar products. Another reason to avoid this company.
Don’t understand who are you tipping in this process. The Webmaster ?
This should be heading to r/WTF
I think businesses realized they could make a ton more money simply by asking for it. This is happening in all the businesses that never had tipping as an option before. It’s just a donation request. I think things like GoFundMe and streaming culture has made asking for money a normal thing. For the first ~30 years of my life, this sorta thing was reserved for waitresses and the homeless.
It’s kind of a hack for shy socially awkward people that have a fear of disappointing others. They end up donating money out of guilt. Long story short, I think it’s scummy most of the time.
American Tipping culture gets out of hand.
Did they help you in ANY way to make that purchase: YES 0% tip, NO 0% tip
They’re free to ask. You’re free to say no. Hopefully the default was set to none. Personally, if I saw this, I wouldn’t be buying from them again. There are too many good options out there to waste time dealing with this.
What. The. Fk? No. This is getting absurd.
Absolutely not. Hoping that’s a mistake, really disgusting for them to ask for a tip.
I read it as Normcore Tripping? They most def. are tripping.
Amazon will probably add this on checking out
I’m gonna have a sign out when saying goodbye to passengers…
*Tips appreciated for a good landing!*
/S
Hell no. I barely tip baristas, I walked up to the counter and then stood near the counter to wait for my order, tf am I tipping for. I don’t even know what my coffee tastes like yet
It’s default on in Shopify. I have a small shop and didn’t know it was asking until people started tipping me. I’ll leave it on because they do LOL
My favorite is the round up donate to xx cause.
You spend more money, and the company donates on your behalf which they get to write off on their taxes. Lol no, I’m not helping you avoid taxes on your multi million dollar company.
If I want to donate I’ll do it myself and get the write off for me.
That’s fucking atrocious
All visiting another country that didn’t have this is part of the culture. It was quite enjoyable here in America. I really enjoyed when tipping was optional if the server did a good job and you wanted to give them a little extra now it’s become a way for restaurant owners to pay their employees less and pass on the cost to Suzet consumer and it’s become Expected. It’s a weird one because on one hand, I feel bad because these guys aren’t getting paid a whole lot but then at the same time it’s frustrating because I don’t feel like I should tip if they didn’t do anything service why is really we’re not that good
On one hand, I get it. If you can just ask for more money and people pay it? Why wouldn’t you. On the other hand: ABSOLUTELY NOT AND THIS MADNESS HAS TO END. Pre-covid I used to tip 20% everywhere, and 30-40% on the places I was a regular at. It was an unspoken agreement that I’m basically paying for better service (i.e. I’d always have a table available even if the restaurant was ‘full’). Post-covid, tipping culture has *completely* jumped the shark and I don’t even want to tip anything anymore. I still do for service industry, because I’m not going to stiff the server who is stuck in the system, but I also want to dismantle the system. I completely refuse to ‘tip’ for retail, especially online retail. CHARGE THE FULL PRICE UPFRONT AND MOVE ON.
I’ll be honest, if I’m purchasing something online and there’s a tip screen, I just won’t buy it.
This is just normal now, only exists because morons feel pressured to do it and give in.
As with many topics, tipping culture is nuanced and laden with landmines.
For example: did you know that depending on which US State you’re in it can be legal to pay someone <$3/hr if they make money on tips? It’s called the subminimum wage, and it’s there to be abused by employers. Note: the exact <$3/hr amount they pay is nearly always based on the wage’s tax rate, meaning these employees often make exactly $0.00 without receiving tips.
While I completely agree that these poor souls’ wages should not be reliant on tips alone this is a reality of current laws. Until we can fix those laws not tipping is effectively being complicit in condemning these workers to work for free—and actually, if they pool tips it could amount to them _paying_ to work. Yep. You read that right.
That _doesn’t_ mean we need to tip in all cases though. In my state there is no subminimum wage, so at least people have to get paid a minimum wage (even if that’s still too low…). Also with cases like this—there’s not even an employee involved in your transaction.
It just goes to say: you need to be informed about what the problem really is—which could even be different regionally or per business—before you can make a reasonable decision about whether or not you want to tip.
And please—anyone reading this—work toward abolishing these 99-percenter laws. Change happens slowly. Change happens locally. Make it happen. 👍🏻
Highway robbery!
lololllllolol no way, get fucked! 😂
I read “no more core wars” and thought I was in one of my geeky subs. Then realized it’s espresso. Same, but different.
Tipping has inflated with inflation.
When I grew up the average was 5%, 10% was a BIG tip, and 20% was crazy high.
Now there are places where 20% is the expected tip.
Maybe so they don’t have to raise the price of their stuff, they keep their margin by not raising the salary of the servers, and make them survive on tips even more than in the past.
I will only tip when a service is provided. Tip size is based on the quality of that service. If I have to stand in a line to order food then come back to get it “no tip”. If I have food and they have a check yourself out kiosk “smaller tip”. If I’m dealing directly with the owner of a business “no tip”. He gets to pay himself what he wants and gets all the profits.
As someone who has worked extensively in the service industry it physically causes me pain to select no-tip. However this should not be a thing. I do not know what happened during covid that has made every industry think it is fine to ask for customers to subsidize their employee wages but it is really harming people in the service industry that rely on tips to survive. People are getting fed up.
I have a feeling this would not go to anyone actually on the ground level of this company.