What’s an acceptable tip for a driver who delivers a $20 pizza?
A TikTok video purporting to show a DoorDash delivery driver in Texas swearing at a customer over the $5 tip she gave him has gone viral, sparking fresh online debate over tipping culture in the U.S.
“I just want to say it’s a nice house for a $5 tip,” the driver can be heard saying as he walks away from a home in the door camera video posted to TikTok earlier this week by a user under the name Lacey Purciful.
“You’re welcome!” the resident says, appearing surprised by the remark. “F*** you,” the driver responds before walking away.
A spokesperson for DoorDash said a delivery driver had been removed from their platform in connection with the incident.
Tipping is not the right way to ensure everyone earns a decent wage.
What a bad take. You expect employers to stop exploiting their staff by underpaying them? Un-American
It’s only a bad take if you cannot imagine unions, labor laws, and minimum wage.
Workers’ rights? Literal communism! Go back to China
Ahhh china. The country of workers rights.
Communism is when the government does stuff and the more the government does the more communister it is
I don’t think you know how communism countries treat there workers…
I’m aware. I was hoping people would understand sarcasm without an explicit /s but sigh
We seem to have brought a lot of try-hards that just want to argue and can’t see obvious sarcasm.
inb4: “sArCAsm dOEsnT coME ThrOUGh TeXt!”
There are cases where sarcasm doesn’t come through, because it’s only clear that it’s either sarcastic or crazy. And there’s a lot of crazy in the internet.
But i did feel this was clearly sarcastic.
But sarcasm doesn’t come thr—
Oh…
I’ll sit down
Dude, people are walking around believing that shit. Parody doesn’t work when the extreme just has the same take.
Poor guy. Like trying to explain philosophy to a potted plant.
We get it. It’s just not funny.
I see three users in this thread not getting it. And the OP is replying to one of 'em. Not sure if you’re blind or just want to be a prick mate, but if its the latter leave that attitude on Reddit yeh?
I thought it was funny.
Fair enough
Woooosh
Tipping is messed up on both ends for both the delivery person and the customer when you think about it.
Tipping is basically a way for a corporation that could actually pay a livable wage to instead not do that, and then criminally underpay their employees - after all, the customers will just pay extra to make up for the literal below minimum wage pay the corporation is paying the delivery person.
It’s also a way for employees to under-report their income on their taxes, which is a perverse incentive.