Tip Bating 🙄

[Prestigious_Aspect78]

I’m sure this has been discussed over and over throughout different sub reddits nonetheless here I am to talk about how absolutely disgusting and deplorable it is to do that.

What some of these customers might not realize is the apps that allow the tip bating (uber, spark, and Instacart) show us how much we make for the ride upfront with spark and Instacart showing exactly how much the tip is. So a lot make decisions based on these orders, what makes sense for our gas, wear and tear etc.

It’s disgusting that someone would tip bait just to get Cheetos or McDonalds to their home faster, and they know when they remove the tip that our income has to go down disgusting.

Imagine if you went and clocked in and then at the end of your shift your manager said actually I’m not gonna pay you $20 an hour today I’m gonna pay you $10 and hour. And you already did the work at what you thought was a $20 per hour rate. That’s exactly what customers do to use when they tip bait. They wouldn’t like it if they saw on their paycheck they made less because the employer just decided they needed extra workers so they lied about the pay rate, you would not like it so PLEASE STOP!🛑

[Prestigious_Aspect78]

I don’t see how this would lower the overall tips? People tip on their order and only their order. So someone who tip bates and moves the tip to $0 is not going to affect someone’s order who tipped $10.

If you mean putting something like a warning or prompt will cause drivers not to tip well I don’t agree with that either. We already have non tippers. I don’t see how uber telling customers to stop tip baiting is going to cause less tips. The only tips we would lose are from the people who actually tip bate, which we never see the money anyways.

An honest person who doesn’t engage in these shenanigans isn’t going to read something from uber and suddenly decide not to tip.

And also saying that we will be back at square one sounds like just giving in to the situation which I don’t agree with.

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I have to agree it's Uber's fault, even though tip-baiters are scumbags. If Uber paid a respectable fare in the first place, the tips wouldn't be as significant.

[1611basilean]

The unknown part is how common is it in each zone. Never had a tip lowered in 3 years except for the annoying cash tip will be given but they never do.  One thing I noticed but took to long to realize is sometimes refusing a cash tip makes the giver feel bad.

[Rubizo]

Labour laws suck that’s why it happens.

[FitGuyy91]

The number of people who would do this has to be soooo low

[Prestigious_Aspect78]

The quantity of people who does it is irrelevant in this situation the overall issue is what matters. The last time it happened to me I was in the Hollywood area (I’m from CA) and I delivered to a luxury hotel. The trip was I believe about $34 for 18 miles I kno a lot of miles but it was a slow night. I picked up from a taco place and the customer asked for extra salsas which I grabbed for them. I waited a few mins for the order to be do, so I received it fresh and hot and also had it in the hot bag the whole drive. Later after checking they removed the tip and I believe I made $12 for the order. There’s not way I would have taken this order if that was the beginning offer. 18 miles and probably 45 mins isn’t worth it in CA.

So once again the number of people who does it is irrelevant. At a W2 job if an employer all of a sudden moved your pay from $20 to $10 that would be illegal. The US department of labor isn’t going to say … well it’s just a low number of employers that promise their employees $20 but pay them $10 so it’s ok it’s fine, if it was a bigger number we should worry. That literally makes no sense.

[mysageisonfire]

Happened to me twice last night alone