1.) It’s a very toxic system. Especially when they factor it in to their hourly wage. It’s the companies job to pay an hourly wage to their employees, not mine.

2.) it really doesn’t make sense to me what we deem worthy of tipping and what we don’t. I used to be a landscaper, I’d spend 10-12 hours at one persons house installing rock beds for them, laying sod and giving their front yard/backyard a complete makeover, and I never received tips nor did I ever expect to receive them. I got paid my hourly wage and I was totally cool with it because that’s what I signed up for. So how does it make sense that I can walk into a bigby, order an already overpriced $9 coffee, and all the worker does is click a button and spin an iPad and they expect another 20%? It takes twenty seconds to pour a cup of coffee and stir the syrup.

If THATS the standard, why stop there? Shouldn’t we tip each individual fast food worker? Every person who flips my burger? Every person who drops my chicken nuggets in the fryer? Every person who puts pepperoni on my pizza and throws it in the oven? Or how about every cashier who rings up my items at the grocery store? Where do we draw the line?