As an American, I'm also shocked at tipping culture. Until just a few years ago, you tipped restaurant servers, hairdressers, and bellboys. That's it. Not everyone and their brother. We are also very fed up with tipping.

The whole reason tipping culture even exists is to give big business an excuse not to pay you a living wage. What this driver did isn't right, and technically probably a crime, but being paid $2.50 per delivery is also wrong. I'd rather everyone just be paid enough to not need tips just to survive.

Youre not alone in that shock, i live in the states and im disgusted by how tipping culture has devolved. I dont use delivery services like this(rather pick up my own food, too many stories like this ick me out over the idea of a unknown third party handling my food). I only tip based on service or if im making a particularly annoying/time consuming order. Even then, i dont tip if im going through a drive thru, What are they doing thats outside of their job description to go above and beyond taking the payment and handing me my food that deserves a tip? dont even get me started on how tip amount has escalated, i remember when tipping 5-15% was the norm(maybe more depending on circumstance) but this 15-35% bullcrap needs to end.

As an American the tipping culture digusts me although I still tip because some people are dependent on because the government lets their employers get away with paying them practically nothing. They are not entitled to at least the normal minum wage. I don't blame those who need tips, its the government at fault. Even so, Stealing someone's food out of spite is wrong, should never be praised, or imitated. It is a crime and these people need to be held responsible, maybe even criminally.

Try tipping with cash, people immediately always assume that you're never going to tip them anything because you didn't put it on card. So you're this rancid piece of s*** before you even get to do anything about it.

I always thought you were.

Unfortunately you cannot see the tip amount until the end ..... If you could see the amount before there are a lot of people that would never get their food delivered.

Actually what they don't say in the article is that doordash drivers don't know how much the tip actually is until the order is complete so this entire article is not accurate. As a door dash driver myself I do look at orders and go okay how much is it and then how far is it for mileage and based off that then I decide to take or not take the order. On other delivery services I believe they do show the tip at the beginning but doordash does not!!! It pops up with a base amount and then at the end after taking a picture and leaving the order as requested then that is when we find out the real total of everything! Sometimes that is exactly what was shown at the beginning. Sometimes and more often then not its a little more. Our base wage is very low though so most of the money we make is coming from tips. But I notice more times then not that my stats show I make about 50% of my wages from tips. And no I would never eat someone's food this whole article is a bit of a joke to be honest.

From what I understand, DD & other delivery apps only let you decline a certain # of orders or the algorithms place you on a lower level of potential deliveries. After a while you have to accept an order or your downgraded. These delivery guys are considered independent workers. I agree though, with the tipping situation. It's gotten out of control.

Alright so, idk why he only gets 2$ for a delivery, might be where he lives. its been a bit since ive dine door dash, but I def made more then that per order. now, can one refuse to take a order? Yes, but it negatively affects you. It lowers your acceptance rating, which gives you less orders. , also for the other person Your The Employer, you hired them through Door dash, delivery drivers for that service are not Waged Workers, they are Independent Contracters. that You Hire. Like a baby sitter type thing for payment

Yeah I'm hoping he staged this for clout or whatever. I wouldn't be surprised if he's done this to actual customers, but how could someone be stupid enough to think filming and posting it would be ok ??

Yes, we.

We? No you. A lot of us feel pressured, because we're terrible people if we don't tip everything all the time. Tipping is everywhere. I don't know what world you live in but here in reality everyone's asking for a tip before their jobs finished. I think the only time recently I haven't needed to tip before the job was done, was my hairdresser.

What I'm saying is the fact that we have to tip you before you get here is hilarious. I'm not giving you anything until I know all of my food is there, or at least you gave me my drink, you don't smell like cigarettes and it made all of my food smell like cigarettes, you're not harassing me, you didn't spill my drink, you didn't just look me dead in the eye like you didn't care about anything and tell me to go cry about it. I will tip you when I know you have sanely handed me my food. You don't even have to smile I don't give a s*** about that. I just want you to not be crazy.

I don't feel entirely sorry for anyone considering the last guy from go puff decided to harass me. You got my phone number obviously, to call me about my food. But when you couldn't find my place I told him six times this goddamn apartment didn't have a gate. All he says was fine no no tell me where the gate is no food. So I had to call the service and tell them to send a different driver because this one's too stupid. Another time dude hands me cold food and a half spilled drink. He was very unapologetic about all of it. Just says go complain to the company. Another time I'm missing half of my food aren't you guys supposed to check the order? And literally 50% of the time they don't bring me my drink. You don't really have to check the food to know that I ordered a goddamn drink. I'm not saying you're all the same obviously you're not that's just stupid. ----

This is entirely untrue. They still get payed minimum wage regardless. The reduced wage only comes in id their tips account for the rest of the wage.

I've worked as a Dasher. When have you ever got paid a $2 base pay for 15 miles and why would you accept that. I have never drove out of 5 miles and managed to receive $100. That included maybe 5 stops and tips.

Haha

IYou either. No one ever said sh&t is free, matty. If you complain all the time get a different job. I'm so sick of dashers whining all the time about tips. How about you complain to corporate about a fair wage. I've persuaded my friends to NOT use door dash because of the incessant whining. I hope you realize nobody cares about you, your wages, or your life.

I don't care either lol.

You take job willingly. Complain to your boss. I just don't care about your tips lol

If by we you mean also the half of you that don't do your job at all, then yes you are all absolutely doing the footwork. Every single one of you. The ones who spilled half the drink and didn't give a s*** about it. The ones who forgot half the order. The ones who made all the food smell like cigarettes. The ones who call you a bunch of times to tell you to go die. Yeah all of you. You are all exactly the same. And before you complain about me telling you you're all exactly the same, you're doing that to us, the people ordering food. Obviously none of us are exactly the same. So I don't think the fact that we don't know each other should impact how you view everyone. The fact that 50% of you have f***** the order or treated me like a piece of s*** when I did tip, the other 50% of you shouldn't suffer. Which is basically what you're saying should happen to us. I also like this company's tactics. They don't pay you a living wage but they do make you so focused on the people not tipping you because they're not paying you a living wage, you people are complaining more about tips than the people not paying you a living wage. You're as bad as the poor people focusing on the wrong s***. I'm below poverty line, let me tell you people are not focused on the right things, they're just pitting against each other's fighting over the scraps. This is what stupid people do. You people need to focus on the right person, not the people tipping you, you need to focus on your company. Your company's the one screwing you over not us. The whole point of tipping is to tip for a job. The whole point of tipping is to tip you because you did a good job. I don't want to tip you before you even have gotten here. And you people are the whiniest a******s if I want a tip in cash. Because you just assumed that I'm not going to do anything at all. It's not my fault you f****** ran off before I could even answer the door. I had to flag one of you down just to give you the money before you ran off. Don't blame me because you guys are having a bad time.

You God damn right about that. Have a book AH

Nobody cares. We all have jobs, sweetie. Some crappy, some great. Take the good with he bad, or find a different job.

The hell you are opening up respectful dialogue. 90% of what you said was basically f*** off and die.

Your bills are your problem. No one gives af about your car note, like you're unique. Buy a different car,whiner.

I like how your entire opinion is based on your own experience only and a generalization of what actually exists.

Not all countries have tipping cultures

I agree with you to an extent, but I don't think insulting everyone and implying they're all spawns of Satan is really going to get anyone to listen to you. Ja also since we're talking about stupid people who don't think about anything, you might want to realize that doordash wants us to tip these people before they're even here. I don't know if I have my food, I don't know if they're going to hand me my drink, I don't know if things are going to smell like cigarettes, I don't know if they're going to harass me 6,000 times like the last guy did, I don't know what's going on. Tipping is for after service. That's the entire point of tipping. I tip in cash because frankly I don't know what the hell I'm going to get. Half the time I don't even want to order doordash anyway because of the jack up price and it's just cheaper to go get it myself. But maybe consider the fact that at least 50% of you are goddamn insane and I don't think I should be tipping for bad service. Which is what you're telling me I need to do. So likewise we've got trash tippers who are too cheap, and we've got insane doordashers that will do s*** to your food or forget half the order. I'm just so you know, my husband's a delivery driver. It's for pizza it's not for doordash but it's still a delivery driver. I'm not unsympathetic towards tipping. I'm very unsymthetic towards people who don't think past their own opinions.

Tipped employees make at least minimum wage, same as everyone else. Because of tips they often make more. Like based on the federal minimum of $7.25/hour, a tipped employee will only be payed $2.13 if their tips exceed $7.25. And the employer can only claim up to $5.12 of those tips as part of the employees hourly wage. So if an employee is only bringing in $3/hour from tips, the employer is required to pay them minimum wage. Even if the employee is making $50/hour in tips, the employer is still required to pay $7.25. But they can use up to $5.12 of those tips to supplement their wages, allowing them to pay $2.13. So that employee is making around $52/hour. If the tips are pooled, then it's based on whatever amount the employee receives. It differs based on where they work, but they will always make the minimum wage of the state they work in. When servers talk about how underpaid they are, just know they are making at least as much as the rest of us. And we're all struggling

Servers are ultimately salesmen, their tip is their commission. That's why good ones give great service. It's better to tip them DIRECTLY than pay their boss and let it trickle down to them

Dunno but in Korea it's insulting to tip at all. You know, because they're paid like normal people. So if you were looking to make a point, here's another perspective.