Do you leave tips?

[Tired]

I constantly feel bad for not leaving tips. Tips are a common thing here in restaurants and cafes, and now we also have all these food and grocery delivery companies, whose workers also expect tips (and applications for those deliveries all the time try to show how important it is to tip them). I really dislike this whole tipping culture itself, cause I feel that because employers are paying low wages to workers, it is on me now to give them money so they can continue living their lives in not poverty, I just feel really bad for the workers who can't find a better job than that.
I am also not rich myself, and I have an SO for whom I am providing as well now, so every time I tip someone I feel bad, but if I don't tip them I also feel bad. I feel bad if I tip delivery guy and he comes being all unpleasant, or if i don't tip someone and the delivery person is some kind older lady. I dunno, I just get so stressed every time i need to order something to be delivered, or when I go out.

 

[Mary Terry]

I generously tip good waiters. I leave a few token coins for bad waiters to let them know that I didn't merely forget to tip them. There is no takeout delivery where I live so there is no occasion to tip a delivery person, and I never tip the overnight couriers like Federal Express, UPS and the United State Postal Service.

 

[Forest Cat]

I don't think you should feel bad about the tipping, you do what you can. If you can't afford to tip all the time, then you have to take care of yourself first and foremost.

Tipping is not a `thing` in Norway, people get salaries for the work they do. So I haven't thought about the pros and cons.

 

[Shevek]

I don't go to restaurants, etc. so tipping is not a decision now.
I won't order from Amazon because one thing they don't offer is a five minute break for the unlucky cyborg who has to pack my order.
When I drove cab, wait staff were consistently good tippers, possibly trying to affect their own luck, but sharing their own tips generously.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I don't eat at restaurants.

 

[TBRS1]

Having worked low pay jobs for much of my life, I give what I can now spare to others who work low pay jobs.

 

[Judge]

Tipping has always been a part of American culture as opposed to so many other parts of the world where it's considered "bad form", such as in Western Europe. Personally I'm very structured about when and who to tip. Twenty percent or a bit over that, and not a percentage from sales tax either.

I no longer go out anywhere with my cousin, and have never been to any establishment by myself, expecting a tip. Been a long time since I included a tip. Though I scoff at the idea of tipping establishments like "Papa Murphy's Pizza". Where they prepare the pizza cold, and hand it over the counter to patrons who must bake it in their own ovens. Seems absurd to tip anyone for simply handing a product over their counter. There has to be considerably more involved for me to tip them, IMO.