“Just the tip”

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Joe and the juice. I have 2 AIBUs 1. To think asking for a tip when they’re just making a juice, writing my name on it and handing it to me while I stand there is stupid and 2. To find the tip jar saying “just the tip 😉 🍆 “ is a bit crass? I’m actually not a prude and maybe it’s just because I got a really arsey response to me saying I don’t want to leave a tip but it annoyed me today 😅 to make it worse - they don’t accept cash which has had me caught before as I didn’t have my card - but best believe cash is welcome for the tip jar!

I think you need to know that Joe the Juice is a takeaway drinks place selling juice.
The op was in one of the shops and is annoyed that they wanted a tip for a basic job and that they had a crude joke on the tip jar.

Hospitality staff rely on tips. If you never tip, you are being subsidised by people that do. You get paid a lot more than the waiter. And you get an NHS pension. (Making assumptions here!!) You don't need tips, people in hospitality do.

I venture that the person on the till in the supermarket, the person who works in the corner shop, the person working in the past food place are also on minimum wage. It’s not just hospitality that is poorly paid. Lots of jobs are. Someone waiting on a table I’m happy to tip. Someone who presses a button on a machine or puts a pastry in a bag, less so.

I've used an online site can't remember which one it was now - think some sort of health food thing and the website asked me if I wanted to tip? no, do I fuck. I wouldn't tip anyone If they pointed out the tip jar to me. Could they possibly have been pointing it out because they knew you would have preferred to pay in cash and perhaps didn't have the tip money to put on your card? still cheeky though.

Everyone in the UK will be paid the NMW at the very least. I don't tip the supermarket worker every time they scan my food shopping, or tip the classroom assistant every month. Do you?

Tipping should be abolished and filed under extortion.

That can jog right off for a start.
I didn't work for the nhs, there is nursing outside of that I worked for Marie Curie in the day, loved the job, but lousy pay for very long hours.
No, still not tipping either.

Meant to add, as other peeps have pointed out quite rightly, there are 100's jobs apart from hospitality that are on nmw, so by your reckoning they should recieve tips too?
If others want to tip that's up to them they must have more money than me to do so, if they are subsidizing me that's fine, my hard earnt money from my nmw job now pays MY bills and helps MY family and MY charity choice.

Presumably it's in London. Not everyone lives in London, in fact most people don't, so she could have just said 'a juice bar'. Loads of places like this have a tip jar, you don't have to use it. I rarely carry cash these days anyway.

It’s not just from Archer. It was a trope way before that.

Wow. So a carer on minimum wage gets an NHS pension? Great!
Hospitality staff are not the only ones with unreliable hours and a low wage. I am on minimum wage. I can’t afford to top up all the other minimum wage people I interact with.

There plenty of similar jobs that are comparable or far harder than hospitality that pay the same where people are never tipped. Carers, TAs, dental nurses, fast food staff, retail etc etc, no-one ever tips, yet if someone carries a plate of food across a room, interrupts your meal to upsell you things you don't want and disappears when you want to pay the bill, this is somehow deserving of a tip.

Plenty of people in the NHS don't earn much more than NMW and can't afford pension contributions anyway. Plus earnings are only loosely related to what money people 'need' as their circumstances are more relevant. That NHS worker might be the breadwinner for a family, while the juice bar worker is doing a couple of shifts a week so they have some financial independence or can pay for luxuries and have a high earning partner who pays all the household bills.

I don’t live in London either but I worked it out through context. I agree that it was confusing initially and I had to read it a few times to make sense.

It’s been a ‘line’ since the 70s or so.

The 'just the tip' would entirely pass me by.

Given minimum wage is now the wage for huge numbers of skilled, experienced and qualified individuals, I think tipping for 'service' is out-dated in the UK.

We are a service economy. The vast majority of us provide a personal service to individuals, sometimes extremely personal as described above.

Why is giving someone a drink in a cafe worth tipping whilst giving someone a drink in a care role not?

It's a brand, the implication seemed to be that it was company policy when, in fact, it was one employee overreaching. The brand is irrelevant.

WonderfulSmith

Thank you, had no idea, I was literally sitting there trying to figure out what it all meant😅

This is normal in USA and there is nothing I hate more. I grabbed a croissant, took it to till and was asked for a tip.

It's not stupid to want a tip, no. But they shouldn't have to verbally ask. And if they do and it's a no it should be handled with grace and politeness.

All hospitality businesses seem to have the tip option on their payment screens now. I never give one and the staff can see I don't, but they're still always really nice to me!

I live in the US and I can assure you the vast majority of people ignore the tip option on payment machines when they’re buying something to go. You tip for sit-down meals, not a takeaway juice.