Video appearing to show DoorDash driver cursing at customer over 25% tip sparks online debate
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A spokesperson for DoorDash said a delivery driver had been removed from their platform in connection with the incident.

What’s an acceptable tip for a driver who delivers a $20 pizza?

A TikTok video purporting to show a DoorDash delivery driver in Texas swearing at a customer over the $5 tip she gave him has gone viral, sparking fresh online debate over tipping culture in the U.S.

“I just want to say it’s a nice house for a $5 tip,” the driver can be heard saying as he walks away from a home in the door camera video posted to TikTok earlier this week by a user under the name Lacey Purciful.

“You’re welcome!” the resident says, appearing surprised by the remark. “F*** you,” the driver responds before walking away.

A spokesperson for DoorDash said a delivery driver had been removed from their platform in connection with the incident.

  • Rhaedas@kbin.socialEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    As a pizza deliver driver once (in the era before GPS when it was usually cash or a check), the nice houses often were the worse for paying a tip, if anything. The apartments and run down areas seemed to get the point of you doing them a service, and would find change they probably needed to make a tip. That being said, tipping in the US is yet another example of corporate power shifting responsibility and blame onto the consumer rather than take direct action on a problem. The modern example is putting in more and more systems to encourage higher tipping, rather than raise wages.

    • Litany@kbin.socialEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Yes! I never know how to feel about being prompted for a tip when I get carry out. Normally the tip is for table or delivery service. I don’t think I should be obligated to compensate someone’s wage for running my credit card and handing me a bag.

      It is is 100% the case that establishments know customers will feel obligated to tip in any scenario they are prompted.

      Hell, how do I even know that such a tip goes to the service staff who are paid less than minimum wage?

      • Flaky_Fish69@kbin.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Frequently, it doesn’t. Or more frequently, not all of it. It’s acruelly illegal (a form of wage theft.) but because there’s a sense that the person working the shit job needs that shit job… complaining about it doesn’t help.

        In any case… I’m of the opinion that I shouldn’t have to tip. If that pisses of service workers, they can (and should,) go find another job. That said I do tip for typical things- I just do t think I should have to. And if the service is terrible….

        In any case, there are waitstaff that make relatively large paychecks from tipping as well. (Particularly in bars.)