Is #permafrost a #tipping element?
In a review paper addressing this question, #MPIM scientists conclude: Changes in permafrost are gradual at the global scale but abrupt on a local scale, & the loss of carbon is irreversible."The current changes we see in the Arctic are alarming", says first author Victor Brovkin.
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Check our website: https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/detail-view-news-homepage/permafrost-thaw-gradual-change-or-climate-tipping-point
Or read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-025-09885-9
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I notice more and more that self-service checkouts and payment terminals in Stockholm's bars persistently suggest leaving tips. Honestly, I don't really understand the logic: tipping is fundamentally a reward for good service. What service is there if I place the order myself via a machine and pick it up myself? My subjective feeling is more irritation than gratitude. This type of practice doesn't make me want to return, rather it decreases my loyalty to the place. #SelfService #Tipping #Stockholm #CustomerLoyalty

https://www.alojapan.com/1273212/some-restaurants-in-japan-set-up-tip-boxes-for-confused-tourists/ Some Restaurants in Japan Set Up Tip Boxes For Confused Tourists #JapanTourism #tipping #TippingCulture #tips #tourism Unlike some countries, Japan famously has no tipping culture. Could that change? A new report says at least a few stores are starting to set out donation tins for confused tourists. And tipping lines on electronic point-of-sale systems are showing up more frequently. Is this a good thing? Or should Japan nip it in the …

Fedi, do you tip on self-service/ready-to-go meals?

Ex. Prepared wraps, sandwiches, salad bowls or similar; drinks, chips or snacks, cookies, etc. Where you simply grab what you want and go to pay at the staffed cash.

#Tipping :
#LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver
(#HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89R9ZxKaIOw
#dining #tips #work #labor #wages

#Tipping: #LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver
#Labor #LaborRights #WageSlavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89R9ZxKaIOw

Tipping taking off in Australia despite cost-of-living crisis

That's the headline.

I'm not going to link to the article because it's garbage planted there by "research" from a company that makes money from taking a percentage from EFTPOS transactions. The "journalist" who wrote the article did no research to verify the claims. Heck, it could be a paid ad, but there's no acknowledgement of this conflict of interest.

As the meme says, "Stop trying to make fetch happen". Stop trying to make Australian customers do more tipping.
Australia does not have a tipping culture, and America only does it due to entrenched racism and power disparities between workers, bosses, and customers.

Jeez I get tired of these vested-interest articles trying to convince us that Australians tip. I laughed when I got halfway down the article and read this line - I think they buried the lede there:

"Overall, fewer than 1 per cent of transactions included a tip in 2024..."

https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/despite-rising-prices-australians-are-tipping-more-20250113-p5l3s8.html

An unrecognizable in the United States is #tipping. I have always tipped well because I worked in restaurants - honestly the hardest job I have ever done. But that tip screen, even for like, cashiers. I was also a cashier for a good bit, one of my favorite jobs. Was good at! I never got a tip for making change, but I FEEL the rent, the minimum wage, so I have just been doing it. But recently I have seen like 60% and 100% tip screens, breaking the social contract IMHO. So, I'm done.

If you pay a tip on a credit card, I assume the credit card company takes a cut. Does anyone know if that's true and how big the fee is?
#tipping #credit

New at my Patreon... Tipping in the USA has increased its scope, with tip prompts on payment terminals even at places where you line up. I say hell no to that:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/tips-on-us-115967487

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What a rookie. No way I'm tipping in the US if I've had to line up to order.

#USA #Tipping #Travel https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/travel-news/an-extra-25-per-cent-at-starbucks-tipping-in-us-is-out-of-control-20241029-p5kmbm.html

Wondering if trick or treaters this #Halloween will be asking for gratuities as costs for costumes, bags have gone through the haunted house roof. Following the trend of everyone asking for (higher) gratuities
#tipping #gratuities #inflation

Today we had an appliance repairman come and fix our clothes dryer. Staggeringly, it cost about half of what I paid for it originally. When he handed the repair bill to me on his phone, he asked what percentage tip I’d like to add. I’ve never ever been asked to tip by a repairman before. Is this a new thing? #tipping #appliancerepair

Tipping culture is annoying, unfair and worst of all American

In the US, I was asked to tip after buying a single banana. To my horror, tip-creep is spreading in #French bars & restaurants

As an American living in Paris, I’m not sure when I first started having moments of culture shock visiting the US

But there are 2 American practices that now irritate me no end: sales tax not being included the price of items, & tipping.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/07/france-paris-tipping-culture-american-bars-restaurants

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2024/09/12/tipping-point-quebec-consumer-rights-bill-to-regulate-how-merchants-can-ask-for-tips/

Quebec wants to curb excessive tipping.

Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister responsible for consumer protection, has tabled a bill to force merchants to calculate tips based on the price before tax.

The problem isn't the #Tipping it's the fact business don't pay their employees a #LivingWage and are forced to rely on tips!