From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:03:30 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Aug 20, 2024 at 6:23:13 PM PDT, "BTR1701"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> The latest in the tip wars... businesses covering up the "no tip" option on   
   >> their card readers. I was at Subway a couple days ago and saw this. I ended   
   >> up   
   >> tapping the "custom tip" button and entering $0.00. I don't tip fast food   
   >> workers. They don't do much more than just hand me a bag, and in California,   
   >> they're making $20/hour by law already, which is why my $5 foot-long now   
   >> costs   
   >> $14.00.   
   >>   
   >> https://ibb.co/pW3khYk   
   >   
   >Went to pick up a friend at the airport yesterday. Got there early, so I   
   >parked and went into the terminal for a bite to eat. I ended up getting a   
   >sandwich and a soda at a completely automated shop on the concourse. I took my   
   >items to the scanner to pay and was presented with a tip screen: 30% 40% and   
   >50% were the options with no "no tip" option or ability to skip the screen.   
   >   
   >For a store WITH NO EMPLOYEES.   
   >   
   >Who am I tipping in that scenario? Myself?   
   >   
   >I'm certainly not tipping for any kind of service. It's basically just the   
   >corporation saying, "Hey, I know we priced the sandwich at $8.00, but we'd   
   >really like it if you paid between $10.50 - $12.00 for it instead. We just   
   >don't want to look like gigantic cockbags with our prices and push people to   
   >eat elsewhere."   
   >   
   >There was a "custom tip" option, so I chose that and entered $0.00, which it   
   >rejected as invalid. So I entered $0.01 and it went through, but I was still   
   >enraged at having to pay even a penny for this kind of nonsense.   
   >   
      
   I see grounds for a lawsuit.  For an optional tip to be mandatory on   
   the machine smacks of fraud.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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