On: Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips

[abandonliberty]

It's cultural. You can get amazing service in other countries with little or no tipping culture.

Sure, tipping may be an incentive as well, but most people I know won't go below 10% even if the service is terrible.

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The service you get in the US is very annoying to people not used to it. Fake-smiling at me especially.

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Which other countries with little to no tipping culture do you receive amazing service?

Again, I am curious, not combative, so please take care if applying disdain to my comments.

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In my opinion, I get amazing service in Denmark.

I would guess that what I consider to be amazing service isn't the same thing as what you would consider to be amazing service.

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Japan.

Really awkward as well. Basically the whole staff was waving at us until we went around the corner and they couldn’t see us any more. Didn’t know what to do - ignore, acknowledge, turn back and keep eye contact while still walking forward, smile, stop, wave ...

This was a high-end restaurant though.

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Taiwan as well

Outside of that it's on an establishment by establishment basis. I know an amazing restaurant in a less touristic Paris arrondissement that will provide stellar service no matter who I show up with or how terrible my French is. Their menus are only in French. If I'm not fast enough the staff notices I'm using a translation app and starts translating it into English.

This in the city of famously terrible service.

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Japan. Phenomenal service every single place I went and some was so good we tried tipping only to be chased into the street to have the “mistake” fixed.

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