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Perhaps you’ve noticed. We have reached a tipping point in the country over tipping.

To tip or not to tip has led to Shakespearean soliloquies by customers explaining why they refuse to tip for certain things.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, customers were grateful for those who seemingly risked their safety so we could get groceries, order dinner or anything that made our lives feel normal. A nice tip was the least we could do to show gratitude.

But now that we are out about and back to normal, the custom of tipping for just about everything has somehow remained; and customers are upset.

A new study from Pew Research shows most American adults say tipping is expected in more places than it was five years ago, and there’s no real consensus about how tipping should work.

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[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow, this "etiquette expert" grift is more interesting than the article itself. https://www.valerieandcompany.com/

Internationally recognized as a National News Contributor, Valerie is an expert in her field of leadership presence and personal branding. She is one of only 20 Master Brand Strategists worldwide and has received front-page press coverage in the Wall Street Journal as a pioneer in executive coaching.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

How is this grift? These are all corporate words for "I train existing leaders"

It's very much a real job.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago

A job who's qualifications comes from news media exposure and being

one of only 20 Master Brand Strategists

Is an absolute corporate grift.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Her job is literally to help other people get positive exposure lol

These are real things that people do. She does what a publicist does, only for corporate people. As a CEOs job is literally to attract funding, I'm sure you can see how this is a relevant job.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It really is a recursive situation of uselessness. She goes onto news media to promote her own ability to make execs feel like she can help them promote their own ability. All we achieve is making corporate leaders feel entitled to their position and more money extracted from people actually creating value.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You can hate the system and still recognize that the system has parts.

You don't like that her job has value, and that's fine -but it still has value.

Were you not being literal? Did I just completely misunderstand your post?

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I think you just have a structural/functional view of the world that is fundamentally incompatible with how I view it.

[-] hansl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe you see the world on How it Should work, not How it Does work. Those two are not incompatible, unless you confuse one for the other.

[-] Pseudonaut@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year ago

We might be thinking of different meanings of the word value. If value means anything that is worth money, then yes she probably is creating value. If value means something that contributes to society and mankind then… Bullshit job.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You're being a bit pedantic by correcting people on it. We get it's a "real job", we're saying that it's BULLSHIT that it's a real job. It's a bullshit job. She's the expert of made up rules that she creates by enforcing and enforces by creating. She makes money, cool, it's a "job" in that sense, but it's a bullshit job.

If someone paid me to shit on the sidewalk every day, would you correct people who said "That's a bullshit job"? "Um it's a real job"

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

She’s the expert of made up rules that she creates by enforcing and enforces by creating

Our entire society functions via made up rules that don't make sense and contradict themselves. Ask literally anyone you know on the Spectrum. As long as society exists roles like this will exist.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

21 now. I declare myself a Master Brand Strategist.

[-] Pseudonaut@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year ago

There’s no such thing as a “master brand strategist.” Look into David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs theory. Hers is most likely a bullshit job.

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