Unionized Apple store workers want you to start tipping them

So an employee is frustrated that the company isn’t paying him/her the deserved compensation, but instead of asking the employer to pay that, you turn to ask the customers who already pay an overpriced items?! What kind of logic is this? Or maybe just mimicking the mockery that happens in restaurant business.

I don&#x27;t want to go to a store where the salespeople are essentially on commission, it means that anything that they say or do is useless and must be assumed to be intended to get you to spend money unnecessarily. This is what makes car buying so absolutely wretched, why would we want that anywhere else?<p>And this is on top of the already absolute bullshit that is American advertised prices.

That&#x27;s dumb. Better to make Apple pay a better wage rather than force customers to cover the cost of wages - we need to get away from tipping as a &#x27;thing&#x27; in general.

Lol... Maybe ask your multi-trillion dollar company to pay you well. No tips for you folks.

I can negotiate on my own. I see no reason to ever join a union when they are almost always run by people as incompetent as this. No thank you.

If it’s a real idea rather than a negotiation tactic with Apple, then it does start to make it into a sales commission of 3-5% meaning employees will have more of an incentive to upsell regardless of benefit to the customer for a higher % cut.<p>As to how many customers would look to pay an extra $45 on a $900 phone…

tips? get fucking real.<p>having to step foot inside an apple store is utter chaos. they’re usually packed with people and generally what i consider a miserable time.<p>you should expect the most valuable company in the world pays you enough.

I’m still baffled that most people in the US (generalization based on the fact that tipping still lives on) accept tipping over making employers pay (or go out of business, if they can’t - capitalism) livable wage to their workers by making it a law.