• mifan@feddit.dk
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    7 months ago

    Living in a part of the world where we don’t really tip I have to ask, is tipping your landlord really a thing?

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      7 months ago

      “Tipping the landlord” Some landlord/employer posted on Twitter how none of their employees/tenants are grateful for the nice things the capitalist provides them with. They said that they’d like to get tipped occasionally. It might have been a shitpost, but it blew up. Now, ‘tipping the landlord’ is an internet gag line. No one in real life tips their land lord.

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          7 months ago

          In addition to that. It’s probably mocking these places where it asks if you want to leave a tip when you didn’t see a single employee your entire visit. Or counter service/fast food etc.

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        I always thought that it mocks the idea of giving tip for everything everywhere to highlight that tipping is not a very good practice

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          Always look at it from the other side. If you’re making minimum wage, every extra dollar counts.

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      7 months ago

      It’s as real as Kids requesting litter boxes in school because they identify as a furry, it’s just meme BS that a specific political group has latched on to and bitch about. It’s definitely not real.

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          7 months ago

          Until I joined Lemmy I would have agreed with you.

          EDIT: Unless you are talking about the litterbox thing, I have heard this brought up as legitimate discussion before. I quickly squashed that conversation, but there are (stupid) people out there that believe it.

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          7 months ago

          I have never seen it and I’ve been renting for 20 years (omg thst is so depressing). I can imagine a landlord with a poorly set up payment processor possibly having it, but that is a stretch

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            7 months ago

            In my experience the only thing like this would be the bullshit service or convenience fees.

            Add on that most places won’t accept cash and you need a money order.

            I’m just sick of spending money to spend money

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        It’s as real as Kids requesting litter boxes

        That was a more subtle disinformation deflection by conservatives. Schools did need litter boxes for mandated mass shooting lockdown preparations.

        Instead of the horror of children needing to use litter boxes because American conservatives cant regulate their firearms, it was, “Haha, liberals want litter boxes for furries.”

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      7 months ago

      I think it’s just a joke that if you tip your landlord, you are really stupid or attracted to him.

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      A while back, there was this thing where some very out of touch landlords were whining about having to actually do things for their tenants and that tenants should tip them for this. Naturally, they were rightfully shamed and ridiculed for it and it never caught on, but the way I first heard about it was seeing another landlord agreeing with the original post.

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      It (used?) to be expected to tip your maintenance man at the end of the year in big apartment buildings (there’s even a friends episode about it). Some scummy landlords try to claim that they are the maintenance man and more and so deserve a tip. I have personally had landlords ask for it,