Tipping Is A Nonsense

Why is it that everywhere we go, from hair salons, to restaurants to airport shuttle stations, to valet parking, we are expected to tip 20% of the total bill?? Why??

Do we tip our doctors? Our teachers? Accountants? Our Police and Postman? If not, then why are we tipping the stylists, the waitress, the shuttle driver?

From tomorrow on , I am not going to tip anybody anymore. I paid US$120 for my haircut and coloring... and every time I dropped off US$24 extra as tips. Same with my dinner bills, if my total dinner bill was US$35, I ended up paying US$43.75, sometimes even US$47.25 when restaurants added a mandatory 20% tip to the total.

Nobody tips me for the services I perform at work, why on earth I am tipping others like crazy!! One time I dined at a 5-star hotel restaurant in San Francisco, the friendly waiter was telling me he made over $100K a year and $80K was tips...

He made way more than double of what I made as an accountant and there I was tipping him 20%... Yuck!

So I make a pledge today that I'm not going to tip anyone anymore from now on...I am not going to pay any extra that is stated on my bill. I will definitely not go to restaurants that add a manadatory 20% tips on the bill's total.

Tipping is such a bad expectation from any service providers. I don't udnerstand how such a voluntary courtsey extended by the rich people got to become such an expected mandate that even the poor people like me are expected or sometimes mandated to tip. I'm not going to tip, and my reason is I don't even make as much money as a waiter.