DoorDash driver curses Texas woman over $5 tip for pizza
How much do you tip on the delivery of a standard pizza pie? A few bucks? Twenty percent? "Depends on the drive"?
Everyone has their code, and the subject of tipping continues to be a growing point of contention for American consumers in COVID-era life. One thing's for sure: "Five dollars" was not considered sufficient gratuity by one man who recently delivered a pie to a Texas woman's home.
TikTok user Lacey Purciful posted video of the encounter on Saturday. Captioned "My lovely Dasher Corey believes I should be tipping 50 percent," the video shows a man dropping a pizza off at a residence in Kempner, a town about 70 miles north of Austin, and remarking about the tip before departing with some choice language.
"I just want to say it's a nice house for a $5 tip," the man says.
Purciful responds "You're welcome," to which the man says "F--k you."
The video has garnered more than 160,000 comments since posting, with many expressing support for Purciful and others arguing the intricacies of tipping decorum.
"wowwww some of these people are so entitled," one user commented.
"$5 is fine," another remarked.
One commenter claiming to be a former DoorDash delivery driver called the tip "correct." Another noted that the company should be paying its drivers more to lessen the burden on customers and make life less tenuous for its employees.
Purciful's video has since been featured on FOX News, and she has posted subsequent footage of another interaction with a delivery driver—albeit a much warmer one.
"This was the same Day as the Pizza Incident," Purciful captioned a subsequent video. "I have worked in the Service Industry for over 10 years!! I do Tip very well. But I also tip on my interaction with the Dasher. This kind man was so sweet & friendly!! Thanks for being kind!!"
DoorDash has fired the driver from the original video, according to a statement provided by the company to WFAA's Paul Livengood.
"Respectfully asking for a tip is acceptable but abusing or harassing someone is never acceptable," a DoorDash representative told Livengood in an email. "Our rules exist to help ensure everyone who uses our platform - Dashers, customers, merchants - have a safe and enjoyable experience. We expect everyone to treat others with respect and we will enforce our rules fairly and consistently."
Where do you in the stand in the digital tipping war? Plenty of ink has been spilled on the subject of "tip fatigue" and "tip creep"—a term for the widening ubiquity of tip prompts in day-to-day transactions. Consumer financial services company Bankrate released a report in June that found two-thirds of Americans now harbor a "negative view" about tipping in general.
"Few topics elicit as many passionate opinions as tipping," stated Bankrate Senior Industry Analyst Ted Rossman in the company's June dispatch. "There's so much confusion regarding who to tip, and if so, how much. A lot is changing, as technology makes it easier to tip some people and harder to tip others."
Source: Chron
