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

    It's very much a real job.

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

      one of only 20 Master Brand Strategists

      Is an absolute corporate grift.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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?

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      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.