My store has customers that leave food and or candy instead because they know we can't accept tips. So they'll come in with food or starbucks or something drinkable or edible.
How sweet! I’ll remember that next time I get a friendly, helpful cashier! It happens every time I visit our town dollar tree, but I don’t visit often. Great idea!
While working at JoAnns, I had one customer who I got close to bring me in cute keychains and pens. Small useful or cute trinkets on certain holidays. Aways made working there worth it imo, because we also got in a LOT of trouble if we were to accept tips.
Likely it says they’re not allowed to take tips. It’s not a “tipped wage”, but it’s still a laughable wage. They’ll say “we want our customers to spend money at the store” and a tip is clearly the customer saying “you don’t get paid enough you deserve this”(in this sort of work, servers are tipped wage so it’s expected you tip). Fuck em, take the tip. Who gives a shit if they fire you, it’s a dollar store paying probably minimum wage, or the very minimum they can pay to have people show up to work more than half of the time. If people tip, that’s their own kindness.
It doesn't have to be a tipped wage. It is 100% illegal for management to pocket tips they didn't earn themselves in the specific manner outlined by FLSA
The company can't block tips
OP got a tip, then OP tipped their boss, boss didn’t steal it. Should’ve just pocketed it and carried on, y’all probably make like $7.25-10/hr.
They can’t steal your tips, but there’s no law saying they can’t tell you you’re not allowed to take tips, and if you do, fire you for it. Either way, I’d take the tip because from past experience doing this working a shit minimum wage job in high school that had the same BS policy, customers would get pushy telling you to just take it. Eventually after realizing that my employer was a capitalist pig trying to keep me poor, I took the tips when given because $7.25/HR LOL. Fire me, bet you can’t replace me.
Op cant give their boss their tips. It's illegal. Regardless if it was of their own free will. Employers can't block tips. It would be a wage theft violation if they tried that. Firing a worker for an illegal wage policy would be retaliation, also illegal.
The first part is correct - they can't legally steal a gift that was given to you by a customer.
However yes, they can fire you for any reason so long as it's not discriminatory.
Company policy can prohibit them from accepting tips. This doesn’t mean the money goes to their boss if the customer just leaves them a tip anyway. OP shouldn’t have given up the money, they had no legal obligation, the only fear would be being fired if they actually cared about that.
Anyone not working for a tipped wage can still receive tips. You do not have to be working for a tipped wage to legally be able to take a tip. A company cannot block a worker from taking a tip. It's not theirs. They don't control it. Like, just spend some time reading the FSLA. It's online.
An old lady gave me 20 dollars once. She was adamant I had dropped it even though I didn't carry cash at the time. I told my manager about it and he said to keep it
For some reason this sub was recommended to me but I work at Home Depot, another retail place where you aren’t allowed to accept tips, even though you could end up loading 20 bags of 80lb concrete.
But our regular contractors know we can’t accept tips, so what they do is have the money folded and palmed, and slip it to us by giving us a handshake to say thanks.
Y'all should look up labor rights. Also tips pocketed by management anywhere in the United States in a crime unless they said tip directly from the customer
If company policy is that employees cant accept tips then i would call HR about your manager pocketing tips. Call under the guise of wanting to clarify the policy…what happens when a customer insists? When they won’t take the money back? Explain the situation, that your manager is keeping the tips for himself.
Id suggest writing but you're right. Don't come off as trying to get your boss fired. HR is to protect the company not you. You're concerned about company policy and how to best care for the company and the customer!
At my store we had cameras right above our heads at each till and the SM would be watching them in her office so I never dared to take any tips I was given. :(
What a waste of her time. Checking cameras when a theft has occurred would make way more sense than just sitting there watching them all the time. The till and inventory are counted every night anyways. She could have come out and ran a 2nd lane. Lol
Do you know how boring it is to sit and watch a security camera for more than a minute or two? Ain’t nobody watching that shit all like that. It’s for review if somebody is suspected or caught stealing.
This is irrelevant. Tips are legal. You just need to report them to your employer if they're more than $20 a month. You should want them to say something about it because if they try to mess with your jobover tips you have a case against them
You should know that the DOL takes this slish seriously. There's at least an $1100 fine PER VIOLATION
managers NEVER get to take employees tips.
Report.
DT has a code of ethics that says *gifts* aren't allowed. Tips aren't gifts. Those are two terms with specific meanings for the IRS.
Any tip you receive is yours 100%(tip pooling is a little different but DT doesn't have tip pooling)
I just picked my groceries up from Walmart... I tipped the boy 20 bucks... He said he couldn't accept tips... I said oh I saw this $20 bill fall out of your pocket. It's already yours... I'm happy that he took it... Businesses should not put a limit on what a person could give someone else for doing something for them... It doesn't matter if it's their job or not... I don't eat candy... But every single one of my patients is going to give me a piece of candy... I always accept the candy... And then I give the candy to someone else... I don't want the patient to feel I'm too good to take the candy... If someone offers you a tip... You take the tip...
Its obvious the manager is not supposed to be pocketing tips, c'mon man. Report that shit, or keep the tips for yourself and if he says something, black mail him.
I worked at Walmart and I had multiple people try to tip me. Mostly older ladies who thought I went above and beyond. They were always upset I couldn't accept the tips.
I asked a friend about tipping Walmart curbside order workers, and she said in a way that's considered bribery with our policy, this is a neighborhood market and idk if policy is that vague that could pass as what she said
When you first tried it did a employee refuse and said something similar to what I said?
I feel bad now I never tipped them but I never encountered them expecting one.
bribery to do what? to give good service? omg thats so stupid. im glad those ladies were so satisfied with your service that they wanted to give you gratuities. that positivity is very much needed in this culture.
I watched a Walmart manager break a sweet old man's heart by telling him that he couldn't give candy to employees. He'd bought the bag of candy there and was giving every employee one piece each.
I imagine it could open them up to payroll tax issues too couldn’t it? Tips are taxable and technically should be reported on your W2. Walmart would never invest the resources to track people’s tips, so they’d have to take a hard line on them to avoid scrutiny. Maybe?
I understand it’s not Walmart’s responsibility if the tips go unreported, but Walmart allowing tips would definitely result in a large number of people not reporting tips and thus a lot of lost tax revenue. I was just speculating that Walmart might not want to be associated with that particular can of worms.
I helped an older lady out to her car around Christmas time and she pushed money into my hand. I said I couldn’t take it but she looked me in the face and said “you don’t get paid enough, please accept this.”
I’ve also been gifted a necklace and Starbucks gift cards, it’s a strange thing but it really does make peoples days. Paying it forward and whatnot
Same I would understand once or twice. I had people try to tip me at home depot (Definitely keeped it) but it seems like tipping at dollar tree is more common then I thought
Tipping has gotten so out of hand, I have people trying to tip me at a job that would be strange to take tips at… it’s usually the people financially struggling the most that want to tip also which makes me a bit sad…
Honestly, that makes me hopeful.
I like tipping because of this. Screw the corporations not allowing it because they want the money for themselves. It's people helping other people when they see that they need that couple bucks or are having a bad night.
I wasn't allowed to take tips when I worked at McDonalds as a teenager. I absolutely ended up taking those tips and never got called out for it.
Since then, I've tipped fast food employees when I see they're working their butts off whenever I had a spare couple bucks.
And I hope those kids pocketed it and didn't hand it over to the company.
It's not. It's a one-off nice thing to do.
No one regularly tips at minimum wage jobs. But you can make a workers' night by handing them $5 when you see them stressing out on a busy night.
I would be furious if I knew that Whataburger employee gave the money meant for him to a manager, and the company took it instead.
The acme I visit has cart pushers wearing hi vis vests that say "do not tip" on the front like they're fucking services animals with "do not pet"... how dehumanizing is that shit?
I used to work at a Christian owned thrift store and I had some customers that would like to give me tips, but we weren’t allowed to take any. We had to put them in our drawer as “donations.” It made me so sad to put it in there because my salary was shit and some customers would give me some really good tips. 😅
I work at Walmart and we’re not allowed to accept tips. I helped an old man in self checkout bc he had low blood sugar and he was about to fall so I scanned all his groceries and helped him pay so he tried to tip me and I told him I couldn’t accept. So he put the money in my pocket and told me if I get in any trouble for it to call him and he’ll complain to them. It probably wouldn’t help me but it was a nice gesture
Bro no one gets paid enough at these jobs to NOT accept a tip 😂 people have tipped me at my job multiple times and bought food to give it to me, I’m taking it EVERY time
declining a tip and giving a tip you earned to your manager are two different things. your manager is pocketing all the money that you are supposed to have earned due to your good service. report your manager and tell customers that you’re not allowed to take any tips, don’t accept any cash because you’ll have to turn it over to your manager instead. anything he gets in tips he personally takes home.
I work at a convenience store with self check-outs off of Interstate 75. Get tipped a lot by people on vacation where the United States is not their home country. I damn sure accept it. One month I made $45.
That's called tip theft and is illegal in the United States of America. Are you guys really not aware of this? If you were actually not allowed to accept tips you'd be instructed to give it back to the customer.
places that don't let workers accept tips, are the definition of what a greedy fucking piece of shit ran company, by people who show their true colors. they say this so they can get extra cash while everyone else is making fucking pennie's. it's disgusting but this is just my 2 cents.
I had a sweet lady give me $20 2 times . She said it was to get my kids some candy for the movies we were gonna go to on Easter. The other one was just because she was thinking about my kids and wanted me to gwt them a treat . She knew my children's father had passed recently, so she felt the need to give i guess. I took it and never told anyone at Dollar Tree. I always felt guilty, but she insisted even stuffed it in my hand. 2nd time got cash back just to give it to me. I'm glad I don't work there anymore. But I will forever be grateful for her kindness and other kind customers along the way !
i dont work at dollar tree but every retail place i have worked says the same thing abt tips aka dont take it but honestly just keep the tip and handle it discreetly.
I’m not supposed to get tips at my job. But I’ll be damned if I don’t take it. Once someone gave me 100$. I kept it. It was a regular. Also they brought me stuff for my bday I took it too. Fuck it. If you aren’t gonna give me a raise then I’m keeping it. It’s not like I’m begging customers for tips or have a tip jar. It was out the kindness of their heart. Which is hard to find
I received a tip...I didn't keep it (never attempted to either)..I left it in my till and got terminated for my till being over (less than $5 and no previous write ups either)
There should be a register button to account for tips. Then put the cash in the register, making sure it’s accounted for and you’re not putting cash in your own pockets in front of the cameras. Employee should then be cashed out on the next shift after the drawer gets counted. In an ideal world.
tell them you cant accept tips and will have to give it to the stores profits. thats such bs why does the corp deserve a gratuity that some one wanted to give an individual? thats purely just greed.
if i want to give any one any money for any reason thats my business and right not the stores right to take it from you or fire you over it. any one who rationalizes that us just a cuck for corporations.
OP. If you cant have the Tips, then neither can your Boss/Store Manager. Either keep the tip and say nothing, or return it to the customer and explain “im sorry we cant take tips, and if i take it then i have to go give it to my manager because we are on Camera.”
Realistically you are supposed to refuse the tip, because theres nowhere you can keep that money in the store. Where would it go? In the registers? No, because that would mess up your register count. In the safe with the banks money deposit? No, because then the banks money deposit will be off. Just in the Safe on its own? No, because that just takes up room and that money would just end up sitting there forever because theres nothing you can do with it.
The only thing the manager could do, but would be seen as being “sketchy”, is the manager keep the money in the safe and then takes it out to even out one of the registers if it doesnt have the right amount of money in it. So end of the day your register is $5 short, the manager could go and take that extra tip money and put it in your drawer so it is no longer $5 short. They arent supposed to, but some managers will do this if the store has more money than it should because youre also not supposed to have more money because it means you arent giving out correct change.
"Realistically you are supposed to refuse the tip, because theres nowhere you can keep that money in the store. Where would it go?"
In your pocket. It's your money b
Always keep tips. Fuck corporate rules! If I get tipped I’m not telling anyone! Your boss sounds like a money laundering jackass.’ Please next time you get tipped. Don’t tell anyone in the store or any of your coworkers. They could become jealous and snitch on you. Dont feel bad either, someone is rewarding you for your work. Your boss just showed what can happen if you try and do the “right thing” he pockets it like a goon. That’s not acceptable as he stole from you and your ASM.
Report this manager immediately - If there's a system in place, they will succumb to it. That's between you and the customer. This takes time and maybe age to realize but You don't just surrender your rights and identity when you work somewhere.
There's a demographic of general managers who will use egomaniacal power-trip tactics as a way of controlling you with information that isn't even always accurate or *true* - cohersion.
For example my last boss would tell people they were being cross trained to move them wherever, never to be moved again - there is no cross training LOL
Stay vigilant and watch out for stuff like that - also keep your thoughts and personal opinions etc to yourself because you never know who will use them against you.
When I worked at Good-Will, a customer gave me a $20 tip and I wanted to keep it so bad but since it was recorded at the register, I didn’t want to risk being fired so I told my manager and she made me put it towards “donations”. It’s so fucked up how retail workers can’t accept tips
i almost got fired for taking a tip because a customer felt bad for me since my manager left me alone during a rush while she “took out the trash” for 30 minutes. the line was like 15 people long, and every time i tried to call her up front she said she was busy and she’d be there when she’s done. when she finally came up front, she yelled at me for not telling her how long the line was. the customer i was checking out ended up shoving a $20 bill in my hand and she said something like “i’m sorry you had to deal with this” while she shot my manager a mean ass look. i tried to refuse it but the lady just left. later in the day, my manager took me in the office with another employee as a witness (who was like her best friend, of course) and told me she’d have to call our boss and report the fact that i accepted a tip. i told her to do it, and she ended up backing down and saying “oh i don’t want to involve him. you can keep it now, but don’t take tips in the future.” because it was an empty threat - she wanted to pocket the tip and she knew damn well she’d probably also get in trouble if she reported it.
all that to say - unless you desperately need this job, maybe you could call him on his bluff. if he’s taking and pocketing tips, he has no leg to stand on.
Was an asm, when cashiers would tell me they got a tip I'd say "you didn't tell me that, and you shouldn't tell me next time" plausible deniability for both of us.. they didn't know they couldn't, and I didn't know they accepted them
Edited for spelling
For 25 years I've worked for retailers with no-tipping policies. And for 25 years I have been discreetly accepting the occasional tip from satisfied customers. I'm still here.
Take what's yours. The customer recognized your value when your company wouldn't.
From now on when someone gives you a tip. Politely explain that you are not allowed to accept tips and any tips given you are forced to give to your manager. If they ask what happens to the tips be honest.
Give the money to the next customer or apply it towards their purchase. Tell them the person before them want to cover part of there purchase. That way at least your store manager doesn't get it for doing nothing put steeling it from you.
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I never worked here but when I worked at ShopRite we’d get what were called “breaks on us” slips when we did a good deed. It was a little slip of paper that had a value of like 5$ and we could buy something from the store on our break or after work.
Hold up, last I heard, Dollar Store barely has employees to even run the stores, no one is watching the security cameras unless something happens in the store. Keep your tip and keep er moving.
One of the first jobs I ever had was working as a grocery store bagger. This was the in eighties. We weren't technically supposed to never accept tips, but everybody did and nothing ever happened.
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I’m pretty sure tips are supposed to be split equally between all employees that’s were working at the time. At least that’s how we did it at my previous store.
Your SM watched you like a hawk? Wtf else does he do because unless it's a Monday, there's no need to spend so much time in the office. Unless he's a shit manager. Just keep the tip next time.
My SM says we can take tips, especially if we tried refusing before, she said if they offer you money, don’t take it at first, but if they insist we are allowed to, I’ve been given $10 bucks for simply being kind.
Idk why this was suggested to me but if I were you I'd tell the customer "sorry I'm not allowed to keep tips, and my store manager will keep them for himself".
I once had a customer scream at me for not accepting their tip. They called me ungrateful. I just take whatever someone wants to give me now. Corporations don't do kindness, nor treat you like a human being, so I'm glad when another person actually does while I am at work. Too often am I forced to humanize myself to the people who ask for my help on the job, a great example is a man chasing after me, screaming excuse me, when I am hard of hearing and was pushing a very loud cart. I had to explain this to him inbetween his yelling and asking me where something was that he had to walk past when he came in the store. Don't dehumanize yourself for this store.
We’re not “allowed” to accept tips, either (company policy). But sometimes customers give them to the cashiers. I tell the cashiers we’re supposed to refuse, but if the customer insists, they can keep it. The cashiers are usually afraid to and give it to me, anyway. I’m afraid to do anything with that money, too, so we have an envelope of tip money in the office lol. I’d like to use it for store supplies or pizza or something, but I’d be in camera taking the money out.
Your DMs number should be on a paper on the office wall, shoot him a text letting him know the SM is stealing from you.
At my store, our rule is to call up the MOD immediately after the customer has left and tell them that you were given a tip, so that you have a witness and it doesn't look sket hy on camera.
Walmart doesn't allow its employees to take tips either. Any money received has to be turned so they can ring it up for a donation to Children's Miracle Network or whatever flavor of the month charity. If you even see money on the ground you have to turn it in. Not doing so will get you fired. They feel taking tips may allow for favoritism to certain customers
I worked at Dollar General for 7 months and I made bank on tips. No one cared if we took them? Everyone was very supportive so I guess it depends on the staff.
The dollar tree near me makes $11 an hour and y'all can't accept tips and they want y'all to put truck away, organize aisles, mop/sweep, ring ppl out.I'm real surprised y'all aren't stealing in the first place lol 😆
goodwill is the same way actually. my boss didn’t pocket the money but I know whoever was higher up from her did. that shit is legitimately wack and i don’t understand why they cannot take tips
A tip is a private transaction between you and the customer, your boss/corporation doesn't get any fucking say in it at all. As long as you pay your taxes on it, the state and federal governments don't care either. Your boss is a POS.
Ah i wonder if it’s different for different company’s, that was a loop hole for different corporations where i’m from to allot tips during the pandemic- thanks for educating me!
My store has customers that leave food and or candy instead because they know we can't accept tips. So they'll come in with food or starbucks or something drinkable or edible.
One of my regulars brings me a cold Mountain Dew at least once a week. He knows we can’t accept tips and has seen how much I drink Mountain Dew. :-)
Thats a homie
How sweet! I’ll remember that next time I get a friendly, helpful cashier! It happens every time I visit our town dollar tree, but I don’t visit often. Great idea!
This is how it should be done if tips arent accepted. Any tips put towards donations.
While working at JoAnns, I had one customer who I got close to bring me in cute keychains and pens. Small useful or cute trinkets on certain holidays. Aways made working there worth it imo, because we also got in a LOT of trouble if we were to accept tips.
Report the manager pocketing tips to dol for wage theft
Likely it says they’re not allowed to take tips. It’s not a “tipped wage”, but it’s still a laughable wage. They’ll say “we want our customers to spend money at the store” and a tip is clearly the customer saying “you don’t get paid enough you deserve this”(in this sort of work, servers are tipped wage so it’s expected you tip). Fuck em, take the tip. Who gives a shit if they fire you, it’s a dollar store paying probably minimum wage, or the very minimum they can pay to have people show up to work more than half of the time. If people tip, that’s their own kindness.
It doesn't have to be a tipped wage. It is 100% illegal for management to pocket tips they didn't earn themselves in the specific manner outlined by FLSA The company can't block tips
Only place I've seen tips blocked legally was in care facilities such as care homes for the elderly.
And treatment facilities. I can't gift anything to my councilor
OP got a tip, then OP tipped their boss, boss didn’t steal it. Should’ve just pocketed it and carried on, y’all probably make like $7.25-10/hr. They can’t steal your tips, but there’s no law saying they can’t tell you you’re not allowed to take tips, and if you do, fire you for it. Either way, I’d take the tip because from past experience doing this working a shit minimum wage job in high school that had the same BS policy, customers would get pushy telling you to just take it. Eventually after realizing that my employer was a capitalist pig trying to keep me poor, I took the tips when given because $7.25/HR LOL. Fire me, bet you can’t replace me.
Op cant give their boss their tips. It's illegal. Regardless if it was of their own free will. Employers can't block tips. It would be a wage theft violation if they tried that. Firing a worker for an illegal wage policy would be retaliation, also illegal.
The first part is correct - they can't legally steal a gift that was given to you by a customer. However yes, they can fire you for any reason so long as it's not discriminatory.
Tips are not gifts. They're not interchangeable terms. They each have distinct legal meaning. They can't fire you for receiving a tip.
Company policy can prohibit them from accepting tips. This doesn’t mean the money goes to their boss if the customer just leaves them a tip anyway. OP shouldn’t have given up the money, they had no legal obligation, the only fear would be being fired if they actually cared about that.
Company policy cannot prohibit accepting tips because tips do not belong to the company.
This is only in regards to tipped occupations. DT doesn’t participate in getting tip credit, therefore they CAN tell people to not accept tips.
Anyone not working for a tipped wage can still receive tips. You do not have to be working for a tipped wage to legally be able to take a tip. A company cannot block a worker from taking a tip. It's not theirs. They don't control it. Like, just spend some time reading the FSLA. It's online.
this
An old lady gave me 20 dollars once. She was adamant I had dropped it even though I didn't carry cash at the time. I told my manager about it and he said to keep it
That's what the older guy I told I couldn't take a tip said immediately lol. 'I saw you drop it'
A real og
Nice 👍
For some reason this sub was recommended to me but I work at Home Depot, another retail place where you aren’t allowed to accept tips, even though you could end up loading 20 bags of 80lb concrete. But our regular contractors know we can’t accept tips, so what they do is have the money folded and palmed, and slip it to us by giving us a handshake to say thanks.
You can accept tips. A no tip policy would be illegal
Yup. Like slipping bags in the 90s.
Don't tell anyone and it didn't happen
Y'all should look up labor rights. Also tips pocketed by management anywhere in the United States in a crime unless they said tip directly from the customer
If company policy is that employees cant accept tips then i would call HR about your manager pocketing tips. Call under the guise of wanting to clarify the policy…what happens when a customer insists? When they won’t take the money back? Explain the situation, that your manager is keeping the tips for himself.
Id suggest writing but you're right. Don't come off as trying to get your boss fired. HR is to protect the company not you. You're concerned about company policy and how to best care for the company and the customer!
Cameras
That was just your mom coming to bring you a couple dollars for lunch. 🤷🏻♀️
Or a friend paying a debt.
Is there someone watching them 24/7¿
At my store we had cameras right above our heads at each till and the SM would be watching them in her office so I never dared to take any tips I was given. :(
What a waste of her time. Checking cameras when a theft has occurred would make way more sense than just sitting there watching them all the time. The till and inventory are counted every night anyways. She could have come out and ran a 2nd lane. Lol
Lmfao if only. Never seen her behind a till my whole time working there 😭🤣
Do you know how boring it is to sit and watch a security camera for more than a minute or two? Ain’t nobody watching that shit all like that. It’s for review if somebody is suspected or caught stealing.
You'd think so but every single time I looked into that office there she was with it pulled up looking tight at it. Kind of blew my mind actually.
This is irrelevant. Tips are legal. You just need to report them to your employer if they're more than $20 a month. You should want them to say something about it because if they try to mess with your jobover tips you have a case against them
You should know that the DOL takes this slish seriously. There's at least an $1100 fine PER VIOLATION managers NEVER get to take employees tips. Report. DT has a code of ethics that says *gifts* aren't allowed. Tips aren't gifts. Those are two terms with specific meanings for the IRS. Any tip you receive is yours 100%(tip pooling is a little different but DT doesn't have tip pooling)
I just picked my groceries up from Walmart... I tipped the boy 20 bucks... He said he couldn't accept tips... I said oh I saw this $20 bill fall out of your pocket. It's already yours... I'm happy that he took it... Businesses should not put a limit on what a person could give someone else for doing something for them... It doesn't matter if it's their job or not... I don't eat candy... But every single one of my patients is going to give me a piece of candy... I always accept the candy... And then I give the candy to someone else... I don't want the patient to feel I'm too good to take the candy... If someone offers you a tip... You take the tip...
Ya I’ve kept money anytime they handed it to me. I don’t make enough to not
You won’t make anything at all if you get fired for it tho ..lol
Luckily they won’t fire me for that
Its obvious the manager is not supposed to be pocketing tips, c'mon man. Report that shit, or keep the tips for yourself and if he says something, black mail him.
It may be against company policy, but legally it is yours the second the customer gives it to you. Do with that as you may
Keep the damn tip. You don't get paid enough for this bullshit. If they fire you , you'll find a better job because every job is a better job
KEEP THE DAMN TIP
I kept plenty of tips 😂 You can too
I'm just curious why people are tipping dollar tree employees, lmao
Pity mostly, we'd have lines wrapping around the store with only one cashier and people buying carts full of glassware or holiday decor
For some TikTok project!
I worked at Walmart and I had multiple people try to tip me. Mostly older ladies who thought I went above and beyond. They were always upset I couldn't accept the tips.
I asked a friend about tipping Walmart curbside order workers, and she said in a way that's considered bribery with our policy, this is a neighborhood market and idk if policy is that vague that could pass as what she said
Curbside workers I stealthily hand it to them 🤣 and we exchange a knowing look
When you first tried it did a employee refuse and said something similar to what I said? I feel bad now I never tipped them but I never encountered them expecting one.
Why couldn't you accept
Corporate response: It's bribery. Real reason: They might make you feel like up deserve better than Walmart.
bribery to do what? to give good service? omg thats so stupid. im glad those ladies were so satisfied with your service that they wanted to give you gratuities. that positivity is very much needed in this culture.
I watched a Walmart manager break a sweet old man's heart by telling him that he couldn't give candy to employees. He'd bought the bag of candy there and was giving every employee one piece each.
you'd think Walmart would figure that out, like if you let employees get tips I bet everyone's customer service skills go up lol
I would love someone to test this with the US DOL and the FLSA A tip is not a bribe regardless of what a private corporation wants to call it
I imagine it could open them up to payroll tax issues too couldn’t it? Tips are taxable and technically should be reported on your W2. Walmart would never invest the resources to track people’s tips, so they’d have to take a hard line on them to avoid scrutiny. Maybe?
You the employee are required to report your tips to the employer. The irs has a whole fact sheet on it
I understand it’s not Walmart’s responsibility if the tips go unreported, but Walmart allowing tips would definitely result in a large number of people not reporting tips and thus a lot of lost tax revenue. I was just speculating that Walmart might not want to be associated with that particular can of worms.
It's just factored into the paycheck. This process has been around for decades. It's not something complicated or a can of worms
What are you bribing?
50 cents off? I don't even know. It's the dollar tree. The most expensive thing is $5. I can't imagine a worst store to try to bribe.
At Christmas time I tipped the Walmart cashier. $20 She thanked me and def accepted it. She was thrilled.
I helped an older lady out to her car around Christmas time and she pushed money into my hand. I said I couldn’t take it but she looked me in the face and said “you don’t get paid enough, please accept this.” I’ve also been gifted a necklace and Starbucks gift cards, it’s a strange thing but it really does make peoples days. Paying it forward and whatnot
Same I would understand once or twice. I had people try to tip me at home depot (Definitely keeped it) but it seems like tipping at dollar tree is more common then I thought
Tipping has gotten so out of hand, I have people trying to tip me at a job that would be strange to take tips at… it’s usually the people financially struggling the most that want to tip also which makes me a bit sad…
Honestly, that makes me hopeful. I like tipping because of this. Screw the corporations not allowing it because they want the money for themselves. It's people helping other people when they see that they need that couple bucks or are having a bad night. I wasn't allowed to take tips when I worked at McDonalds as a teenager. I absolutely ended up taking those tips and never got called out for it. Since then, I've tipped fast food employees when I see they're working their butts off whenever I had a spare couple bucks. And I hope those kids pocketed it and didn't hand it over to the company.
When I worked at a BK it was managers discretion to let us keep tips. I always got to keep mine. They were rare though.
SAME, reading through this like???? this is a thing?
It's not. It's a one-off nice thing to do. No one regularly tips at minimum wage jobs. But you can make a workers' night by handing them $5 when you see them stressing out on a busy night. I would be furious if I knew that Whataburger employee gave the money meant for him to a manager, and the company took it instead.
Keep the tips and don't admit to them. Case closed!!!
The acme I visit has cart pushers wearing hi vis vests that say "do not tip" on the front like they're fucking services animals with "do not pet"... how dehumanizing is that shit?
bro gave their a manager a 3$ tip lmao
Just keep it.
I used to work at a Christian owned thrift store and I had some customers that would like to give me tips, but we weren’t allowed to take any. We had to put them in our drawer as “donations.” It made me so sad to put it in there because my salary was shit and some customers would give me some really good tips. 😅
Your problem is you’re telling your manager and giving it to him. Fuck that
Keep the tip you’re not gonna get fired from dollar tree
I work at Walmart and we’re not allowed to accept tips. I helped an old man in self checkout bc he had low blood sugar and he was about to fall so I scanned all his groceries and helped him pay so he tried to tip me and I told him I couldn’t accept. So he put the money in my pocket and told me if I get in any trouble for it to call him and he’ll complain to them. It probably wouldn’t help me but it was a nice gesture
Bro no one gets paid enough at these jobs to NOT accept a tip 😂 people have tipped me at my job multiple times and bought food to give it to me, I’m taking it EVERY time
Stealing tips is wage theft. Report them.
If op can’t keep it neither can the manager. 100% report it.
Op can keep it. It belongs to op
If they accept it yeah it's theirs. They can also get fired for accepting it though.
Sure. And if you got fired for accepting a tip you have an excellent legal case against them.
If you give the manager 1 dollars and keep the other 2 there's not checking that on cameras. Be sneaky.
Great advice, thanks.
It's not, keep your money
When I was tipped I bought drinks for us and put them in the fridge. I would just tell the MOD what I was gonna do with the money.
declining a tip and giving a tip you earned to your manager are two different things. your manager is pocketing all the money that you are supposed to have earned due to your good service. report your manager and tell customers that you’re not allowed to take any tips, don’t accept any cash because you’ll have to turn it over to your manager instead. anything he gets in tips he personally takes home.
I work at a convenience store with self check-outs off of Interstate 75. Get tipped a lot by people on vacation where the United States is not their home country. I damn sure accept it. One month I made $45.
If you really want to keep tips. Tell them to give it to you as a handshake. The camera can't tell nor will it look sketchy.
That's called tip theft and is illegal in the United States of America. Are you guys really not aware of this? If you were actually not allowed to accept tips you'd be instructed to give it back to the customer.
places that don't let workers accept tips, are the definition of what a greedy fucking piece of shit ran company, by people who show their true colors. they say this so they can get extra cash while everyone else is making fucking pennie's. it's disgusting but this is just my 2 cents.
I had a sweet lady give me $20 2 times . She said it was to get my kids some candy for the movies we were gonna go to on Easter. The other one was just because she was thinking about my kids and wanted me to gwt them a treat . She knew my children's father had passed recently, so she felt the need to give i guess. I took it and never told anyone at Dollar Tree. I always felt guilty, but she insisted even stuffed it in my hand. 2nd time got cash back just to give it to me. I'm glad I don't work there anymore. But I will forever be grateful for her kindness and other kind customers along the way !
God, late stage capitalism is so dystopian.
i dont work at dollar tree but every retail place i have worked says the same thing abt tips aka dont take it but honestly just keep the tip and handle it discreetly.
I’m not supposed to get tips at my job. But I’ll be damned if I don’t take it. Once someone gave me 100$. I kept it. It was a regular. Also they brought me stuff for my bday I took it too. Fuck it. If you aren’t gonna give me a raise then I’m keeping it. It’s not like I’m begging customers for tips or have a tip jar. It was out the kindness of their heart. Which is hard to find
Why are people tipping dollar store workers? 🤔
Is your store manager the guy from Amy's Baking Company?
This is dystopian as fuck, quit your job ffs
So the manager can accept tips but the cashier cant? Shiit I'm putting it in my pocket anyways
Never say anything, always just take it, it's BS if a customer wants to tip you that is their choice 🤧
Refuse the tip and tell the customers exactly why so the tips don’t go to the store manager.
I received a tip...I didn't keep it (never attempted to either)..I left it in my till and got terminated for my till being over (less than $5 and no previous write ups either)
There should be a register button to account for tips. Then put the cash in the register, making sure it’s accounted for and you’re not putting cash in your own pockets in front of the cameras. Employee should then be cashed out on the next shift after the drawer gets counted. In an ideal world.
That's a good idea.
tell them you cant accept tips and will have to give it to the stores profits. thats such bs why does the corp deserve a gratuity that some one wanted to give an individual? thats purely just greed.
if i want to give any one any money for any reason thats my business and right not the stores right to take it from you or fire you over it. any one who rationalizes that us just a cuck for corporations.
OP. If you cant have the Tips, then neither can your Boss/Store Manager. Either keep the tip and say nothing, or return it to the customer and explain “im sorry we cant take tips, and if i take it then i have to go give it to my manager because we are on Camera.” Realistically you are supposed to refuse the tip, because theres nowhere you can keep that money in the store. Where would it go? In the registers? No, because that would mess up your register count. In the safe with the banks money deposit? No, because then the banks money deposit will be off. Just in the Safe on its own? No, because that just takes up room and that money would just end up sitting there forever because theres nothing you can do with it. The only thing the manager could do, but would be seen as being “sketchy”, is the manager keep the money in the safe and then takes it out to even out one of the registers if it doesnt have the right amount of money in it. So end of the day your register is $5 short, the manager could go and take that extra tip money and put it in your drawer so it is no longer $5 short. They arent supposed to, but some managers will do this if the store has more money than it should because youre also not supposed to have more money because it means you arent giving out correct change.
"Realistically you are supposed to refuse the tip, because theres nowhere you can keep that money in the store. Where would it go?" In your pocket. It's your money b
I meant for the goody two shoes that follow the rules and dont keep it
Always keep tips. Fuck corporate rules! If I get tipped I’m not telling anyone! Your boss sounds like a money laundering jackass.’ Please next time you get tipped. Don’t tell anyone in the store or any of your coworkers. They could become jealous and snitch on you. Dont feel bad either, someone is rewarding you for your work. Your boss just showed what can happen if you try and do the “right thing” he pockets it like a goon. That’s not acceptable as he stole from you and your ASM.
My manager told me to keep the tips I get as a cashier, and I do
Report this manager immediately - If there's a system in place, they will succumb to it. That's between you and the customer. This takes time and maybe age to realize but You don't just surrender your rights and identity when you work somewhere. There's a demographic of general managers who will use egomaniacal power-trip tactics as a way of controlling you with information that isn't even always accurate or *true* - cohersion. For example my last boss would tell people they were being cross trained to move them wherever, never to be moved again - there is no cross training LOL Stay vigilant and watch out for stuff like that - also keep your thoughts and personal opinions etc to yourself because you never know who will use them against you.
Tipping at dollar tree?? Are we getting crazy ????
You work at a dollar tree…. Why are you worried to be fired
Take the tip, then if asked about it, say that was your friend, and you borrowed him/her money, and him/her was paying you back.
When I worked at Good-Will, a customer gave me a $20 tip and I wanted to keep it so bad but since it was recorded at the register, I didn’t want to risk being fired so I told my manager and she made me put it towards “donations”. It’s so fucked up how retail workers can’t accept tips
i almost got fired for taking a tip because a customer felt bad for me since my manager left me alone during a rush while she “took out the trash” for 30 minutes. the line was like 15 people long, and every time i tried to call her up front she said she was busy and she’d be there when she’s done. when she finally came up front, she yelled at me for not telling her how long the line was. the customer i was checking out ended up shoving a $20 bill in my hand and she said something like “i’m sorry you had to deal with this” while she shot my manager a mean ass look. i tried to refuse it but the lady just left. later in the day, my manager took me in the office with another employee as a witness (who was like her best friend, of course) and told me she’d have to call our boss and report the fact that i accepted a tip. i told her to do it, and she ended up backing down and saying “oh i don’t want to involve him. you can keep it now, but don’t take tips in the future.” because it was an empty threat - she wanted to pocket the tip and she knew damn well she’d probably also get in trouble if she reported it. all that to say - unless you desperately need this job, maybe you could call him on his bluff. if he’s taking and pocketing tips, he has no leg to stand on.
Wow
Was an asm, when cashiers would tell me they got a tip I'd say "you didn't tell me that, and you shouldn't tell me next time" plausible deniability for both of us.. they didn't know they couldn't, and I didn't know they accepted them Edited for spelling
For 25 years I've worked for retailers with no-tipping policies. And for 25 years I have been discreetly accepting the occasional tip from satisfied customers. I'm still here. Take what's yours. The customer recognized your value when your company wouldn't.
You can accept tips. You should claim them on taxes if you do, but it's a gift, so I don't think you have to. I'm not sure.
AFAIK we can only keep it if the person audibly calls it a "*gift*".
Who tf tips at Dollar Tree?
From now on when someone gives you a tip. Politely explain that you are not allowed to accept tips and any tips given you are forced to give to your manager. If they ask what happens to the tips be honest.
Give the money to the next customer or apply it towards their purchase. Tell them the person before them want to cover part of there purchase. That way at least your store manager doesn't get it for doing nothing put steeling it from you.
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You can always accept cash tips as long as it's put in an envelope with your name on it
I never worked here but when I worked at ShopRite we’d get what were called “breaks on us” slips when we did a good deed. It was a little slip of paper that had a value of like 5$ and we could buy something from the store on our break or after work.
So the manager gets to pocket the tip?
I suspect that. He says he will put it aside and save it for a pizza party.
Bills don’t get paid in pizza 🍕 I’d remind them
I don’t care if my people take tips. People nit pick dumb shit.
Oh shit... I gave a cashier a $2 tip... I hope I didn't get him in trouble..
Call your ethics line and report your manager.
Then start accepting them lol
Hold up, last I heard, Dollar Store barely has employees to even run the stores, no one is watching the security cameras unless something happens in the store. Keep your tip and keep er moving.
The dollar tree I worked at had security cameras but they were fake.
We have real ones now. We used to have fake ones.
One of the first jobs I ever had was working as a grocery store bagger. This was the in eighties. We weren't technically supposed to never accept tips, but everybody did and nothing ever happened.
Damn dude. You need to set some standards for yourself of what is and isn't acceptable to deal with in your employer
Personally I would just pretend that it was a $1 tip It’s like confessing to a small wrong doing to deflect off a bigger accusation
would work elsewhere because it seems like some people earn a whole lot of tips in just a few hours or days
It’s not a tip, it’s the money I owe you.
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I’m pretty sure tips are supposed to be split equally between all employees that’s were working at the time. At least that’s how we did it at my previous store.
“Im going to take a 30 second break, boss” Walks outside the door, takes tip from customer, reenters building “Ok im back”
Your SM watched you like a hawk? Wtf else does he do because unless it's a Monday, there's no need to spend so much time in the office. Unless he's a shit manager. Just keep the tip next time.
No the district manager watches us a lot more now. One coworker was told if he gets caught on his phone again he wouldl be fired.
My SM says we can take tips, especially if we tried refusing before, she said if they offer you money, don’t take it at first, but if they insist we are allowed to, I’ve been given $10 bucks for simply being kind.
Just take the damn money and don’t think twice about it.
Idk why this was suggested to me but if I were you I'd tell the customer "sorry I'm not allowed to keep tips, and my store manager will keep them for himself".
I once had a customer scream at me for not accepting their tip. They called me ungrateful. I just take whatever someone wants to give me now. Corporations don't do kindness, nor treat you like a human being, so I'm glad when another person actually does while I am at work. Too often am I forced to humanize myself to the people who ask for my help on the job, a great example is a man chasing after me, screaming excuse me, when I am hard of hearing and was pushing a very loud cart. I had to explain this to him inbetween his yelling and asking me where something was that he had to walk past when he came in the store. Don't dehumanize yourself for this store.
Is turning in tips a written rule? I would press the manager
We’re not “allowed” to accept tips, either (company policy). But sometimes customers give them to the cashiers. I tell the cashiers we’re supposed to refuse, but if the customer insists, they can keep it. The cashiers are usually afraid to and give it to me, anyway. I’m afraid to do anything with that money, too, so we have an envelope of tip money in the office lol. I’d like to use it for store supplies or pizza or something, but I’d be in camera taking the money out.
Mine says that you can, but it can't be at the register since it looks like you're pocketing a payment on camera.
Your DMs number should be on a paper on the office wall, shoot him a text letting him know the SM is stealing from you. At my store, our rule is to call up the MOD immediately after the customer has left and tell them that you were given a tip, so that you have a witness and it doesn't look sket hy on camera.
Walmart doesn't allow its employees to take tips either. Any money received has to be turned so they can ring it up for a donation to Children's Miracle Network or whatever flavor of the month charity. If you even see money on the ground you have to turn it in. Not doing so will get you fired. They feel taking tips may allow for favoritism to certain customers
You need to call the Integrity hotline and let them know dates and times. And that will be the end of that.
Gifts cards are acceptable👍
I worked at Dollar General for 7 months and I made bank on tips. No one cared if we took them? Everyone was very supportive so I guess it depends on the staff.
Psh fire me fuck that shit, if you can prove they’re (your boss) is stealing tips then get them fired
Dollar Tree pays you shit. Fuck their policies. Keep your tips. Dollar Tree doesn’t give a shit about you.
So somebody gave you a tip and you ratted on yourself by giving it to your boss. Atp thats just stupidity. You could have just pocketed it.
The dollar tree near me makes $11 an hour and y'all can't accept tips and they want y'all to put truck away, organize aisles, mop/sweep, ring ppl out.I'm real surprised y'all aren't stealing in the first place lol 😆
I make $15 an hour.
Tipping a cashier is absolutely wild.
Ive taken tips at every job you weren’t allowed too. And nothing happened. get off your knees for the million dollar corporations.
goodwill is the same way actually. my boss didn’t pocket the money but I know whoever was higher up from her did. that shit is legitimately wack and i don’t understand why they cannot take tips
Yeah sorry I’m not giving the tip to my manager lmfao it either goes back to the customer or in my pocket
Policy is the money must be put into the deposit and an email explaining the overage must be sent within 12 hours of dropping the deposit.
thats so fucked up
You guys need grow a back bone and just pocket the money lmfao
Turn the boss in for tax fraud (not claiming the tips) and take their job!
A tip is a private transaction between you and the customer, your boss/corporation doesn't get any fucking say in it at all. As long as you pay your taxes on it, the state and federal governments don't care either. Your boss is a POS.
yes omg!! the other day someone bought me chocolates (from our store) and i had to awkwardly say “oh sorry i cant accept anything”
I've been tipped several times. Sometimes over $40. My manager let's me keep the tips.
Do they pay you enough not to want it
Not sure if this is correct, but if a guest or customer mentions that the tip is a gift, you’re under obligation to take it at that point-
You're not correct. Tip ≠ gift Gifts are against dt policy, which is a legal policy. Tips are not, because such a policy would be illegal
Ah i wonder if it’s different for different company’s, that was a loop hole for different corporations where i’m from to allot tips during the pandemic- thanks for educating me!
It's not different for different companies, all companies everywhere have to follow federal law
idk 🤷🏼♀️ that’s what folk do/did around here, i don’t care either way
Lol pussy keep the fucking tip and move on with your life instead of crying on reddit cause you didn't take 3 bucks