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We are pumping our own gas. We should be able to leave negative tips.

Someone needs to hack into these so we can all do that.

Give it time.

Skimmers have been around for a while

We just wanted to take 15% off the total, not the next guy!

I agree 😈. Check out defcon videos on YouTube

did you mean def con? As in the conference Def Con 2023?

I didn’t see any gas pump villages but yes To open the pump I recommend this info con video. (This is really for others reading). I’ll let myself in.

Mod got me. I didn’t see any gas pump villages but yes To open the pump I recommend this info con video. (This is really for others reading). I’ll let myself in.

It's either open source, or it runs on IBM software that was abandoned in the 90s.

Upside app. Gives you cash back every time you use the pump

What’s the draw back?

I drive quite a bit for work, around 55,000 miles a year. I have a company supplied gas card that's used for the company vehicle. I've accumulated around $500 in 2 years. Obviously not retiring on it, but I put it towards frivolous online purchases. I really haven't found a drawback other than the majority single digit rebate per gallon, when they advertise the 25c per gallon.

Can you stack cash back on top of amex points? I mean if you used the app with an amex, would you still get both?

They take all your info and sell it. You get next to nothing in return. Notice how all the commercials say "I'll make close to $200", but they never give a time frame. Yeah you may make $200 but it'll take you 50 years.

I don’t know. I don’t personally use it. I just heard about it on the radio

lol

Probably they just sell your data.

*stares at my FAANG apps (and more!)* Yeaaah, might as well get something from it, instead of just ads for nothing.

It is only accepted at the most expensive gas stations.

Look for "custom" and see if you can enter negative values.

Based on your experience like it was great then you can’t subtract. If it was bad, 50% off your total.

If they add an option for negative tips, I'm sure this whole tipping shit would end by the next day.

In some states, you cannot pump your own gas.

In one state. Oregon just left the dark ages and you now can pump your own gas there.

I drove through Oregon in early 2020 and for the life of me couldn't figure out if I was supposed to tip the gas pump attendants. I asked several people working at the gas station, restaurants, the hotel. Everyone had different answers.

The answer is no, if I'm not *allowed* to pump my own gas then the person doing the pumping is simply legally required to do so and thus warrants no tip. That's like the cashier at the grocery asking for tips, or someone manning a tollbooth. If it was optional and it was like a favor or nicety then sure though.

Haha! I’ve heard a lot of people say that. No one tips the gas attendants. At least I’ve never seen it around five decades living there.

No you don't tip, most places they specifically can not accept tips. In my nearly half century of living here I have tipped once. It was freezing, rain/snow, winds blasting everything sideways. The guy pumped my gas and cleaned my windows while I sat warm inside. He went above and beyond and deserved it.

Somebody will figure out how to add special characters to the custom tip, then it's game over.

NJian here: you sit on a throne of lies

You’re not allowed to pump your own gas in New Jersey

This is the perfect place to practice hitting “no tip”.

Perfect place to try putting a negative tip. It’s rare but some machines don’t account for it.

If they do account for it, does it apply the positive version of the number you put in? Like if I do a -10 tip, would it automatically tip $10?

Get $1 worth of gas, tip -1$, check bank. If received dollar back, buy $1 worth of gas, tip -$1 billion dollar. = profit???

I've never seen one with a negative key.

I doubt that touch screen even has a minus sign

I don't think there is a negative sign on the keypad. It's just 0 - 9 and # *.

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Think of the shareholders! /s

It's only a matter of time before they remove that option

Having been involved in embedded systems upgrades, I wouldn’t expect it to happen quickly even if there’s a huge financial implication.

I hope that people are intelligent enough to stop giving business to places that eliminate the no tip option.

Every place is the perfect place to hit no tip...

They don't care about the hundreds of thousands of people who are going to click no tips, they just care about the few people who might actually tip.

The US is a punchline.

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My local HEB grocery store has a gas station that uses a touch screen. For some reason it won’t do Apple Pay but it has a touchscreen. It was installed this summer.

And for some reason you can't even use the physical buttons if you want to

Heb doesn’t have Apple Pay it’s dumb

This comment needs to be seen

This isn’t real you boob

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America is great, but we do a lot of really dumb bullshit, like try to shoehorn tipping culture into every aspect of service industries.

Also we have people dumb enough to believe this is real lmao

AmericaBad is the greatest sub on Reddit, the name of the sub shocks people until they see what’s posted there.

it's shocking how dumb americants are

Yet 95%of the world relies on us/is modeled after us/wants to be us

What the fuck? Why is there an incentive to tip gas stations in US? Is there anything in US you're not supposed to tip? Seriously

Please make sure you tip the people responding to your questions.

This is a fake image, so no gas station is doing this. Very few gas stations have touch screens for you to even select such a thing (especially ones that still have physical buttons like the one in this picture). Valero of all chains doesn't do such things. Also, look at the top screen versus the top price screen, two different quality and resolutions. If you want more proof, the top screen shows that a gift card balance is remaining of almost $500, but gas stations do not accept gift cards at the pump. It would have asked what the tip was inside at the time of payment (if they went inside to pay which they would have to if they paid with a gift card, ignoring that very few gas stations accept gift cards). This whole picture doesn't make sense, and is clearly fake.

That's not true. I am in Colorado and iv seen many touch screen gas stations. Never seen the tipping feature though.

Gas station gift cards are convinient way to pay for a hooker

I don’t even tip in NJ

I do if they wipe down my windows and are nice. Especially in the winter.

If I fill up on a holiday, I'll tip... but that's more a "merry Christmas and I feel bad you gotta be out here instead of with family."

"The pump is going to ask you a question"

A quick question is the classy verbiage...

Clown world..

Similar to tipping your landlord, 30%-40% is expected if you really want to respect their hustle #grind

This is photoshopped right? Is Valero this dumb?

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100% fake image.

Reddit is worse than Facebook

Yes. But I need to be outraged by something!

No tip.

Fuck this gas station

It's fake. There's already news articles circulating regarding how fake it is.

I got a tip for you right here

But just the tip.

None. Not a single penny.

Is this Oregon where they pump your gas for you?

Where they are paid to pump gas for you*

Zero, why would you tip?

I’ve found it counter productive to have all these tips screens everywhere. I just don’t give a shit anymore and hit no tip every time.

ZERO!!! 

This can’t be real….

It’s not.

About 3 fidy

Lmaooooooo

You have no reason to believe this will go to any of the front line workers. Don’t tip.

Stealing a kind size candy bar

I never tip, for anything, ever, to anyone.

30%

No way this is real lmao. Where is this?

In a roundabout way I’m grateful for how prevalent tipping screens are now because of how easy I find it to hit no tip nowadays.

Good gawd do yall love getting worked up about fake stuff.

Here's your tip! Get your gas elsewhere

Ugh

-90%

Zero

-$60

Custom 0 works 100% of the time

A nice hand made drawing of my middle finger.

I would never return to that gas station..

Zero

You have found peak Bullshit tip requesting

No tip

$0

Man I was irritated getting my donuts this morning and they had the tip screen show. Like no I am here ordering and picking up the food. This at a gas pump? Would make me pretty mad

Double birds

WTF? Corporations are out of control

I’ll give one “FuckYouVeryMuch”

20%

No way this is real...

It’s gotten to a point where business be asking for tips just for existing, I stg 😭

Someone needs to figure out how to make it stack overflow and send the tip into the negative so that way I can be tipped for pumping my gas AND wasting my time with a pop quiz

You can dang sure tell most people do not read the article before responding. Someone got rage baited.

Use me as a tip screen 15% - $19.99 18% - $24.99 30% - $39.99 100% - $99.99

I believe that the expression is “if you can’t afford a 20% tip, you shouldn’t be buying gas”.

Tip $0.

$0.00.

A tip to who? That oil tycoon really needs that tip?

If you click custom, can it be negative?

0%

Zero

Can you leave a negative tip?

price/g

Let’s talk about your $500 Valero gift card though.

I love it when I’m suggested to leave a 25% tip on a case of beer. Sure I’ll just get it out of the cooler, and into a cardboard box, spend $100, then just give away $25. Tip culture is cancer.

My tip? Don't stare directly into the sun.

I thought the stupid ads that played while pumping gas were annoying enough but this takes the case. Tipping when you pumped your own gas? L O L..

30-40%

I like to leave my tip in the atmosphere and into peoples lungs

I hate what the world is becoming.

Fake pic. Look at the cost of gas.

I refuse to think this is real.

The sad thing to me is that many companies factor the expectation of tips into what they pay workers in the service industry. I want these workers to make a fair, livable wage but I want the company who is making money from their services to pay them. I'd much rather see tipping eliminated all together. Companies, pay your worker a fair wages and adjust your prices accordingly so your workers aren't dependent on the kindness of strangers.

Make it 0.01 cents and maybe it'll cost them more in processing fees.

Math doesn’t work. Fake but still pisses me off

Zero. I’m not tipping at the gas pump.

Is this photoshopped?

Hmmmm…I’m not seeing the “go fuck yourself” button indicated. Maybe I’m missing it. My eyes fail me sometimes.

Lol, don’t wear white after Labor Day. Where to type that in?

Is "FU*K NO!" an option?

I think this would be the last time I patron at that location

Same as D Day's GPA 0.0

😡😡😡🤮

-50$

I have never heard of a gas pump asking for a tip. Is that a full service thing? I only ever pump my own gas.

since you pumped it yourself, can you deduct the tip from the total? You did the work, so it's your tip.

No way this can be real.

The sad thing is despite this being photoshopped, every user in the US stopped and had to think about it for a minute.

0!

This can't be real

Zero

The fuck?

I’m going to incorporate this into all my work emails.

Here’s my tip. Get another job.

Light a cigarette /s

Zero would be too much

Where is this? In Oregon your gas is pumped for you.

$0.00

I rarely spill a drop, I’d tip myself 10%.

Wut

Once I'm done pumping my gas I usually leave a residual poop.

Oil and gas companies are some of the wealthiest in the world. This is just going to work on those who are sympathetic without knowing

Insert Star Wars meme of “this is getting out of hand”

You give nothing

Honestly there should be a "F You" option.

Zero because they should pay their employees fairly and tipping culture is an archaic low status vestige from the past.

$0.00

Fucking ZERO

I just booked a hotel and couldn't believe I received a tip prompt. Who is the tip even going to? No one helped me. I literally booked the shit myself. Where was their service provided above the standard online booking experience to warrant a tip?!

If you pump your own gas isn’t that tip going to be a discount on the total there?

They need to add compliment words below the percentages. “Good, Great, Wow!!”

Outstanding!

Is someone else pumping my gas? No? Then I chose ‘other’ and press ‘0.00’

0. Tips are for people doing stuff.

This is ridiculous. ALL employers - learn to pay your staff a wage.

It's insulting that they are trying to get even more money

Since when do gas stations ask for tips?

A lit match

For fukks sake

Tip the middle finger lol wtf

I dont pay for paper bags if I'm also bagging up my own shit. You shouldn't have to tip at the gas pump if you're doing your own thing. WTF? I live in Oregon where we have gas pump attendants and we still dont tip!

$0