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Yep. Same as every other worker in every other industry.
Yep. Same as every other worker in every other industry.
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Do you tip workers at Target based on their performance? I'm struggling to find the relevance in your comment.
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I have found that the more money I began to make over the years had an inverse effect on my tipping. Seems to be the general rule. Blue collar workers will tip more on a percentage basis than white collar workers. At least according to those I know who have waitered or waitressed over the years.
I try to be more generous by remembering my grunt work days as a younger man.
I try to be more generous by remembering my grunt work days as a younger man.
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It was based on the thinking that people that work for tips need said tips as an incentive to perform well in their job and that if we take that incentive away, they would suddenly be bad at their jobs.
If we abolished tipping completely, there would still be good workers and bad workers. Just like every other industry.
Edit: Not saying you think that way. I was actually agreeing with you and trying to expand on your point.
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I always tip, even if only 2 bucks. I can't deal with the blank tip line.
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Also, I do about all my eating out, coffee, take out food, bar drinking, and delivery shit in my neighborhood. So tipping is an investment cause those ******* remember you.
My bartender starts pouring my drink when I walk in the door, even if there is a long ass line at the bar. And then he will hand it to me across all the people when I walk over. Thats some shit right there.
My bartender starts pouring my drink when I walk in the door, even if there is a long ass line at the bar. And then he will hand it to me across all the people when I walk over. Thats some shit right there.
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I throw some bones to my garbage guy at Christmas time.
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I tip based on the service I receive if its shitty I only tip 1 dollar for each person at the table if the service is great ive been known to tip in the 20 to 50% range depending upon how good the service was
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Man, I don't ever tip less than 20% at a restaurant. I mean, if a server is short or has an attitude, I just assume they are having a rough day. I don't expect them to be a whore. I don't expect them to give me a social ********. And either way, I can't deal with the thought that they will only have made 2.50 for the hour I was there. Plus the shit servers have to deal with... there are so, so many people that just have fucked ideas about what they deserve from servers.
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How is it my problem, or the problem of any consumer, that the restaurant makes their servers tip out? Why am I responsible for ponying up the excess? In Europe, waiters/waitresses don't rely on tips because the restaurant pays them a reasonable living wage. So what we're really saying here is that restaurant managers get to live like a pauper and make their waiters/waitresses live in squalor. And in order for the waiters/waitresses not to live in squalor, consumers need to give them a little extra.
Does that make any fucking sense?
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bot you fucking hippie I am pretty much the same way, namely because waiting tables is "transitional" for a lot of the people who are young and dumb like you and I were. They have to really **** up for me not to give them 20%. But I think most people don't expect a "PR" campaign, just good service. I don't know if I'd call good service an art, but I'd call it common sense and showing you know how to do a job even though you're young.
The thing that irked me in my brief tenure as a server was the "tip pool". That seemed like some bullshit, but to be honest, I wasn't paying a lot of attention. I was a teenager, getting high, and playing in a band, and working another job in construction at the time.
I also give the garbage folks $50 (even though they fleece our condo association), the condo lawn guy $100, and the woman who cleans the building common areas once a month $100 on Christmas. And my dry cleaners $50, because I finally found some who didn't make my clothes smell like musty bleach.
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i don't expect a bj but i do want my drinks refilled timely and checked on aint much to ask u do that shit u get a good tip if i have to come find u or wave u over or don't get asked if we need anything then **** ya
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The only time I won't give at least 20% is if the server was overtly rude. Everyone has had a server who really should not be doing this job. They hate it and have contempt for all customers. Only twice have I done this. I left about 10 or 12% in paper money, with a single penny to let them know "**** you too".
But even getting the order wrong, or not clearing the table in a timely fashion will not cause me to lowball a tip.
But even getting the order wrong, or not clearing the table in a timely fashion will not cause me to lowball a tip.
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When I go to restaurants waitresses tip me.
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you mean they let you know the cops are coming because you are sitting in a public space wearing no pants?
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...off to the cops because I'm a wanted sexual predator.
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Damn't. You beat me to it.
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I kind of thought Ommy wasn't referring to gratuities. The question now is, are they actually waitresses? Guess the no pants thing would invite tipping.
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lmfao
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Whatever. Serving is one of the only jobs in minimum wage america where people can actually make a living wage. I'm not going to begrudge them that. Further, you get to give your money directly to the person that is serving you. Its a weird system, but with how fucked low skill wages are, I'm not going to ***** about the one job that actually pays.
Its fuckin hilarious when a consumer cries "how is it my problem if the business I am giving my money to fucks its employees over".
I will never understand how in the age where social connectivity is a cliche, so many people can't seem to fathom economic connectivity.