Anyone providing some form of customer service.
Tipping
- Thread starter jwest
- Start date
Anyone providing some form of customer service.
Most of which I'd expect to be on performance related pay.
You'd expect shop workers and the like to be on performance related pay? Really?
Soldato
- Joined
- 9 Nov 2005
- Posts
- 9,562
- Location
- Southampton, hopefully not too hot, or too cold
These days it feels very odd tipping, as they probably earn more than I do, as I can only mange part-time hours because of health issues.
While I appreciate the cost of living has gone up over the same period, as least people who work in such jobs at waiting on get minimum wage now, back in my younger days in the 90s, ~£3 an hour was commonplace.
There is Working Tax Credits out there now to help the low paid, but the hoops you have to jump through (just like other state benefits) to qualify seem to be increasing in number. There are those that only just fail to meet the criteria, who can end up effectively worse off than those that only just qualified. Then there are those who could get some financial help, but find the whole process of claiming too stressful.
While I appreciate the cost of living has gone up over the same period, as least people who work in such jobs at waiting on get minimum wage now, back in my younger days in the 90s, ~£3 an hour was commonplace.
There is Working Tax Credits out there now to help the low paid, but the hoops you have to jump through (just like other state benefits) to qualify seem to be increasing in number. There are those that only just fail to meet the criteria, who can end up effectively worse off than those that only just qualified. Then there are those who could get some financial help, but find the whole process of claiming too stressful.
Yes in America the tip is a certain percentage (forgot what it is), due to a lot of the waiters/waitresses working of tips! But having said that I have had some horrible experiences with waiters (over here) in which case I do not tip!
If they're in a proper restaurant I tip for good service. Taxi drivers I tip if they seemed like a good gent and got me there fast.
Not for chain restaurants though, most of them the staff don't see the tips anyway and you aren't allowed.
Not for chain restaurants though, most of them the staff don't see the tips anyway and you aren't allowed.
Well in this country they don't get paid to care, maybe we should start paying them to? It's not like these companies are short of a bob or two.
Last edited:
It is very rare that I tip when eating out. Normally it is just the wife and I, the interaction with the waitress is no more than "hello, can I take your order" and then "would you like a dessert?". They haven't done anything at that point to earn a tip, nor gone above and beyond their job role.
If I was eating out in a massive group who created a lot of work for them, I'd probably reconsider.
Plus, I can't expense tips when eating out at my companies expense.
If I was eating out in a massive group who created a lot of work for them, I'd probably reconsider.
Plus, I can't expense tips when eating out at my companies expense.
Vore
Vore
Very disappointed to see this thread is not related to cow tipping 
On topic: I tip more out of habit than necessity, but in some establishments people seem to think a tip is an entitlement which I find rather annoying.
On topic: I tip more out of habit than necessity, but in some establishments people seem to think a tip is an entitlement which I find rather annoying.
Cab driver here
From the recipients point of view it's never expected from a client/customer.I do a mix of private contract work and local work and pick every sort under the sun up from directors of multi million pound companies to workshy junkies. I certainly can't complain as I do very well out of my tips but I like to think I offer a damn site better service than any other cab firm out there. But the same courtesies are extended to all my regular clients regardless of their inclination to tip or not. I take their repeat business in a cut throat industry is enough of a show of faith in what I'm doing anything else is just a bonus
That said though overall the best tippers as a percentage of the value of their fare seems to be those from the lowest rungs of society apart from the odd punters who treat tipping as a chance to show off their wealth but if it gives them a sense of pleasure and puts a nice bit of coin in my pocket I'm happy to doff the cap and roll with it
From the recipients point of view it's never expected from a client/customer.I do a mix of private contract work and local work and pick every sort under the sun up from directors of multi million pound companies to workshy junkies. I certainly can't complain as I do very well out of my tips but I like to think I offer a damn site better service than any other cab firm out there. But the same courtesies are extended to all my regular clients regardless of their inclination to tip or not. I take their repeat business in a cut throat industry is enough of a show of faith in what I'm doing anything else is just a bonus
That said though overall the best tippers as a percentage of the value of their fare seems to be those from the lowest rungs of society apart from the odd punters who treat tipping as a chance to show off their wealth but if it gives them a sense of pleasure and puts a nice bit of coin in my pocket I'm happy to doff the cap and roll with it
Permabanned
- Joined
- 8 Jan 2010
- Posts
- 10,263
- Location
- UK
I always find it odd that large groups bringing a lot of custom are expected to tip yet places like the club my stepson works at will give free bottles of cheap champagne to groups larger than I think it is 6 people and some of the staff are hanging around the train station actively encouraging large like stag parties etc to go there.
Those bottles of crap cost literally pennies but drunk people just see ooo free booze lets go there!
Yeah, I've heard this from lots of self employed folk.
The people who have a lot of money will never tip and always try swindle you out of your pay "Not good enough I want a reduction in price" type things.
The people who don't have quite so much will give you a tip for doing a good job and won't argue on price.
The worst ones are the people who want to appear affluent but really aren't.