Yeah but its not a tip if you will get something in return right? Your merly paying for a service
Do you give anyone a tip at Christmas.
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Our local rubbish collection service got outsourced by the council this year. The rubbish collectors now have to work bank holidays and no doubt have to strictly follow rules on what they’re allowed to collect. No wonder they don’t smile anymore.
The boss always tips the postie that delivers to the office at Christmas as he actually does a good job the rest of the year. I get the odd bottle of crap whisky from our clients which usually lasts me the rest of the year.
The missus is a teacher and she does really well each year. This was the haul she came home with yesterday..
She has about that much again in the living room from Tuesday too. At least we won't need to buy any wine or shower gel for a while. She gets about the same amount again at the end of the year!
The missus is a teacher and she does really well each year. This was the haul she came home with yesterday..
She has about that much again in the living room from Tuesday too. At least we won't need to buy any wine or shower gel for a while. She gets about the same amount again at the end of the year!
Our postie is a hotty, like one of them 90's glamour models. We never have anyone else do the post around here though so not sure what you mean by that.
On topic though; she'd get a tip alright.
Sod all in return.
Our postie is always smoking skunk when I see him and most definitely does not go out of his way to be helpful and the bin men on our run are completely militant so I don't now.
Our bin men don't turn up some of the time so no, Postman isn't the same guy all the time.
I remember growing up in the country the postman, bin men, milk man and the paper boy would all get Christmas tips from the parents. But they were regular faces, you had more interactions with them than you do now.
I remember growing up in the country the postman, bin men, milk man and the paper boy would all get Christmas tips from the parents. But they were regular faces, you had more interactions with them than you do now.
Pretty much this. Out postman has a habit of folding letters in half and stuffing them in the letterbox. The binmen require the bins to be in one particular spot or they won't take them, but just dump the bins back anywhere...
I tip for a good service, but I won't tip just for the sake of it.
As euphemisms go that's pretty brutal
Never see my postie or bin men. Tip the occado guy and food delivery drivers though
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I'll be tipping the bin men. Whatever I leave out they are happy to sling into the lorry & I do appreciate it.
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Although being a Dustman is a rubbish job (wa wa waaa), it was very well paid. Now they are paid very poorly so it really is a rubbish job.
I usually give the homeless some money this time of year.
I usually give the homeless some money this time of year.
In days gone by it was quite common to give dustmen (and yes that is what they were called) and the like a few bob in the lead up to Christmas. I myself bung my postman Tommy a fiver as he is one of life's genuine guys and goes that extra mile to provide a great customer service.
As for the dustmen or environmental collection operatives or whatever they are called these days they get zilch as the following meme admirably shows why.
do you give to a small token of thanks for a service that has been generally superb over the year?
my nin men are complete *holes
Always. Of course people like bin men are a-holes. Do you think that when they were kids they'd stand up in front of class and go "When I grow up I want to empty other people's bins in the freezing cold, rain and crap weather, running the potential of being hit by a car every single day"? No, neither do I. For that reason I will always try and make their day just that much more pleasant. Who knows, you might even get to see their true self rather than the misery inflicted upon them by whatever crap cards life has dealt them.
It was an absolute lock that a post like that would be forthcoming.
I give my barber an extra tip, anyone who make a one and half on
the sides, and a two on top look as good as he does, deserves it.
I've read this twice and still have no idea what you're talking about.
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