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Originally posted by WeRpeons
-Why would a hairdresser or barber require a tip. That's a job they're being paid to do. They're not improving my hair cut experience just because their having a friendly conversation. My dental hygienist is very friendly but I don't tip her.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
-If you go to those buffet places, I have to go up and get my own food and drink, yet they have these "bus people" coming around retrieving my finished plate and glasses. They're not serving me my food, so they shouldn't be getting a tip, but it's expected. (I was a bus boy in high school and I never received a tip for clearing anyone's table. (Although, I did accidentally sweep the waitresses tip into the garbage on a table I cleaned off). Lucky she found it in the trash.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
-Bartenders are hired to mix your drinks and pour you beers. I still don't understand the idea of tipping the bartender or bar maid. The people behind a fast food counter dispense milkshakes and sodas, should they be tipped too?
Originally posted by WeRpeons
-I've also been given dinner bills that have the gratuity already figured in! Now what if I didn't feel my service was deserving of the full 20 percent. That's totally ignoring the premises of gratuities.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
-The young guys who wipe off your car after the car comes out of the car wash are expected to be tipped. Isn't that what they were hired to do? Are garbage collectors tipped for removing your heavy trash from the curb side?
Originally posted by WeRpeons
-I called and ordered a couple of dinners a few weeks back from a local chain restaurant. When I place the order, they gave me the price and than said, "that doesn't include the gratuity." What? For taking my order and I have to drive their to pick it up? They sometimes will come out of the restaurant to bring the bagged food to the car. That's as much work as someone handing you food at a fast food restaurant. And on this day, my wife had to enter the restaurant to pick up the food.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
-Hotel clerks who carry your bags. I understand if you ask them too carry your bags, give them a tip. But when you don't ask, and they do it anyways, no way! It's like forcing the customer to pay for something they never asked for.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
-It just seems like businesses would rather the customer pay their employees their hourly rate. Hey we only pay measly X amount of dollars, but you keep any tip the customer gives you.
Tip Jars Whether to put change into the jar is your choice. Workers at counter-service businesses normally receive sufficient base salaries.
reply to post by Lasr1oftheJedi
There are alot of underappreciated jobs, obviously. Where you are paid little for alot of work. I think if anyone ever actually bussed a table, waitressed (or waitered, w/e), worked a drive thru or any of these other costumer interactive jobs, they'd realize that these people get paid nothing for alot of insult, grief, stress and hard work. All to be looked down upon by society.