Your moving contract was with the moving company. As far as I know you have no responsibility to tip the employees. OTOH if they were exceptionally nice and took good care of your possessions you might want to slip them a 20 or two each to show your appreciation.
If your soliciting opinions on amount, I think $20 per worker for an in-city move is reasonable.
I wish I had thought to ask this question before we moved into our house. I simply didn’t know if I should or shouldn’t and by the time I managed to get foxymoron’s opinion, they had left.
I should have tipped them. I still feel guilty that I didn’t.
Heh…yes. I gotta say, safety glass is amazing stuff. I heard the truck hit our mailbox, and ran into the living room to see what was going on. I was just in time to watch a Ford F250 drive through my sliding glass door not 15 feet away. I was literally showered in broken glass. As this was last June, and a sweltering 95 degrees, I was clad in only a pair of shorts.
Not one single cut.
Turned out the guy lived a block to the west, and drank himself silly most nights half a mile away to the east. He had also had a dozen or so previous DUIs, and was on a suspended license. In other words, the bastard drove drunk past my house 4 or 5 nights a week over a years time. Lovely thought.
We were fortunate. No injuries, nothing damaged that couldn’t be replaced or rebuilt. He was cited and released, and has since gotten two more DUIs. I guess when he finally kills someone, he’ll do some time.
The sunny side of the story is this: The house we were living in was actually a rental. Since we were forced to move out for a month while it was remodeled, my wife and I decided to stop messing around and finally buy our first house. This gave us the motivation, so some good came out of it.
I don’t tip, but I always provide plenty of refreshments, and depending on time of day etc, I’d order sandwiches/pizzas or something.
Geez, those guys are working hard and it’s your stuff they’re lugging up & down the stairs!