Would tipping someone in Australia be insulting in some way, or would it just be considered gravy from those silly Americans?
Oh no- tipping is gratefully accepted. Trouble is people now expect it in service industries where once it wasn’t required.
More likely his wife works for an airline, or he does, and he gets a reduced fare ticket and since he knows exactly when he wants to fly he can get that reduced fare on a reduced fare (probably.) He still must make pretty good money.
$400,000.01
I know a bartender who had a regular customer who bought a whole bottle of Louis 13 Cognac about once a month. About 3 to 4 k. And tipped 20 percent on it. 600 to 700. And there would be other customers that evening.
It has now gotten to the stage that some places auto add a tip, i always remove it before signing the bill on principle. There are rare circumstances where I will leave a tip but it better be some pretty over the top service that I got.
Well, both hubby and I worked in service almost our entire working lives. He mostly bar tending, for me both that and table service in high end restaurants, then for extreme high end caterers. It was a blast, suited us both extremely well, and provided us the opportunity to pursue a pretty awesome lifestyle. Over the course of 15yrs, we would work, save, quit, travel for several months, return, work. I recognize it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it sure suited us. We roamed lots of SE Asia, the sub continent, and parts of S America. Trips of 4 to 10 months at a go, and it was a great life.
Now we were taking advantage of the fact you can always get service jobs, which we had no trouble doing. And you could save a chunk of cash when you put your mind to it. (You can always pick up shifts, people always want to do stuff, etc!) We are neither morning people, so never waking sleep deprived to an alarm was better fit for us.
You cannot imagine the number of people, professional wealthy lawyers and doctors, who confide over a bar, that they wish they could do, what we were doing. We were trading car payments and consumer debt for freedom. Forgoing security against an imagined future, for doing what we dreamed, right now. While we’re still young,and have the ovaries for adventure. Of course our friends came to see us as the poster children for never growing up, we never even bothered to marry. I don’t know that they were wrong.
We know numerous people who make their living working in service and have a nice life, ( wife, kids, mini van, house, vacations, etc. ) Of course, when everybody woke up in the 90’s and discovered there really was no ‘job security’, for anyone anymore, people making a living in service found that pretty funny. No such thing, things change constantly.
Even our bank eventually caught on, after watching us save a pile, quit our jobs, and off, only to return and begin again. Of course we never had loans or credit cards, we didn’t qualify, on paper. After 6 or 8 times they called us in and talked to us about recognizing that we had pretty good money skills, blah, blah, banker blather. I left befuddled. Hubby explained, they were saying, “we know on paper you wouldn’t qualify but we’d extend you credit”.
I only snap my fingers at and condescend to the uneducated ones.
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