Plumbers and electricians make insanely high hourly wages. You are way more generous than me if you tip those guys. To me, that would be like tipping your doctor.
For a minute there I thought you were Oprah.
On hot days I’ll leave out cold bottles of water and small snacks. I know a lot of delivery trucks don’t have A/C. The UPS guy loves me. He’ll stop by even if he’s not delivering anything. It’s fine. I understand.
Plus, they’re usually self-employed. You’re supposed to tip employees, not the boss.
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Please don’t think I’m telling you your job, but I consider this point highly relevant, and not a rant, or debating tipping in general.
It’s actually what my mother taught me (50 years ago), but it seems to be in flux right now-- if one tips all the barbers in a shop other than the one who owns the shop, one is likely to be looked at a little funny.
And you always tip a cab driver. You don’t enquirer whether he happens to be one of the few who owns his own cab and drives when he wants to (if that still exists since the advent of Ubers.
But how much to tip such people vs. their employees-- or whether the fact that they HAVE employees is not where the line is drawn, I think are all relevant to my original topic.
Respectfully posted,
Heh - my dad taught me the same thing 40 years ago, also at a barber shop. These days, I always tip the heavily tattooed young woman who washes my hair and trims my beard, but I don’t tip her boss, who cuts my hair. I can’t remember the last time I went to a place that had more than one actual barber, so the issue never comes up.
As for taxis, we don’t tip them here. It’s just not the custom. I always have to remind myself to do it when travelling abroad.
Yeah-- I tipped them there because I couldn’t not do it, but it would be just a couple of shekels-- they would not accept more.
Hold on thar, are you tellin’ me we’re not sposeta tip doctors?
jest the ones in the clinics thet you won’t be a-seeing agin-- then, a bushel a apples, or some eggs, or if he really did some good, maybe a fryer, if you keep lotsa chikins
I remember some politician who objected to Obamacare saying how you could pay your doctor with a chicken if you didn’t have insurance.
Who? Laura Ingalls?
We do the same.
And they get a christmas card with a gift card inside.
DoorDash testing Mafia-like messages on their app - “That’s some nice hot food you’re ordering there; it would be a real shame if it was delivered to you COLD”
I applaud this message. No matter what you think of tipping, it’s built into the delivery driver’s pay structure, and omitting it doesn’t “send a message” to the company, it just screws the driver over.
I tip 20% usually but I’m really crabby about it sometimes.
Except that it’s coming from the people who built it into the drivers’ pay, and who could choose to pay them more.
That’s an excellent point, and I hope the publicity about this moves the national conversation towards holding employers accountable. Until then, though, I’m in favor of people not stiffing their servers (including food delivery people).