More tipping insanity
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wrote on 30 May 2024, 03:18 last edited by Axtremus
Things has changed. Last time I bought something big and heavy from Amazon.com, and admittedly it was more than ten years ago, the delivery guy could only deliver as far as the porch. I asked if he could help bring it a few steps further into the house but was told they were restricted by policy to never enter a customer’s house. :man-shrugging:
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wrote on 30 May 2024, 20:30 last edited by
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wrote on 30 May 2024, 22:07 last edited by
Lol
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wrote on 31 May 2024, 06:30 last edited by
LOL to all of the above. Come to the dark side...........
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wrote on 10 Jul 2024, 12:37 last edited by
Jesus.
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wrote on 10 Jul 2024, 13:29 last edited by
Imagine the tip requests in his rent…
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wrote on 22 Aug 2024, 20:15 last edited by
From a friend...
Back when I was working,our company attended a summer business show in Nashville Tenn. We all went out to dinner at an exclusive restaurant on Main Street. There was seven of us and as we were going in there was a sign that said that parties of five or more had a 20% service charge on their bill.
As we were going to our table we saw a couple sitting at a table and the man was the general manager of one of the main finance companies in the XXXXXXX industry. We said hello, shook hands and went to our table. While we were sitting and pondering what to order the waiter pushing a cart came to our table and opened and set three bottles of wine on our table. He said they were compliments of the gentleman we passed on the way in.
The point of this story is that the wine was around $120 a bottle and the guy was charged a $72 service charge because it was served at a party of five or more even though a party of two ordered and paid for it. There was a strong argument, to no avail, with the manager. The servers expected a tip on top of that.
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wrote on 20 Sept 2024, 22:56 last edited by
"ROSC" is "Return of Spontaneous Circulation" and that's a defibrillator.
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wrote on 23 Sept 2024, 15:35 last edited by
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wrote on 23 Sept 2024, 17:05 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in More tipping insanity:
Hahah that's hilarious but no seriously let's compare farm subsidies to waiter's tips and oh hey that's not what chefs do basically at all.
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wrote on 5 Nov 2024, 02:28 last edited by
Just posting in this thread because I don't want to start another.
If you stay at a hotel one night, do you tip the housekeeping staff?
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Just posting in this thread because I don't want to start another.
If you stay at a hotel one night, do you tip the housekeeping staff?
wrote on 5 Nov 2024, 02:38 last edited by@George-K said in More tipping insanity:
Just posting in this thread because I don't want to start another.
If you stay at a hotel one night, do you tip the housekeeping staff?
Yes. I get the same service as if I stayed two nights.
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wrote on 5 Nov 2024, 02:42 last edited by Mik 11 May 2024, 02:43
No. I used to leave a 5 every day, but I got service every day. Now you don’t get it even if you request it. No tip.
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wrote on 5 Nov 2024, 09:35 last edited by
My problem is the supervisors often scan the rooms first and swipe it
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 15:30 last edited by
I went through a Starbucks drive-through this morning, and on the credit card machine they hold for you, you have to select your tip before inserting your card. There's no button for 0, you have to figure out the system to go through whatever custom menu that is. While dealing with sun glare and the shaky hand holding the machine for you through the window. So I chose the lowest number, $1 on my $4 order, and decided I probably wouldn't bother going back to Starbucks again.
Education is extremely important.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 15:34 last edited by Renauda
If you do leave a tip, best to give it directly to your waiter in cash and pay the restaurant bill by card:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/tipping-marketplace-1.7395871
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 16:23 last edited by
Yes. Cash leaves no trace.
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I went through a Starbucks drive-through this morning, and on the credit card machine they hold for you, you have to select your tip before inserting your card. There's no button for 0, you have to figure out the system to go through whatever custom menu that is. While dealing with sun glare and the shaky hand holding the machine for you through the window. So I chose the lowest number, $1 on my $4 order, and decided I probably wouldn't bother going back to Starbucks again.
wrote on 2 Dec 2024, 19:41 last edited by@Horace said in More tipping insanity:
I went through a Starbucks drive-through this morning, and on the credit card machine they hold for you, you have to select your tip before inserting your card. There's no button for 0, you have to figure out the system to go through whatever custom menu that is. While dealing with sun glare and the shaky hand holding the machine for you through the window. So I chose the lowest number, $1 on my $4 order, and decided I probably wouldn't bother going back to Starbucks again.
That was just the universe balancing out when I went to Caribou Coffee on Thanksgiving day, I swiped my credit card and then I asked the guy where I can leave a tip. He couldn't figure out the machine and had to awkwardly get a coworker to come over and help. They finally figured out a way to manually type in extra, so I gave them a few bucks. I never tip at a drive thru / coffee place but they were the only place open on Thanksgiving, so I wanted to give thanks.
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wrote on 2 Dec 2024, 19:46 last edited by
I tipped the waitress that served our lunch on Thanksgiving day 33%.
The place was packed, the only thing open for miles.
