Tipping - was this a hint/nudge?

Olivia said:
For anyone that has groceries delivered to your home, how much do you tjp? I've read at least $10 or a percentage of the total bill. I know there is a delivery charge because the first order is no delivery charge.
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That has been a quandary for me, since our grocery bill can be quite high I don't want to give a percentage. :D However when the delivery arrives, both my husband and I go out to the vehicle and help unload. Typically I tip $5 or so since all they do is drive it over. (There is another person at the store who actually picks/fills the order and apparently they aren't privy to tips...??)
 

SeaBreeze said:
:) He's good at packing boxes, just not shipping them.

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:lofl: Your Loki looks like my Smokey . :laugh:

Im a generous tipper but I don’t like being scammed to tip. I’ll tip IF I like the service since that’s what tipping is meant to be for.
When I put myself through school I waited tables and made great tips BUT I busted my butt and deserved the tips I got.
 
C'est Moi said:
That has been a quandary for me, since our grocery bill can be quite high I don't want to give a percentage. :D However when the delivery arrives, both my husband and I go out to the vehicle and help unload. Typically I tip $5 or so since all they do is drive it over. (There is another person at the store who actually picks/fills the order and apparently they aren't privy to tips...??)
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Thank you, that's helpful. Come to think of it, I didn't think about who are the people who do the filling of the orders. They really do the hard part.
 

Don't eat junk food nor do we get food delivered so that pizza example doesn't apply.


Tip jars pre paying with a credit card not going to happen. After a meal is served putting a tip on the cc not a problem. I do ask if cash in hand is preferred over putting the tip on a cc. Reason my son worked where tips made up his wage. On the cc tip sharing by other waiters, the chefs and even the greeter at the door were taken out of his good service. He quit that job.
 
My former and I do mean former, hairstylist opened her own salon years ago. Extremely expensive!

On my first visit, when I went to pay, she actually asked me for a tip!! She said, as she took my card, "Is there anything you want to ADD to that?

Wait a minute.. she is now the owner, owners should not accept tips, let alone ask for one! And I told her just that. She giggled with a red face. After years of her service and tipping her well, I was done with her.

I have had my hair done by an owner whom I didn't know was the owner and she refused my tip, explaining.

One day my present regular hairstylist was too busy for me when I walked in, so I went with another girl there. OMG what a mess she made. I even told her I hated what she did. When at the desk to pay, she actually had the nerve to ask me "if I wanted to add something to that" and like a damn fool, I did. I guess I felt sorry for her. She wasn't there long.

I also don't tip cashiers unless they went out of their for me.
 
Isn’t that annoying RaddishRose? I really dislike when business owners do that.
It’s one thing to expect gratuity but to manipulate your clientele into tipping is tacky.
I absolutely despise getting service from a business and the owner hands me the little money machine and before I can log into my account I have to add a percentage onto the bill. To me it’s seems far too cheeky and I’ll leave annoyed and won’t go back.
Gratuity tips should be optional. Some other countries expect gratuity tips for everything. That’s annoying and so are places where you are supposed to tip for using the washroom. That’s crazy. I’ll do it but grudgingly.,
 
The only time you tip in a washroom is if the attendant actually assists you; handing you a towel or in a fine establishment helping with products to freshen up- which I have only seen twice in my life. lol.
 
I totally understand sc. 1; lots of people don't carry cash anymore - and I'm sure a lot of them don't think ahead about tipping the delivery person when ordering. Every time I use my CC at a restaurant, there is a line for the tip between the amount and the signature line - asking is just the verbal version of that line.

The people that hint about tips are usually the ones that don't make great tips by giving great service to earn them.
 
Tipping is not unknown in Australia but mostly we expect an employee to be covered by a fair wage agreement that includes money for superannuation (retirement income), an annual holiday loading and sick leave. For working unsociable hours there is usually another loading.

When on holidays, as on a cruise, we expect to make a contribution to the waiters and cabin crew when it is over but in our minds it is more of a thank you present than a tip. I appreciate being looked after and when I think about the time these people must spend away from their families and the low wages they are getting I feel some obligation to give them something extra. And I want to.

If I am in a country with a totally different economic system I just do whatever is recommended so that the workers are not disadvantaged.
 
Nobody ever tipped me for doing my job properly.

Maybe the owners of Pizza Joints, Hair Salons etc.,
don't pay enough and the staff depend on tips to
have a decent take home pay.

If people stopped accepting the offered wage, then
they would have to raise the pay and stop relying
on tips.

I was an electrician before I retired.

Mike.
 
Mike said:
Nobody ever tipped me for doing my job properly.

Maybe the owners of Pizza Joints, Hair Salons etc.,
don't pay enough and the staff depend on tips to
have a decent take home pay.

If people stopped accepting the offered wage, then
they would have to raise the pay and stop relying
on tips.

I was an electrician before I retired.

Mike.
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I can think of several jobs I had where I was underpaid, but I never put a tip jar on my desk. :rolleyes:

I'm amazed that so many people go along with helping out cheapskate employers by tossing extra money at employees.

Why is that the responsibility of customers/clients? :confused:
 
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