OT: Tip culture
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See, the delivery person is one I utimately don't get. They're getting paid a salary and many times you're paying a delivery fee ...or buying expensive product that offers free delivery. So why am I tipping the delivery guy on top of That? I don't tip (or usually even see) UPS, who is here every few days.
If they go above and beyond in lugging something to a specific part of the house, or with assembly and placement, okay. But if they're just dropping something on the porch or in the entryway ..nah.
See, the delivery person is one I utimately don't get. They're getting paid a salary and many times you're paying a delivery fee ...or buying expensive product that offers free delivery. So why am I tipping the delivery guy on top of That? I don't tip (or usually even see) UPS, who is here every few days.
If they go above and beyond in lugging something to a specific part of the house, or with assembly and placement, okay. But if they're just dropping something on the porch or in the entryway ..nah.
All of my HS and College jobs.
The cashiers ringing up your order and the person making the sandwich are getting paid standard minimum wage, which is currently $13/hr in NJ.
Why is it that the right wing circle jerkers turn 75% of OT threads political.
Move it to the CE board.
Do you tip the owner if they’re the one cutting your hair?
Have heard you don’t tip them, since they are already getting a piece of the other chairs.
agreed. you don't have to tip them. i think people are equating what shows up on the payment screen or on the receipt as an expectation of a tip. i don't think it is. what i was trying to convey in my other point is, the POS system is set up to work for any and all restaurants/food service, unless customized. Customizing software is expensive and has maintenance considerations and costs, so i'm sure many establishments don't customize. So if you have a standard POS, they're going to have the tipping screen/mechanism built in, and the receipts that it creates are all going to be standard in including those fields. just because it's there doesn't mean they expect a takeout customer to be tipping. for the record, i do tip for takeout at my favorite mom and pop shops. others...no.
in terms of how waitstaff/bartenders/busboys get paid...that's a separate discussion.
the owner of the shop i get my cut at is a total POS. but my guy is fantastic. and yes, the owner gets a cut of all the chairs at that spot.
yeah that's a tough onr. I went to Ray's Clipjoint in Morris Plains for a while and the owner was the sole cutter. He charged $18 but I only gave him $20.
Let me correct some of this bovine excrement. Mainstreamed boomers did not all think their parents "were all Archie Bunker neanderthals". Was there some friction? Sure. Just like EVERY OTHER GENERATION and their parents. And the tilt on college faculties is on a continuum rather than a sudden change. And during this "cancel craze" the faculties are predominantly Gen-X and Millenials. Many of the boomer professors have retired.
What "it" do you mean?
The economy is being nuked, borders erased, 1000s of unscreened strangers flown (by gov,) around the country at night, Intel agency committee head had CCP spy/hooker staff his office and he still has a job no problemo - because half of DC is on the take (CCP says). Babies have to get a treatment for a disease they don't get but 80k people can die a year from CCP fentanyl intentionally aimed at middle class kids. The US techs who helped CCP censor its people not push the same things at home.
The "it" you think of is gasping and turning blue
Don't think so. All the colleges are indoctriantion camps who preach "science" while telling kids they have to decide if they are what their genes say they are. Cats are dogs, dogs are birds, birds are fish etc. Only people who don't know history think "every generation" is as mutated as this one. Colleges tilt the same way Hollywood does, and that's the same as most news media, corporations and now even military (last bastion of functionality). The reason these things happen is because Mr and Mrs (outdated I know) America went to sleep while provocateurs poisoned wells. Boomers were taught they had to be "special" and many want to be rock stars and will sellout for a check, an honor etc etc. "Science" in US is a mess - 1 in 7 people is on meds (25% of woman over 40) and that and all the rest would horrify past generations. A super medicated population is in most dystopian tales.
^^^ It's like back in my Rutgers days when I'd share a table and a conversation over lunch with a couple of John Birchers.
Bizarro world....a sorta right-wing cult.
Funny guys though.
A perfect example of in one ear and out the other, as you addressed virtually none of my points. And my knowledge of history puts yours to shame.
They have parks in the UK where people stand on soapboxes and rant. You missed your calling.
Take it to the CE board. This thread is about tipping. WTF.
In many parts of Europe, tipping has mostly disappeared. If you pay by credit card, there is no way to add a tip to your bill, and since there is no change with a credit card, no tip to leave on the table. In Europe, as in America, most people pay for their restaurant bills by credit card, but instead of taking your credit card away, they bring a small machine to your table and you swipe or tap right there. There are no options on the machines to add tip and you are never asked. This is based on my observations in Netherlands and France, other places could be different.
In bars people still often pay with cash, but tipping is still very unusual and just leaving some extra change.
To the point above, from the Gary Brackett article posted in this thread:
"Former Colts linebacker Gary Brackett is putting his Super Bowl XLI ring, as well as his AFC Championship rings, up for auction.
Brackett, who played for the Colts from 2003-2011, formerly owned the Stacked Pickle restaurant. He filed for bankruptcy in September. The 41-year-old closed his Stacked Pickle locations in 2020 due to the pandemic. The bankruptcy filing estimated his assets at $2 million and his liabilities at nearly $5.8 million. The restaurant had nine Indiana locations and one in Ohio."
I increased it because that's what's getting a lot of people along these days
Restaurants in particular have a lot of college kids, mothers etc who need a flex schedule and cash etc
When all the restaurants get closed it flushes a lot of people - while the laptop and zoom call crowd have it nicer than before.
Tricky one. I had my hair done yesterday and two different stylist worked(one is the owner) on me. My total was 110 and I gave them 15 each. Not sure if that was right or wrong. Nail salon is another one…it’s always a pedicure girl and then the nail tech(owner) I have to tip both. It’s annoying, but I’m making the choice to go.
Actually a lot of what I'm saying would line-up with 60s/70s liberals
They used to be big on free speech, distrust of agencies etc and gov control etc
Me and JFK, MLK would be like peas in a pod.
Now the new crowd is like Che and Mao.
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A lot of Boomer parents were hurt/confused by their kids
Alas they were too tired from the war to really get engaged with all that
I know Gen-X and millenials are off the hook - but they are Boomer kids. Boomer parents didn't want to be "uncool" and acted like friends with their kids. Let them have booze parties at home (safer) and let them leave the house dressed like hookers and inmates. Of course that's assuming the kids have/had parents. Now many people just have kids freestyle and shack them up with the people they are "dating"- na mean?.
They can't help it. Interesting it's always always the RW overflow from CE polluting here and the RT.
The way things are going a lot people here might be needing tips lol.Quite an analysis. Not as interesting as your perspective in tipping.
Adding trillions of dollars with a crazy idea that debt doesn't matter is a highway to Argentina
When they are saying they want to be able to monitor bank accounts of $600 or less, and hire 85,000 IRS agents don't believe its "for the rich." People not connected will be debt serfs.
Like I said earlier, we have people who think they are discovering new genius level ideas when its the same stuff that wrecked Venezuela. They want a new flag (there are now two flying at US consulates around the world) new constitution (they like S Africa's) confiscation and worse. Playing with fire imo.
what's that got to do with tipping at restaurants and food establishments? you're off your f'ing rocker man.
Ah yes, the coming apocalypse. Here’s an old tune that addresses it: