Ayrav said:
People who don't tip are cheap cunts. If you don't tip think about this; typically two types of people don't tip. White collar man that are so self-centered they love the smell of their own shit and young, college, wank-offs that think that everyone is beneath them.
The best tippers? Blue collar workers and service professionals. These are the people that cut you're hair, pour your coffee, build your roads and houses, the people who work hard for their money. If the people who actually work hard for their livelihood can leave a good tip why do you think that you don't have to?
To put it simply: You're not special, You're not better then anyone, If you go out and don't tip think about what that says of your character, DON'T BE A CHEAP ****.
In the above post: generalizations.
(now, before I dig in here, I typically tip 15%. No matter what. If service is really bad, I'll cut that down, but I've only ever not tipped once).
I'm sorry you think that expecting a waiter or waitress to do their job at an acceptable level for the paid wage is "being a cheap ****".
I worked retail for several years, and I worked hard. I earned my 8$ an hour. I'd serve customers, make sure they were happy, satisfied, and had found everything they needed. I'd offer advice and recommendations, made sure to maintain my knowledge of the products we carried, and would spend long periods of time helping to navigate customers through their lager and tougher purchases.
In that time, I was usually lucky to get so much as a thank you, let alone a tip. I once got a $20 tip after a 3 hour long transaction, which totaled $1400 in sales. And even then, I only got it after hauling all the lady's boxes to her car for her.
Standard tipping etiquette says you tip 15% for good service. That $20 was a 1.5%. And that's the only tip I ever got.
I resent the fact that wait staff consider tips expected or mandatory. Particularly since restaurants are required (here) to pay tips on top of minimum wage (they can't use tips as a part of the wage, they are supplementary only).
I worked every day of my retail career for my minimum wage paycheque, and that alone. So pardon me if I think servers should have to go above and beyond to be worthy of a tip. I think I've earned the right to begrudge it.
A waiter has never spent an hour with me, discussing the pros and cons of the veal over the lamb, and I've never had a server rattle off the nutritional information of a meal from memory.
They get paid to do a job, and they should do that job with no expectation of a tip. A tip is supposed to be a bonus for a job well done, not an additional 15% tax on your meal because your server didn't spit in your food.
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