Philosophy of Tipping

[soybomber]

What instantly makes me not want to pay any tips are RMTs that r pushy upsellers and constantly talking about fees. Huge turn off.

 

[Old Fart]

What instantly makes me not want to pay any tips are RMTs that r pushy upsellers and constantly talking about fees. Huge turn off.

LOL. Can you spell AMY?

 

[Rewarded]

If we are talking paying more than the PRICE of a service, I agree.
If we are talking "TIPPing" i disagree.
A TIP is what you pay over and above the cost or price of service, for service ABOVE & BEYOND what is expected.

Using that same logic, I hate tips because if I bought something, IE PAID for it, (a meal for example) of course you have to bring it to me so why should I tip someone for fetching me what I am paying for. Maybe they are underpaid but that is their employers fault, not mine.
I never did get it. You and I go for dinner, you order a $30 steak and I order a $10 burger (not a feather and a brick but approx same effort to carry both).
Why do you pay a $6 tip and me, a $2 tip? What more did the server do for you than he/she did for me?
In fact what did they do at all, except merely bring us what we are paying for?????
Stupid, stupid stupid concept.

I completely second this Old Fart (hehe) when it comes to tipping ... as a lady in this industry I would much rather you save that tip, no matter how much it is and keep it for another visit. This would hopefully insure seeing you gentleman more often. And to me this is a better tip "return clients". Tells more about my service to have you come back more often then to tip me extra.

 

[Rubmegood]

Thank you, Rewarded!

I don't know about the rest of you but I appreciate comments/advise from ladies in the industry 10X more than any monger on this site! And not just on this topic! No offence...

 

[FredSanfordII]

Using that same logic, I hate tips because if I bought something, IE PAID for it, (a meal for example) of course you have to bring it to me so why should I tip someone for fetching me what I am paying for. Maybe they are underpaid but that is their employers fault, not mine.
I never did get it. You and I go for dinner, you order a $30 steak and I order a $10 burger (not a feather and a brick but approx same effort to carry both).
Why do you pay a $6 tip and me, a $2 tip? What more did the server do for you than he/she did for me?
In fact what did they do at all, except merely bring us what we are paying for?????
Stupid, stupid stupid concept.

You have me convinced OF, the next time I go to a restaurant and I sit down, I'm ordering my food at the cook counter, grabbing my own drinks from the server station and grabbing my food once it ready to save the $6. Could you imagine the look on the manager's face? It's only in North America that the employer doesn't pay their staff, hence, we look like the aholes when we tip minimal amounts.

 

[Old Fart]

the next time I go to a restaurant and I sit down, I'm ordering my food at the cook counter, grabbing my own drinks from the server station and grabbing my food once it ready to save the $6. Could you imagine the look on the manager's face? It's only in North America that the employer doesn't pay their staff, hence, we look like the aholes when we tip minimal amounts.

You should not have o go get it yourself. When you buy some thing, there are right there but some are not. Somethings they have to go get from the back (like shoes). You don't go to the back, they BRING them to you and do not expect a tip. You freakin PAID for them so of course they bring them to you.

If shoe stores operated like restaurants, you'd have to tip the order taker (I don't call then sales people cuz most retail people can't really 'sell' per se, but I digress) /cashier, who would have to then tip out the stockroom person who stocked the shelves, the truck driver who delivered the shipment, the child in India who made the shoes for 10 cents a day AND...the farmer who raised the cow that the leather came from.

 

[Old Fart]

children that made shoes with the leather of Alberta cows.

You may be right. I made two assumptions. First, they save the Alberta cows for the beef (nothing like Alberta beef) and second that since they make the shoes in factories in India, they use local cows rather than shipping the cows there and shipping back the shoes here.
The Chinese children may have Unionized, uOUCH (union Of Underaged Child Help) as they are demanding 25 Cents a day.

 

[Old Fart]

Ok...now I am laughing my ass off. And it's not a good time for it....as I'm on the toilet.

Not sure I needed to know that BUT...Since I do, may I suggest you hang on tight, keeping all parts involved over the hole til you're done. Don't wanna be wiping the floor TOO now, do you ?