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no wait maybe it's lesbians

iatee, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

bartenders are horribly spoiled, overpaid people

looool

xps: my bet wld be 'se azns' but w/e this is... not a great thread to be reading is it?

Lamp, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

wait someone said that before, maybe on this very thread, right

beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link

i cant remember did they get sb'd too but im gonna say ya

beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link

said bartender is disgusting savage imo

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link

Rednecks are the worst tippers.

phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link

lol azns are horrible tippers its true

british sb power (dayo), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/DDMBW.gif

bnw, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

It depends on the race of the folks they're tipping though.

boxall, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link

while this thread is open I guess I'll contribute

my parents' fridge broke down earlier this year and they got a new one from sears

when they took delivery of it my dad was gonna tip em but realized that they didn't have any cash in the house since they always paid using credit card

finally my dad found $10 in ones and gave it to the two dudes (who had just shlepped in a giant refrigerator)

he tried to tell me it was okay because the one dollar bills were new from the bank and some of them were even consecutively numbered

kinda lol, kinda sad

british sb power (dayo), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link

boxall with a quality point

beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link

I've heard this brought up several times at parties and such and it seems like there is one in particular that always seems to stiff the workers to the point that even people of that race hate being assigned to those tables

You're talking about German tourists, right? RIGHT?

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link

Second worst tippers: my grandparents (they're white btw)

phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

Third worst tippers - high school kids in large groups.

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

when whites do things it doesn't count

horseshoe, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

is it the BLACKS

yeah you got it pretty quickly which is making me wonder if/why this is a real stereotype, and yeah mh there's cultural differences but I've heard this SO MUCH regardless of how big the city is, and I don't think it's an issue of being cheap at all

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

I left some cash for my mom to tip the guys who delivered my washer/dryer, because that is a lot of work.

The dudes who dropped off my new tv, which I could easily carry by myself and wasn't a difficult task, didn't get a tip even though I agonized over it for the next day or so. Probably should have given them a $10.

mh, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

wtf jenny some of my very best friends are white ppl fyi

beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

no no no

beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

I used to have to sneak back to the table and leave extra $$$ when I'd go out to eat with my grandfather. Now I just tell him I'm expensing the entire meal.

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link

you are the most boring troll of all time

xxxxp

horseshoe, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link

See when ppl gave me bad tips I just kidnapped their children

2012 gtfolympics (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link

the other group is middle aged white women btw

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link

bet they're ugly, too. lesbians, maybe?

horseshoe, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

yeah you got it pretty quickly which is making me wonder if/why this is a real stereotype,

Since you've heard it from multiple people in every day life, yes, that would make it a "real stereotype."

As to why - confirmation bias. If you're serving 5 times as many white customers, you're not going to notice the ebb and flow of tips as you would with groups you serve less.

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

middle aged woman isn't a race is a state of mind your manners young man

beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1329241

Hey look there might be institutionalized reasons related to this that aren't directly correlated to skin color

It's like if you put "black people tipping" in google, this discussion has actually happened a multitude of times

keep up the insight, frogbs, I would like to know why you think black people don't tip

mh, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link

Good thing there's no Blacks or women on ILX

2012 gtfolympics (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

milo - i doubt that's true. it's not like blacks are the only other race out there

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

when I worked at a golf course the worst tippers were the people who played golf

british sb power (dayo), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

Or tippers

xxp

...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

what other races are out there, frogbs

british sb power (dayo), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

I liked to break down my serving biases into microcultures - civil servants on lunch break, businessmen from out of town serving, middle-aged women who wanted to flirt, middle-aged women who didn't want to flirt, those assholes in town for a Christian revival who tipped with pamphlets (actually happened, still pissed 11-12 years later), midgets, midget-porn fetishists, etc.

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

lesbian isn't a race btw

iatee, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

businessmen from out of town eating on the company dime*

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

it's not like blacks are the only other race out there

other than.... other than.... *head explodes*

mh, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link

Best tippers - New York Yankees catchers, deceased guitarists for Pantera

Worst tippers - my deadbeat friends

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1329241

Hey look there might be institutionalized reasons related to this that aren't directly correlated to skin color

It's like if you put "black people tipping" in google, this discussion has actually happened a multitude of times

keep up the insight, frogbs, I would like to know why you think black people don't tip

that article doesn't really answer it but yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

honestly, I have no idea, that's why I brought it up because it's kind of a weird thing. in my experience as a bartender they aren't exactly cheap people and I'm not sure if there are cultural issues or what they could be

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link

True story: I worked at this terrible redneck bar in NC and on my third or so shift, I got a six top of mostly black people and my fellow server asked me if I would be okay and I was like yeah, six top no biggie, we're not busy and she was like. No. Are you going to be okay? Because they were black, see.

phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

frogbs waiting a table:

"So I couldn't help but notice your Blackness. Will you be tipping these evening?"

2012 gtfolympics (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

bet they're ugly, too. lesbians, maybe?

hey why don't you take this shit into another thread? if you're going to whine could you at least try to be funny?

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

frogbs waiting a table:

"So I couldn't help but notice your Blackness. Will you be tipping these evening?"

man you guys are the fucking worst

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

Modest Mickey of this site once emailed me a letter he wanted proofread that he was going to give to his manager. The letter told his manager he was upset with her for having alleged black people are bad tippers. He asked for tips about the letter and I said, "make it about five pages shorter."

free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

it's nagl on my part, i know, piling on, but if you're going to post could you try not to be so mindnumbingly stupid?

xp

horseshoe, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

Untippable Blackness

bill magill (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

they aren't exactly cheap people

they... people

dude

mh, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

well what am I supposed to say? are you really going to get into a "you people" argument?

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link

If you don't get what I'm saying there, it's that the entire construction comes off as "blacks: they aren't exactly cheap people!"

And if you don't get why that sounds bad...

mh, Monday, 20 June 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

it's nagl on my part, i know, piling on, but if you're going to post could you try not to be so mindnumbingly stupid?

dude it's a real issue as has been confirmed quite a few times ITT and I was just wondering if this is a real stereotype or if the people I know were just being dumb, what the fuck are you on about

frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link


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