tipping

threads like this just make me miss LJ to be honest, im sure hed be in here doing his best to mediate between frogbs and the rest of ilx, and in the process putting his foot in his mouth

― ☂ (max), Monday, June 20, 2011 11:50 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

me too. also when louis said stupid shit at least he meant it.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 4:51 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha ;_; miss him

crying through the lols from behind your fingers

http://www.mint.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/110302-MINT-TIPSa.png

you can open that in new tab to zoom obv

goddamn, I'm supposed to tip my hotel housekeeper?

If you're like me, when you're in a foreign country you just leave all the loose change you won't want to drag in to cash in and add $5 on top

when I went to summer camp in china in 9th grade, we left a tip for the housekeeper on our last day. right before we got on the bus, one of the hotel staff came running out and told us that we had forgotten some money on the dresser.

god what an annoying infographic, great idea but how hard can it be to make all the countries where tipping is 15-20% one color, 10-15% another color, no tipping another color???

The Tipping Rebellion

Tipping ain't just a city in China

tai ping

Love that ilx can still find enough material to keep this thread a perennial clusterfuck joy. Thanking u frogbs.

do we tip the guy that made the map? maybe less than 10% because we don't like the colours?

this thread raelly makes me think of tippage

it's wrong about the uk (service charges are rarely included) and germany (lol "dollars are accepted but euros are appreciated")

It also says that if a service charge isn't included, a tip can be excepted.

maybe the author has only been to tourist areas where dollars are always accepted

i'm sure the author was very popular on their trips to france

service charges are rarely included

really? feels increasingly common

maybe (not in my experience). it's definitely still the exception though.

so what's the tipping policy across the pond

10-15% in restaurants unless a service charge is included, round up in taxis, and no tips anywhere else (unless i'm forgetting something)

that infographic looks/sounds like it was ripped off of some 15-year-old source, hence all the stuff about "dollars are appreciated"

maybe they mean aesthetically

dollars haven't appreciated, they've depreciated thanks to the fed's gutless fiscal policies!!!!!

"yes your dollar is very pretty, can i please have some actual money instead thank you"

you know who has pretty but worthless money, is Ghana

http://i.pbase.com/u20/bmcmorrow/upload/36503710.ghana.jpg

linked because lol hueg

FORRRBIDDEN!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1089&bih=652&q=ghana%20currency&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

try this search link then

pretty pretty currency

That is pretty!

There was a Planet Money piece about tipping on All Things Considered today. Cliffs: quality of service has little impact on amt of tips.

there's truth to that. Consider the scenario that the kitchen takes too long to get the food out, customer complains, bill is voided by the manager. In that scenario, no matter how good I was to the table, it seemed just a matter of personal principle whether they tipped me or not (usually they left a tip, especially cuz they just got a free meal, but not always).

btw thanks to this thread I dreamed I was back at my old restaurant job from 8 years ago last night and woke up in a cold sweat. u owe me new unstained sheets ILX

. . .

sweatstains, fuckwit

There was a Planet Money piece about tipping on All Things Considered today. Cliffs: quality of service has little impact on amt of tips.

well im also p skeptical of most ppl's ability to accurately evaluate 'quality of service'

surely that should be 'sbing frogsby'

up to an individual to decide tbf?

hey is it a thing to comp someone for some non-existent slight with the tacit understanding that you will get tipped extra as a way to shift money from the house to the staff?

oh yea, that's why they never let any of the waiters in my restaurant have access to 'comp' thigns on the computer.

they actually instituted a policy that you had to turn in your Buy One Get One free postcards intact at the end of the night because waiters in other locations of the franchise were ripping them in two and duping stupid managers into comping the meal of the table who brought in the postcard, and another random table that didn't, and pocketing the difference.

hm.. these are truly pro tips!

here's a question - do rightwingers tip? The general argument I have seen on this thread for why people should tip is that restaurant workers would otherwise starve. But a radical free-marketeer would surely just say "that's their problem, I am just going to pay the agreed contractual amount for the food I have received". Or do they?

(steve buscemi in reservoir dogs youtube video)

not 'it's their problem' rather 'my intervention would skew the market, helping nobody vis-a-vis long term resolution of this alleged imbalance'

i would think most people have seriously wondered why they need to tip but do it anyway

it's like pissing in that way

tipping at restaurants/bars I understand. tipping at a casino is something that i really am against (but do anyway because i don't want to be a dick) since they rake in money hand over fist over ass and run a business specifically designed to prepare you psychologically to give them your cash. surely they can pay the dealers properly!?

Back to the casino, and the circle is complete.

Black to the casino morelike