tipping

I use to get occasional tips (buck or two) from customers when I worked at a video rental store. Always erased their late fees after that!

20 bucks seems steep unless he's coordinating some class-A drug deals or similar

Does he *make* doors? That might be worth a little more, too.

apt block. over the week we got directions,help with facilities, general tips on neighbourhood so yknow we felt guilted into paying him extra for doing his job becos America

oh and eh idk if this complicates things, right, but the guy we ended up tipping was white and the guy who helped us out all week for nothing was black.

maybe I should start a new thread.

Race shouldn't matter

I'd say if you saw the guy who was a big help you could tip him if you liked him

But if it was a guy who you had never seen before I wouldn't have tipped him

Maybe there's a doorman's pool, just like how they handle tips at restaurants.

Kinda doubt it, but I don't really know shit about doorpersons. Feel like it would be assumed that a tip was for particular help rendered by that particular individual, kind of like the police informant shoeshine boys of 'every old movie' fame.

yeah I was probably idealising a little by hoping for a pooled system huh

kinda sucks to be the weekday guy in that case

if you were staying as a short-term guest AirBNB style in a building where people mostly live full-time, and the building is staffed by a doorman, the residents likely tip the doorman during the holidays, and you are under no obligation to tip for your marginal cost to the doorman's labor.

ok thks

next q

howd you get a refund form overtipping

Do good work for others until one of them tips you

well im shit out of luck i live in civilisation

I am getting married, and I believe that I am supposed to just tip everyone I see that day, including aunts and uncles.

I believe you've just misread 'tipple'

tippling opportunities unbridled at this wedding

I believe youve misreaded unbrided

misreading 'unbridled' for 'unbrided' would be grounds for a terrible fight, I think

I believe you've misread 'grounds for divorce'

i like the new direction of this thread

xp if the dj plays 'misread' during dinner, he will get a better tip. if he plays 'grounds for divorce', he will get a different kind of tip, i.e. "hey man, maybe don't play songs with that title at a wedding. or maybe just don't play any wolf parade songs."

but then he'd also get a monetary tip because I don't like confrontation

http://gawker.com/working-for-tips-is-a-path-to-poverty-1648413053

http://i.imgur.com/AI3DUST.png

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A tip is the equivalent of an upvote except you get real money.

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5342bf77ecad04af524063da-720-905/chart-tipping-statistics.png

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-you-should-tip-in-every-situation-2014-4

should you tip your airbnb hosts?

Bartender... 98% lol good luck usa

The thing that is a drag about drinking in the UK versus the US is that the tipping is a GOOD thing for the customer. If you always start off the night at a bar you're going to be at for a while by tipping $5 or $10 on the first round, then, when the bar's crowded, the bartender will come to you faster. Plus you get buyback drinks. And you get treated better the next time you come in. Everyone wins.

The amount of time I've wasted standing at a pub over here waiting for a disinterested bartender to eventually work his or her way over, paying no attention whatsoever to the order people arrived at the bar...

That's just inept bartending though.

Well, it's certainly very American: Throw a little cash around, etc.
Not saying that's not unfair.
But when I tip well and get stronger drinks faster, I think that's great bartending.

That's the other thing, of course: Better tips and a heavier pour.
Reminds me of that old Doug Stanhope bit on Charlie Brooker's show about UK bartenders putting on a labcoat and grabbing a beaker to measure your shot, making sure not a vapour more of spirit leaks into the glass...

Tipping is a flat circle

everyone wins except somebody who doesn't have $10 to give away obv

Better idea if publicans only employed Polish or Czech barmaids tbh

prefer the egalitarianism of shit service for all to the favouring of a monied elite

I always tip properly (as instructed by ilx) at US bars and I've noticed no discernible improvement in bartender attitude or attention. I've had tiny numbers of buy backs (maybe 4, ever) and since I'm primarily a beer drinker I get no benefit in pour size.

so what would you all normally tip a tattoo artist? I've had two tats and gave a $60 on a $340 tattoo and a $40 on a $150, figured that was enough but I never know the protocol.

wat is buy back

guess u must have tipped ok or guy wd have inked swastikas on u second time round

Believe it or not, some of us have no tattoos.

wat is buy back

― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins),

aiui you tip enough for five extra drinks and eventually you get one of them

er, cool lifehack

Believe it or not, some of us have no tattoos.

― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, April 9, 2015 2:29 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

believe it or not, some people on ILX do, and that's who the question was addressed to

Ha, yes, it was just phrased in such a way that seemed to imply that most of us have... which might actually be true!

I always tip properly (as instructed by ilx) at US bars and I've noticed no discernible improvement in bartender attitude or attention.

same here. but i always assume it's because i look like i'm 12 and the bartender already thinks they're doing me a favor by not calling my mom

By the time I go to a bar it's too packed to meaningfully believe that an extra dollar or two will get you better service

tip on tattoos as you would for hair salon/barbershop.