tipping

ok m8

not sure you need the vantage provided by living in imaginary socialist utopia to see that the american faith that every individual's good&honest hustle will be appropriately rewarded w fortune is in most cases delusory

should you tip your airbnb hosts?
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 9 April 2015 09:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was a srs q btw

― bizarro gazzara, Friday, April 10, 2015 5:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only stayed in an airbnb once, it felt like itd be weird to tip because it was a nice group of 2 couples living in a house in rural VT who let us use their 2ndary house... thing... they had on their property. had a real "staying with pals" feel even tho we didn't see them that much. we ended up leaving them a gift instead (iirc, six pack of beer and some nice cheese... and yes it was wrapped, this wasn't a leave-our-leftovers situation) with a nice note thanking them.

imo if they seem like normal ppl, treat it like u stayed w/ a pal & leave a gift, if it feels like a hotel (impersonal etc.) fuckem

unless they're like... doing maid service or w/e, in which case... tip the "maid" part?

Tipping the host never occurred to me when I Airbnb'ed in Chicago.

seems unnecessary

it is,it always is

ty for yr input - i am but a humble scotchman set to visit californian airbnbs in a couple of months and your arcane american tipping practices confuse and frighten me

i only learned recently that i have been overtipping a) delivery, going 15-20 and b) service staff, tipping 18-20 on the bill + tax (tax is 15% here) so yay more money for me i guess!

15-20%/18-20%, not $15-20/$18-20

one of the best things abt tipping is how it makes visitors incredibly nervous

or at least the british which i guess speaks well of them as most continental euros seem content to just shrug and throw like 65 cents on the table

weird tipping masochism

i speak loudly in a british accent so ppl know not to take it personally when i don't tip. i pay 20% less than the bill in case it was already added in.

youve only been here like ten years so its understandable

tipping is short for toodle-pipping iirc an old british custom of grinding the underclass to dust

i've never bribed anyone before, i imagine it's quite thrilling

i'm British and living in the states and the tip when collecting take-out is the one that confuses me most. how am I to know what proportion of a pizza clerk's wage is tip-based? is there a 20% or nothing rule? i feel like a single dollar will only ever be seen as a diss.

a dollar is fine u dont really have to tip on takeout imo but its nice if theres a jar there u know

I'm sad when I see "Please don't tip our employees" signs at groceries stores and retail outlets it sort of seems like the company is admitting it doesn't pay its employees enough, and that fact is apparent enough to impress itself naturally to paying customers, who should repress their reflex to care for their servants. It comes across real petty and anti-human, like something an insurance adjuster would recommend.

Starbucks locations inside grocery stores/bookstores often don't even have tip jars per company policy which is pretty wrong imo

Starbucks employees don't make $2.15 an hour. Just because it's coffee and not a cheeseburger doesn't mean you're entitled to a tip jar.

everyone shd have a tip jar i carry one around with me

Congratulations did not know you were a mohel.

He's a mohel and he's looking good
He'd like to circumcise my cock it's understood

very disgusting and gross u guys

i tip and bribe according to cultural norms, h8 the patronage not the player is the only way
― ogmor, Friday, April 10, 2015 2:15 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Real question, just because I find your stance genuinely interesting: If tipping is something you're really appalled by, do you stick to a consistent 15% or 20%? Do you adjust based on the experience you have?

I have my venmo username tattooed to me forehead

what is it, i owe you for the cab on friday?

@sorryimessedup

(Everybody else also feel free to venmo me)

One of the tricky bits about tipping protocol is if you are getting something free or less, you should try to tip as though it were full price. My head cannot always math that, but I try.

My employer frequently gives out gift cards for the Palm restaurant, and they can be awkward to use. They're supposed to work only for the food and booze, not the tax or tip. One time I had a $51-ish bar tab and a $50 gift card. I didn't have any cash with me for tipping purposes (I'd been expecting a credit card slip for the overage and the taxes, to which I could then add a tip that reflected the real amount). The bartender just accepted it and said, "Yeah, we're good." It was too much trouble to reopen, and I felt bad - made a concerted effort to go back another time and tip generously to make up for it.

lol this wd stress me out so much tbh

I went to a restaurant with no money it stressed me out!

xp I definitely just go over the gift card amount no matter what it takes

buy a t shirt if you have to

Yeah, the worst thing in the world is having the card handed back and the cashier says "You've got $2.73 left!"

"Would you like to refill it?"

waiter who can't break that news gently just talked his way out of a tip imo

http://i.imgur.com/5ZWOmz1.jpg

A friend of mine once tipped £70 in error. The waiter was like "are you sure you meant to tip this much?" and he was too embarrassed to admit his mistake

aw

I put a $100 bill in the little folder last night to pay for a $50 tab. Waitress asked me if I wanted change.

i immediately whipped up my apple watch and st rated going bleep bleep bloop bloop on my tip calculator.

if the blue man is sad is the red man angry, that's a weird mouth

pplains why you walkin around with hundos

NB some of Seattle's fine-dining establishments are implementing service charges in response to the start of the minimum wage rollout, eg

http://seattle.eater.com/2015/4/21/8463303/three-renee-erickson-restaurants-will-eliminate-tips
http://seattle.eater.com/2015/3/30/8315525/ivars-salmon-house-is-eliminating-tipping

(and presumably indicating that tipping 15-20% is not expected)

will probably still tip something on top next time I go to The Whale Wins b/c that was one of the most enjoyable dinners out of my life

pplains why you walkin around with hundos

― brunch technician (silby), Saturday, April 25, 2015 12:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because Applebee's won't accept Bitcoin?

pplains is baller

lol that is incredibly presumptuous, unless she just said it reflexively w/o looking at how much was inside, which now that I think it thru is prob what happened