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
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,
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
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
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/27/article-1188882-051AEBAE000005DC-540_306x506.jpg
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:55 (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=1329241Hey look there might be institutionalized reasons related to this that aren't directly correlated to skin colorIt's like if you put "black people tipping" in google, this discussion has actually happened a multitude of timeskeep 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
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
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
― iatee, Monday, June 20, 2011 8:54 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
^ knows the deal
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 20 June 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
it is indeed a real issue that has been crying out for your incisive commentary
― horseshoe, Monday, 20 June 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
omg what am i doing i need an ilx break don't i
Maybe frogbs is doing field research so he can play Pino in "Do the Right Thing: Te Musical"
― 2012 gtfolympics (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 June 2011 21:03 (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...
then enlighten me, what am I supposed to say?
you're definitely trying to lead me to post something about the cheapness of blacks or whatever, I'm just saying I don't think that's the issue at all
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
wait haven't you posted that, i mean exactly that
― beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Monday, 20 June 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link