[Misc] Tipping

[Uh_huh_him]

I do fully get this point of view. But do you then tip your postman at Xmas or other delivery drivers? They're also being paid for what they're doing... Where do you draw the line and why?

Ultimately you should tip, if you feel someone is providing something of value to you.

Barbers get a tip, for not ****ing up my haircut and get a extra when they have done a good job.
Waiting staff get 10% from custom and up to 20% if they have been attentive and made the meal a pleasant experience.
Taxis, I only ever tip if they cost less than i expected/ get me somewhere quickly when needed.
Takeaway delivery is worthy of tipping when the food would have cost exactly the same if I had picked it up myself and I couldn't be arsed to do so.

i don't tip the bin men here as it's a pretty poor service.
If the bin men start ensuring the bin store is tidy and that all rubbish has been taken away in a timely manner, then sure i would give them something at Christmas.

 

[schmunk]

We've never had a supermarket delivery. Wouldn't know how to go about getting stuff delivered from a supermarket and wouldn't trust them not to send us all the short dated stuff.

We have all our shopping delivered - it's very easy, and we only pay ca. £7/month for up to one delivery per day. In practice we normally have 2-3 per week, so that works out at about £1.50 per delivery. Bargain!

Our Tesco online food shopping comes from a specialised delivery centre, rather than an actual supermarket, so all of the goods in the warehouse are going out for deliveries (although this isn't the case everywhere). They certainly don't routinely short-date stuff and if they did you can send it straight back with the driver or phone later and complain, for a full refund. In several years of shopping we have done this a handful of times - usually when it's a particular ingredient for a meal in a few days' time.

 

[The Clamp]

I assume you've conveyed this opinion to HT when out to dinner with him ?

I don’t know what this means.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Further. The cleaner always gets a tip, the staff who run the coworking space get a weekly €5 in their tip jar from me. The coffee shop always get an extra 50 cents in the morning.

 

[dazzer6666]

We have all our shopping delivered - it's very easy, and we only pay ca. £7/month for up to one delivery per day. In practice we normally have 2-3 per week, so that works out at about £1.50 per delivery. Bargain!

Our Tesco online food shopping comes from a specialised delivery centre, rather than an actual supermarket, so all of the goods in the warehouse are going out for deliveries (although this isn't the case everywhere). They certainly don't routinely short-date stuff and if they did you can send it straight back with the driver or phone later and complain, for a full refund. In several years of shopping we have done this a handful of times - usually when it's a particular ingredient for a meal in a few days' time.

This.......we get a delivery every 5 days or so on average. Pay £7 a month for it, as well as being more cost effective than actually going to the supermarket myself, it’s now very rare for the order to have anything substituted or missing, and they never supply short-dated stuff. In fact, the website indicates the use approx use-by date on perishables when you order. Paying the monthly sub also means much better access to delivery slots - never a problem getting one at a time that suits us (tend to have a couple of weeks booked in advance).

It’s a fantastic service.

 

[Weststander]

You've reminded me I always tipped hotel staff when travelling, it's been a very long time since I have!!

My dad also used to add "one for yourself" on his first round in the local. Was still doing this when I went for a drink and a game of darts with him on Sunday lunchtimes in the late 80s / early 90s.

These days would be over a fiver a round

Before your time, we started pubbing and clubbing age 16 in the early 80's. 90p a pint, we took £25, covering; 8 to 10 pints, nightclub entry, clockroom, vodkas or Pernod's once bloated with beer, kebabs and a taxi.

 

[Swansman]

Not a lot of tipping here... one of the pros/cons of living in a pretty much cashless society because sometimes it would feel nice to give a little extra and sometimes it feels good not having to do it since no on else do it.

 

[Giraffe]

The only people that I regularly tip are taxi drivers and waiters/waitresses. A tip for the Ocado driver and postman at Christmas. In the days of paper boys I used to tip them at Christmas as well.

ps) My son used to be a supermarket delivery driver and he did gets tips but only from about 5% of people, mostly the oldies I believe, but in a lot of those cases he was unloading shopping for them.

 

[studio150]

Not a lot of tipping here... one of the pros/cons of living in a pretty much cashless society because sometimes it would feel nice to give a little extra and sometimes it feels good not having to do it since no on else do it.

Must be a relief, as 10% or so on each takeaway pizza would have been expensive,

 

[Questions]

I don’t like it when restaurants put a service charge on their bills. Does the waiter or waitress get it ? If they do it’s taxed if you pay by card.

Isnt it ?

 

[Pavilionaire]

Tipping is bullshit.

 

[The Clamp]

I tend to tip sexy ladies more money. So the moral is; Ladies, be sexy.

 

[Giraffe]

I don’t like it when restaurants put a service charge on their bills. Does the waiter or waitress get it ? If they do it’s taxed if you pay by card.

Isnt it ?

I think quite a lot of them are pooled these days and shared with others. Personally I'd rather know the person that I dealt with got it, but I suspect a lot of time they don't, especially if payment by card.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A sign of the times. My sister had her Tesco order delivered by an EasyJet pilot the other day.


I did have to ask how he managed to get the Airbus down her narrow street...

Surely all you need is an old hi viz, some 1970s headphones and a couple of ping pong bats?

These modern planes fly themselves. Just need to tap the post code in and point the plane in the right direction and you’re done.

 

[The Clamp]

These modern planes fly themselves. Just need to tap the post code in and point the plane in the right direction and you’re done.

I've seen films where passengers land the plane with just a few words of encouragment from the ground crew. Easy peas.

 

[Trufflehound]

I've seen films where passengers land the plane with just a few words of encouragment from the ground crew. Easy peas.

Need more than a few words of encouragement to pull off a three-point turn in a cul-de-sac with an A320...

 

[Doonhamer7]

Our local takeaway now let’s you add a tip on the app, I did it the first time and he was really thankful - so I now know he actually gets the money and do it each time. Restaurants I do now ask the waiting staff (in chain restaurants) if it is given to them. When I were a lad and worked as a waiter, I was told if it was on the table it went into shared kitty, if it was handed to you it was yours. What I hate is when I’m on overseas business trips and they insist on taking your bag to the room and you know you feel obliged to tip but the smallest note you have is the equivalent of £10 (probably their whole daily pay).

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

I tip the supermarket delivery guy, but the Mrs doesn't. I tip other deliveries if the item is large or awkward, the Postie gets one at Christmas, the bin men used to, but since they became much more jobs worthy, (removing a bag of rubbish and leaving it, if it stops the lid on the wheelie bin from closing fully) and sending me on a mission most Wednesdays to find my wheelie bin half way up the street, they don't.

boy..binmen/councils dont get me started. My cousin lives in a council where they have to put their rubbish in different bins . Theyve had three FINES in the last 12 months for (how dare they) putting non recyclable items (eg bottle tops) in the recycling bag. Also one of their neighbours bins was full so they asked permission to use my cousins and he agreed not thinking to check the contents. Week later another fine...so the only tip binmen can expect from out family is directions to their local one

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Something nice and light to debate whilst the American Civil War rages.

Tesco on line man turned up the other night, delivering at 8.15pm on a Sunday, Amy does all the on line shopping, but I helped both her and the driver unload the order.

At the end she naturally said thank you and then shut the door, I commented that she didn’t tip him, she’s thinks nothing of tipping, any number of takeaway delivery drivers but not the man from Tesco?

Surely tipping should extend to everyone who knocks the door bringing goods and services?

Do NSCers in general tip the Postie and the Binmen?

Pretty much the same discussion at Lindfield Towers. I thought an Xmas tip was in order for our Xmas delivery on 23Dec, but was over ruled by my wife?

 

[Bodian]

If you helped him unload, you've basically done part of his job. He should be tipping you!