Do you tip?

[Electric_Andy]

What are people's views on tipping (i.e. giving extra money to someone for a product or service rendered)?

My wife thinks I am a grumpy cheap-skate because I don't tip. My view is: I've received a service or product for which I have paid in full. The person who delivers it is paid by their employer, and I do not feel obliged to supplement their wages because they are not paid enough.

So, does anyone expect/rely on tips? Should I change my attitude, and if so why?

 

[vickster]

You're a grumpy cheapskate

I'm happy to tip for good service

 

[screenman]

I tip if the service is over and above what I expect, also I recieve tips from time to time hopefully for delivering the same.

Largest tip I ever gave was £100 to the decorator who done the house I built 7 years ago.

I should add that I am also good at complaining if things are not as I would hope,

 

[ianrauk]

If deserved, yes.

 

[stephec]

@Fnaar Once told me that Miss Goodbody used to get a lot of tips when she was a bunny girl.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Yes. 10%.

Where's my 10% Rockstar?

 

[Electric_Andy]

You're a grumpy cheapskate

But why does that make me a cheapskate? I bet you don't tip the postman, even though he delivers your letters in the pouring rain, whilst being told by his employers that he must walk at least 4mph?

I guess my question should have been "Why do you tip, and how do you decide who gets a tip and who doesn't?"

 

[Speicher]

@Fnaar Once told me that Miss Goodbody used to get a lot of tips when she was a bunny girl.

Yes, I have heard her rabitting on about those years.

 

[vickster]

But why does that make me a cheapskate? I bet you don't tip the postman, even though he delivers your letters in the pouring rain, whilst being told by his employers that he must walk at least 4mph?

I guess my question should have been "Why do you tip, and how do you decide who gets a tip and who doesn't?"

I don't have any contact with the postman, I doubt it's even the same person every day. I do tip the hairdresser and waiting staff. Cash, never on the card

 

[Electric_Andy]

[QUOTE 4049116, member: 259"]You don't tip waiters or taxi drivers in Belgium[/QUOTE] I think this is what I have a problem with. We're conditioned to comply with the social convention of tipping. A chap helped me out in tesco once and saved me a few quid on a TV - he didn't have to do that, but he was being nice, yet I didn't tip because apparently we're only supposed to tip waiters or food delivery people. I don't get it!

 

[screenman]

But why does that make me a cheapskate? I bet you don't tip the postman, even though he delivers your letters in the pouring rain, whilst being told by his employers that he must walk at least 4mph?

I guess my question should have been "Why do you tip, and how do you decide who gets a tip and who doesn't?"

Just tipped the postman this morning.

 

[outlash]

As we get the same postman pretty much every day, he gets a tip at Christmas. I do tip generally, between 10 -15%

 

[MossCommuter]

I tip - 10% usually or nothing if it was crap.

The tradition at the bar round these parts is to tip bar tenders by adding "and your own" to the end of the order, so "three pints of Silver King, a pint of Heineken and your own". The bar tender then takes the odd bits of change as their tip, usually no more than 20p or so. They do not take a drink unless you explicitly tell them to take the price of one.

For me it's habitual to add "and your own" to the end of a bar order... Costs me a fortune every time I go out anywhere but Manc!

 

[wam68]

Always if service is cordial. It's underpaid and most work bloody hard.

Window Cleaner & Postie get a little something at Crimbo too

 

[Speicher]

In restaurants, if the server has been friendly (and not-overly familiar) and helpful, yes I would tip about ten per cent.

I also tip taxi drivers, and very generously if it has been late at night.