Do we tip?
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GeneralZod
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It looks like you were cut off in mid sentence but, on the available information, not in that circumstance.
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Interesting point - after all repairing a tyre is a more difficult / dirty job than carrying a few plates to / from a dinner table - yet people tip waiters ? In the States people sometimes tip people who do repairs.
Half a sentence got four replys,wow! I was cut off mid sentence....Anyway, I dropped a puncture off to be repaired at a tyre company over the road, went to collect an hour later and was told the nail had damaged the tyre beyond repair. I only had the price of puncture on me (7e), but the manager give me a new tyre and told me to drop in the money later.. I returned in the evening and paid for tyre plus 10e tip for trusting me, a total stranger to return. I just wondered if we Irish ever tip? Have you ever tipped? Or tipping a daft concept?
Mr. Pink's argument against tipping.
Thanks Cole - was going to refer to that myself!
For me, I tip at restaurants for the peripheral service - I'm there first and foremost for the food. This service can include the correct balance of attentiveness, friendliness, helpfulness, attitude... etc etc.
In restaurants, sometimes I tip but often I don't.
In most other situations you are paying simply for a costed, actual service - technical skill, labour, the ability to drive a car safely - whatever. There is absolutely no way that anyone is getting any extra money from me in these situtations unless the circumstances are exceptional.
"Ah that taxi driver was nice - I'll give him an extra €2...."
why?!?!
If it's your first customer experience of this person/company, I would say no. "Don't count your chickens before they hatch"
If this person/company does a good job and you go back to them for more, then tip!
If they do a shoddy job and you have already tipped them, you may be encouraging their shoddy workmanship/workpersonship.
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i dont tip. I dont get tips in work and i do my job as well as is expected of me each day. Its the waiters/waitresses choice to take up that profession. Why would one require/expect money from strange public people. Im not saying all waitress/ess expect it. Isnt it just simply their job to provide a service in a correct mannerly fashion? No?
No.
Tipping is customary and so in reality makes up part of their wage. If they do their job well they should be tipped. You should only not tip if the service is sub-standard.
I don't get tips for doing my job either but that's irrelevant.
Tipping is discretionary, not customary. In the US it may be, but not here where minimum wage rules ensure that the tip is not necessary. Maybe since people are more flush in the last 10 years they think they 'should' but I think this is more a show of affluence than anything as tips are given even in completely undeserved cases.
I disagree. If they do their job well, they MAY be tipped, should you so wish. I think they should be given a pay rise instead. They get customers to return, therefore the owner makes more money, therefore the owner should reward them.
Why? Do I not have the choice to tip/not tip as I see fit ? Why the automatic gesture? Doesn't that demean the giving of a tip?
If the table service is excellent, then by all means, feel free to tip but you should never feel obliged to do so.
If the service is satisfactory, well, as mentioned above, that's what they're paid for.
If the service is substandard, then make your oncerns heard on payment of the bill.
So it’s a form of snobbery to leave a tip? Riiggght.
Right then comrade, we’ll have to disagree on that one as well. Basically the tip is there so that you get good service every time, it is a real time bonus for doing a good job. You would prefer to be charged the extra amount on your bill and the employer to pass this on as a pay increase, even if the service is sub-standard. I don’t agree with you on that one.
Yes, you have the choice not to give the customary tip if you so choose.
No
I disagree. If someone is too miserable to leave a tip then that's their business but they should not dress it up as a virtue.
We agree at last!
Oh they do have to make an effort, that’s the point I am making. You would rather be charged extra on the bill even if the service is substandard. Anyway, I'm not that well know about town, not yet anyway.
I hope I am never so short of cash that I can't spare €5 as a tip. I hope I am never so mean that I would spend €100 a head on a meal and not leave a 10% tip.The old adage about a fool and his money is true I s'pose
Money is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
I never said this nor would condone it, yet you mentioned it twice.
If they do their job WELL, and give good service, I would be prepared to pay extra for it as long as I was happy that they were being suitably recompensed.
If the price goes up to include service charges and the service was crap, I wouldn't be returning any time soon.
So do you tip if service is included?