If you tip the pizza guy a few bucks, and you tip the chinese guy a few bucks and you tip the waitress a few bucks, and maybe even tip the taxi driver a few bucks, Why wouldn't you tip a furniture delivery guy? Or appliance delivery guy? A tip shows appreciation for a job well done. After you've spent $2500 on a new family room sofa, would it kill you to tip the guys that just struggled through your tiny front door, gotten through your too small hallway and turned an impossible corner WITHOUT damaging your freshly painted walls or your expensive sofa?! I understand that the food delivery drivers get paid very little hourly, but furniture delivery guys sure aren't paid all that well either...
I need opinions on this. Am I way off my rocker for thinking a small tip would be in line?

 

What about a gas pump attendant? I think both parties should recieve a tip, but on the other hand it is there job so why should they get tipped? Myself as a car salesmen sometime take days and days to sell a person a car and it works out to a minimum deal so maybe I should get tipped too?

 

>Myself as a car salesmen sometime
>take days and days to sell a person a car and it works out
>to a minimum deal so maybe I should get tipped too?


Shouldn't a car salesman tip the customer?

A fews years ago I was at a used car lot and was asked by a very aggressive salesman,
"What do I have to do to get you in this car today?
I replied "Kickback, cash."
That solved the aggressive salesman problem

 

Personally, I think I tip very well. If I go out and have a 30 dollar lunch, I leave 40 on the table. However, I do feel that the whole tipping thing has gotten out of hand. I think that people should EARN their tips. There shouldn't be some rule about 'doubling the tax' or 'who should and who shouldn't get tipped'. If a worker does something out of the ordinary to please me, I don't care what job they do, I will tip them.

So, if you were moving a piece of furniture for me and I took notice that you were going out of your way to ensure my belongings were well cared for, I'd tip you without thinking about it.

I also tip the worker for the job they did. Example: if the food sucked but the service was good.. then I would tip the server well but let them know that the food quality could have been better. I know that in my business, if someone with a good attitude has a complaint, I will bend over backwards for them to rectify the problem. But if they come to me acting like a child and whining.. they don't get the same reaction. Treat someone as you would want to be treated. Never expect a tip but be very appreciative if you do get one.

Graffe.

 

I agree the tipping thing has gone too far. When you see the 'tip' jar at the cash register especially! A tip for ringing me up? Get real.

I will tip someone well in the service end of business well, but only if they have gone above and beyond what the job entails. Do an average job, I'll leave a tip, but it won't be too much. Do a crappy job, I leave nothing. Tips should be reward and incentive for a job well done.

I do sympathize with their predicament in regards to the policies on taxing tips regardless of the actual amount. IRS is really putting the screws to these people.

 

>Shouldn't a car salesman tip the customer?

I wish everyone could do this job for a few months just to see how it really is. Theres a saying in our business that buyers are liars, I never believed it at the beginning but after 4 months on the job wow it is so true, its actually to bad.

 

I also agree that tipping has gotten way out of hand. A few years back I was visiting New York city with my girlfriend at the time. We ate at a TGIF's near Radio city music hall. The food was OK, very over preiced but hey its New York, but the waiter wasnt very nice, and did not do anything out of the ordinary for us. So when the bill came I left him a 10% tip. After all his service was not that good.

I left the money for the bill and the tip on the table and we started to walk out. The waiter ran up to me before we got to the door and asked why he had gotten "such a small tip". He then said that HE receives a 15-20% tip from everyone and felt I should do the same. He then asked that we come back and sit down at the table to think it over. I said OK, and went to tha table and he left the cash with us. I took his tip out put the exact change for the bill on the table and left. I have NEVER been told what to tip someone, especially by that person. Made so mad.....

Bill

 

I have to go with GRAFFE on this one. If you want a decent tip earn it. If you go above & beyond I will definately tip well. If the service was lacking, oh well. I have been on both sides of the tipping game and always tried to go above & beyond. Currently it does not play a role in my income. The trouble is some people expect you to stand on your head & spit wooden nickels out your butt and then leave hardly any tip.

 

Yep. You want a tip earn it - ranges from 5-25%.
For the UPS, Oil service,mail woman, and log delivery individuals they get a bottle and cash(depending on quality of service throughout the year) at christmas time.
Furniture delivery or other service providers if they go above and beyond or just do a dam good job they get a tip as well.

I also believe in a Christmas bonus for employees.
:-X12

 

Gee I wonder if this could apply to us military folks. I spent over 3 years on deployments to the Arabian Gulf. I did a good job, where's my tip? I wonder what the ratio would be for 180 days, 24 hour service on a flight deck of a carrier. What would that kind of service be worth in the form of a tip?


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Tips are never EXPECTED, and always appreciated. My view comes from the fact that yes, a service person is doing their job, however, when myself and my crew partner deliver furniture, we are doing our job by carrying a piece of furniture into the house and placing it where the customer wants. Lately, customers think it is our job to move their old furniture around the house or remove their old furniture. You struggle with an ancient sleep sofa covered in cat hair and Dorito chips and see if you don't get a bit upset when you get no thanks of any kind! And no, I can't refuse, as if I didn't move the old one, there would be no place to set the new one down.
Again, we always appreciate, and never expect a tip, but when you are the best at what you do, and IT SHOWS, a little tip doesn't hurt.

 

Yes, tipping has gotten WAY out of control. Everyone expects a tip now. I don't mind giving one when the service was good... but everyone seems to have a hand out nowadays.

What really bugs me is when restaurants include a tip because of a certain size party. Excuse me, but how can you specify a tip when the service has not happend yet? I would love to have crappy service on one of those occasions so I could "remove" the tip.

Another things that bugs me are people that will not LOWER the tip or remove it altogether when the service was bad. They are just propogating the problem: rewarding them for bad service.

 

How about everybody send me tips for my courtesy of not bothering you to sell you anything.

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>I also agree that tipping has gotten way out of hand. A few
>years back I was visiting New York city with my girlfriend
>at the time. We ate at a TGIF's near Radio city music hall.
>The food was OK, very over preiced but hey its New York, but
>the waiter wasnt very nice, and did not do anything out of
>the ordinary for us. So when the bill came I left him a 10%
>tip. After all his service was not that good.
>
>I left the money for the bill and the tip on the table and
>we started to walk out. The waiter ran up to me before we
>got to the door and asked why he had gotten "such a small
>tip". He then said that HE receives a 15-20% tip from
>everyone and felt I should do the same. He then asked that
>we come back and sit down at the table to think it over. I
>said OK, and went to tha table and he left the cash with us.
>I took his tip out put the exact change for the bill on the
>table and left. I have NEVER been told what to tip someone,
>especially by that person. Made so mad.....
>
> Bill

Congratulations Bill. I would have done the same thing, if I even went back to the table at all. Who the hell is some waiter to order me back to my table anyway. I would have went back to do exactly what you did, but I would'nt have sat down and had to even think about it.

I recently took my wife out for her birthday to an "fine dining" restaurant. My meal was horrendous and sent it back. The waitress refused to remove it from the bill. I stiffed her for sure. I can't remember the last time I stiffed a waitperson, and I dine out many times a month. In the mail came an apology from the management, removing my meal from the bill, and also enclosed was a gift certificate for $25.00. So my comment card and stiffing the waitress certainly produced the desired result.

I usuall tip 20% for good service, 25% for outstanding service, 15% for average service, and 0-10% for bad to horrendous service. On bill that have a large drink proportion, like a expensive bottle of wine, I will back that out, and tip on the food and partial wine/drinks service.

As far as furniture deliveries, I have tipped guys the price of a couple of six packs for doing a good job. It's not much, but it is a statement.

 

I always tip people like furniture deliverers, but not always waitresses. It depends on the service, and the price of the food in the first place. If I'm being charged five bucks for bacon&eggs, they can take their tip from the five bucks.