People Who Dont Tip

A question for Americans, Canadians and other people who live where tipping is customary: Are you expected to tip taxi drivers?
 
Yea.

One time I told the taxi driver "fuck you, you just lost your fucking tip". For being a rude piece of shit.

I was getting a ride home from the bar. Bill came to $16 (I always take this ride, so i tip $4 to make it an even $20). Anyways, I didn't have cash so i took out my visa. The taxi driver was such a rude douche about me not having cash and how the visa was such a waste of his time and shit. At first I said sorry, then he continued to get mad at me. So when the tip option came I asked him to help me bypass it hahaha.

I dont care how big of an asshole I sound like. I don't think i'm an asshole. I just tip to people who genuinely deserve it, that's what i'd want from customers if I still worked a tip job.

 
Interesting. It just seems, for me at at least, odd to tip a taxi driver. You tip to pay for the service received, right? Well isn't that what paying for the taxi fare is?
 
Yeah but the taxi driver isn't making the fare, its the same as a valet. People were like "why would I tip if we're paying you already for parking?". Being a server/bartender is different but a taxi driver still serves you and if they do well you tip them. I never tip them more than like $2 but ya, if they drive like an ass hole or they're a dick to you then you don't tip. A lot of drivers will start a convo or be nice or whatever and I appreciate shit like that so I'll tip them.
 
And some cab drivers make it a way better experience than others.

Some turn on suitable music on the way downtown, some let you have beers open on the road, some let you squeeze an extra person, some are just hilarious. Those ones are very deserving of tips IMO.

But the guy bitched at me cause i had to pay via visa, fuck him.
 
these are all the things you should be doing anyway.

Thats why you are being paid $11 an hour.

These things just come normally to us europeans/humans, as we are generally nice people.

We dont feel that we need to be nice just so we can get a big tip.

you shallow whore.
 
I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do this, or at least it's what I always have done. If the restaurant takes something off your bill for whatever reason, gives you a free dessert for your birthday, free drinks for moving to a different table, etc, you should still tip the waitress accordingly.
 
You sound like an ungrateful bitch. Definition of a Tip is a VOLUNTARY additional payment made for services rendered!!

If people don't feel like tipping you they don't have to otherwise it would be called a service charge and be included in the price. Ohh wait it is that's where your wage comes from. Your already getting paid $11 an hour which is a good wage so shut the fuck up. For all you know that family that paid $400 for the ride might have been saving up for a shit load of time for that and not have much money left over for a huge tip. Get over yourself. You should try coming to Europe and doing your job. Same wage with no tips and people do as good a job if not better. In the end its your job. you chose to do that job and should be grateful for anything you get at the end!!
 
Also, if you expect a tip regardless of service, that's a great way of not getting a tip. I don't care if it was the best service ever. You ask for a tip, I laugh in your face. Delivery guys, that's a different story cuz you have to tip regardless. People should tip dishwashers and cooks. They run the real show.
 
lol come on now, this is just an ignorant statement. A restaurant needs every part of it to survive and be successful. I'd love to see a chef be personable enough to keep the paying customers coming back. I'd love to see a server sit all the sections with fairness. I'd love to see the hostess try and make a great mixed drink. The entire place runs the show or it fails. Not just one section.
 
Hahaha... Somehow I find that even more satisfying.

Btw, the Sox won.

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You take the internet far too seriously. I guess I am too by replying to this. I called her 'muffin' as joke/least condescending insult possible.

Since when has 'muffin' been a real insult?

And I will defend myself here. I make very very few posts that are condescending unless they are a) jokes/sarcasm, or b) the person has been a total douchnozzle to me/others. In fact most discussions are totally one-sided with me being the one who's not throwing out any insults with whoever arguing against me insulting me at every turn.

anyways I honest to god don't know why I'm bothering replying to this.
 
Those are not Fortune 500 quality seats. That was the part I didn't believe much. Anyways, judging by your immaturity I still don't care about what you do, it's not relavent to my respect for your opinion on the subject matter of our argument,

However, I think the argument we held was based on different circumstances. Mine was on the premise taxi drivers get $10 an hour and drive company cars, it seems that might not be the way it works where you live.
 
I have two rules when tipping.

15% for good service

0% for poor service.

no one should ever expect to be tipped though.

if gratuity is not build in then tipping is an option, not a mandatory practice.

and getting tipped anything is better than getting tipped nothing, dont cry when it is not the 15% you "expected".
 
Probably because you misunderstood what I said. I went from a business meeting -> baseball game with friends. I must admit though, I was incorrect in the company's ranking I'm dealing with- I just checked and they're fortune 100, my bad. Also those seats are pretty expensive and not at all shitty. Unlike regular baseline seats you have a table and a server so yeah unless you're in a skybox or behind home plate/5 rows from the dugout that's really about as good as it gets.

Just a polite reminder that not everyone is the pizza boy you think they are. There are some really hard workers here on NS that just might surprise you with what they've accomplished for themselves.

 
Heh well honestly my career is really not all that amazing but I do work really hard and get to work with some really cool people- I'm no fucking pizza boy like he said I was though (NTTIAWWT!). Just putting the pieces where they belong. I think the real question would be why MNS felt the need to tell me to "hurry up with his pizza" because I was pointing out that he was being a dick about what servers/delivery people make. I really didn't see the point so I was pretty much just making fun of his shitty defensive assumptions. Sorry if that rubbed you the wrong way though, not trying to be a bundle of sticks about it.

 
You're really desperate to impress me. However the way you carry yourself in a basket of pretentiousness built by pathetic attempts at being witty and disproving have only furthered my assumption of you being a pathetic dweeb and person I would really dislike if I met.

You don't impress me. A fortune 100 VP doesn't impress me. And I don't feel a need to try to impress you.

It turns out your cab drivers are like the bathroom server guys in club bathroom that don't get paid and buy all their own cologne and product and gum and shit for people to use then rely on tips to replenish that supply.
 
Servers make a LOT of money for what they do. Well most of them. I never said anything about servers. I said I don't give a shit about typing pizza drivers, however I was referring to drivers that get paid by the hour and drive a company car
 
You don't say! One would think you would stop doing that eventually.

Who said I was trying to impress you? Just speaking the truth after you made crap assumptions about me. Not sure what the harm in that is but carry on with your angry posts, they're quite entertaining.

 
also-

I've worked at 1 pizza shop, and the delivery fee ($2.50) where I worked, goes straight to the store- whoever's delivering doesn't see a penny of that. the drivers made minimum wage, just like the cooking/in-store staff. so I think a lot of people will see the delivery fee on the bill and in their head assume its going to the driver so they shouldn't tip.

and yeah drivers have to have their own vehicle and pay for gas where I worked. I know places like pizza hut have company vehicles and gas is payed for, but not everywhere is like that.
 
You guys act like your the only ones stressed out with the hardest job. You don't have the hardest job. Back of the house will always be high-stress and high stakes.
 
Have you ever served before? Or are you just on a high horse back of the house kick? Every part of a restaurant job is high stress. Seriously get over yourself.
 
K well the whole argument is pretty much invalid considering we were arguing about different scenarios. Also, I'm not angry, I also don't feel defensive, and I don't care if I appear cheap. I know not cheap which is the only verification I need. The pizza drivers I don't tip are ones that get paid well to drive a car that isn't theirs.

However if I weren't proud, I too would exaggerate my opinion of myself.
 
I feel like tipping originated as a way to encourage workers to put forward their best service, in hopes of a tip. Nowadays we tip regardless of excellence, and if you dont it's frowned upon.

Hey while we're at it why dont we start to tip mechanics, or fast food workers, or landscapers. They dont get paid alot. Fuck im just going to start throwing my money at everyone who I see in a low paying job.

 
I was going to say. Servers talk about dealing with people and how hard that shit is. They should try working fast food. Deal with dumber people who are more rude and get paid less
 
I've done all of it. ALL of it. They're completely different beasts that can't be compared. You know what makes everyone's job harder in a restaurant? Perpetual hate for the different roles and acting like no one knows how hard your life is.
 
Umm. I'd say they're different things. Its like getting big. The weight lifting is the hard work, but the mental side of sticking to an unsatisfying is equally as hard. Just in a different way.
 
Oh I know, and you would TOTALLY do it by attempting to put others down via shitty assumptions to make yourself feel better about whatever it is that you do- I know that because it's exactly what you've been doing for the last 3 pages and it's fucking pathetic.

 
My general tipping at a bar is $1 per drink (drinks in Boulder average $3 to $4 bucks). And at restaurants I usually double the tax then add on a few bucks. Mainly because that's the only way I can assure it's ~20%.
 
ill always tip at least 15% EXCEPT for one situation - some bartenders. when they take a long ass time to get to you then pour out a 6 dollar shot and expect an extra dollar for literally 15 seconds of effort and making you wait for like 5 minutes then thats ridiculous. bartenders make enough on tips anyways.

but most times i will still tip the bartender if theyre not being shitty
 
That's fuckin awesome.

I hate when servers,waiters,bartenders feel that they are entitled to a tip. If someone doesn't tip you, don't take it so personally, get a job in a nicer restaurant and stop being such a whiney bitch. It's the reality of working in a restaurant, get over it.
 
A only a man with so little feels the need to blast so much. It's time for you to stop now.
 
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