Tipping question
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I have never done that. Other than telling them the beer is in the fridge
I have offered them beer. They seemed to appreciate but they don't speak english so much.
If you have them do non agreed upon stuff, yes. For a job they are contracting, no.
I always tip people working on my house. What I give depends on the size of the crew and the quality of work. Sometimes it's money, but I always offer food and beverage.
Giving a small tip or offering partway through can increase their quality of work.
Tipping is so overblown in this country.
We have painters coming to re-stain our house in a couple weeks, no way in hell I would even think to tip them. They gave us an estimate and that estimate is enough to make them do a good job.
If they don't do a good job then I will reciprocate and not do a good job on their bookkeeping/taxes.
If they don't do a good job then I will reciprocate and not do a good job on their bookkeeping/taxes.
Yes and no. In most cases, I agree. In the case of jobs being paid less than minimum wage, it's almost necessary. I find the great majority of servers to be considerate and caring, and I generally leave a 20% tip.
What I think should happen is for the charade to end, pay servers at least a minimum wage, and tip accordingly.
I also think everyone should have a job in service to the general public for at least a year. It would put a stop to a lot of the crap that employees put up with.
How about, and I'm just spitballing here, we have the employers pay a living wage and we just stop this tipping nonsense altogether.
If a tipped employee doesn't make the equivalent of hourly pay plus tips to equal the minimum wage per hour for hours worked, the employer needs to make up the difference. So technically, servers should be paid at least the minimum wage. The question is how many people in the industry know this?
After the deracho last August, was able to get on one of our local roofers lists right away , unfortunately they didn't get it done until Nov..
Problem was they contracted a couple groups out of Des Moines to help and the group we got did not speak very much English. If I hadn't been there watching them they would have forget a bunch of things. Have had the local roofer back like 3 times so far. Still can't figure out why they put the shingles on before they tore off the gutters and replaced the facia. Have had issues with the gutters since they put them up. My tip is to always look and see that the job is getting done to meet your expectations.
They will probably will be back in the week to take care of another issue that has come up.
I tend to agree, I have always found tipping kind of awkward.
BUT there are some folks pulling in way more in tips than they ever would at $15 or $20 an hour. And that cash is, well, let's say hard to remember to report on your 1040. So there is some nontrivial percentage of tipped employees that would not want that living wage, as it would be a pay cut.
Others would indeed benefit from it. The government for one - gotta be a LOT of under-reported tip income that would suddenly get taxed, not to mention more employer FICA too.
Google says IRS estimates $11B in unreported tip income.
The worst was a spiel as we were heading back from swimming with stingrays in Grand Cayman. The owner of the boat and his son said most of the money they make is from tips and it would be greatly appreciated if you could tip them.
You own the damn company and boat dude.... why not raise the price of going out there? But he suckered a couple hundred bucks out of it.
You own the damn company and boat dude.... why not raise the price of going out there? But he suckered a couple hundred bucks out of it.
Not house painting but I bought a used truck had it detailed, it came out way better than I expected. I tipped on that. The price was super reasonable to start with and I wanted to show some appreciation and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take them a car to do, so I'm hoping the remember the tip.
Sounds like it would be better to end the stupid tipping employees economy. Pay the workers upfront their wage and charge accordingly. Then we don’t get the sponging of the non-tippers who never pay what they should.
Not saying you’re wrong…but what do you think that would do to restaurant prices? They’d definitely increase significantly. And that could crush businesses. No easy answer. And I HATE the tipping culture.
