I always tip when I get good service. It's something my Grandfather taught me and I've always done it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
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I always tip when I get good service. It's something my Grandfather taught me and I've always done it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
I tip iif the service is good. I dislike the thought that one should tip, the server should be paid a living wage without having to resort to tips.
Whenever I hear the argument that you should tip because that's how waiters/waitresses make their living, I feel like someone is trying to pass of the blame from stingy employers. You shouldn't ever demand what is effectively charity. If the service is is worth X, it should be paid X, not half of X plus begging for scraps.
I agree with both of the above, tipping should not be a thing, people should be paid a decent amount in the first place.
I don't bother with tipping much, because I never eat in places that require Tipping, Subway and the odd McD's for me!
Though I do ususally tip my Hairdresser if they do a good job.....
on another note [URL="https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/should-you-be-sacked-for-being-too-fat-103655032.html"]Fat People could get classed as disabled people[/URL].....
How ridiculous is this, parking spots closer to where they work? they should be the furthest away, make them damn excerise that fat away!
*I can say this with head held high, I've lost almost 4 stone the past 1 and a 1/2 years, and still losing weight, I've gone from a 46 inch waist to a 40 inch waist now, and DAMN I feel much better for it!
The trouble is over tehre they get taxed ( at least in some states) on an assumed level of income, if they don't actually earn it through tips then they still pay tax. I will tip regardless of service when in the US until minimum wage is raised to a level where people can actually survive on it. Not a big issue over here, tip if service is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkLink
I may have just experienced a moment of mad genius.
When I worked in pub, the tips were pooled and shared out equally amongst all the kitchen and waiting staff. I had assumed that was how most places worked, what with it being fair and equitable and all that. Is that not the norm?
weird and awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by Gotthammer
first pub I ever worked at, only the table staff and kitchen staff got a share of the tips, bar staff weren't allowed any.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildeybeast
Butts certainly are :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
true dat
Dunno about yoo lot.
But I is going Green! Gonna get me so much Dakka!
Oh yeah, as bar staff we didn't get any. But the locals would buy us drinks so it pretty much evened out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
Just taken the daughter to see Maleficent, boy was at a party and we were at a loose end. After much arm twisting I agreed to take her to see this movie I had no interest in. We both loved it, far better than I expected and Disney did a grand job of putting a new twist on their old story.
Loves true kiss was predictable but touching non the less.
No, and in fact in some places the tax regulations on tipping actually can make that illegal.Quote:
When I worked in pub, the tips were pooled and shared out equally amongst all the kitchen and waiting staff. I had assumed that was how most places worked, what with it being fair and equitable and all that. Is that not the norm?
I used to sort of get tips when I worked in a hotel (first job, back in 1998).
I say 'sort of' because as the general assistant (and paid next to bugger all) I fulfilled pretty much ever role, except kitchen staff (wasn't into cooking back then, and the Chefs, to a man, were total arseholes). Bar? Check. Waiting? Check. Reception? Check. Housekeeping (Lemon Pledge?) Check.
And when you do that many roles, you get a great many tips. Indeed in many cases, I was the only member of staff to serve certain customers. Yet still they were shared out 'fairly'. I'd get precisely 10% of the tips I generated. Which was bollocks. Once got a £50 tip for persuading my GP to come and do a housecall when a guest got food poisoning from a cafe in the town. All me. I got £5 of that. Nobody else involved, and £45 went to utter wankers.
Me? I now only tip if I receive excellent service. And when it's automatically added to the bill? It gets deducted. You don't effing tell me how much to tip.
The other weird thing, why only tip food servers?
You don't buy your groceries and tip the checkout person, or at the end of a funeral give the undertaker a tip. So why is it expected in one peculiar area?
Or mechanics, or technicians, or any one of a number of service employees.
It's a great film.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Deadlift
You get taxed on tips?Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkLink
It is a fair question. I assume because they get paid bugger all. Mystery is right that we should only really tip for excellent service, but it seems to have become commonplace to tip everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Happy Father's Day to my fellow Dads on the forum. :D.
Tax laws also cover what you don't get taxed for. You get taxed for X, don't get taxed for Y, you're allowed to deduct Z, and so on. Or it may be laws related to how employers are allowed to pay their employees. Doesn't matter too much for our purposes. Point is, there are laws governing how tipping works so employers don't abuse their employee's tips, but in at least some places those laws have unintended consequences.Quote:
You get taxed on tips?
Never understood tipping as a basis for an economy. Thank god for reasonable minimum wages
Omfg :D
Amateur. Always cleanse your porn history, it's good practice and avoids situations like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
Or just be a shameless hussy.:cool:
Never mind all that stuff I can't see. 12 days until the 12 bell final in oxford, so excited.
OMFG :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gotthammer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick's cult sci-fi novel inspired the film Blade Runner. Set in a world devastated by nuclear war, a San Francisco bounty hunter is on a mission to retire a group of rogue androids. James Purefoy and Jessica Raine star in this new adaptation.
In post-war 1992 androids are becoming indistinguishable from human beings, even in their capacity to love, and bounty hunter Rick Deckard is tasked with locating and retiring a rogue group of escaped androids who have fled a life of slavery and returned to Earth.
Radio 4 has dramatised this over two installments, the first is here:
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046j873[/url]
Having a wedding in a Detroit cathedral so they invited the neighbourhood to join them:
http://i.imgur.com/nVMd8uN.jpg
Those bridesmaids dresses are too pink.
Dude. You can't have the Bridesmaids upstaging the Bride.
That's why Bridesmaid's dresses are universally awful.
27 dresses.
I believe that's the sort of film that's not my bag. Romcom yes?
So bourgeois. Better to have the brides dress absolutely stunning and then the bridesmaids dresses simply amaze.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Mystery