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• 1 laughingatheslut // Jul 23, 2008 at 7:48 am

  

  I don’t usually tip anybody except waitresses cause I know that they don’t even get paid minimum wage, and some places they get taxed on the tips they’re expected to get instead of what they actually go home with.

  I don’t have a maid service, but if you do that’s a good idea cause they get paid like minimum wage and everybody thinks they make a lot. The service makes a lot, but the people actually doing the work (security guards, maids, nursing assistants, etc…) often make minimum wage or a dollar or two more.

  I don’t usually tip hair people very much. I don’t take cabs or much stuff like that, but I guess if I did I would tip cab drivers. I don’t make a point of tipping anybody much except for the waitstaff people, cause I know they get less than three bucks an hour before the tips. I’m totally confused about the people who work at buffets. Surely they get a regular paycheck and should only get a dollar for bringing the soda. Why do they do that anyway? Why don’t they just put the soda on the buffet line with everything else?

  Does anybody besides waitstaff make less than minimum wage?

  Oh, and I’ve moved a few times and tipped those guys, and I’ve tipped a couple of guys who delivered refrigerators and stuff, cause the place I live in is built weird and I think that maybe they end up doing a little extra work when they come to my house. But I didn’t tip the last group cause they were supposed to take away the old stuff and they made me wait a couple of days. I thought that was lame.

  Oh, and we tip some other people when we do tourist stuff. Not a lot, but like if we go on a tour bus or a Duck or something we leave a couple of bucks. Can’t picture that people driving Ducks make much money.

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• 2 Robin // Jul 23, 2008 at 8:05 am

  

  I have no clue about tipping. Normally with a hairdresser I give her between $3-5 for a tip for usually a $20-$30 haircut. For a waitress I just use my tip calculator on my phone and give between 15-20% depending on the service. I think maids we usually give about $2 depending on how messy we leave the place. Other than that Manly Man usually reminds me to leave a tip.

• 3 Cissa Fireheart // Jul 23, 2008 at 9:00 am

  

  I tip 20% when I receive excellent service. No matter what it is. Hairdresser, waitperson, whatever. Being a former waitress I understand that if you give bad service, you don’t deserve a tip, and I fully support that.

  When I get good service, it’s 15%, sometimes 10% depending on the person’s attitude. I don’t tip bus drivers, and rarely taxi drivers, because I don’t take taxi’s where I live.

  But if I don’t like the way a person acts toward me, ie: talking down to me, being snotty or rude, giving me a hairstyle I dislike, not apologizing if my order is wrong, etc. and then trying to turn it around like it was my fault, no tip….no wait, I will leave a penny, face-down, indicating that the service was bad. I read that somewhere once.

  so yeah that’s how I roll. I believe a tip is only for good service, and should not be considered mandatory, which unfortunately, it has. Friends of mine will tip, even when the service was horrendous, because they fear THEY are the rude ones. I disagree with this, and having been in the industry, realize how many people think it is mandatory, when really, it’s a TIP…only a suggestion, and not, mandatory, except for parties ofmore than 6 people in most cases.

  I’m rambling…sorry…

• 4 Cissa Fireheart // Jul 23, 2008 at 9:06 am

  

  Oh yeah, forgot to add that I do a yearly Christmas Dunkin’ Donuts giftcard for the mailman, and if I see him on Summer days, I always offer him a soda or a glass of water or something. Nobody else gets a tip, especially not the trash guys, because they leave a mess, often.

  I live in a place where there are a lot of military (being a Navy Wife and all), so a lot of things some poeple tip for, I don’t because I know they make a ton through the gov’t contracts here. I asked one of the lawn guys what he makes once, and he told me about $20 an hour. I nearly cried. Then I asked him if they were hiring LOL.

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• 5 dmarks // Jul 23, 2008 at 11:26 am

  

  The one I wonder about is, what to tip someone at a Chinese buffet or something like that? All they do is bring water and ask if everything is OK. Is this like full waitressing, for the 15% or 20% ? I tend to think so, but am never sure.

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• 6 dmarks // Jul 23, 2008 at 11:28 am

  

  (laughing: one Chinese buffet I like does put the soda in the buffet food serving areas, and you pay everything up front, so you really don’t see waitresses/waiters).

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• 7 Penelope // Jul 23, 2008 at 12:35 pm

  

  I find your tipping thing really complicated.
  We tip waiters/waitresses, hairdressers and I tip my nail technician.
  I used to have a cleaner (private, not an agency)and I paid her but always gave a Christmas bonus.
  I’m always terrified in the US that I’m not tipping enough :o(

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• 8 Tori // Jul 23, 2008 at 6:17 pm

  

  you know what i hate… the coffee people… i hate that i’m expected to tip a dollar on a $2 cup of coffee just because they added sugar free vanilla for me (that I paid extra for)…

  call me cranky… i don’t wanna tip the coffee people

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• 9 Robin // Jul 23, 2008 at 6:54 pm

  

  Uhm, I really don’t tip at Dunkies or Starbucks, is that bad? The coffee is SO overpriced as it is.

• 10 Epiphany // Jul 24, 2008 at 1:01 am

  

  I generally do the same with wait staff and hair people, and like someone said above I generally don’t tip for coffee. I almost always go to the same coffee place when I do go, which is once a week or so, so while I don’t always tip I do every once in a while. I don’t tip a dollar, what I generally do is if a cup is 3:50 and I give them four bucks and get change I’ll put that in the tip bucket. I never spend my change anyway so it’s no loss for me

  I do agree that tipping becoming mandatory is pretty stupid. I once forgot to tip at a restaurant thanks to a mixup, and actually had a waiter follow me out and ask! I did give him a tip but I thought that was just completely unheard of. Sure the service was good, but you don’t chase someone down and ask for a tip!

  Crazy stuff.

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• 11 Katie // Jul 24, 2008 at 1:42 am

  

  I’m relieved I live in Australia - we don’t tip here. Wages are much higher than in countries where they tip, so the staff aren’t “relying” on the tips. Lucky for me since maths isn’t my forte!

• 12 metalmom // Jul 24, 2008 at 9:44 am

  

  In my neighborhood, we don’t take out the trash cans. The trash guys do. And they PUT THEM AWAY! Therefore I tip the trashmen at Christmas and offer them ice water in the summer.

  I also tip the delivery guy when I order food from the steak shop. I do that because I know that his boss isn’t really compensating him enough to cover his gas costs.

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• 13 Evil Genius // Jul 24, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  

  I always tip the waitstaff 20%, unless the service was totally awful, in which case it will probably be a buck. I also tip my hairdresser, typically $5 for my $15 to $20 service that day. I tip pizza and chinese food delivery folks who have to brave the snow, thunderstorms, and high gas prices. Other than that, I’m pretty cheap. I don’t think I’ve ever tipped at a motel, but then I always sleep for cheap anyway. Oh, but I have given airport limo-busses tips when they have to tote my bags up and down for me.

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• 14 Absurdist // Jul 24, 2008 at 7:47 pm

  

  Slut: Yeah, I forgot to mention cab drivers. And I get confused at buffets too, because there is a busboy and someone does serve you drinks.

  Robin: Where the F do you get a haircut for so cheap? Two bucks for the maid?

  Cissa: You and I are exactly alike. My garbage is collected in a weird way though. The truck drives by, and a mechanical arm comes out and picks up the trash can and the recycle bin. So I don’t know whether to tip him or not, or even how to get a tip to him, since they aren’t outside the truck, and there is only one guy driving the truck.

  DMarks: Again, me too. What about the busboy? You know that he needs to be tipped, but I doubt he gets tipped out if you leave a tip on the table.

  Penelope: It’s ridiculous how it is over here. If you read the official tipping books, you end up having to tip your dogs for taking a shit outside like a good doggy.

  Tori: I am with you. If I pay cash, I throw the coin change in there, cuz my wallet doesn’t hold change (it’s a travel wallet). Otherwise, nope, no tip.

  Robin: nope. I don’t tip there.

  Epiphany: OMG, he followed you into the parking lot? That’s actually kinda scary. I would have gone directly to the manager and explained the situation and told him how incredibly inappropriate it was for the wait staff to follow you into the parking lot, and that he should be glad you didn’t pepper spray him.

  Katie: Damn. I am moving down under. But I don’t think I could handle the snakes.

  MM: So, do you live in the NE? We don’t have like, butchers and stuff down here. How do you give your trash guys ice water? Do you just put it outside?

  Evil: Let me give you some advice. If you do anything, please tip housekeeping at a hotel. YOu have no idea how sucky their job is; but furthermore, your things are under their control while you are out. As a constant traveler, seriously, they WILL do stuff with your shit if you don’t leave a tip. If I forget to leave a tip, I run as fast as I can to the front desk and give them the tip to run it to my housekeeper asap.

  BTW, how in the hell do you people get haircuts for so cheap????

• 15 Robin // Jul 24, 2008 at 8:03 pm

  

  I don’t know, I guess I don’t go to really expensive hair salons.

• 16 vulgarwizard // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:49 pm

  

  I tip my hairdresser $3 to pay him an even $20. I tip 20% if at all possible when eating at a restaurant. If you provide shitty service, you don’t get jack from me, and I don’t feel bad about that. At Sonic, I usually let them keep the change or hand them a buck if I have one to spare.

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• 17 Absurdist // Aug 1, 2008 at 7:00 am

  

  Robin: But your hair looks so cute! I bet you don’t get any highlights or lowlights though, do you?

  Vulgar: OMG. YOu get a $17 haircut? Am I living in the wrong place? I have to get highlights, lowlights and a color on my hair, along with a cut. You don’t even want to know how expensive that is, and I pay the average rate here in Dallas. I usually tip 20% at restaurants too, because it’s easy to calculate. I pay with my debit card at sonic, so I don’t have extra change to give them. So I give them a buck.

• 18 Absurdist // Aug 1, 2008 at 7:01 am

  

  Just in case you guys are wondering how much my hair costs, here it is:

  Haircut every six or eight weeks: $55.
  Highlights, lowlights and color: every eight to 12 weeks. About $120.

  Not having a bad hair day: Priceless.

• 19 Robin // Aug 1, 2008 at 7:58 am

  

  No, I have before but stopped all of that stuff about 2-3 years ago. I really don’t ever do anything to my hair other than occasionally some mousse.

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