Christmas tips?

As we have milk delivered, they came round as usual for the money last night, V paid them, afterwards she said ''I gave them a christmas tip too''.

WTF, they are milk men - we pay an over inflated price to have milk delivered to the door. There is no extra service, theres no feel good factor. They do a job, we pay.
Why the need for a tip tip at Chrimbo?

I said, I suppose you tip the bin men too....
''Sometimes, if I see them''

Again, WTF.
They get paid to empty bins, normally leave said bins scattered half way up the f'in street, why tip them, they do a job, not particularly well, we pay (through taxes)
Do you tip supermarket or other shop staff, the postie, bar workers.....?
Eh, why?

Why tip some wet bag that delivers food to the table (often badly) yet the barstaff, cleaners, cooks etc don't get a jot?

Madness I tell thee.

Obviously, quite a protracted discussion followed, aparently now, I'm a miserable, tight whinger (fair enough!)


No ones ever tipped me.
No one ever came over & said (when I was farming)
''Phil, you've worked your b0llox off, had no overtime pay, the fields look so neat, your looking after the countryside, you clear the snow from roads in winter & tow drivers out that have just smashed your fence down and you produce food - HERE, HAVE A TIP!!!

Whinge over.

Phil

Spoken like a true Yorkshire man

The biggest cash drain is yet to come

Ha yes my ex boss Tony got a taxi home one night from the pub . The taxi was 30 minute's late turning up. The driver said what about a tip as he dropped him off. Tony replied I will give you a tip mate. Turn up on time next time

Tips are for where service has gone over and above that which would normally be expected. ie Taxi popping back with the bag you left in the back; dustbinmen taking stuff they shouldn't really take after a bit of building work.
What does muddy the waters a bit is that a lot of service people eg waitresses, are taxed notionally on the tips they receive. So, not tipping is potentially having a direct effect on them.
Rich.

The Christmas box is traditional. It's where Boxing Day comes from. It's the one day of the year mean, tight, miserable bosses give their workers gifts. Even in Yorkshire.

I'm happy to tip for services over and above - like yesterday when we took 4 grandchildren all under 7 yrs old to a restaurant for hot chocolate and cake and they left the table looking like a 3D relief map of the Ypres Salient. The kid who served us had a lot of clearing up to do, so she warranted a tip. What I really object to is restaurants that add 10% 'gratuity' to the bill which basically means they're not paying the staff the minimum wage and have to make it up by fleecing the punters. I don't go there again.

nigelphoto said:

I'm happy to tip for services over and above - like yesterday when we took 4 grandchildren all under 7 yrs old to a restaurant for hot chocolate and cake and they left the table looking like a 3D relief map of the Ypres Salient. The kid who served us had a lot of clearing up to do, so she warranted a tip. What I really object to is restaurants that add 10% 'gratuity' to the bill which basically means they're not paying the staff the minimum wage and have to make it up by fleecing the punters. I don't go there again.

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Bloody Right, totally agree :drive:

Agree with the above. Even I don't mind tipping IF I recieve particularly good service which is not often to be fair.
I dosagree with tipping for the sake of it.

A christmas box for workers is different to tipping.

Our Posties gets a tip as he often goes above and beyond the call to give us and our neighbours a service, bin men... they may get a fiver. However they came a day early this year so nowt for them, they did not call and collect the bins either ! No milkman, he would not deliver to us!

Waiters etc get a tip IF they have provided a decent service. None of your 20% nonsense added to the bill either, IF they have been good the individual who served me, gets cash, not the bloody restaraunt owner.

No ones ever tipped me.
No one ever came over & said (when I was farming)
''Phil, you've worked your b0llox off, had no overtime pay, the fields look so neat, your looking after the countryside, you clear the snow from roads in winter & tow drivers out that have just smashed your fence down and you produce food - HERE, HAVE A TIP!!!

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I recognise that comment!!

I don't know what you are moaning at Phil. This week I have been given a few tips, namely, showergel and deodorant (perhaps a message there?) a half bottle of Chivas Regal and a crisp £20 note, none of which was expected or hinted at as I get handsomely paid for what I do. Perhaps I should return the stuff and tell them Phil said so.


Andy.

I always give our Postie a bottle of whisky because he is a genuinely nice person, leaves parcels for me in an agreed location , saves me going down town to collect at the post office.
But he hasn't been around lately, just found out that he's had an accident at work.
So a letter came round to all the houses from one of the neighbours, we're giving him a large hamper of goodies with cards etc. So tonight the strange one and myself are going round to the " collection point ", going to give him a bottle and bits and bobs along with the other houses in the area.

It's nice to be nice sometimes

What?? You mean you don't tip your MOT tester??

Advance tips can be good, though I guess while tipping in advance works sometimes the British police aren't so grateful. I think they refer to the concept 'bribery' for some reason.

Then there's the car washing folk, always worth tipping these folk if you visit them regularly I find

Of course there is a fine line between a tip & bribary!

Andy, you're doing something right if peeps are appreciating it I don't have an issue with that - It's the routine tip for no particular service that I don't understand

This post reminds me of Mr Pink at the beginning of Reservoir Dogs!

Calm down calm down Phil....is there something deeper lurking behind this? Stresses about the future??The frustration of not getting out on that bike in the winter??? I'll give you a tip........go buy a Big Issue.... make you feel better

As the bloke in charge of the bin men can I just say that if they take that builders waste they might get the sack as it is classed as construction & demolition waste and not to be disposed of for free out of the public purse.

I chair disciplinaries at work for many instances of them "doing someone a favour" which is partly why this country is so screwed when it comes to waste management.

Anyone I am an habitual tipper much to the aggravation of my wife but some of the previous comments have made me think about the rules I tip to

Well I'm about to bugger off for a week to Austria for a wedding so may I wish you all a Happy New Year!

John

Oh yeah big lumps of rubble and concrete can really bugger up the mechanism of those £150,000 bin lorries
[CRYING FACE]

Africa John said:

As the bloke in charge of the bin men can I just say that if they take that builders waste they might get the sack as it is classed as construction & demolition waste and not to be disposed of for free out of the public purse.

I chair disciplinaries at work for many instances of them "doing someone a favour" which is partly why this country is so screwed when it comes to waste management.

Anyone I am an habitual tipper much to the aggravation of my wife but some of the previous comments have made me think about the rules I tip to

Well I'm about to bugger off for a week to Austria for a wedding so may I wish you all a Happy New Year!

John

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I can understand this if it's likely to cause damage to the machinery though do feel a tragic loss of community spirit these days.

There was a time when people would frequently help each other out even meeting socially with and talking to their neighbours! If I had a mate or neighbour with some left over celotex board from what is possibly the only building job their ever likely to undertake in their life and I was a bin man, I wouldn't think twice about shifting it for him regardless of the consequences. It's not gonna be a regular thing and lets face it the insulation board would probably reduce to little more than a shoebox sized lump of dust which I can't imagine would harm anyone ! Then assuming my mate a tyre fitter, that cold winters morning when my misses goes out to her car for work to find she has a flat....

So gotta say, I'm in favour of favours, remembering favours, doing favours and most importantly community and common sense!

We cannot take rubble - or any DIY waste - to the "Recycling Centre (formerly known as the dump) as all DIY waste has been recategorised as commercial waste. The council insists homeowners pay to have it taken away. The result is those turned away from the dump just fly tip it elsewhere.

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The council insists homeowners pay to have it taken away. The result is those turned away from the dump just fly tip it elsewhere.

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So, you end up paying one way or the other - through taking it to the dump yourself and paying the charge or paying for the clean up of the fly tipping through the council tax.

Which leads you to think that it would actually be cheaper all round for all household waste to be free to dispose of. Wouldn't it?