cjp
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Why tip?
I chose my job I do my job and beyond satisfaction, pay and the odd thanks that is all the reward I expect.
Why do taxi drivers who may well be owner drivers who have a fair (to me expensive) tariff expect more for just doing their job. (Chances are if you live in a big city like London you will never see them again anyway.)
If I go to a restaurant I expect to be able receive what I want well prepared and served to me and prices are designed to pay for this and the ambiance. Why should I have to put up with an automatic 12% gratuity being added? We are in the era of minimum wage and living wage so we know a person is not surviving on tips. Something over and above expectations should be rewarded but just doing the job you are paid for?:
I take my car to be service and I get it back clean and working well – in theory- why pay more than the bill.
I get someone to do work for me I pay them what we agreed unless they they have wildly exceeded expectations – when at my discretion I might pay them a bonus or, at a smaller level, give them a pot or jar of home-made marmalade.
What used to be a freely given reward is now an expectation and often not merited.
Why should I have to take positive action to remove something that is not merited and has just added an extras five or ten pound or so to my costs?
Cleaners are often not well paid so should we give the road sweeper a tip? Manners of course suggests a thank you from time to time would not go amiss. Think about it.
Those who cut hair often set their prices so why give them more?
And whilst I am at it – self service check outs or ticket machines for that matter. I am being asked to do what was a real persons job for which I receive nothing, no discount, no pay and if I get a faster service it is because the companies concerned have chosen, rather than to have extra staff, to put me to work for them. This as we know swells company's profits and leads to fewer being employed and less checkouts or ticket offices being in place. And as for those Judas goats (sometimes called queue busters) inviting you to leave the queue and tackle a machine I tell them quite clearly I am not doing someone else's job, that their company need more staff in place and ask why do they not get themselves doing something more useful.
Sorry people but I had to get it off my chest.
I chose my job I do my job and beyond satisfaction, pay and the odd thanks that is all the reward I expect.
Why do taxi drivers who may well be owner drivers who have a fair (to me expensive) tariff expect more for just doing their job. (Chances are if you live in a big city like London you will never see them again anyway.)
If I go to a restaurant I expect to be able receive what I want well prepared and served to me and prices are designed to pay for this and the ambiance. Why should I have to put up with an automatic 12% gratuity being added? We are in the era of minimum wage and living wage so we know a person is not surviving on tips. Something over and above expectations should be rewarded but just doing the job you are paid for?:
I take my car to be service and I get it back clean and working well – in theory- why pay more than the bill.
I get someone to do work for me I pay them what we agreed unless they they have wildly exceeded expectations – when at my discretion I might pay them a bonus or, at a smaller level, give them a pot or jar of home-made marmalade.
What used to be a freely given reward is now an expectation and often not merited.
Why should I have to take positive action to remove something that is not merited and has just added an extras five or ten pound or so to my costs?
Cleaners are often not well paid so should we give the road sweeper a tip? Manners of course suggests a thank you from time to time would not go amiss. Think about it.
Those who cut hair often set their prices so why give them more?
And whilst I am at it – self service check outs or ticket machines for that matter. I am being asked to do what was a real persons job for which I receive nothing, no discount, no pay and if I get a faster service it is because the companies concerned have chosen, rather than to have extra staff, to put me to work for them. This as we know swells company's profits and leads to fewer being employed and less checkouts or ticket offices being in place. And as for those Judas goats (sometimes called queue busters) inviting you to leave the queue and tackle a machine I tell them quite clearly I am not doing someone else's job, that their company need more staff in place and ask why do they not get themselves doing something more useful.
Sorry people but I had to get it off my chest.
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