tipping

...wow!

I think I know what you're getting at frogbs

is it the BLACKS

BLACK PEOPLE

I've heard this brought up several times at parties and such and it seems like there is one in particular that always seems to stiff the workers to the point that even people of that race hate being assigned to those tables

in my somewhat limited experience this is usually an effect related to highly-localized or even neighborhood-related culture, especially in larger cities where people of different social/ethnic groups are more localized in some neighborhoods than others and tend to either have different local cultures, or they are more likely to be jerks when they leave their area

but you can go on about black people or whoever being specifically cheap and make it about race

no wait maybe it's lesbians

bartenders are horribly spoiled, overpaid people

looool

xps: my bet wld be 'se azns' but w/e this is... not a great thread to be reading is it?

wait someone said that before, maybe on this very thread, right

i cant remember did they get sb'd too but im gonna say ya

said bartender is disgusting savage imo

Rednecks are the worst tippers.

lol azns are horrible tippers its true

http://i.imgur.com/DDMBW.gif

It depends on the race of the folks they're tipping though.

while this thread is open I guess I'll contribute

my parents' fridge broke down earlier this year and they got a new one from sears

when they took delivery of it my dad was gonna tip em but realized that they didn't have any cash in the house since they always paid using credit card

finally my dad found $10 in ones and gave it to the two dudes (who had just shlepped in a giant refrigerator)

he tried to tell me it was okay because the one dollar bills were new from the bank and some of them were even consecutively numbered

kinda lol, kinda sad

boxall with a quality point

I've heard this brought up several times at parties and such and it seems like there is one in particular that always seems to stiff the workers to the point that even people of that race hate being assigned to those tables

You're talking about German tourists, right? RIGHT?

Second worst tippers: my grandparents (they're white btw)

Third worst tippers - high school kids in large groups.

when whites do things it doesn't count

is it the BLACKS

yeah you got it pretty quickly which is making me wonder if/why this is a real stereotype, and yeah mh there's cultural differences but I've heard this SO MUCH regardless of how big the city is, and I don't think it's an issue of being cheap at all

I left some cash for my mom to tip the guys who delivered my washer/dryer, because that is a lot of work.

The dudes who dropped off my new tv, which I could easily carry by myself and wasn't a difficult task, didn't get a tip even though I agonized over it for the next day or so. Probably should have given them a $10.

wtf jenny some of my very best friends are white ppl fyi

no no no

I used to have to sneak back to the table and leave extra $$$ when I'd go out to eat with my grandfather. Now I just tell him I'm expensing the entire meal.

you are the most boring troll of all time

xxxxp

See when ppl gave me bad tips I just kidnapped their children

the other group is middle aged white women btw

bet they're ugly, too. lesbians, maybe?

yeah you got it pretty quickly which is making me wonder if/why this is a real stereotype,

As to why - confirmation bias. If you're serving 5 times as many white customers, you're not going to notice the ebb and flow of tips as you would with groups you serve less.

middle aged woman isn't a race is a state of mind your manners young man

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1329241

Hey look there might be institutionalized reasons related to this that aren't directly correlated to skin color

It's like if you put "black people tipping" in google, this discussion has actually happened a multitude of times

keep up the insight, frogbs, I would like to know why you think black people don't tip

Good thing there's no Blacks or women on ILX

milo - i doubt that's true. it's not like blacks are the only other race out there

when I worked at a golf course the worst tippers were the people who played golf

Or tippers

xxp

what other races are out there, frogbs

I liked to break down my serving biases into microcultures - civil servants on lunch break, businessmen from out of town serving, middle-aged women who wanted to flirt, middle-aged women who didn't want to flirt, those assholes in town for a Christian revival who tipped with pamphlets (actually happened, still pissed 11-12 years later), midgets, midget-porn fetishists, etc.

lesbian isn't a race btw

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/27/article-1188882-051AEBAE000005DC-540_306x506.jpg

businessmen from out of town eating on the company dime*

it's not like blacks are the only other race out there

other than.... other than.... *head explodes*

Best tippers - New York Yankees catchers, deceased guitarists for Pantera

Worst tippers - my deadbeat friends

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1329241

Hey look there might be institutionalized reasons related to this that aren't directly correlated to skin color

It's like if you put "black people tipping" in google, this discussion has actually happened a multitude of times

keep up the insight, frogbs, I would like to know why you think black people don't tip

that article doesn't really answer it but yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

honestly, I have no idea, that's why I brought it up because it's kind of a weird thing. in my experience as a bartender they aren't exactly cheap people and I'm not sure if there are cultural issues or what they could be

True story: I worked at this terrible redneck bar in NC and on my third or so shift, I got a six top of mostly black people and my fellow server asked me if I would be okay and I was like yeah, six top no biggie, we're not busy and she was like. No. Are you going to be okay? Because they were black, see.

frogbs waiting a table:

"So I couldn't help but notice your Blackness. Will you be tipping these evening?"

bet they're ugly, too. lesbians, maybe?

hey why don't you take this shit into another thread? if you're going to whine could you at least try to be funny?

frogbs waiting a table:

"So I couldn't help but notice your Blackness. Will you be tipping these evening?"

man you guys are the fucking worst

Modest Mickey of this site once emailed me a letter he wanted proofread that he was going to give to his manager. The letter told his manager he was upset with her for having alleged black people are bad tippers. He asked for tips about the letter and I said, "make it about five pages shorter."

it's nagl on my part, i know, piling on, but if you're going to post could you try not to be so mindnumbingly stupid?

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