tipping

Never apologise for reviving this thread! I love it!

Anag, wouldn't making coffee be "something they normally do for customers as a service"?

(By which I mean, isn't a tip most often applied to things done normally as part of a service? And then an extra special big tip applied to something extra / especially good?)

My gut would say to tip something around the price of what the free drink would have cost.

maybe a little less than this but otm. a couple bucks at least.

my instinct is not to tip for the ground beans because mentally i think of that as 'groceries', oddly

"mentally i think" uh haha

mentalist

Actually, it was $32 this morning. Price seems to go up and down each time.

if i get a $12 haircut in the US, i give the guy $15, right?

I'm guessing most customers just go for whole bean, so it does feel like extra. I did $3 this morning. Will probably do $4 next time.

yeah, for a total of $27 xp

$3-4 sounds pretty all right, I can't imagine complaining seeing three bucks go in the tip jar!

Would you tip a butcher?

Maybe if he gave you a free turkey leg at the end.

To me the little-freebie is just a nice little opportunity for a moment of recognition between customer and employee - - - you get something you would have bought anyway, the money you would have paid for it leaves your wallet anyway, but both people involved feel like they stepped out of robotically carrying out formal transactions and "gave" something to the other. It's nice.

really feel like half the time I over-tip, especially when doing so after paying by credit card at restaurants, and under-tip other times. hope the universe averages these out when tallying my karma

caek buddy my tip is to shell out a little more for a haircut

My butchers (who hand out gratis stock/dog bones to those who need them) have a tip jar. If I got, say, £2.65 in change, the 65 pence goes in the jar. They generally tape a one-sheet, bold-type political screed onto this jar, about the suckage of the UK government etc. It's like reading the fevered thoughts of a non-racist, Murdoch-hating cab driver.

yeah he seemed kind of unimpressed but was a v low key guy so it was hard to tell. i will fix it next time.

I meant to bump this, not to ask but to tell: if I am carrying four cases of Penta water you just spent $100 on to your car a block away and you don't even give me a dollar, you are a disgusting savage.

http://i.imgur.com/7bNiXkd.jpg

http://gawker.com/5980177/pastor-refuses-to-pay-restaurants-auto+gratuity-asks-server-why-she-deserves-a-bigger-tip-than-god

should prob be posted in the reddit thread

peoples opinions on tipping are kinda just a black hole

Any pastor who considers his tithing "a tip" should go back to seminary school.

"Hey, God! Keep the change."

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/coin-flip-mcduck.gif

How do pastors who are getting paid by the church tithe? Do they have to kick it up a level or something?

10 percent to Brigham Young football program.

does god's portion come out pre-tax or what

http://consumerist.com/2013/01/31/waitress-who-posted-no-tip-receipt-from-pastor-customer-fired-from-job/

applebee's otm

yeah I have mixed feelings cause obv that pastor is a dick but I'm not sure I like the new world where one person being a dick gets their phone number on 4chan etc because some blogger/reddit/etc decided they were the dick-o-the-day

Yeah, no, but it's pretty lame to be like "I only wanted the person I was insulting to see that I was insulting her. Now that EVERYONE knows I insulted a defenseless server I'm so MAD AT U."

well he's a crazy person, for one

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/tipping-pastor-apologizes-687234

The folks at The Smoking Gun have interviewed the pastor who left the receipt.

“My heart is really broken,” she tells the site. “I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.”

The pastor claims that though she scratched out the automatic gratuity on the bill, she left a $6 cash tip at the table. She also alleges that the restaurant charged her the 18% tip anyway.

She left a $6 tip on the table for a party of 20?!?!?! Fuck this person with a chainsaw tbqh.

well this is going to help all of the "'Canadians' don't tip" stereotypes

js

*ha

that pastor was apparently led to christianity after finding herself homeless and pregnant in the late 90s - how does one go from that situation, to being a pastor, to being the kind of person who treats people, who are barely making a living, with such little respect?

and she doesn't apologize anywhere in that interview - she's embarrassed for herself and on behalf of her church, but she doesn't seem to feel that bad for the waiter she stiffed.

Stiffed and got fired!

Which is probably exactly what Jesus would have done so

well this is going to help all of the "'Canadians' don't tip" stereotypes

― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:23 AM (2 minutes ago)

otm.

wasn't there a "Christians don't tip" piece posted upthread too?

there's also often "blah people don't tip" talk

Canadians are pretty blah, Phil.

Re: Pastor Alois Bell and her tithe's of Applebee's Joy.

It's my sincere hope that this alleged "Woman of God" is removed from her position within your church.

She revealed herself to be a craven, self-centered, shallow, sanctimonious, piece of un-Godly filth. Not only is she incapable of leading a congregation but she's also proven herself incapable of interacting with the world at large.

It is my sincere hope that you will thoughtfully pray on this matter and deem it necessary to remove her from your church. Meanwhile, I will be praying that she gets hit by a bus.

Yours in Christ.

John Doughtry

The bile this shit inspires is depressing. It was a dick move, completely, totally. But, and I'm saying this as someone who's worked for tips in the past, it was six fucking dollars; let's all relax and try to keep from calling people filth.

I'd be cool with getting tithes if I were a server. 10% of a customer's income sounds nice!

She left a $6 tip on the table for a party of 20?!?!?! Fuck this person with a chainsaw tbqh.

One of the earlier stories mentions that the table had asked for the full bill to be divided up, allegedly to avoid the automatic 18% tip. Bell's portion was $34.93. A $6 tip on that portion is reasonable, but there are still a lot of unknowns in the story. Still, a dick move.

The January 25 meal came after an evening service at the Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries church

yeah i'm sure not much of the money is going back the preacher lol

story also says the church has 15 members and the pastor has a full time day job

everyone's a dick in this story imo, but have zero sympathy for the reddit poster who got fired from her job at a corporate restaurant chain. what the fuck did she expect

i think i would warm to dawn richards if i listened to it more, but i dont see that happening

oops wrong thread