Tipping again, non food

But, um ... that's Canadian $, right? In which case I'd say ... I have no idea whether that's nice or not. Given my guess at the exchange rate, though, it seems perfectly sensible.

So it was decided that that word would be "disco." So if I saw a guy with a perm and a pink headband, I wouldn't have to make a sexual reference and say, "That is so gay," but would instead say, "That's pretty disco."

My hairdresser charges £25, so I buy her a morning coffee or Aqua Libra and give her the change, about £3.50, from the leftover fiver I have because I've brought £30 into the salon. She then 'does' my eyebrows. Her other clients (Goldie, Fran Healey, UK Garage people, blah blah) have a lot more money than I do and I've been going to her for nearly a decade, so when I can't afford a big tip Verity doesn't mind (she does Fashion Week styling so her life is really glam).

Tipping in Britain is 10 per cent for waiters, etc. Bartenders' ettiquette isn't the same as in North America, you tend to let them keep the change if it's between £1 and £1.50 on a round of drinks, but not always. Food delivery (as in pizza or Chinese) earns the delivery person £1, or to the nearest note if you're spending over £15 on the food. Baristas or anyone with a TIPS jar on their counter get loose change.

People who don't get tips: really late deliverers. Minicab drivers, unless they're driving for my favourite, reliable car service. Dry cleaners.

You do? I've never done this in my life. Am I some kind of wanker?

Who is probably the person who most needs it.

Which I believeis logical.

My little sister waitresses and her customers are nice folks she's known since she was a kid. She can pull down $200 a night in tips and seems to spend the LOT on Hilfiger-wear.

Your assumption that I don't really do fast food is correct (unless I'm slumming in Minneapolis and my mum wants Taco Bell or Wendy's). Exceptions: the Filet O'Fish and KFC. In America, they do the best mashed potatoes with this strangely addictive yet completely synthetic gravy and corn on the cob, which is the only way I will eat sweetcorn. In fact, when I was home for a funeral and so upset I didn't eat for a week (which is to say, EXTREMELY depressed) they coaxed me back on solids with a family-sized bucket.

No tips for fast food folks, they don't do table service and the establishments are designed with getting you in and out in five minutes in mind. Fact.

"I can just go and get it myself for that much"

xp- first time!

Why do most black people DON'T tip?

So there you go, people!

Order your groceries online!

Is bung like tipping? It sounds so harsh!
Would I rather be tipped or bunged? Hmmm...
Etymologists to thread! (Or are those the bug people?)

Maybe we should have an ILX tipping ratio. 25 cents (or p) for every good post. Beth Parker would be able to retire!
Ned Raggett would be able to host the ultimate FAP!

Michael Jones mother would be a big hit in any big city.
"Disarming Mum "mugs" Would Be Muggers"
Mrs. Jones says she wanted to help, that's all. Much to her surprise, she was rewarded with a "Thank-You" by a would-be purse snatcher when she handed him some money.

2 false assumptions: (1) there's logic behind paying people such low wages and (2) people tip because they feel compelled to compensate for these low wages.

For servers, parties of middle aged white women are the worst to wait on. I used to call it "hate your own gender day" when faced with those groups, back in my serving days.
Water, water, water, water.
Separate checks.
Sometimes really awesome, if you're a young guy. Flirting for tips or being treated like a son/grandson.

I have never seen such racism as I encountered among waiters in regard to black families in every restaurant I worked at or knew anyone at.

Theoretically, you could just raise prices to make up for the difference, but consumers would rebel because they're cheap bastards.

Aimurchie incredibly OTM upthread. Painfully so.

do you guys (gals) give holiday tips to your stylists?

I do. He has been cutting my hair for years and does nice things like free bang trims and such. Also he is getting way popular and I don't want him to forget the little people on his way to DC hair stardom.

Fifty bucks in a holiday card, dropped off this time of year. Thanks for reminding me.

I am never going back to my stylist after my last haircut in September. Unfortunately, I'm too poor to go to another one. So no tip.

Tipping is not a city in China: a sign that may be seen attached to tip jars on the counters of many business establishments in the USA.

i guess i don't get the rationale. i tip the people who work in my building at the holidays, but they don't get tips during the year like my stylist, the total of which adds up to a similar amount.

Christmas tips is one of 19+ reasons I am jealous of my sister-in-law the stylist. "Oh, yeah, that gorgeous ornament is from a client who also gave me $300." *cries*

I'm wondering about giving my postman a Christmas tip. My parents used to do it when I was a kid (along with the milkman and the paperboy), so the idea occurred to me now that I'm settled in my own flat. With the number of (record-style) parcels I get, I think he might be a good guy to keep sweet.

I rarely actually *see* the postperson and therefore am not sure exactly how I would execute tippage.

i got a nice bottle of wine for my stylist.

My parents also used to tip the milkman and the binmen at christmas but I have no milkman and I have no feelings of good cheer towards my waste operatives.

Yeah, no way are the bin men getting anything more from me than a higher than usual volume of rubbish this Christmas.

I was thinking of giving the postie a tenner, keeping it near the door in a ready prepared card for the next time I happen to see him. We'll see how flush I'm feeling next week.

My wife wants ILX girls' opinion on tipping your hairdresser, when they rent their chair in a salon, and charge you $80 for a cut. Necessary? Unnecessary?

Unfortunately very necessary. My rule is: if the hairdresser doesn't own the establishment, you must tip. If it's the owner doing your hair (probably not that common in a major city), I think they're already getting their cut of whatever you're paying, but otherwise...cough it up. Ugh. Sorry.

Oh, totally, totally necessary. I wld tip $10 but I don't know if that's too much or not enough (if I was getting just the haircut).

I know my sis-in-law works at a joint like that and I think the chair fee is something like $50 a day (I could be wrong here).

Yeah that was what I thought.

I personally don't even know if I tip the woman who cuts my hair or not, I don't know how much she charges, I've given here anywhere from $40 to $50 for a cut every six weeks for the past several years. Sometimes when I give her $50 she asks me if I want change (I say no). I think I've graduated to the "pay me what you can afford" range because I've gone to her for so long. My wife has a different person cut her hair all the time (mainly because she can't find anyone who she feels does a good job) so she doesn't get this luxury.

Of course if she thinks they've done a lousy job I don't think she should tip at all.

They're independent contractors and file taxes as such, too, fwiw.

Plus if you do tip well, you get kickbacks of one sort or another in the future.

that is if you go back there. unfortunately she's been going to a place near our house and they actively discourage you from going to the same hairdresser over and over for some reason.

Like this is probably uncommon, but I tipped my last one regularly well enough that she signed me up under her name so I could buy products at cost at the local fancypants salon-supply place.

I'm so scared to find a new stylist here that I've just been cutting my own hair.

akm, why do they do that, do you know? that's weird.

well that place people don't rent chairs, actually, and she did feel obliged to tip there, despite the fact that she rarely if ever felt like she got a decent cut (this is a fairly fancy bay area salon as well). I'm not sure what the purpose of their philosophy is, although I don know that, aside from "senior stylists" (who charge...like, $200 for a cut), they have an apprenticeship-training program where stylists graduate up, and they like to spread the clients around for this reason, so that all junior stylists are always busy.

I was wondering this the other day - do Britishers tip their hairdresser? I used to cut my own hair for years because the once/twice a year I'd try getting it cut professionally, they never listened to what I wanted and I ended up having to 'correct' it myself. But the last time I went to a salon the girl did a really good job so I've actually been back to her (specifically) every time. I kind of think it's good to give her repeat business rather than a few quid one time - besides, she keeps giving me vouchers and loyalty schemes to get money off, so I don't know how I'd go about it, paying on card and stuff. (Haircut is pretty pricey, over £30).

It's a 'family owned' chain with loads of branches locally, so no idea if they rent the space.

how much do i tip the curbside check-in dudes at the airport?

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/summer_tipping/

people who tip servers with religious tracts deserve to die

$2 for the skycaps? Everyone I've seen has tipped $5-10/bag.

OK so I have a Quiddities/Larry David-esque tipping question

With my Sunday New York Times yesterday I received a christmas card from my newspaper delivery person (Denise, as it happens). I'm not happy with my service. 2 weekends ago was the first and only time I have received the three editions of the NT that I pay for. I think I've seen denise and her delivery method consists of hurling the papers from the window of her chrysler voyager. I'm not sure our paper is getting stolen, once, when I had the misfortune to lock myself out early on a sunday morning I saw no sign of the mysterious denise.

The dilemma is, if I tip in line with the service I have received, i.e. nothing, will the service get worse?

(also postmen, how much?)

it might get worse but you still shouldn't do it

The one time I won $600 at Vegas Kewadin, I was happy to do the big-shot thing and give my waitress a twenty. She'd been bringing me free drinks for an hour-and-a-half, after all.

Man, one of my local supermarkets just remodelled and as part of their new image, it's now part of the bagboys' job descriptions to push your cart out to your car with you and load your car ... but they aren't allowed to accept tips! It's really awkward.

It's only awkward if they're hanging around after loading yr car for a handshake or a snog or something.

http://avatars.jurko.net/uploads/avatar_22602.gif It's the long walk to the car with these guys silently pushing my cart alongside me that grates. The company's transparent aim is for me to feel like some sort of upper-class person getting the royal treatment, which isn't really how I like to feel about things. Maybe it's my hang-up. I dunno.