Do You Tip At....
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Topic: Do You Tip At....
Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Subject: Do You Tip At....
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:41pm
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Places like Starbucks, Caribou, etc.
I sure as hell don't, those people get an hourly wage that doesn't depend on tips and I'm sure they get paid more than me hourly. So they can keep putting out the Tip jar with the cute letters and such but I'm never putting a damn cent in it. |
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:43pm
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I dont tip at a place unless they deserve it. If I have to stand in line for an hour at Starbucks for a crappy cup of coffee then they get no tips from me. But I always tip at smaller restaurants where the service is much better.
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Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:44pm
| I'll normally just tip them the change back if its $2 or less, they're getting paid to serve people so no harm came from a little gratitude. |
Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:50pm
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I get paid to serve to. Every idiot who wants to know where the mayo is I have to help. Do i get tips? hell no. I'm not even aloud to take money from people who offer if i help them take their groceries to the car or whatever. Not that I would take it anyway, I don't have to do everythign for money, its common courtesy. ------------- 
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Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:50pm
| sometime whatever change i get... except quarters... i'm to cheap to give up quarters. |
Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:52pm
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Bingo Plenti, it is their job to serve, thats what they are hired to do. Starbucks pays them X.XX an hour specifically to serve, if they don't want to serve they can quit.
And for the record Caribou Coffee > Starbucks |
Posted By: God
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:01pm
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I dont tip unless I hand it directly to the worker that deserves it. Those tip jars are there for me to go fishing in when I come up a few dollars short of the bill. Also note: God does not hang out or pay any patronage to coffee shops, bookstores, or other trendy yuppie hang outs. |
Posted By: ^Pirate^
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:05pm
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I only left a tip at Ponderosa once, when the hot waitress in the
white-t spilled my Sierra Mist on herself... I left a $5 I think....
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Posted By: lester98c
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:19pm
| usually when i go to D&D ill give them the 35 cents i get back, other than thats about it. maybe ill throw a quarter in the can for the kid dieing of cancer if i have one |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:21pm
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I dont, unless I have change left over or somthing along those lines. ------------- 
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:23pm
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not at those places... i tip pretty well at restaraunts though |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:32pm
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I tip the clerk at my local gas station. He is Indian [East Indian, not native American], and a really nice guy. A few times when I missed hitting $20 or $30 by a few pennies, he would just let me have it and not make me break a dollar. When I go in there every week to refill, get a newspaper, and grab a Big-Gulp, I always slip him a buck or two.
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Posted By: mjicmike
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:36pm
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Posted By: blackdog144
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:43pm
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i usually never tip...
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Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:47pm
You didn't read the book on anything did you? |
blackdog144 wrote:Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 3:53pm
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I tip if the person is really nice or something. Like at a Starbucks, if there's a fresh pot of coffee going to be coming out in like a minute and they give me a heads up that I should wait just a little bit, I'll pop a little bit of my change into the tip jar.
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Posted By: mjicmike
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 4:06pm
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some areas have mandatory tipping. You don't see it until you get the check and it is called a gratuity fee. ------------- A5 Rfs Dwg triggr Ricochet R5 8"Lapco Bigsht/14"CP Classic Palmers Stab. Lapco uni-mount DOP bullet drop fwd PMI 88/4500 Woods Flatline/14"Lapco Bigsht CMI Thunder pig reg. Remote adj. stk |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 4:07pm
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I have friends that work at various coffee shops. They really do depend on their tips a lot. It's hard to try to pay rent at your own apartment, go to school, and work nearly full time. I tip when I have some extra money.
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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 4:34pm
| Ill throw change into the tip jar at my local deli. I would never tip at a place like starbucks. |
Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 5:51pm
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just throw like fifteen cents in there. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 5:53pm
| If I get like, 5¢ or whatever back, and I dont want to open my wallet again, I'll usually leave it or toss it in the jar. |
Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 6:25pm
| nope |
Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 6:40pm
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 6:54pm
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Never been to starbucks, so no.
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 7:28pm
| I tipped a pizza delivery guy today. |
Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 7:29pm
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I always tip delivery people, never really tip anything else except restaurants.
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 7:36pm
| If I have change I'll put it in the jar. Otherwise no. At restuarants I tip well. |
Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 7:42pm
over the past 4 months i have been throwing all that extra pocket change into a bucket. last time i counted my bucket was up to $47 |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 7:59pm
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Mr Pink is my idol at places like that, mainly because i usually never go. Im a good tipper howeve at places i sit down and eat at. My mom was a waitress, so she knws how hord it is to keep people happy, do everything she possibly can, and she kind of taught me to apreciate that to, so unless the service is all out horrible, spitting in my drink bad, i'll tip 15%, 20 is they look good or do an nice job, and 30 if they do an excellent job. ------------- 
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Posted By: chimchik49
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 8:30pm
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this thread reminds me of resevoir dogs ------------- 
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Posted By: piranhakiller
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 8:32pm
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I do at places where they humiliate themselves for tips by singing and such like coldstone ------------- ~Marker setup~ 2K1 Autococker Rt Feed 12in Freak ANS 3-Way Black Houge Grip Shocktech Drop Forward TippmannA5 16in J&Jceramic r/t 2X trigger Blue Dye c4 |
Posted By: Cheetos3254
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 10:58pm
I've been to starbucks twice and it was gross  But I'll usually tip $3 when the pizza delivery guy comes------------- 
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:00pm
I never tip the pizza guy. He tried to ban me from ordering. |
Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:07pm
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Posted By: amishman89
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:10pm
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You dont tip because you didnt read the book. Anyways Iam a host at red lobster and we never get tipped. Ive gotten tipped one dollar and thats because it was someones 56 annerversary. I bus tables for the servers when I dont even have to. Like for example I bussed alot tonight more than usaul because we only had one busser. I never got tipped. It made me a little upset because they get tipped well and they didnt even tip me. ------------- Only Hugh can prevent florist friars. |
Posted By: Sammy
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:53pm
| I'll usually toss my spare change in at places such as Starbucks. Tip 15-20 percent at restaurants depending, and tip the valets $5-10 depending where and how busy it is. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 12:27am
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I get a lot of tips for making pizza, it rocks.
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Posted By: TheSpookyKids87
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 8:23am
| I never tip at places like that. I always tip delivery drivers though, at least 3 bucks. |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 8:34am
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I tip at places where the service is good, and my general rule is that I'll tip at places that provide a service I wouldn't care to do myself. I don't order fancy coffee drinks, and I won't tip for pouring a cup of black coffee. I'd do that myself if they'd let me. A waitress that brings food to my table will get a tip, and even a carhop at Sonic.
However, I am good at getting bad service. I don't understand either. I'm polite, I order clearly and without extra requests usually. My wife and I combined have a hard time going out to eat. We had a waiter at a buffet style restaurant that would not speak to us. He was having a great time with the next table, giving them recipies a camera to take pictures of their group, helping the bus boy clear the table, telling jokes, and he wouldn't fill our drinks while we were at the table, instead he'd sneak over while we were up getting some food. When we were finally done and had sat there for a while, he came over to fill my water and my wife asked for the check. The waiter just turned around and walked off, no smile, nothing. He came back 15 minutes later and dropped/tossed it onto the table and walked off again. It was like I had slapped his mom or something. Not only did I not tip that guy, I almost got him fired for it when the manager heard the story and freaked out. ------------- 
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 2:04pm
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I usally tip like a dollar or so. $5 at a resturant if the service is good.
One time my dad had tipped a waitress $10 and my mom picked up the tip that he laid down. I thought it was so funny and mean. Me love da mama. ------------- 
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Posted By: Templar Knight
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 1:36am
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You need to draw the line somewhere, if you tip at coffee shops do you tip at fast food joints, the pharmacy , supermarket, mailman. I mean you can't tip every one that provides a service or we all would be tipping each other and all be broke. I tip at resteruants and food deliviery people. No one tips me I make sure that you all have milk in the stores and resteruants for your coffee and cereal ect. Pay up. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 1:41am
We should definitely get tips in the army. 
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 2:09am
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I used to manage the ColdStone by my house. Ever since then I tip a dollar max at anywhere that gives me a reciept with a spot for a dollar. Sit-down restaraunts are a different story, I'll tip 10% if the service is good, and 15% if the service was excellent. I'll tip 0% if the service was terrible and probably never return to that restaraunt because of it. I don't go to starbucks, but if I did I'd leave a dollar at most. I know how hard it is to memorize all of the recepies after working at ColdStone, so anyone who has a job that requires that sort of thing I will tip. There is a pizza place by my house called Pizza Schmizza that I no longer tip at. This is because like Rief said, I could do it myself. All they do is take the pizza slice that you want, re-heat it in the oven, then give it to you. It's not even that great of a pizza but it's the closest by-the-slice place near me. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 11:48am
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When I worked at Subway I was given tips but I think it was because I always used larger quantities of product on the sandwhiches. Also if I was extremely freindly, fast, or informative I could get a tip. It wasnt expected. I rarely give tips to other Subway workers when I go eat there since the job isnt difficult and I can make the sandwhiches, faster, and better.
Normally, I am generous at restraunts unless the service was really horrible. A few times a lady friend and I will hang out at Dennys for several hours and just have water. Normally we will tip a dollar each for the server since we take up space and he can be earning tips off other people. But usually it is late at night and the place isnt crowded. ------------- 
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 1:17pm
| I tip at resturants, and Arbies. The reason for arbies being my girlfriend works there, so they all know me... and normally I get free food. Since I dont feel comfertable just takeing things I have to pay somebody something, Which results in a tip to the deserving individual. |
Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 1:34pm
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 3:17pm
That's pretty bad... A tip for decent service should be no less than 15%, as a standard rule. I work at a restaurant, and waitresses only make about $2.75 an hour. They really depend on their tips to make a living. I tip 15% or more if the service isn't bad, 20% if it's good, and if I only order something that's $5, I usually tip about 50%. I've always tipped well, but working in the restaurant business has really made me tip a lot better. It makes me so happy when I actually get a tip (I'm a cook). ------------- 
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 3:35pm
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When I worked at the Paintball Arena as a ref, every 5th or so party would tip each ref $20. It made it so much better just to earn that unexpected cash, especially for doing a job I would have done for free. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 5:39pm
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Those are called bribes, Linus.... -------------
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 6:11pm
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 8:51pm
Understand that up here minimum wage is the highest in the country at 7.63 an hour. If they wanted to make money, apply for a position at the library; it pays arround $10 an hour up here. If I were in a lesser place of minimum wage such as where you live, i'd be more generous....maybe. They may work as waitresses, but they chose to. Weather you want to believe it or not, there is ALWAYS a better job out there. Frozen, yes people always asked me what the icecream was made of. I was like....well it comes in a giant blatter and all I have to do to make it is poor it in the machine and add the flavoring; however we add real flavorings to most of it such as peanut butter, bananas, strawberries etc.
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 9:53am
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While the minimum wage may be high where you live...
Waiters/Waitresses is not the same. Here minimum wage is $5.15 for non-tipping jobs. I'd estimate that waitstaff probably makes around $3.50-4.00 hourly where you live. While it is your choice how well (or poorly) to tip, it does irritate me when people say, "Get another job if you don't like it." For some people, there really isn't a whole lot of choice. I'd like to see waitstaff making at least enough to live off of; especially since it's a job that does require some skills (people skills, speed, etc.), and I wouldn't want to do it. -------------
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Posted By: Zesty
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 10:36am
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Posted By: Zesty
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 10:41am
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Damn, is it even legal to pay anyone in America less than $3 freaking dollars per hour?!
Minimum wage here is like $6.75 or something. I tip when people deserve it......which is almost never! But if I do it's gonna be 20% or nothing But yeah I think waitresses complain too much! If you have to rely on the generosity/handouts of the customers in order to make your job worth working, don't be surprised.......... ------------- "People who see the future earlier than others are always feared and misunderstood." - Jose Canseco |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 10:41am
Lucky. I have never gotten a tip for reffing. I get paid in paint and free days of play. ------------- 
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 11:02am
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im going to reply to a few things in this thread..
i dont normaly tip at fast food places. lately at resturants me and my gf have been getting crappy service and theres been a few times i havent wanted to leave a tip but she always does when im not looking... however. when i tip i tip depending on the service and bill. 15% if theres no problems 10% with few minor problems (takes forever to get food/refills) 20-25% if they go above and beond. ex- me and my gf went to lonestar for lunch one day and it took over 45mins for them to bring us our burgers and our waitress just started ignoring us... i think my gf left a 1$ tip but i wanted to leave before they came out and wouldent have tipped... havent been back since... me and a few friends went to a local steak house for AYCE ribs. the dude brought us 12 racks in like 45 mins we went early so they were slow but he never had us waiting. we whipped the table down stacked all the plates and left a 20$ tip (bill was about 80$ and we left 100) and we were only there 45mins-1h. places that add a tip to the bill are oftin for parties of 8 or more and you can have it removed. always check the bill before you leave a tip on the table... my sister and her friends didet and ended up tipping the guy like 245$ one night... between the 20% on the bill and what they left on the table... ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 4:15pm
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Being an ex-waiter myself (not just from coldstone but from other resteraunts) I can tell you for sure that the lowest paying job that allows gratuity is $5.00/hour. After your 90 day review at that job, you get bumped another dollar. I had car payments every month as well as having to fill my gas tank up ATLEAST once a week. Rent on top of that and I still made plenty to live off of. It's not about how much you make, but how well you budget what you have. Eating out is a bad idea if you make low wages, because it sucks your money away. Walk whenever and wherever you can, or buy a bike. That will pay it'self off in only 2 months. Public transportation is there for a reason, so you might as well use it. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 7:28pm
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Snipa lives in such a Utopia. -------------
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 7:35pm
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The thing with with being a waiter/waitress(at least around here) is
that if your hourly wage+tips does not equal the minimum wage then the
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Posted By: Sammy
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 7:52pm
Um, some waiters here only make $2-3 an hour. It's all in the tips. Be careful before you assume. |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 8:01pm
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Depends upon the service. ------------- 
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 8:04pm
Our waitresses only make $2.13 an hour. While up front we make six bucks an hour, get tip-out, and small tips from carry out. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 1:47am
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Hah, don't I wish. We just get paid well to do crumby jobs. Sammy, if I know for a fact that the minimum pay is low, then I'll throw percentages out the door and just give them a flat tip of $15-20 or so. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 1:51am
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....Where rent is apperently really cheap, you live in an area where there is transportation offered, and to even suggest riding a bike to save money. Sounds like Heaven on Earth. -------------
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 1:55am
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Naw, just seattle. Rent is expensive but the high minimum wage helps that. A 2 bedroom appartment in seattle costs about $1k-$1,800k depending on the neighborhood and condition. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 3:24pm
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You tip the door man, bell hop, waiters, consierge, driver, cabbie, pizza guy, hair cutter lady. I think basicaly if the service provides comfort or its done with meaning. McDonalds people dont get tips, doormen do.
Then there are people that you do not tip, BUT they are supposed to get christmas bonuses, if you dont tip the door man, he gets a christmas bonus, the mail man, if he is a regualar mailman, gets a christmas bonus. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors"> 
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