Tipping

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RE: Tipping

(15/06/2013 20:51)DVL418 Wrote:  

(15/06/2013 19:27)126th street Wrote:  The difference is in the culture. If you don't leave a tip in a restaurant or diner in New York, or round the taxi fare up a few dollars, you are considered to be extremely stingy. Not by the person receiving the tip (although they won't be impressed) but by people in general. It is accepted that people particularly in the food service and bar sectors are on terrible wages and need a reasonable sum in tips to make a living.

Likewise in some cultures if you offer a tip to a taxi driver or similar it is liable to cause offence, or they just won't understand what you're trying to do as it is not part of their country's way of doing things. Japan for example.

Plenty of stingy posters on this thread. A week waiting table at national minimum wage might persuade them to reflect though.

Funny enough, I have been in a really low paid job with no opportunities for tips in the past and for longer than 1 week. Nobody should go to work and expect to think that they have the divine right to be tipped. Did you all know that tips could be counted as taxable income as well, I'm not saying its right, but they are.