Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

we don't tip and have never felt the need to.

I don't tip the bin men, because a: its too expensive and b: they didn't collect my rubbish for over four mnths when we moved here and are starting that gme again now. Poor timing if they want a tip.


I always tip the chimney sweep...is it a tradition, why do I feel compelled to do that?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Out of interest, do you guys tip your postman, and if so how much? I think we give him a Christmas card with £5-10, but we are nowhere near the £30 limit. Do any of the NP come close?

I feel that we are a lot of extra work for him, as the letter box is at the bottom of the door, and I work on the top floor of the house, so it takes me a minute to get downstairs to answer him if there is something to sign for.

I've never tipped a postman, nor does anybody I know or am related to. They're changing all the time, we don't use them much and they don't do anything special/extra for us.

chewmylegoff

i tip in restaurants, unless the service has been really rubbish (and even then i probably won't remove the tip if it is already added on, because i'd rather avoid an argument).

i also usually tip taxi drivers, because two taxi drivers have returned things to me that i have left in their cab, after i tipped them. although obviously that can't be the reason i started tipping them, which i now cannot remember.

Wheezy_2

If our postman could deliver the correct item of mail to the correct address with a success rate of at least 95%, I would tip.
But he doesn't, so I won't.

misskool

I round it up for taxi drivers, if they have been nice (which most of them are), but not a tip as such.

Restaurants it does depend on how good the service is, I have been known to remove them if I haven't found them great but mostly leave 10-15%. Cleaners get a Christmas card + £20 gift card (it makes me feel better although it's still just another version of cash). But this year we haven't got many presents to buy for and so I am rather more generous to members of my team.

michaels

Posh alert as PN would say.

Luckily we have small children and have never had to employ a chimney sweep....

lostinrates wrote: »

I always tip the chimney sweep...is it a tradition, why do I feel compelled to do that?

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Posh alert as PN would say.

Luckily we have small children and have never had to employ a chimney sweep....

You live in a smoke free zone.

lostinrates

I give up. I've been trying on and off all afternoon to post pics elsewhere and it doesn't work

PasturesNew

I've always been confused by the concept of "good service" in a restaurant - and, in tipping conversations, never knew what it meant. Upon enquiring, I have never been to the type of restaurant where you get service. The best places I've been you get to sit down and there's a tablecloth on the table. The process is: you sit down, waiter gives you a menu, you order, food comes, you eat it, bill comes, you leave. No service there to tip for.

So ..... I have absolutely no idea what "good service" actually means.

michaels

Posh Alert - restaurant with table cloths and someone who takes your order at the table and brings you food as opposed to someone who sits at a little glass (bulletproof/) window and asks if you would like fries with that before advising you to collect at the next window...

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've always been confused by the concept of "good service" in a restaurant - and, in tipping conversations, never knew what it meant. Upon enquiring, I have never been to the type of restaurant where you get service. The best places I've been you get to sit down and there's a tablecloth on the table. The process is: you sit down, waiter gives you a menu, you order, food comes, you eat it, bill comes, you leave. No service there to tip for.

So ..... I have absolutely no idea what "good service" actually means.