Tipping removal firms

phill99

Leif wrote: »

I do agree with most of what you say but in the case of restaurants the staff DO depend on tips to make up their salary to a reasonable level, and the employer takes that into account. I would only not tip if the service was poor and that was the fault of the serving staff.

Also if you don't tip, do you return? I wonder what the nutritional value is of various bodily fluids?

You also need to remember that there are many restaurants chains where if you tip by adding a sum to teh bill and its paid on Credit ir Debit card, the waiter/ess gets that sum knocked off their wafes. So effectively the tips are going to the restaurant owner. You should always pay tips in cash.

Brian_Bullocks

phill99 wrote: »

You should always pay tips in cash.

This also helps keep the tax mans grubby fingers off the money.

john0612

depending on how many are there buy a slab of lager and let them divy it up between them.

MaggieBaking

When we moved, "a man and a van" with a drivers mate moved all our things out down a first floor flat, travelled overnight to Scotland and carried all our things at lightening pace up 3 flights of stairs. For very very very little money. I can't remember how much we tipped but it was a lot.

When we moved back, we lost the guys number so we used a different man and van, who was a man and woman who were just as capable as we were (ie - OK) at shifting furniture down the 3 flights of stairs and expected my husband and I to help out equally. In fact my husband and the man did the sofas etc. They drove back to the North West. We were charged a lot more and we didn't tip at all, I felt the price we paid was (more than) fair.

For me, it depends how hard they work, how well they respect your items, how fair the price is in the first place and if it's a "man and van" or national removal company. If it's a National you know they're only getting a basic wage and a tip would be beneficial to people that did a great job.

If it's a £10 a person tip - it's a nice way of saying, "have a couple of pints after work on me lads, thanks for a great job". It's not really going to top their wages up but still shows appreciation.

betsie

We always tip our removal men if they have done a good job. Lots of tea and biscults as well. We moved in December once and it was so cold. It was dark by the time we had finished so they got £20 each and were really pleased. If all goes smoothly I would say £10 each or if you have a huge wait to get keys etc maybe more.
If you are short on cash what about buying a few boxes of beer or wine and giving them out as a gift once thet have finished.

Leif

phill99 wrote: »

You also need to remember that there are many restaurants chains where if you tip by adding a sum to teh bill and its paid on Credit ir Debit card, the waiter/ess gets that sum knocked off their wafes. So effectively the tips are going to the restaurant owner. You should always pay tips in cash.

That stinks! I'll remember that.

Antispam

I tipped mine because 1. they were friendly and chatting about things we liked. Two they could see I was knackered and helped put our bed up. I only tip hairdresser and not much so usually against my ethics. I dont tip taxis or eat out