Real life MMD: Should I tip when using daily deals vouchers?

savvy06

I hate the tipping culture, I find it embarrassing. I agree that minimum wage is inadequate but my income is now less than minimum wage so why should I tip someone for providing the service I have paid for??
As a nursery nurse, I earned minimum wage and worked very hard with major responsibility; no one ever thought to tip me!

Talent

If the service is good you should always tip. The amount depends on your personal finances.
Pennypinchuk is partly correct, some masseuse would massage some people fro free, it depends on their bent and the body in question, yes?

BNT

savvy06 wrote: »

I hate the tipping culture, I find it embarrassing. I agree that minimum wage is inadequate but my income is now less than minimum wage so why should I tip someone for providing the service I have paid for??

Because, in sectors of the economy and cultures where you are expected to tip, the tip is part of the cost. If you don't tip, in those situations, you haven't paid for the service.

Augustus_the_Strong

Back to the original question - if you get good service, you should tip. If not, don't. It doesn't matter that you got a cheap deal. Your tip (if you tip) should be based on the full price, or whatever you think it's worth. No obligation, but as someone pointed out, you may have got a cheap deal but they are giving you the full-price service.

S5gos

I never tip.

S5gos

I never tip. Do not believe in tipping. Everyone is doing a job that is paid.

savvy06

BNT wrote: »

Because, in sectors of the economy and cultures where you are expected to tip, the tip is part of the cost. If you don't tip, in those situations, you haven't paid for the service.

Sorry, but I disagree strongly - "the sectors of the economy and cultures where you are expected to tip, the tip is part of the cost" This is historic and before minimum wage.
Now, a waitress and a nursery nurse are earning the same minimum wage, and each working hard, is it reasonable to tip the person serving your food but not the person caring for your child?

dachse

happyinflorida wrote: »

OMG I cannot believe how tight so many of you are about tipping! Why don't you tip?!

I used to work as a waitress - when I was young and it so annoyed me if people didn't tip as I always went out of my way to give really good service.

I only don't tip now if the service is bad.

I think it's so wrong not to tip if you're given good service - it's a service industry, you should tip. Why should a person be left on just minimum wage which is hardly enough to survive on nowadays. If you can afford to go out to eat and drink then include the tip as it's not fair on the person serving you to not tip - don't be mean!

Bloody Americans - you need a good slapping to bring you to your senses.
We get paid to do a GOOD job. Therefore if we do a good job then why expect any tip? You've done what you are paid for. That includes waiters, taxi drivers, hairdressers, beauticians etc. Most workers in the retail sector are paid minimum wage but never get or expect tips. Why should you tip a waiter but not a shop worker when they both do a good job. The ONLY time a tip should be considered is when someone goes that extra mile over and above what is normally expected for the job they are doing. I.e. a taxi driver that carries your shopping to you door or something like that.
Tipping is the one thing I hate about travelling in the USA, everyone expects a tip whether they give good, bad or indifferent service and they turn particularly ugly if you don't tip at least 20%. Even in self service restaurants they expect a tip for serving you at the counter?????:mad:

ronangel

scotsbob wrote: »

If the girl is giving you "extras" then you will find if you don't tip you don't get them any more.

I think you must be referring to the "Happy ending" where lots of people run in holding balloons and singing, (so I am told);)

BNT

savvy06 wrote: »

Sorry, but I disagree strongly - "the sectors of the economy and cultures where you are expected to tip, the tip is part of the cost" This is historic and before minimum wage.
Now, a waitress and a nursery nurse are earning the same minimum wage, and each working hard, is it reasonable to tip the person serving your food but not the person caring for your child?

Whether it is reasonable or not is a different matter. Why tip crew on a ship but not on an airplane? Why tip tourist coach drivers and not bus drivers? I don't know the reasons, but the fact is, in many places it is the norm and therefore should be considered part of the cost. To not tip a waitress in the US, for example, just because you don't agree with the practice, is as perverse as deciding to drive on the left because you don't agree with driving on the right. When in Rome, do as the Romanians do.