Tipping removal men?

PasturesNew

pinkteapot wrote: »

We gave ours £50 to sort out between themselves. It worked out to £10 per person per day though. We had two guys for two days, then they were joined on the second day by a third.

Must be a mansion! Took mine an hour to fill the van and an hour to offload it ... and they were taking it easy.

pinkteapot

PasturesNew wrote: »

Must be a mansion! Took mine an hour to fill the van and an hour to offload it ... and they were taking it easy.

We had them pack as well. Two guys packed the day before the move. On the day of the move we had a team of three.

Moving day - they arrived about 8am and had loaded the lorry by 11am. We then had to wait for the keys for the place we were buying until 1pm. Took them 2-3 hours to unload, they left somewhere between 3 and 4pm.

Didn't begrudge them the tip at all - they worked hard!

Gwhiz

Mine were great - very careful, very efficient and very pleasant.

£20 each and as much tea, biscuits & cake as they could handle.

LisaLou1982

I think i tipped £40 - 2 lads, all day and they both worked really hard too!

Guest101

Basically 10-20 quid each, assuming they don't break owt!

whitegoods_engineer

Reading the op's post, why wouldn't somebody tip for a job well done?

PenguinJim

whitegoods_engineer wrote: »

Reading the op's post, why wouldn't somebody tip for a job well done?

Because you've already paid them for a job well done? Generally speaking, tipping is on the decline. It was discussed in great detail a few weeks ago here. Since then the BBC had an article about tipping being on the way out in France. And, of course, in some locations tipping is discouraged and considered insulting.

Oddly enough, I think tipping is illogical, an outdated tradition, an absolutely stupid thing to do and completely unfair on everybody as some sectors have employees who are paid lower wages as the employer assumes they will also get tips, while the other sectors have employees who do an equally good job but will never get a tip in their life.

But I still do it sometimes.

I would prefer to hire a van and move everything myself rather than spend money on removal people, personally, so I don't know if I'd ever be in a situation to tip a removal person myself. If they did it faster than we'd agreed in the contract and with everything unbroken, though, I imagine I would.

Dunree

Last time I moved, the guys done a brilliant job.

Even though I'd already paid the company, Diamond Removals in North London, I gave the guys £40-00 each.

I couldn't fault them. They worked their socks off

MadelinesMum

Did you guys pay a lot of money for your removals, then? The quotes I have been given are £1800+. I didn't take into account tipping as well. I'm a bit stuck as moving 200 miles away, on my own with 4 children.

TrixA

PenguinJim wrote: »

Because you've already paid them for a job well done? Generally speaking, tipping is on the decline. It was discussed in great detail a few weeks ago here. Since then the BBC had an article about tipping being on the way out in France. And, of course, in some locations tipping is discouraged and considered insulting.

Coming from a country where tipping is not done, I always struggle to get my head around tipping etiquette. It would never have occurred to me to tip moving men!