Tipping

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I ended up tipping an uber driver $10 on like an $8 ride before I implemented my small bill stack.

Tipped one $5 on a more appropriate fare Friday when I was frazzled leaving my house for the airport and forgot the stack.

[Skipper44]

Having overseen a bellstaff at a resort, one thing that drove me nuts was people accepting an optional service and not tipping for it.  We did bell service and free optional valet.  If you don't want to tip, park yourself and get your own bags.  If you would rather have help, tip.  Granted, we paid our staff well above minimum wage too.  It was amazing how well tips motivated what turned out to be the best employees.  Usually if I was training someone, I could pull in an average of $10 a guest.

as others have said, not having cash turns this "free" valet into a total nightmare - you can't just drop a $20 on the first guy like at a crowded bar because there are too many guys and they don't tip share (?)

on a related note, if you are paying a resort fee that includes the valet or just paying the for valet service because just parking is $20/day anyways should I still feel like I need to tip? 

[sys]

I never felt like I/the resort was lying and I have never had a guest express that they felt lied to.

i've never expressed that i felt lied to by any hotel i've ever stayed in either.  but i did feel like they were lying.

[Mrs. Gooch]

Yeah, if there is a valet fee you shouldn't have to tip the valet guy when they get/take your car.

[michigancat]

I ended up tipping an uber driver $10 on like an $8 ride before I implemented my small bill stack.

Tipped one $5 on a more appropriate fare Friday when I was frazzled leaving my house for the airport and forgot the stack.

Use lyft, you can tip in the app.

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I didn't tip the oread hotel valet guys, obvs.

[sys]

Yeah, if there is a valet fee you shouldn't have to tip the valet guy when they get/take your car.

so if the hotel charges you something, you think you don't need to tip.  but if the hotel doesn't charge a fee, you feel it is obligatory to tip.  in other words, you consider them interchangeable.  different ways of paying for a service.

[sys]

:whirlsandpoints@chicat:

[TownieCat]

I've never tipped an uber driver 

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I ended up tipping an uber driver $10 on like an $8 ride before I implemented my small bill stack.

Tipped one $5 on a more appropriate fare Friday when I was frazzled leaving my house for the airport and forgot the stack.

Use lyft, you can tip in the app.

I get 20% off uber, so I probably come out ahead using them even with the occasional tip snafu.

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I've never tipped an uber driver 

You need to meet one and have them show you your passenger rating.

[Mrs. Gooch]

Yeah, if there is a valet fee you shouldn't have to tip the valet guy when they get/take your car.

so if the hotel charges you something, you think you don't need to tip.  but if the hotel doesn't charge a fee, you feel it is obligatory to tip.  in other words, you consider them interchangeable.  different ways of paying for a service.

Well I don't really know how I feel about tipping if the valet is "free". But I know that if there is a specific charge for it then I already paid for it. What are the valet guys doing that is above and beyond the valet service that I am already paying for? Nothing is the answer.

Actually, I really hate the idea of tipping in non-restaurant settings so I just let Gooch do all the tipping and don't worry about how much he is tipping. It makes me less stressed out that way.

[star seed 7]

Every time I get ones when breaking a larger bill, I put a few in my console so I have something to tip Starbucks ppl with.

Do you tip any other drive thru people?

[ChiComCat]

I try to tip both sides of the valet equation but if I am lacking cash on the way in, the guy on my way out is going to get double.  In my mind they are sharing, whether it is true or not.  If I don't have cash on both ends, I'm putting a tip on my room.  If the hotel charges for valet, I may be tipping less than if they are not.

Tip story from that job that sys will enjoy: An Event Manager was putting on a wedding and the couple was doing a brunch the next day.  They wanted an OJ station and I believe the cost for OJ was something like $20 a gallon.  They didn't want to pay that (weird line to draw in the sand when you are having a $35k wedding) and complained a bunch to the manager.  The manager eventually put the price at $15 in an effort to accommodate them.  Their wedding weekend, they told her they had a tip for her.  Then in front of their family/friends they gave her a gallon of OJ. 

[CNS]

Every time I get ones when breaking a larger bill, I put a few in my console so I have something to tip Starbucks ppl with.

Do you tip any other drive thru people?

I don't use any other drive thrus.    

[Tobias]

nice try, lib.  smack thwarted.

[michigancat]

I don't know why OJ requires a "station" or that it would cost $20.

[sys]

Tip story from that job that sys will enjoy: An Event Manager was putting on a wedding and the couple was doing a brunch the next day.  They wanted an OJ station and I believe the cost for OJ was something like $20 a gallon.  They didn't want to pay that (weird line to draw in the sand when you are having a $35k wedding) and complained a bunch to the manager.  The manager eventually put the price at $15 in an effort to accommodate them.  Their wedding weekend, they told her they had a tip for her.  Then in front of their family/friends they gave her a gallon of OJ.

i did not enjoy that story.  other than calling their insulting gesture a tip, i'm not sure how it relates to tipping at all.  "they" (the event manager?) sound like horrible people.

[ChiComCat]

I don't know why OJ requires a "station" or that it would cost $20.

This is what happens when you get married at an expensive destination - good luck Wacky.  It wasn't so much an OJ station as OJ at a beverage station.

[TownieCat]

I've never tipped an uber driver 

You need to meet one and have them show you your passenger rating.

I've only taken uber about 8 times and was under the impression tipping was not necessary. I am pretty liberal with my 5 star ratings tho.

[420seriouscat69]

I don't know why OJ requires a "station" or that it would cost $20.

This is what happens when you get married at an expensive destination - good luck Wacky.  It wasn't so much an OJ station as OJ at a beverage station.

[CNS]

You guys know that when you buy food at a restaurant you don't pay going market rate for it, right?

I mean, you can't take your Price Chopper adds into your fav red lobster and argue down the biscuits. 

[Tobias]

wacky definitely gambled himself into an OJ station last weekend

[star seed 7]

nice try, lib.  smack thwarted.

It was just a question, chill out loser

[Tobias]