S/O: Tipping makes me feel great! Tell your stories.

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Anonymous wrote:I tip generously too, OP. Before a trip, DH and I build up a stash of singles, fives and tens for tipping. It makes the trip more enjoyable to spread goodwill through verbal AND monetary thanks.

I just started doing this too. I keep an envelope and any time I have cash under a $20, I put it in it. Then I have on hand cash for tipping on trips and it feels so effortless and like I can easily express appreciation. Before that I would be scrambling and end up doing something like giving a $20 to housekeeping at the end of 4 day trip with a note that it was for our full stay because I didn't have adequate cash on hand.

This is me, too.

Also, on the two months a year I get my “extra paycheck,” I take out a few hundred on cash. Boom, tip money and teacher gifts, no sweat.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel great when everyone is paid a living wage.

I was about to say this. No one else find this post super icky and self-congratulatory?

OP here. You know what I, personally, can't do? Guarantee everyone a living wage.

Here's what I CAN do:
1) Vote in ways I feel is consistent with my social values.
2) Advocate for policies I feel are consistent with my social values.
3) Create jobs in my organization (CHECK)
4) Tip well when and where I can
5) Start feel-good threads

I've done good in the ways that I have the capacity to do good today. Have you?

Omg you’re insufferable.

No, she or he is quite entirely correct.

If you do not want to tip, eat at home, do not stay at hotels, and carry your own luggage. Saying that people should be paid a living wage and thus you’re off the hook is too often a cover for contempt for “menial” workers.

You are missing the lint. I think nearly everyone tips at sit down restaurants with waiters. I also think most people tip bellman, taxis, hairdressers and other people where tipping is generally understood to be part of accepting the service. Most people don’t tip housekeeping in a hotel. It is not generally accepted that that industry requires a tip of you use them. Im sure I encounter thousands of people annually who do something to help my life and they are making $10-$11 an hour and I don’t tip them. I can’t tip everyone and neither can you. It doesn’t make me a bad person or you a good one because you tip maids. You can’t give to every beggar, every gofundme, every sob story, etc. that’s fine that you tip maids but to have a thread like this is kinda sad.

Show me exactly where anyone has suggested on this thread that you need to tip EVERYONE who makes a low wage, or EVERYONE is helpful to you.

I'll wait.

Oh, but no one has said that! People are sharing nice stories of giving or receiving a tip. Point blank period. This is not meant to be a "tip everyone or else you are a bad person" thread. So your "points" are completely moot, because you're arguing against statements that were never made. Sorry!

Someone above said, “If you don’t want to tip, don’t stay at hotels.” I was responding to that. I am not tipping housekeeping at hotels. If you do, great. You’re not better than a non-tipper but you sure like to be self-congratulatory.

You don't tip housekeeping at all when you stay at hotels?

Correct. Neither do most people. Put your peepers back in your head.

NP. Im not a big tipper but you are wrong. Most people do tip housekeeping.

It’s only 30% (look it up). That’s not most (or customary).

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Anonymous wrote:I read that not many people tip Uber or Lyft drivers because the reason they use the service is to get from point A to B at the lowest cost. Since they don't pay the drivers on the spot no harm, no foul for not tipping. I had a 33 mile ride today that only cost me $46 and I tipped him 25%. It's still cheaper than a taxi or car service and the driver keeps 100% of the tip. I'm sure he was surprised and that's good.

One of my adult children drove for Uber for awhile and the other drove for Lyft for awhile. They both told me (when asked) that I should tip the drivers, typically about $5, which I do except I don't use either one very often. (My kids drove in other areas, not near me.) Neither of them drive for them anymore because it is hard, often frustrating work that is good in a pinch for extra income but ultimately they both quit as soon as they could afford to. I really feel for anyone trying to make a full-time job out of it.

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A former employee of mine did it full time and made $82000 (his share only - which was verified by Uber). He stopped only because he finished his degree