Anonymous wrote:What does parvenus mean?

A parvenu is someone who is new money. Literally translated, it means "having gotten there".

Also, it really is bourgeois (masculine), and not bourgeoise (feminine).
It's true that guilt in French is feminine (!): la honte.
But translation does not require using the correct gender of the corresponding noun, and OP's phrase is more a facile expression than a literal description.
As in "that's too bourgeois", "c'est trop bourgeois".

Anonymous wrote:I live in Seattle and service people make minimum wage +.
I try REALLY hard not to tip at coffee stands as I noticed most people don't.
I don't tip when I pick up take out and unless we eat at high end restaurants, I tip 15%.

I tip 15% on the BEFORE 9.5% sales tax.

I live in Seattle and service people make minimum wage +.
I try REALLY hard not to tip at coffee stands as I noticed most people don't.
I don't tip when I pick up take out and unless we eat at high end restaurants, I tip 15%.

When my family travels, I have both kids give the shuttle driver (if s/he takes our bags on and off the bus) a dollar each. I notice most people try to get their own bag and the driver for the offsite parking garage doesn't get tips from them.

Wow. I don't use a LOT of services! Once a year I get a pedicure, and tip for that. I tip at restaurants. I never use a bellhop or whatever those airport guys are called. I never have groceries delivered or go to bars. I tip in taxis.

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Anonymous wrote:It's bourgeoise.

No it's not. It's bourgeois.

Actually in France we refer to it as bourgeoisie. Bourgeois is just a surname, meaning of the city, it is very common, like Smith or Jones is in the US. If you are trying to sort of insult someone, calling them new money and materialistic, its bourgeoisie.

Anonymous wrote:It's bourgeoise.

No it's not. It's bourgeois.

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If I'm guilty of being an overtipper, so be it. I've had all kinds of those service jobs - they suck

And that's the incentive to get a better job. The entire working populace is not entitled to fabulous pay.

Says the person who's never had a service job.

I get the previous poster's point about overtipping, and I have done it too. The way I figure, my overtipping and some people not/undertipping help to balance the scales. Its not like my 30% is going to make them a millionaire, and it is a negligible difference to me. That is my rationale. I only do this for good/exceptional service. Sometimes on a $20 check I tip $10 if the place is slow, service/food is good, they are young, etc.

I don't have a problem tipping most service people, but it is harder now that I never carry cash. It's an effort to remember cash to tip hotel housekeeping, which I do.

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If I'm guilty of being an overtipper, so be it. I've had all kinds of those service jobs - they suck

And that's the incentive to get a better job. The entire working populace is not entitled to fabulous pay.

No, but someone who is hardworking and responsible deserves a living wage, and lots of the workers we've mentioned don't get one from their employers.

You seem to look down on the people who do these jobs. Do you think they're not worth doing?

Then it should be on the EMPLOYER to provide it.

Yes, it should, and I am all for raising the minimum wage at the national level and for localities' passing minimum wage laws.

But while we wait for that to happen, I am going to do what I can as an individual to see that people who provide me a service have enough money to live on.

It's bourgeoise.

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If I'm guilty of being an overtipper, so be it. I've had all kinds of those service jobs - they suck

And that's the incentive to get a better job. The entire working populace is not entitled to fabulous pay.

No, but someone who is hardworking and responsible deserves a living wage, and lots of the workers we've mentioned don't get one from their employers.

You seem to look down on the people who do these jobs. Do you think they're not worth doing?

Then it should be on the EMPLOYER to provide it.

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Anonymous wrote:

If I'm guilty of being an overtipper, so be it. I've had all kinds of those service jobs - they suck

And that's the incentive to get a better job. The entire working populace is not entitled to fabulous pay.

No, but someone who is hardworking and responsible deserves a living wage, and lots of the workers we've mentioned don't get one from their employers.

You seem to look down on the people who do these jobs. Do you think they're not worth doing?

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If I'm guilty of being an overtipper, so be it. I've had all kinds of those service jobs - they suck

And that's the incentive to get a better job. The entire working populace is not entitled to fabulous pay.