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Today the super asked my husband why we were the only people in the building who had not given him a holiday tip. I don't know what excuse my husband gave, but I am really upset at the super. A holiday tip is voluntary as far as I understand and is given because one has received good service. Well, this man is not nice and friendly and has not given us good service. Case in point: After we signed the lease, my husband came over to the apartment and found that there were 5 holes in the door because someone had removed the deadbolt. Neither one of us recalls seeing this when we looked at the place (and they are VERY obvious holes), so we assume the super took the lock (since the place was vacant already when we looked at it, so the previous tenants couldn't have taken it). He asked the super to either fix the holes or install a new lock. The super refused and said that my husband would have to pay him $150 to install a new lock. My husband then contacted the landlord and the landlord ended up putting him in a 3 way call with the super's son who screamed at my husband to never call the landlord again. Oh, and they still refused to do anything about the holes, telling us to stuff them with paper if they bothered us. Finally I just went and got a lock and planned to installed it. I called the super to see if I could borrow a screwdriver since our household goods were still in transit. He refused and said it was our business and not his. I had to go buy a screwdriver and finally got the stupid lock installed. So, obviously I have a bitter taste in my mouth from that incident and don't feel that the super deserves anything at all. Add to it that the man can barely say a "good morning" when he sees us (and I always say good morning to him when I see him..) and you can possibly see my point. AND now the guy is begging for a tip?! Come on! We've only had him fix a couple of things in the apartment and at that time my husband gave him a tip. I don't know, but are we being rude by not tipping the guy. We don't plan to renew the lease in October so it's not like I'm looking for him to give us lots of good service in the future.
Welcome to New York City. Supers always expect tips. And they have ways of getting revenge if they don't receive one.
I hate that stupid static "Welcome to New York City". It's a lame excuse for every unbelievable and rude behaviour out there. Doesn't matter what anyone does, it's always "welcome to New York City". Just because it's NYC, it doesn't mean that people have a license to be horrible people.
I hate that stupid static "Welcome to New York City". It's a lame excuse for every unbelievable and rude behaviour out there. Doesn't matter what anyone does, it's always "welcome to New York City". Just because it's NYC, it doesn't mean that people have a license to be horrible people.
Certain things hold true for certain areas. If you are in South Carolina you can expect waves from people on the porch as you drive by their homes (doesn't matter if you know them or not.)
In south florida you can count on extremely rude and obnoxious people.
In NYC you can expect...you get the point.
Certain things just come with the territory. At least you don't have your super's kids breaking into your home and stealing stuff (that happened to a friend of mine, in Brooklyn)
why not tip a cop when he comes to break up the domestic fight from the neighbor next door
why not tip your post worker when they deliver your new laptop
why not tip the customer service rep who goes beyodn the call of duty
why not tip your dentist who cleans your teeth
why not tip your pastor who listens to you b.s. stories
why not tip the teacher who taught your kids trigonometry
why not tip the train conductor who takes you to work everyday
why not tip the mta bus driver
why not tip the fire fighters who put out the blazes
tell the super to SHOVE IT. i remember you saying something about the super not responding to your greeting him. that's just rude and he has the nerve to ask you for a tip. what's he gonna do? shake you down?
Rude/lazy supers make me mad. I did tip my super for the holidays- he knows me quite well - and he never bothered to thank me even though he's seen me numerous times since I left the card under his door. Maybe he's making a point that my tip ($40 - this is in Queens) was so insignificant it did not warrant his acknowledgment?
In your super's defense (not about the tipping but about the screwdriver): if I were a super, I would never ever lend any tool out to anyone. It's hard enough to get tools/books/cameras etc. back from my good friends - I can just imagine how hard it is to get a screwdriver back from a tenant.
Though -if he hadn't been such a jerk in the first place, you would not have needed it!!
I actually didn't leave a tip this year and feel a little bit guilty about it because the Super is pretty decent at my place. He's a big FOB though (can't speak more than a dozen words of English) so I'm hoping that he hasn't come to expect a tip just yet.
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Finally I just went and got a lock and planned to installed it. I called the super to see if I could borrow a screwdriver since our household goods were still in transit. He refused and said it was our business and not his. I had to go buy a screwdriver and finally got the stupid lock installed. So, obviously I have a bitter taste in my mouth from that incident and don't feel that the super deserves anything at all. Add to it that the man can barely say a "good morning" when he sees us (and I always say good morning to him when I see him..) and you can possibly see my point. AND now the guy is begging for a tip?! Come on! We've only had him fix a couple of things in the apartment and at that time my husband gave him a tip. I don't know, but are we being rude by not tipping the guy. We don't plan to renew the lease in October so it's not like I'm looking for him to give us lots of good service in the future.
