I hate tip jars! (deal, purchase, service, cents)

[nat_at772]

Originally Posted by Raven1976

I will tip certain people for services, but lately I see tip jars EVERYWHERE. I mean at Dunkin Donuts, Pizzerias, corner stores, gas station marts, and just about everywhere I go. I never put tips in there. Everyone one wants a damn tip for doing their job. If I tipped at every store I saw them I'd be spending a ton more money.

The only people I tip on a regular basis are waiters and at the hair salon.
Other than that I don't think you deserve a tip just for handing me a doughnut or a cup of coffee.

Do you buy into all these tip jars?

I have a tip jar in my car. I rarely use cash anymore because my credit card has a decent reward program but if I do I throw my change right in my cup and then when it gets full I take it to the machine and cash it out.

[NCyank]

Originally Posted by natalayjones

I have a tip jar in my car. I rarely use cash anymore because my credit card has a decent reward program but if I do I throw my change right in my cup and then when it gets full I take it to the machine and cash it out.

I really hate to ask...
Just what do you do to earn tips, IN YOUR CAR???

[nat_at772]

Originally Posted by NCyank

I really hate to ask...
Just what do you do to earn tips, IN YOUR CAR???

LOL I meant when i'm buying something. If I go through a drive-thru or some place where I use cash I throw it in the cup in my car. I used to keep it in my house but I found that the change somehow never made it in the house

[Oberleutnant]

I ignore tip jars. Also funny is how some places like restaurants where you prepay allow you to tip before having any kind of service rendered. I just write zero on the tip line and I may leave a cash tip if appropriate after having my meal.

[nan5623]

Tip jars are annoying. If I get great service from someone, I'd rather give THEM the tip directly. Why should they have to "share" with someone that might not be giving great service?

[Creek Hollow]

I do find tip jars offensive.

Especially so when I frequent someplace just a few minutes after they open and there's already a healthy number of bills and coins in the jar.

They're an attempt at pressuring the customer, both by their presence and socially if another customer uses it.

I have called and written management several times complaining about them. In one small non-chain food establishment it was removed.

Making up the shortfall between an underpaid employee and a decent wage is NOT my burden.

Restaurants have manipulated tips into an art form, allowing them to remunerate substandard wages and turn tipping into a de facto standard.

[GreenScoutII]

Originally Posted by Creek Hollow

I do find tip jars offensive.

Especially so when I frequent someplace just a few minutes after they open and there's already a healthy number of bills and coins in the jar.

They're an attempt at pressuring the customer, both by their presence and socially if another customer uses it.

I have called and written management several times complaining about them. In one small non-chain food establishment it was removed.

Making up the shortfall between an underpaid employee and a decent wage is NOT my burden.

Restaurants have manipulated tips into an art form, allowing them to remunerate substandard wages and turn tipping into a de facto standard.

I agree with what you said. I have no problem tipping for good service, but consider this: Is tipping a form of welfare for employers?

I know tipping is a long standing tradition but when did it start to spread beyond the traditional occupations who recieve tips?

[marmac]

tip jars--------years back a friend of mine was going to college and had a weekend job with a catering company.

As they set up for a catered company picnic, the guy in charge showed them a trick he mastered.
At the end of the serving line he set a huge bowl marked " tips" and " primed it by putting $5 worth of quarters in the bottom.

My friend said these were rowdy factory workers with big appetites so the catering crew was kept busy.

When finally done, and clean up startred, they checked the tip bowl.

EMPTY !

IRS says you are taxed on tips.
The guy that " primed" the tip jar should file that he actually lost money on tips.

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by marmac

tip jars--------years back a friend of mine was going to college and had a weekend job with a catering company.

As they set up for a catered company picnic, the guy in charge showed them a trick he mastered.
At the end of the serving line he set a huge bowl marked " tips" and " primed it by putting $5 worth of quarters in the bottom.

My friend said these were rowdy factory workers with big appetites so the catering crew was kept busy.

When finally done, and clean up startred, they checked the tip bowl.

EMPTY !

Last year, i saw a customer give an interesting tip to the snippy Moderator cut: language removed cashier behind the counter. The customer threw an empty gum wrapper in the jar. I shouldn't have laughed, but i couldn't help it. It was funny.

[notfriedkasei]

I generally ignore tip jars, but it does depend. If I know that the person behind the counter does not make anything close to minimum wage, I definitely drop some money in. For example, I interned at a small summerstock theatre one summer, and part of my grunt work was making lattes and such for all the rich patrons. I made $125/week for 14-18 hour days, six days a week. If not for those tips, I would have had a really hard time making it that summer. I also tend to tip at farmers' markets (the food vendors, that is) because I know a lot of them rely heavily on summer market revenue and might go a long winter with little money. But starbucks? No way.