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06-19-2018, 04:15 PM #51
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06-19-2018, 04:18 PM #52
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06-19-2018, 04:21 PM #53
What do you guys think about laborers like landscapers? I figure they are busting their butts out there and $20 per person minimum per days seems called for, but I also wonder if it should be more.
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06-19-2018, 04:22 PM #54
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06-19-2018, 04:34 PM #55
As a former master of the landscape arts, tipping is pretty much non-existent. I would typically get maybe 20 bucks once a season for a yard cleanup from some sweet old lady. It was nice and all but certainly not expected by me, or any other landscaper I knew, or know now.
Now instead of 20 bucks, an ice cold drink on a hot day, and you made that landscapers week.Live Free or Die
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06-19-2018, 04:46 PM #56"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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06-19-2018, 04:51 PM #57Registered User
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I once, ONCE, didn't tip a taxi driver in Vegas. He went a long way to the airport and it pissed me off. I normally tip no matter what, and the ONE time i didn't.....he called me out on it and wouldn't unload my bags. Fuck him.
One of a million reasons Uber is doing well.
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06-19-2018, 05:16 PM #58
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06-19-2018, 05:58 PM #61Banned
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Our crew had a homeowner that baked us all sorts of awesome while we were building their new house(right next to old house, same property). It was winter and one particularly chilly morning(Montana chilly) she brought a Dutch oven full of elk sausage gravy and fresh baked biscuits! I don't ever expect anything as I make a decent wage but it's nice to know there's genuinely nice people around still.
And I usually tip well unless someone really fucks it up(ie service) and no sales tax here.
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06-19-2018, 08:35 PM #63"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-19-2018, 08:46 PM #64
"Why?" isn't relevant. There is nothing rational about tipping in the US.
https://www.motherjones.com/environm...araman-forked/
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06-19-2018, 08:56 PM #65Banned
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06-19-2018, 10:01 PM #66
That's the way I see it. And $4 is like almost half a pack of smokes.
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06-19-2018, 11:26 PM #67
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06-20-2018, 12:09 AM #69Registered User
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I had a cab in Vegas go so far out of the way once I ended up getting out at a traffic light. The short ride from the airport to the hotel turned into a 55 minute tour of the city where he went in both directions on I15 with over $75 on the meter so when the car finally got stuck at a light I took off. I got to listen to the guy tell me about how terrible the US was and how there was going to be an Arab revolution that was going to destroy the country starting with the Jews. It was pretty funny watching him get out with the door open and the car running and chase me. I also got a tour of Boston once going from Logan to Newton to a hotel for a family event where I saw the meter top $200. When it got to the hotel and he wouldn't pop the trunk until I paid I got out and walked straight inside to the desk and told them to call the police. It took over 2 hours to get there and he went around Fenway twice, like I wouldn't notice that. I had to have my dad and grandfather stand in front of the car so he wouldn't leave with my bags in the trunk. The cops finally got there and made him give me my bags then told me to go inside so I don't know what happened after that.
No I won't tip on take-out orders. I tip on pre-tax amount at restaurants, always have. If the service is decent it's at least 15%, if it's good 20% but if it's bad service 10% or less.
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06-20-2018, 01:27 AM #70
Sounds like you are pretty much set in Fairbanks. Only other thing I can think of is to send out an email to the listserve and see if you can find someone that wants to go out. I understand on cross country skiing but I will say I'm usually more scared descending on a pair of cross country skis than I am on downhill.
I prefer Fairbanks over Anchorage because I think there is more to do and less crowded.
I was there for the 2004 fire season, at that point I had been living there since 2001 and just knew it would stop, but it did suck. I unfortunately left AK in 2007 with the intention of moving back. Life didn't work out that way. I miss AK, but I live next to family now and that has made up for it. No idea if I will ever live there again. If I had been living up there would have already invited you to go out. After seeing some of your trip reports would have loved to tour with you.The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
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06-20-2018, 08:56 AM #71
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06-20-2018, 09:39 AM #72Registered User
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06-20-2018, 09:45 AM #73Registered User
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What isn't clearly pointed out is your boss is actually stiffing their workers, and his/her customers have to choose to make up for it depending on how the service is. As a former Pickle barrel employee, I never expected tips making dumb sandwiches for pick-up. I was appreciative, but not necessary. That said, I still always tip restaurant workers. Even $1 dollar on a pick-up is not that hard to do.
I will say if it's a large take-out, like for 10 people, that's a bit different as it makes everything super stressful to do that order and all the others for people in line, and it's worthy of a tip.
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06-20-2018, 01:52 PM #74
Kid worked at a Sonic Drive In. Because their employees deliver food to the car, they claim they are in the restaurant business, and therefore only have to pay their "servers" server wages i.e. $2.13 an hour. No one knows to tip the "server" at a fast food joint. But they will give you an extra $1.00 if you deliver the food on roller skates or blades.
In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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06-20-2018, 01:56 PM #75
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