Christmas tips

luckat

How much do you tip the postman ("soot", as they call it in An Post slang) at Christmas. The binmen? The milkman?

johnnyrotten

Post service crap - No tip
Bin charges excessive - No tip
No Milkman.....

joejoem

It is now illegal for them to take tips, the binmen anyway.

johnnyrotten

It always was!

monkeyfudge

I usually tip the postman... but this year??? ah... I guess it's not his fault... I'll probably give him a tenner.... I do get a lot of large parcels delivered so I feel bad.

Angels

I'd never tip our postman cause he delivers our post to other people. So no thanks.

ronbyrne2005

it xmas everyday for those postmen,they get overtime for doing extra work during their 8 hour shift,my brother did xmas deliveries for an post and he would be finished in 3 hours and get paid for 8

tj-music.com

Nothing. Even if he would bring wrapped presents now it is still true that he is the bloke that delivers all the invoices to me all throughout the year and he always has this evil grin. :mad:

luckat

Wow! I didn't expect this kind of mean-mindedness from the newly rich of Celtic Tiger Ireland!

bullrunner

i dont get the whole tipping thing.

They get paid to do their job..so why should you give them a tip? If their boss is too mean to pay them a proper wage then why should you pay more to make up for it ?you are already paying for their wages in the price (this applys espec to restuarants)


as for the postmen...even if i did believe in tipping i wouldnt tip the f*ckers...i was off the other day and the postman had a parcel for me...instead of ringing the bell like a normal person to see if i was home he just put in the docket and i was forced to travel over 3 miles to the 'local' sorting depot....they couldnt just leave the parcel in the post office thats next to my aprt...useless f*ckrs

Siogfinsceal

cant understand why anyone would?? i never see the postman im always in work when he calls why woudl you tip someone just for doing their job? sides after all their kicking up im sure they be well rewarded by an post anyway

monkeyfudge

Ah... I feel that with all the stuff I order over the internet that I'm giving my postman a lot of extra work. That's why I feel the need to tip at Christmas. He's a pretty good postman, not one of those evil ones that some people seem to have.

Capt'n Midnight

Binmen -round our way they regularly missed collections , blaming it on parked cars blocking the truck, if they had told the residents committee the car reg you'd believe them. Collections were on Monday - so lots of bank holidays too. At one stage it was an 80% service. Oh and we now pay for the bins. /RANT

[insert joke about woman giving binmen a treat]

Postman - never seen him/them cos I have to go to work, but most of the eBay stuff gets delivered elsewhere and they are giving that post man a small pressie. They got on well with the previous postman till he retired

luckat

Maybe the postman would really remember your house if you gave him a small tip!

(And why should only *women* give binmen a treat, incidentally?)

I don't know. My postman comes by every day with mail - mostly bills, unfortunately - trudging along with his bike loaded down, in the rain and the wind and any kind of weather. Sure, he's paid to do it, but it's nice to acknowledge his work more personally too.

As for the binmen - well, I only put the bin out about once a month; it's not as filthy and horrible a job as it used to be before wheelie bins, when binmen had to heft heavy metal bins full of unbagged rubbish on their backs, running the risk of getting a syringe stick in the neck or having a rat run out in some cases. But it's still a hard enough job, and I value what they do for me.

Oral Slang

Binmen - we only put out our bin at most once a month & we use bin tags so I wouldn't tip them.

Milkman - don't have one

Postman - work all day, get most of my parcels delivered to my dads house as he's usually there during the day, so don't think I'd tip. If I was there everyday & saw the postman maybe I'd be guilted into giving something, but I'm at work during the day so there'd be no way I could tip him now..

Plus twice in the last month they dropped my parcels in with neighbours. Once with next door who moved last week, so if they do that again, I won't know the new neighbours & once with some random person down the road that I never saw before. Thankfully they were honest, but ffs...

godtabh

My mam used to allways tip the binmen cause if you didnt after Christmas they wouldnt take your tree. Thats not a problem now do.

They do provide a service but they get paid to provide that service so I dont see why people should get tipped. I dont get tips at christmas!

Sleepy

With the standard of service you get from An Post, the handy over-time, civil-servant pay scale and holiday benefits and (threats of) strikes every time they're asked to do some work I have to say I'm shocked anyone would even *think* of tipping a post man.

Pigman II

I'll tip him **** all. I keep having to make trips to the depot (about a mile away) up to pick up packages purely because they can never stick em thru the letterbox. Would be it so hard for them to just leave it with the neighbours or in my local post office (about 50 yards from my house) and then tell me to go there and get it? I'd be only too delighted.

I give the paperman a tip but the only tip I gave the milkman this year was 'piss off and get a new job' as he was usually too high on coke most of the time to do his deliveries. The eejit inheirited the business from his (very reliable) dad and seemed determined to piss it down the tubes from day1. In that respect I'm sure he'll be a roaring success.

I'd tip the regular bin men if I still could but not the oxygen green bin. Those ***** are having a laugh telling me to have the bins out by 7am. Do your rounds at a godly hour!!

Hagar

monkeyfudge wrote:

Ah... I feel that with all the stuff I order over the internet that I'm giving my postman a lot of extra work

Re-phrase that to "I'm keeping him in a job"

Blisterman

bullrunner wrote:

i dont get the whole tipping thing.

They get paid to do their job..so why should you give them a tip? If their boss is too mean to pay them a proper wage then why should you pay more to make up for it ?you are already paying for their wages in the price (this applys espec to restuarants)

Waiters are expected to make tips, so their wages are set low. If they were paid more, the prices would just go up.

Tha Gopher

Angels wrote:

I'd never tip our postman cause he delivers our post to other people. So no thanks.

Exactly. Always get the neighbours post. Even sometimes receive the post of the people in the same number house of the other streets that have a similiar street name to mine.

jaggeh

i dont beleive in tipping, you get paid a wage to do a job, if the wage is crap work somewhere else. If a restaraunt adds 'service charge' to a bill thats fine, but dont expect me to leave you extra cash.

something i hate about america is its 'tipping' culture.

luckat

Does everyone feel the same about Christmas bonuses? After all, you're paid a salary to do a job...

Siogfinsceal

i dont get a bonus so im very not impressed!!!!! ;-(

godtabh

luckat wrote:

Does everyone feel the same about Christmas bonuses? After all, you're paid a salary to do a job...

That’s from employer to employee. Big difference

Lump

My ma used to make the bin men a cake. TBH, a christmas bonus is an incentive to work harder. I don't get one at christmas, but hopwfully one in April, depending how the company does for the year. Hopwfully ours will be £600.

John

monkeyfudge

As a teacher I get lots gifts for just doing my job... it's great. And not just at christmas either... whenever a course finishes.

Although the amount of gifts primary school teachers get these days at christmas is massive... unless they're a total c*nt like my nephew's current teacher.

Lump

!!! Teachers can't say ****!

John

monkeyfudge

I only teach grown ups... so it's allowed.

luckat

Why do you think employer-to-employee is different from service-getter to service-provider, by the way?

godtabh

luckat wrote:

Why do you think employer-to-employee is different from service-getter to service-provider, by the way?

If you where paid both by your employer (i.e. a wage) and by the service getter (i.e. a tip) you essential getting paid twice.

The service getter pays your company for you carry out a service. Every one should one should do that service t o the best of their ability. Hence no need for a tip because the fee for the service should provide for the service to be carried out in the best possible way.

A bonus from an employer is a reward for the effort the employee has made in making the company profitable.

Hagar

What's a Christmas bonus?
I never get one no matter how hard I work.
I work for a right miserable bastard.
I suppose it's the down side of being self-employed.:D

boneless

luckat wrote:

Does everyone feel the same about Christmas bonuses? After all, you're paid a salary to do a job...

I'll probably take a ban for this, but I can't resist... here goes;

Whats the difference between your Christmas bonus and your p#nis?

The wife will blow your bonus...