Were you ever tipped at work?

freshpopcorn

When I did a little restaurant work some people would give you a few euro's. I also cleaned rooms for a period and some of the American guests used leave food/cake or money.(However this had to go into lost property if they weren't clear it was for you).
One of my friends worked in a very famous Irish hotel and all the staff's tips were pooled together and they used bring them on a lovely day out somewhere.(Well a lovely day to the manager)

Were you ever tipped at work?

bodice ripper

I tip and get tipped. I also scoff at some middle aged Irish guy who never worked in a service industry bitching that the waiter on a zero hour contract makes more than enough money.

banie01

Yep, quite often.

At one stage I was given a brand new HTC One M8 as a tip. Cost at the time was €599!
That was my biggest, and strangely received when I was long out of the hospitality game

When I worked in the Vintners game.
I did okay earning tips.
But as I was either a manager or an owner, never really partook in them.
They went into the pot for the staff to share (no cut for me).

Explosive_Cornflake

I thought I was going to hear some stories about getting a ride in the Jacks at work. :[

I don’t get tipped nor do I tip. Idiotic practice which should be consigned to the dust bin.

Sonny noggs

I got a EUR 5k bonus at Christmas last year, does that count?

Franz Von Peppercorn II

April Deafening Numerical wrote: »

I don’t get tipped nor do I tip. Idiotic practice which should be consigned to the dust bin.

You don’t get tipped because you work for the government. You don’t tip because you’re mean.

Rubberchikken

ive been tipped over - does that count:)

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Sonny noggs wrote: »

I got a EUR 5k bonus at Christmas last year, does that count?

Er, no.

Odhinn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When I did a little restaurant work some people would give you a few euro's. I also cleaned rooms for a period and some of the American guests used leave food/cake or money.(However this had to go into lost property if they weren't clear it was for you).
One of my friends worked in a very famous Irish hotel and all the staff's tips were pooled together and they used bring them on a lovely day out somewhere.(Well a lovely day to the manager)

Were you ever tipped at work?

We used get a sizeable christmas bonus. It could be over a months pay (pay was crap). The habit for people working there - obviously - was to fund christmas off the bonus. Company was bought over and in early october ditched the bonus. Our management said there was nothing they could do, but neglected to mention that they retained their bonuses.

Sonny noggs

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

Er, no.

Fair enough then, no, but I have never worked in the service industry.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

You don’t get tipped because you work for the government. You don’t tip because you’re mean.

Thought Nox was at the top of his game (according to himself of course) in the private sector & an aspiring landlord (for over a decade now I reckon).....The ultra long lunch breaks now make more sense.

Bobby Baccala

I'm a butcher and I get a couple of hundred in tips every Christmas, it's mostly the older crowd who give us tips it's nice to feel appreciated by your customers, we don't expect anything but get flooded with bottles of wine, boxes of chocolates and slabs of beer along with cards with money in them, scratch cards, tickets for the millionaire raffle

My mother is a post mistress and she gets the same thing every Christmas, mountains of chocolates and wine boxes of biscuits etc.

People are really very generous around Christmas and then I'd get a few tips around Easter as well which does be a pleasant surprise

hynesie08

Used to get a fair few when I worked in a large German supermarket chain. If it was Thursday and the special was something heavy that needed to be carried to the car, I knew my nights drinking would be pretty much covered.

Tipping others, yeah in a restaurant/for table service, if it's my local I just buy them a pint when they're off.....

Yourmama

freshpopcorn wrote:

Were you ever tipped at work?

Never. My wild guess is my customers aren't that satisfied after all ;-)

LimeFruitGum

I have always worked in office jobs; not the kind of places where a randomer could walk in and buy something. A customer did send me a nice book about his country when I worked in tech support though, that’s as close as it got.

Zorya

The day I was told I'd gotten my degree I was working in a bar in England. A sleazy place where the fat Italian manager was very handsy. Three different men gave me 60 quid each (which was the price of a bottle of Champagne) to congratulate me. One of them told me as he gave me my tip that he liked a girl with small hands because it would make his c0ck look big; it was a real dive that place. I took my £180 quid (worth about £500 nowadays) and when I finished my shift went straight to Victoria Station, and took the night train to Europe. I didn't have a change of clothes but I had my passport as I always carried it with me because of moving around and living in squats. I was 19. No mobile phones or anything like that those days. Didn't come back for several years.

cajonlardo

Had a really crap security job when I was desperate years ago.
Lad in a lovely big car wound down the window and gave me enough for a sandwich and can of coke for my lunch.
Thought it was a decent thing to do and once I got on my feet I've always tipped.
So yer man in the car that day kind deed is still going on

hairyslug

Back when I was a kid, working on the trolleys in Superquinn, on just over £2 an hour, someone gave me £50 to watch his car for 20 minutes.

Also got a £20 tip from a drunk when I was doing bar work, tried to give it back to him but he refused.

BrokenArrows

I've worked as a bartender and waiter in my college years. Never expected tips but occasionally received a "keep the change". Nothing to write home about.

When I eat out and the waiter has been exceptionally good I'll tip. If it's just bog standard service I probably won't.

Cedrus

I've never really understood tipping, it is like "I feel bad about the cost of this meal/drink/etc so I should pay more" but why not just demand that restaurants and bars pay a decent wage to start with? Long years ago I worked in a golf club bar and a coworker who knew the "milkers" would regularly dump me with the hard to please brigade, often incoherently drunk so that he could pump the sadass auld ones for tips.

Adyx

Work in the hospitality industry so have gotten plenty of tips over the years. Money can be crap in fairness. Although one summer I made enough in tips each week to pay my rent. I only do purchasing and accounts now so no tips but I'd get free samples and the occasional free bottle of whiskey from suppliers.

jay1988

Years ago I worked as a cleaner in Dublin Airport, one day a chap approached me to say he thought he had thrown his car park ticket in a bin I had just emptied, so I put gloves on went through the bin and found it.

The chap was delighted and tried to hand me a €10 tip, I had to tell him I couldn't accept it because if we were seen accepting cash tips we would be sacked on the spot, he couldn't believe it.

The next day I arrived into work to be told to go straight to the bosses office, I'm thinking 'uh-oh' what have i done wrong. Turns out the chap from the day before had emailed DAA to let them know what I had done for him and to let them know he'd received excellent service from me, I was promoted to supervisor off the back of this about a month later and have moved on to a management position in a different job since, so not a tip but that email was worth so much more to me than €10 in the long run.

average_runner

If the service is quality i will tip 10% the value of the bill.
Now these days it a cashless society so wouldn't have cash on me, so if i cant tip via the card there be no tip.

smurfjed

Yep, it's a cultural thing around here, not as regular as they used to be, but ranging from the average €250 to €15000.