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To tip or not to tip?

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  • 15-02-2020 8:04pm
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    Sebastian Dangerfield
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    We had an oil delivery today, the driver mentioned he's delivered to our house a few times before.

    He filled the oil tank, gave me the receipt, then it got a bit awkward before I said goodbye and went inside. I found out after that the wife usually tips a fiver or tenner, so he was probably expecting the same from me -hence the awkwardness. Do people on here tip delivery drivers outside of food - e.g. Harvey Norman, Currys?

    Personally I tip restaurant staff, food deliveries, taxi drivers and at the barbers. Found out today the wife tips just about every service provider who calls to the door. Whats the accepted etiquette for say a furniture delivery, or someone servicing the boiler?

    I had no idea we had so much disposable income to be giving away!


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    Jim_Hodge
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    I've never heard of tipping the oil delivery man.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tell your wife she has to reel it in a bit, she make the rest of us look bad.


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    Perhaps a tip/price of a pint if it was pissing down heavy rain at the time, otherwise no, it wouldn't be expected.


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    kwestfan08
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭kwestfan08


    At Christmas I might tip an oil man but never just during the year


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    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,082 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Here is a tip for you OP...have a word with your wife.
    She cant be tipping everyone who calls to the door!


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    biko wrote: »
    Tell your wife she has to reel it in a bit, she make the rest of us look bad.

    I mention the boiler service, cos I just found out he got a 20! Mad stuff


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    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Better her tipping him than him tipping her.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I tip for food delivery only. Not worried about my oil being spat in! ;)


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    Bob Harris wrote: »
    Better her tipping him than him tipping her.

    Id want more than 500 litres in the tank for that


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    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Barber/Hairdresser-yes
    Taxi driver if they aren’t racist-yes

    Everyone else-no.


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    coastwatch
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    Are you sure he hasn't been giving it a bit of a service with the deliveries.;)


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    mr_fegelien
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    You sure the delivery man wasnt tipped because he gave your wife a happy ending after the oil delivery...?


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    theguzman
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    Tipping is something I only do in America and then I do it sparingly.


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    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    theguzman wrote: »
    Tipping is something I only do in America and then I do it sparingly.

    We get robbed here anyway.


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    You sure the delivery man wasnt tipped because he gave your wife a happy ending after the oil delivery...?

    Well whatever he was waiting for today, he wasnt getting it off me!


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    theguzman
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    Cody montana wrote: »
    We get robbed here anyway.

    Waitors and Waitresses earn minimum so they are not that hard up anyway. I paid for a meal in restaurant in Dublin last week and the waitress presented me the cardreader with the screen to insert my tip open on it before, I added €2 and then paid it with my meal. I thought it was very cheeky effectively asking for a tip.


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    Max Moment
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭Max Moment


    Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »
    Well whatever he was waiting for today, he wasnt getting it off me!


    Probably wanted to show you his hose!🀣🀣🀣


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    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    I find a good hand shake and a sincere thank you is better than a tip for most people


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    Redneck Reject71
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    I tip anyone who does a service for me.Just to let them know I appreciate them.


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    Strumms
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    We are now turning into the fuçkin US, where we are going to be expected to tip everyone, part with even more of our cash having already paid for said product and service in one of the most expensive countries going. Because people want that self pat on the back from ..’oh wow I’m so great, so generous etc’....people in the service industry will be getting paid less because the employer believes it’s in keeping with tradition now that employee get 15% of their income from tips, the customers pay 15% over the asking price for said service and the businessman is making more by paying less...

    A kid waiting a table, yes, it’s an industry that’s relied on tips for centuries, taxi drivers too, but starting this US shît of basically anybody that holds a door for you, says hello or interacts with you over any transaction based situation? NO... the US can keep its culture, I’ll keep my money unless I choose to part with it.


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    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭Guffy


    My new philosophy has been if they charge for miwadi they can sing, otherwise no prob tipping waiting staff


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    Church on Tuesday
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    Is tipping Taxi drivers really a thing? :confused:

    I mean, I'm not tight or anything, but they are expensive enough as is...


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    Redneck Reject71
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    Is people now so tight as to show a little appreciation by tipping to someone who performs a service to them so they can continue to live a easier life as to not have to do it themselves? It's shameful how society has gone. Bash my post all you want but it doesn't change the fact of how entitled people have become.


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Is tipping Taxi drivers really a thing? :confused:

    I mean, I'm not tight or anything, but they are expensive enough as is...

    I tend to add a couple of quid or round up to the nearest fiver - if the fare is 22.60 Ill tell him to make it 25.


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    Edgarfrndly
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭Edgarfrndly


    Tipping is for the birds.

    Staff should be paid more if they rely on tips.


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    Abba987
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    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Is tipping Taxi drivers really a thing? :confused:

    I mean, I'm not tight or anything, but they are expensive enough as is...

    I dont understand that one either. I dont understand tipping anyone who you are already giving money directly to.
    Would tip waitressing staff and thats about it and not if they are brutal. Oh and my hairdresser.

    I certainly wouldnt be tipping oil delivery man. What about tesco, dhl, postman? Where does it end


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    Redneck Reject71 wrote: »
    Is people now so tight as to show a little appreciation by tipping to someone who performs a service to them so they can continue to live a easier life as to not have to do it themselves? It's shameful how society has gone. Bash my post all you want but it doesn't change the fact of how entitled people have become.

    Surely the person expecting to be paid for the same job by both their employer and the customer is the one thats entitled, no?

    I got quotes from 3 websites for the cheapest delivery. It would seem odd to then give them back the saving anyway - to me at least.

    Im not exactly flush myself, so to use your analogy Id be making their life easier at the expense of my own.

    Ive no problem with tipping where its the norm. The point of my post is I have no idea what the norm is anymore.


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    Pawwed Rig
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    Cody montana wrote: »
    Taxi driver if they aren’t racist-yes

    Why taxi drivers out of interest? Are they particularly hard up?


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    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    I’m trying to think of the people who come to the door and whether I tip - typically they’re self employed and I have negotiated a price ( gas boiler installation, servicing something, installing electrics, window cleaner) so no - in all these instances I don’t tip. If the price has to be raised because of something unexpected then I’ll typically agree it. Regarding cafes and restaurants I now round up a bit if its a meal but don’t give 10% - if its e22 I’ll give e25 etc - I never tip for coffees - its expensive enough and its not America where they are not paid a wage. In a restaurant or cafe If someone is clearly having a dreadful day or if everything has gone wrong despite their best efforts or if they are overwhelmed and clearly doing their hardest or someone is being cruel or they are overwhelmed and devestatingly understaffed then I will tip generously not just a few shillings.

    Can I just say: we had reason to have the firebrigade out and I rang to ask what was the norm to drop in to thank them - they said noone ever did. I couldn’t believe that for men who risk their lives and rush into burning buildings and go to nasty car wrecks that noone ever tips them. So I dropped in some boxes of chocolates and a card and you never saw grown man as happy! It’s the little things that make life nice. But this hand out and self entitlement and taximen ‘ not having chagre and sitting there for 10 minutes waiting for you to leave while they scrabble around pretending to look for your fiver change - forget it.


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    I was in a comedy club in NYC about 10 years ago. 2 rounds of drinks came to 37 dollars. I paid the bill with a hundred - 20 mins later no change had come back.
    Tracked down the server and asked where my change was. They got all smart and said something to the effect of "if you're mean enough to want change, you have to ask for it". 63 dollar tip on a 37 dollar bill!


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