tipping

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by rosieuk
Err I'm a married shop worker with kids, where do I get income support please
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Well my friends hubby worked a 40 hour week for a take home pay of 100 pounds.....and had 4 kids to look after......how supermarket owners get away with paying so low a wage I'll never know........that was a while ago now granted...but it was still just over five thousand a year.....full time.....in contrast my hubby was bring in 40k English pounds a year......

[Silver Dollar]

I'm not saying you have to tip but if people are saying that they advise "don't eat in a restaurant where you haven't previously tipped" I would say that if you were, for example, on holiday without a car and had to eat in the same few local restaurants you really wouldn't have a choice.

I agree with the woman above about being married and no income support. Income support isn't payable to low paid married couples and especially homeowners. Like America, you fall on hard times, you have to get on with it

[rosie]

Tell me about it chrizzy, Al works the same hours as me and earns more than 10 times what I do, oh well such is life.

I love my job and its paying for our villa so I've got no complaints

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by rosieuk
Tell me about it chrizzy, Al works the same hours as me and earns more than 10 times what I do, oh well such is life.

I love my job and its paying for our villa so I've got no complaints
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I like shop work.....I would help out my friend in her shop while she was starting up......a new age shop....I miss that....

[bellaepovera]

When I am in the Uk and I go out to eat, I tip all the time..I left £5 and it made me so happy to see the server smile back and give me a big thankyou! I did not even know that in the UK tipping is not a thing they use until I read this post. Believe it or not people working at McDonalds receive min. wage so are making more an hour then a server so that is why servers depend on tips. Working breakfast at Dennys on a real good morning and I mean running your buns off, and they clean their own tables most of the time can make the most $50-70 so if you call that pulling in the dough!! The good money is working banquets!!

[adh619]

well done bellaepovera.we do the same

[Floridalover]

I have discussed this thread at length with all my friends here (I'm in Minneapolis) and they think its funny that there are 6 pages of replies about tipping. They cannot understand why the Brits as awhole have such an issue with tipping. Last year, a friend of mine came over from Minnesota to England and I took him to the pub. He was tipping the barman and it was only after about 5 pints and exceptionally attentive service that I realised that he was buying 2 pints for a £5 and tipping the rest of the £10 note !!!

[fiona]

We DO tip in the UK. I personally do not know anyone who does not tip here. We might if we had bad service and appalling food leave either nothing or a very small tip, but we usually leave at least 10%. I tip taxis, porters, my hairdresser, the girl or boy who shampoos my hair, my cleaner & gardener at Christmas, our bin men, post man, milkman - this is something that has ALWAYS been done. So where is this "we don't tip here in the UK" come from?

10% has always been the agreed sum here in the UK, but we have been advised that it is 15% in the US, so that is what we leave. I don't begrudge paying it if we have had good service and a good meal. Far too many times the waiters are all over you until you are not ordering any more and then you are dropped like a hot potato for my liking, but we still leave the tip. We always tip a taxi here, porter, chambermaids etc. so what is the difference - we have had 6 pages of angst about 5%. As people keep saying - when in Rome etc.

[chrisj]

The only tip I give our bin men is 'This is how you pick up a rubbish bag'

[Silver Dollar]

It's not the concept of 'tipping' per se, that gets me. I see nothing wrong with showing that extra monetary appreciation for someone who has gone above and beyond the call of 'normal duty'. What I find very difficult to understand is why only certain sectors of workers are deemed totally suitable for tipping while the rest of us arent. I really don't see the difference in someone being either a low paid barmaid/hairdresser/waitress/checkout girl. To me they are all low paid. So why is it we think to pay a tip to a hairdresser for cutting our hair well when we have probably already paid them £100 for the priviledge anyway...which lets be fair is a normal price for standard hi-lights and a cut and blow dry. Out of that lets say products probably cost around £20 and the £80 residue is pure profit (and before people run to say well they have salon costs, let's assume for the sake of the argument they are mobile hairdressers and all it's cost them is £3 petrol to get to you!). But we wouldn't even contemplate tipping the person on the checkout who is billing and packing our shopping whilst still making polite chat and making a very poor wage. And why? Because we believe that is what she is PAID to do. I believe the same then should apply to all sectors in that case.