maplelakeduckslayer wrote:I typically tip in that 20% range too...it's someone trying to make a living, they deal with a lot of idiots and as you said a couple extra bucks can really make their day.
It's not about money, I ain't rich. But a kid stopped to help me out when my truck stalled a couple weeks back, towed me about 200' to get me out of an intersection. All I had was a $100 and I gave it to him. Should have seen the look on his face it was lit up totally made his day. But he took the time to stop and help someone out, do a good deed. That deserves to be rewarded in my mind.
Bartending/Serving really does suck. I did it for the summer, liked it at first, hated it after four months and quit after stacking up enough cash to fukc around for a while. When I started I was working four nights a week, 4pm to close or getting cut....so like 25 to maybe 30 hours a week....it was fukcing perfect.
The problem is the "industry" if you want to call it that sucks. There's a ton of turnover and it's hard to find competent people, just like anywhere. By the end I was working six days a week, sixty to seventy hours, spending more time off the clock helping out with other shit, and the guy opening and closing the place down....counting and putting the money in the safe, locking up, and the only guy there the last hour or two before walking out.
You can make decent money but it sucks being people's bitch....that's what you are. You deal with a shitload of regulars that think they own the damn place and are raging alcoholics.....people are fukcing slobs.....leaving tables covered in shit....don't even push in their chairs before leaving. It's shitty work where you have to "be on" at all times. There's no such thing as a break. There were days where I worked 14-15 hours and literally the only time I was off my feet was when taking a shit....since I don't smoke or vape and didn't have a reason to go sit on the employee patio for fifteen minutes every couple hours.
My previous job was as a drain cleaner/sewer tech, where I had to carry a 250lbs machine in to people's basements, the cage with the cable was 130lbs or 170lbs if I needed the 150-footer....then you sit in someone's often shit filled basement and auger out their mainline clearing it of roots and toilet paper saturated in their shit.....your days....mainly nights consist of you constantly being wet and literally covered in other people's shit.....
.....and I found it to be much less degrading than bartending/serving.
Here's how I've always looked at tipping, even back prior to working in that industry for the first time in college.
If me and whatever chick I'm with at the time go out for dinner it's going to be fifty bucks between the entrees and drinks. I can leave five bucks for the bartender and/or server, spend $55, and look like a total cheap ass fukcing dbag.....or.....I can leave ten bucks, spend $60, and look like a fukcing awesome dude who the people that just spent at least the last hour waiting on me hand and foot view very positively.
That's makes that extra Lincoln I throw down about the best five dollars I could ever spend, in my opinion. I care that good, honest, hard-working people have a favorable opinion of me and don't view me as fukcing asshole. If all it takes to do that is spending $60 instead of $55....fukc it!?! I'm doing that every time. I'm already out the $55, why not make it $60 and be a good guy?
If you want to save money?
You do that by staying the fukc home and not going out. You don't do it by going out and stiffing on the tip because now you've got an "extra" $5 bucks after spending $55 you didn't need to....or an "extra" $10 after spending $110 you didn't need to....and so forth.
What goes around comes around. Kharma is real and it isn't supernatural. Good things happen to good people....and bad things happen to bad people. It's a pragmatic common sense view of how the world operates more than it is anything supernatural.