Tipping
For 7 years I worked in a number of high street opticians. I hated my job but I am conscientious and always did it to the best of my ability. Often this meant spending up to an hour pandering to customers. I would phone up other stores to chase down a frame in the exact colour they wanted. I would do some very complicated maths to ensure that I ordered the blank that meant that they would get the thinnest lens possible.
I have been sworn at, apprehended shop lifters and worked a whole day without a break. All this for little above minimum wage.

And did I ever get tipped? DID I FUCK! Oh no if I had brought someone their fucking dinner I would have got a couple of quid, but for some reason what I did was different.
I have waited on tables before now and I know it is a cunt of a job however I only tip because society tell me I should.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:19, 1 reply)

and you would have been paid considerably more than a waitress.
it's proclamation No 1 on the non-tippers charter 'i don't get a tip in my job'

BTW congrats on the TWO mail out mentions
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:26, closed)

That'll be three
I don't think that £6 an hour was that much more than a waitress. That was two years ago.

*btw* when I asked for a pay rise to be in line with the current cost of inflation I was told that to give cost of living pay rises didn't happen in other companies.

*edit* just looked up the minimum wage for when I left £5.42, therefore I was only being paid 58p an hour more. Not considerable in my book.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:28, closed)

so would you use that to justify
tossing 65p at some poor indian bloke who lives in UTTER squalor 6 to a room in Deira (a slum where 11 men were killed in a house fire last month in an illegally partitioned flat - the landlord had split it vertically AND HORIZONTALLY)

so a table of 8 buffoons spending hundreds of pounds on a 2 hour meal where this poor fella has been running around like an idiot...

65p of a tip was fine then?

or in fact too much?
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:41, closed)

I do tip
What I have issue with is that it seems OK to tip for some jobs and not for others.
Also I doubt that anyone in the UK waiting on tables is living in such poverty.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:44, closed)

i agree
(it seems OK to tip for some jobs and not for others)

but until such times as the situation changes these people still need the tips

and so long as its not forced - like the merkin way (above) then i reserve the right to tip well and slag off the tightwads (remember it is tightwads were talking here - the sort who on a split bill refuse to chuck in an extra pound for a three course meal being brought to them)

!
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:48, closed)