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 p.1 #13 · Tip Your Wedding Photographer!! | |
I've received I guess you can say a "tip" in any trade I work in. I'm a photographer, was a painter and "handy man" prior. The "tip" would be, say your bill was 395.37 after tax. You gave me 400 and said keep it. Not a big bonus, but a nice way for you to say an extra thanks (though not needed).
I tip my wait staff based upon service. If you've got a problem with that, get a different job. Don't like my opinion? Don't read it. That's how I feel about it. If you're too busy texting on your blackberry to refill my water, then I'm going to be too busy doing something other than tipping you.
I'm not looking for "yes master, right away master". I'm just looking for a couple times during my meal, just glance over. If my drink is low, make a mental note to give me a refill this lifetime. Or, if I order something, say boneless wings from Applebees on Saturday (this actually just happened). Don't have a different waiter/ress THROW them on my table as she's walking by, and go "boneless wings" SLAM!
Or what about when you're out at a resturant, and a hostess seats you, one lady takes your drink order, a guy brings your food, a different person refills your drinks, and a person brings your check? Who gets the tip?
The tipping in America is a joke. I see facebook statuses of people who are waiters/resses thinking that it's a damn entitlement. No, it's not anything. A tip is for exceptional service. It's for being a pleasing server, or at the very minimum, someone who isn't a problem.
My wife nurses my son. In PA the law is, you can nurse without a cover and it's okay. My wife brings a cover anyway. It's just like wearing clothes. Well, this last Saturday at Applebees, everything was fine, until my wife started to nurse my son. The waitress was pointing and gawking, while speaking with other customers. The wait staff avoided us for the rest of our meal. I received no refills on my water, until my check was brought out.
That waitress probably felt she deserved a tip.
I know, the employer gives you a shitty wage because you get tips. I also know that about all of the people who receive tips, do not claim them on their taxes. So in town, we've got wait staff, who only claim electronic tips, and qualify for cash assistant and welfare. So they get tax free money, they get my tip money, my tax dollars, and a wage...
I've only ever walked away from a table 2 times and didn't tip. Even if I've just gotten coffee and said keep the change, only 2 times was my service so appaling that I didn't tip. (the applebees incident above wasn't one of them).
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