Holiday Tipping

[Fallon]

<p>I tip pretty good when I get a delivery or go to a restaurant, but I feel I should give a little more around the holidays. Saturday I got my last haircut of the year at a barbershop I've been going to for about a year. Gave the guy $40 for a $15 haircut and he tried to give me a $20 back and I said, Happy Holidays and he thanked me.</p><p>Now I plan to give a little more at a restaurant I frequent the last time I go there before Christmas. I hear that people tip their mailman, but I don't know the guy or even if it's the same person on my route daily. Who do you guys give a little extra to around now? </p>

[RapistWit]

<p>Got my haircut yesterday and the idiot cut it&nbsp;lezbo short. So no, I did not feel the Christmas spirit in my heart. </p>

[FUNKMAN]

I&nbsp;got a haircut last week and won't see Wendy til after the new year. Only thing is i forgot about it and just gave her the usual 5. I hope to go back with a card and a 20. I have approx 6 family birthdays from end of Nov to end of Dec, it's alot to remember besides the holidays.

[ChrisTheCop]

I feel the same way about my mailman. I never see him. But if I get a delivery of a package bigger than a breadbox (and heavier) I usually throw the ups/fedex/usps guy a couple bucks.

[Gvac]

<p>I throw the mailman (actually she's a chick) 10 bucks even though she's the unfriendliest, most miserable bastard I've ever met in my life.&nbsp; I give the garbagemen 20.&nbsp; </p><p>And like Fallon said, I throw my barber a few extra bucks as well as the waitresses and bartenders at my favorite establishment. &nbsp;</p>

[PapaBear]

<p>We had the same mailman for about 25 years, and always tipped him. He's got a different route now, and the new person really sucked for about 4 months. Things are OK now, but I know we missed a lot of mail. I'm not sure what to do about tipping her.</p><p>I do get some nice tips when I deliver around Christmas. It's nice, because it helps make up for the drop in business we experience, in the two or three months after Christmas.</p>

[Marc with a c]

<p>i've never seen my mailman, i'm assuming he/she is like pantera and some sort of slacker, so they get nothing.</p><p>my issue is the doorpeople.&nbsp; i have like 12, what the fuck. i only like the ones that don't speak to me when i'm trying to do my laundry. can i penalize people for trying to be nice?&nbsp; i usually just give them $10 more then my roommate. i give the super some money as well.</p><p>that's all that's on my tip list.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>the garbage man is tough. i see alot of different faces so i feel i'm not getting the right guy. last year i gave a 20 to a guy i never saw before and i just wondered if they share it or the 'steady' guy would ever find out about it</p><p>i guess you can't worry about it too much and just give and forget about it</p>

[cougarjake13]

<p>i usually dont tip higher than normal unless i get good service</p><p>got a haircut last week and the chick actually cut my hair the way i wanted&nbsp;it and didnt seem to be in that hair stylist rush so i tipped her more than i ususally tip when i get a haircut</p><p>but otherwise i never see my mailman living in an apt building, we have a garbage dumpster on the grounds so i take my own garbage</p>

[Drunky McBetidont]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I throw the mailman (<strong>actually she's a chick</strong>) 10 bucks even though she's the <strong>unfriendliest</strong>, <strong>most miserable bastard I've ever met in my life</strong>.&nbsp; I give the garbagemen 20.&nbsp; </p><p>And like Fallon said, I throw my barber a few extra bucks as well as the waitresses and bartenders at my favorite establishment. &nbsp;</p><p>that is funny stuff.&nbsp; i nearly pissed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I like to give the garbagemen socks, i get em a six pack of those rugged work socks and the wife wraps em a puts a ribbon on.&nbsp; I usually toss in a six pack if they will take it.</p><p>I give the mailman a card with a $10 gift card.</p><p>I dont always have the same people doing the job week to week, but i figure&nbsp;kharma gets around.</p><p>I don't really have a &quot;regular&quot; bar or resturaunt now, back when i did i always tipped em before christmas.&nbsp; i dont have a regular barber either.&nbsp;</p>

[jax]

There was a bit of a learning curve when we left the city.&nbsp; We were used to tipping everyone.&nbsp; The first year in the burbs I actually mailed the lawn care company a tip in a holiday card.&nbsp; He phoned me to say it was the first time any of his customers ever sent a holiday gift.&nbsp; Now we just give $25 each for garbage, recyle guys and&nbsp;mail carrier.&nbsp; Extra $20 over regular tip for manicure and hair cut people.&nbsp; Teachers we participate in the class gift plus something extra from us.

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>I give my employees an extra weeks pay. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fuck the mailman. &nbsp;</p>

[reillyluck]

<p>My mailman is a big time pot head hippie.&nbsp; should i give him weed?</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by reillyluck on 12-11-06 @ 9:17 PM</span>

[angrymissy]

<p>Ok, my garbagemen RULE.&nbsp; They take EVERYTHING!&nbsp; In my old town they would leave shit like small furniture and you had to arrange a special pickup.&nbsp; I have not once gone outside and they've left something.</p><p>But how the fuck do I tip them?&nbsp; I never have seen them.&nbsp; I hear the truck go by and all, but what am I supposed to do, run out with an envelope when I see the truck?&nbsp; Do you tip each one, or give a card w/ cash for them to split?&nbsp; </p>

[jax]

<p>Our mail carrier&nbsp; gives us a Christmas card in an envelope&nbsp;that's addressed back to him.&nbsp; All I have to do is put one of our cards back in his envelope and stick a stamp on it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Easy peasy japanesey.&nbsp; I should sign it Brooks was here.</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p><strong>reillyluck</strong> wrote:</p><p>My mailman is a big time pot head hippie. should i give him weed?</p><span class="post_edited"></span><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sure, if you dont mind getting other people's mail for a week.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Bulldogcakes on 12-11-06 @ 9:21 PM</span>

[jax]

Missy, you tape the card to the inside of your gargabe can lid.&nbsp; I learned this the hard way year one when the recycling guys took their tip and the garbage guys too.&nbsp; Now I do them on separate days just to make sure.

[angrymissy]

Duh, I would have never thought of that.&nbsp; How much do you give the garbagemen anyway?&nbsp; $100?

[Fallon]

What about the asian people that search my garbage at 5am. I don't want them taking the gift.

[jax]

<p>My neighbor gives them like $250. but they have enought garbge twice a week for a small country.&nbsp; There could be bodies in there for all I know.&nbsp; Seriously, I have no idea where all their shit comes from.&nbsp; On the Holidays I just give 25 bucks and during the year if there is a day when I have a bunch of &nbsp;extra stuff I try and hang around hit them&nbsp;with a&nbsp;20. </p>

[fohat]

<p>Won't someone think of the Cows???<br /> </p><p><img src="http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l246/fohat/NoCowTipping.jpg" border="0" width="378" height="283" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[reillyluck]

i live in jersey city and have never tipped a garbage man. ive never heard of this. does this rule not apply to a city?

[jax]

Not everyone does, my one neighbor is way over the top and some others don't tip at all.&nbsp; Like I said for me there was a learning curve.&nbsp; I realised the recycling guys took the garbage guys tip year one because I forgot something and had to go back to the house and saw the card was gone but the trash was still there.&nbsp; I asked the garbage&nbsp;guys about it the next week and they&nbsp; told me about the inside the lid trick.

[angrymissy]

<p>I feel like I should tip them because since we moved in 6 months ago we've been thowing out a LOT of shit and buying new shit, and throwing out the packaging, etc, and they ALWAYS take everything.&nbsp; I'm also scared that if I don't tip them they will start leaving stuff at the curb like they are supposed to.</p><p>Plus they have to throw all of my nasty used cat litter into the truck so I think they deserve something.</p>

[ralphbxny]

<strong>reillyluck</strong> wrote:<br />i live in jersey city and have never tipped a garbage man. ive never heard of this. does this rule not apply to a city? <p>I grew up in NYC and never tipped a garbage man...id deliver your mail for weed tho.</p>

[UnknownPD]

<p><font size="2">I own my biz so here goes...at the office it's the Mailman 50 UPS guy 50 Garbage 25 each (there's 2) Window Cleaner 20 (He only charges 15 a month) Fedex 10 (He's a nosy c-sucker) Employees are bonused based on perfomance. The two high school kids get 35 Starbucks cards. I also by 50 Starbucks cards for the Admin's at my biggest client...thats 200...jesus it adds up.</font></p><p><font size="2">At home the only guy I tip is the super. The board wanted everyone to give the money to them and they would give it to him. Sounded like a plan for cheap f**cks to glom in so I just give him $150. for 150 I get all the service I need and i'm pretty sure he'd throw on the knee pads if asked. I wouldn't know my mailman if he bit me on the leg so zips there and as for the barber I tip him well all year long so, I usually top of the end of the year with some stoli...he's russian...figure he can regift it.</font></p><p><font size="2">Lastly a gift basket for the girl's at the dog's vet.</font></p><p><font size="2"></font></p>

[Reephdweller]

<strong>jax</strong> wrote:<br />Missy, you tape the card to the inside of your gargabe can lid.&nbsp; I learned this the hard way year one when the recycling guys took their tip and the garbage guys too.&nbsp; Now I do them on separate days just to make sure. <p>Sounds good and all though I've seen garbage men rip the lid off and toss it to the side to get to that garbagy goodness, that I'd fear they would rip the lid, the envelope would fall out and they'd get nothing hate me and some&nbsp;douche off the street would walk away with my tip money.</p>

[fohat]

<strong>Reefdweller</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>jax</strong> wrote:<br />Missy, you tape the card to the inside of your gargabe can lid. I learned this the hard way year one when the recycling guys took their tip and the garbage guys too. Now I do them on separate days just to make sure. <p>Sounds good and all though I've seen garbage men rip the lid off and toss it to the side to get to that garbagy goodness, that I'd fear they would rip the lid, the envelope would fall out and they'd get nothing hate me <span style="background-color: #ffcc99">and some douche off the street would walk away with my tip money.</span></p><p>Either that, or this guy will take it!</p><p><img src="http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l246/fohat/Oscar2.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</p>

[jax]

<p>I think they look out for it during December.&nbsp; The rest of the months it's frisbee lid.</p>

[jeffdwright2001]

<strong>angrymissy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Plus they have to throw all of my nasty used cat litter into the truck so I think they deserve something.</p><p>Do they make adult size litter boxes or did you have something custom made?</p>

[Don Stugots]

i hate my building.&nbsp; the doormen are not allowed to sign for deliveries since last summer when someone walked off with a package that was for someone esle.&nbsp; so, since then i get everything sent to my moms house in staten island, then drive out there to get it.&nbsp; sometimes a week later.&nbsp; so what should i tip them for?&nbsp; opening a door for me?&nbsp; they dont even do that, unless it christmas time.&nbsp; the super will be getting 50 bucks from me and his helpers 25 each.&nbsp; thats it.&nbsp;

[lleeder]

Should I tip the guy that pumps my gas? I go to the same place evryday for my work truck and today he was like &quot;Christmas time, tips now&quot;.

[ANC]

Resurrecting for 2009.

Who do you tip? Who don't ya tip?

Around the holidays I'll throw some extra cash for good service at a "Point of Sale" basis.

My garbage collectors left a piece of paper that said "Happy Holidays" with their names and mailing addresses in my mailbox. WTF? My taxes are fuckin' ridiculously high and they get a nice piece of the action.

Do you tip your garbage men?

[EddieMoscone]

I drop a $50 into the kitty at the deli next door to my job.

Burns me when I see singles in there...cheap ass fucking doctors. I work at a hospital and the deli is on the first floor of a building where 500 doctors and nurses live and right next to a huge hospital complex. Buck up!