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Also given by managers to staff and generally to people that help you in your day-to-day life.

by ximeng 5y ago

mikepurvis 5y ago
Cool! I wonder if it’s maybe an analog to westerners giving extra big tips at the holiday season to their hairdresser, barista, cleaning lady, etc
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  Is that a Western thing? I know they do it in South Africa (along with a "13th month" of pay), and I'm assuming the US too. Outside of those two, I don't really know of any other Western cultures where tipping is much of a thing at all - let alone big tips at the end of the year.
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    In Britain some people (used to?) give small tips to the paper boy, postman, milkman and dustmen at Christmas. Maybe nowadays this is the Amazon and Deliveroo zero-hours-contract drivers. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2524513/End-Christmas-tipping-More-half-dont-postmen-binmen-milkmen.html https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2524513/En...
    - AussieWog93 5y ago
      Interesting, thanks for that. Maybe Aussies are the odd ones out in this regard...
    - denton-scratch 5y ago
      > dustmen The "sanitary operatives" in the UK used to ring your doorbell in the run-up to Christmas, more-or-less demanding a tip. If you didn't tip, then you risked having your Christmas rubbish languishing for a couple of weeks, or even strewed over your garden path. Happily, that practice is now ILLEGAL.
  - denton-scratch 5y ago
    > I don't really know of any other Western cultures where tipping is much of a thing at all When my dad sent me to the barbers for a haircut, he gave me a coin to tip the barber. I think the idea was that the barber might remember me (9 year-old kid)! I don't have much hair now, so I don't have to tip barbers. But I tip taxi-drivers, evern though I know I'll probably never see them again, and if I do, they csrtainly won't remember me. I tip waiters, because I believe they depend on tips to get decent pay. I hate it that this is necessary. I also HATE that tips for waiters go into the tip-jar, and are shared by kitchen staff and management. People should get proper pay. How hard is that to understand?

Also given by managers to staff and generally to people that help you in your day-to-day life.

by ximeng 5y ago

Also given by managers to staff and generally to people that help you in your day-to-day life.

Cool! I wonder if it’s maybe an analog to westerners giving extra big tips at the holiday season to their hairdresser, barista, cleaning lady, etc

AussieWog93 5y ago
Is that a Western thing? I know they do it in South Africa (along with a "13th month" of pay), and I'm assuming the US too. Outside of those two, I don't really know of any other Western cultures where tipping is much of a thing at all - let alone big tips at the end of the year.
- Symbiote 5y ago
  In Britain some people (used to?) give small tips to the paper boy, postman, milkman and dustmen at Christmas. Maybe nowadays this is the Amazon and Deliveroo zero-hours-contract drivers. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2524513/End-Christmas-tipping-More-half-dont-postmen-binmen-milkmen.html https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2524513/En...
  - AussieWog93 5y ago
    Interesting, thanks for that. Maybe Aussies are the odd ones out in this regard...
  - denton-scratch 5y ago
    > dustmen The "sanitary operatives" in the UK used to ring your doorbell in the run-up to Christmas, more-or-less demanding a tip. If you didn't tip, then you risked having your Christmas rubbish languishing for a couple of weeks, or even strewed over your garden path. Happily, that practice is now ILLEGAL.
- denton-scratch 5y ago
  > I don't really know of any other Western cultures where tipping is much of a thing at all When my dad sent me to the barbers for a haircut, he gave me a coin to tip the barber. I think the idea was that the barber might remember me (9 year-old kid)! I don't have much hair now, so I don't have to tip barbers. But I tip taxi-drivers, evern though I know I'll probably never see them again, and if I do, they csrtainly won't remember me. I tip waiters, because I believe they depend on tips to get decent pay. I hate it that this is necessary. I also HATE that tips for waiters go into the tip-jar, and are shared by kitchen staff and management. People should get proper pay. How hard is that to understand?