Do you tip when picking up takeout?

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20 Feb 2008, 04:07 PM
FirstBlood

I think that Josh was saying that nobody tips the delivery guy and it sucks, not that he doesn't necessarily tip the delivery guy.
20 Feb 2008, 04:07 PM
Josh

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Originally Posted by burgundy

You all need to realize that there are probably a million Joshes in this country delivering your food, and when you stiff them, they know exactly where you live.

Which is exactly why I tip delivery guys.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

I don't care if you spent 20 years delivering pizza and you're jaded. Those guys have to pay for their insurance and gas man. I don't need to "know you" to understand that Pizza Hut or Li-Jungs China shop has you on the take your time shitty tipper list.

BLAH BLAH BLAH SHUT UP
20 Feb 2008, 04:07 PM
Othello Harrington

http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/s...e_Fratello.jpg

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

He's not saying he doesn't tip, he's saying they rarely get tipped and illustrating that he has personal experience in that area.
20 Feb 2008, 04:08 PM
Othello Harrington

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Originally Posted by Josh

Which is exactly why I tip delivery guys.
BLAH BLAH BLAH SHUT UP

I thought you said you never tipped delivery guys, my bad man.
20 Feb 2008, 04:08 PM
FirstBlood

lol@4 replies in a row clarifying for biff/burg.
20 Feb 2008, 04:09 PM
Scourge

I wonder if they understand yet.
20 Feb 2008, 04:11 PM
Shin Johnpv

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Originally Posted by burgundy

your plans never fall through, you are such a debutante

My friends are weird, they'll flake while we're making plans and then all of a sudden everyone actually shows up.
20 Feb 2008, 04:12 PM
Othello Harrington

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Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv

My friends are weird, they'll flake while we're making plans and then all of a sudden everyone actually shows up.

Never actually agree to go, it gives you an out if you have something better on your plate and if you do show up, it's cool.
20 Feb 2008, 04:18 PM
YellerDog

You just read a Toastmaster's guide within the last three weeks, didn't you?
20 Feb 2008, 04:19 PM
Othello Harrington

No, but 3 of them inhabit my office area.
20 Feb 2008, 05:45 PM
Josh

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bailey

I thought you said you never tipped delivery guys, my bad man.

Never said that.

ASS-U-notME
20 Feb 2008, 06:02 PM
YellerDog

He needs to read those Toastmasters guides he's got laying around. Poor form.
20 Feb 2008, 06:08 PM
burgundy

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Originally Posted by FirstBlood

lol@4 replies in a row clarifying for biff/burg.

Scourge isn't manning the replay booth right now so I'll do it myself.

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Originally Posted by burgundy

If you don't tip delivery guys for acceptable service, you are an asshole. This is non-negotiable. I would sooner stiff a server than a delivery guy.

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Originally Posted by what you assumed burgundy said

Josh, if you, Josh, don't tip delivery guys for acceptable service, Josh, you are an asshole. This is non-negotiable, Josh. I would sooner stiff a server than a delivery guy, unlike you, Josh, you fucking douchebag.
20 Feb 2008, 07:06 PM
Josh

What happened to your exclamation points? Those were pretty sweet.
20 Feb 2008, 07:15 PM
burgundy

They were fucking up my automatic logins.
20 Feb 2008, 07:21 PM
Josh

A small price to pay for being so exclamatory.
20 Feb 2008, 07:24 PM
burgundy

If you people behaved and didn't make me keep logging into the admin console then maybe they would still be around.
20 Feb 2008, 07:34 PM
FirstBlood

I knew that saying biff/burg instead of just biff was going to come back to bite me in the ass...
20 Feb 2008, 07:37 PM
burgundy

It happens to the best of you.
20 Feb 2008, 07:48 PM
Othello Harrington

And the worst
21 Feb 2008, 01:00 AM
StriderKyo

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Originally Posted by burgundy

*WARNING JAPAN REFERENCE*

In Japan, the idea of buying used women's panties from a vending machine does exist. I for one like this attitude because it frees used panties connaisseurs from rifling through the clothes hampers of their mothers and sisters.

Vending machines are so 1980s. These days everybody has a panty-using machine at home, just insert underwear and it secretes vaginal fluids. You can even get different scents - strawberry, vanilla, skank, etc.
21 Feb 2008, 04:42 AM
SpoDaddy

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Originally Posted by Gohron

It doesn't work like that at all. You can eliminate the tipping system and start paying servers $8/hr+ but then you can kiss good service good-bye when nearly every restaurant/chain in the country cuts its budget.

I don't want to eliminate tipping altogether, I want to eliminate mandatory tipping and employers paying less than minimum wage. If I get truly great service I leave a huge tip; if I get average or poor service I feel no obligation to leave any tip at all. I do anyway because it's the expectation and I don't want to be considered a cheap fuck or get my food spit in next time I eat there.
21 Feb 2008, 04:46 AM
bbobb

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Vending machines are so 1980s. These days everybody has a panty-using machine at home, just insert underwear and it secretes vaginal fluids. You can even get different scents - strawberry, vanilla, skank, etc.

I went with skank.
21 Feb 2008, 05:14 AM
Pineapple

do they have bubblegum? thats my favorite.
21 Feb 2008, 05:53 AM
StriderKyo

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Originally Posted by Rated RKO

do they have bubblegum? thats my favorite.

Yes, but only wasabi-shrimp flavour gum.
21 Feb 2008, 05:59 AM
Nash

During law school, I went the take-out route a lot, so I developed a little rule for myself. I never tipped on the first two visits. If I saw that they got my orders correct and the food was always well-packaged, I tipped on every successive visit. If the order was off or if the food was all over the place when I opened the box, I didn't tip at all.

It's always irking when you're starving and looking forward to a nice meal, but open up the take-out box to find that your order was fucked up, or the food is just thrown in there and slammed to one side. Some places are great about correct orders, so you just check your food real quick and get on out of there. Those places I end up tipping. Other places just don't give a damn, and you have to wait around for them to fix your order. Those places get nothing.
21 Feb 2008, 03:39 PM
Some Stupid Japanese Name

I've had a few buddies who were delivery drivers and thus got to hear all about how cheap people are. Based on that, I tip drivers very well. I refuse to order from places that charge you for delivery though. I used to assume that the extra buck or so went to the driver in order to make up for cheap fucks. Apparently that is not the case.
21 Feb 2008, 03:45 PM
Josh

It is not the case at all. Tipping your delivery driver is necessary. Its cheaper to give him a few bucks than it is to replace your mailbox, or get new windshield wipers for your car.
21 Feb 2008, 03:47 PM
Opaque

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Tipping is rude, in any way shape or form. Restaurants, taxis, barbers, everywhere, it's seen as an insult to tip here. They see it as you giving them money for just doing their job, or more for doing it well. The common thought here is you're paid to do your job, and you do it to the best of your ability, not to earn a tip.

If you tried to tip someone here they would not accept it.

That kind of sounds awesome.

I'd love to not have to think about tip when paying a bill.
21 Feb 2008, 04:10 PM
Some Stupid Japanese Name

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Originally Posted by Josh

It is not the case at all.

I know it's not. What makes it worse for the drivers is that I know people who won't tip at all if there is a delivery charge. Yes, they are cheap bastards, but they unknowingly believe that the driver is already taken care of.
21 Feb 2008, 05:01 PM
Grave

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

I know it's not. What makes it worse for the drivers is that I know people who won't tip at all if there is a delivery charge. Yes, they are cheap bastards, but they unknowingly believe that the driver is already taken care of.

I had to explain this to a girl yesterday and she eventually did end up tipping the guy. Poorly, probably, but at least she gave him something. She was griping about a $5 delivery charge and seemed to think it was okay to take her displeasure out on the driver. That shit drives me crazy.
21 Feb 2008, 06:19 PM
Granderoho

I do.

I figure that if a person is so much in the hole that they are stuck delivering fast food for a living that they deserve something extra.
21 Feb 2008, 06:25 PM
Scourge

Let me tell you, if you're not only too lazy to cook for yourself but also too lazy to get off your ass to go out to eat or pick up take out for yourself, and you're not tipping the delivery driver, then you're a complete ass.
21 Feb 2008, 06:26 PM
YellerDog

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Originally Posted by Granderoho

I figure that if a person is so much in the hole that they are stuck delivering fast food for a living that they deserve something extra.

REMEMBER KIDS! Part of tipping is reminding the person that you are better than they are!

IT'S LIKE FEEDING A CORN CHIP TO A SQUIRREL!
21 Feb 2008, 06:35 PM
Granderoho

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

REMEMBER KIDS! Part of tipping is reminding the person that you are better than they are!

IT'S LIKE FEEDING A CORN CHIP TO A SQUIRREL!

My best friends dad lost his left leg when he was in a car accident and his mom killed her self, him and his dad went through hard times because his dad couldn't do much. Now he delivers chinese food and makes shit wages. They lived in a trailer all through these hard times and can barely get by with his wages as a chinese food delivery driver.

Now my friend is going to a college for Software Engineering and is getting out of living in that shithole of a place that they have lived for a long time. Whenever I look at a Pizza guy or a chinese food delivery man I see my best friends dad trying to make enough to get by for him and his son.

flame on, you ignorant POS.
21 Feb 2008, 06:48 PM
SpoDaddy

Ends meat? Does that taste like chicken?
21 Feb 2008, 07:18 PM
YellerDog

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Originally Posted by Granderoho

My best friends dad lost his left leg when he was in a car accident and his mom killed her self, him and his dad went through hard times because his dad couldn't do much. Now he delivers chinese food and makes shit wages. They lived in a trailer all through these hard times and can barely get by with his wages as a chinese food delivery driver.

Now my friend is going to a college for Software Engineering and is getting out of living in that shithole of a place that they have lived for a long time. Whenever I look at a Pizza guy or a chinese food delivery man I see my best friends dad trying to make enough to get by for him and his son.

flame on, you ignorant POS.

Jesus, come out of left field much?

"I don't like these nachos."

"MY GRANDFATHER DIED IN THE WAR YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
21 Feb 2008, 07:19 PM
Pineapple

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Originally Posted by Granderoho

My best friends dad lost his left leg when he was in a car accident and his mom killed her self, him and his dad went through hard times because his dad couldn't do much. Now he delivers chinese food and makes shit wages. They lived in a trailer all through these hard times and can barely get by with his wages as a chinese food delivery driver.

I assume the dad does not drive stick.
21 Feb 2008, 07:24 PM
YellerDog

Oh shit.
21 Feb 2008, 07:28 PM
Granderoho

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Jesus, come out of left field much?

"I don't like these nachos."

"MY GRANDFATHER DIED IN THE WAR YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

Well I was futher explaining why I like to give money to delivery guys.
21 Feb 2008, 07:30 PM
YellerDog

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Well, that's great and all, just don't go accusing me of cutting your friend's dad's leg off or whatever.
21 Feb 2008, 07:37 PM
Granderoho

I didn't but in my original post I said that I thought that people that are stuck doing that as a living deserve to make a little extra.

Giving a cornchip to a squirrel is totally different than giving a person delivering food for a living a little money extra to get by. Also helping people out isn't telling them that your better than they are, it's enabling them to do better and help themselves out.
21 Feb 2008, 07:39 PM
YellerDog

:lol: Ever serve food at a country club?
21 Feb 2008, 07:56 PM
Granderoho

actually I have worked at a yatch club before.
21 Feb 2008, 07:58 PM
YellerDog

Then what the fuck's your problem? Besides "none at all"?

Condescending tips are basically the main thing in that arena.
29 Feb 2008, 10:57 PM
Tones

I would take a $20 condescending tip over a $5 appreciative tip any day. "Oh yes sir, I have 3 babies, and a dead hooker mother, live in a trailer, and have AIDS. Oh no sir, you don't have to tip me any more. My life isn't so bad. No... okay, why thank you."
02 Mar 2008, 03:36 AM
Othello Harrington

19 out of 79 people on TNL know how the world works. How sad :(
02 Mar 2008, 10:12 AM
Drewbacca

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Well, that's great and all, just don't go accusing me of cutting your friend's dad's leg off or whatever.

My friend has that woman's leg lamp.
02 Mar 2008, 05:34 PM
Andrew

This was actually a question on the Everyone Votes channel last week. The overwhelming answer was "no," which is also the correct answer. If I'm getting in my car and driving to the restaurant to pick up my food, why the hell would I tip? Would you also tip the cashier at the grocery store for ringing up your order?
02 Mar 2008, 06:15 PM
Klonoa

who the fuck tips while picking up take-out. what are you, retarded?
02 Mar 2008, 07:31 PM
Compass

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Originally Posted by squall_vb

This was actually a question on the Everyone Votes channel last week.

Was it really? The exact same question? Do you remember if it came up before or after I posted this thread?
02 Mar 2008, 07:39 PM
YellerDog

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Originally Posted by squall_vb

This was actually a question on the Everyone Votes channel last week. The overwhelming answer was "no," which is also the correct answer. If I'm getting in my car and driving to the restaurant to pick up my food, why the hell would I tip? Would you also tip the cashier at the grocery store for ringing up your order?

Here, buy yourself something nice.
03 Mar 2008, 12:34 AM
Drewbacca

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Originally Posted by Bailey

19 out of 79 people on TNL know how the world works. How sad :(

19 out of 79 people drop money on tips that have no reason to exist other than you paying more for a service they get paid a fare wage for in the first place.
03 Mar 2008, 12:35 AM
Advocate

This:

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Here, buy yourself something nice.

Was not as funny as those ....

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

"You done a good job bagging those groceries. Here kid, buy yourself something nice."

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

"You done a good job posting that message board message kid, here, buy yourself something nice."

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Don't be cheap. Here, buy yourself something nice.

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Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv

You did a good job tipping that kid, here, buy yourself something nice.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Good job /threading that thread, kid. Here, buy yourself something nice.
03 Mar 2008, 08:41 AM
Andrew

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Originally Posted by Compass

Was it really? The exact same question? Do you remember if it came up before or after I posted this thread?

Damn... I don't remember off the top of my head, but I want to say it was a little before. Either way, it was right around the same time.

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Originally Posted by Advocate

This:

Was not as funny as those ....

The Asian sensation strikes again... with increasing frequency, at that. Are you back on a computer?
03 Mar 2008, 10:05 AM
Othello Harrington

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

19 out of 79 people drop money on tips that have no reason to exist other than you paying more for a service they get paid a fare wage for in the first place.

You're a cheap bastard, that's all you really needed to say. I pray for the day somebody says "we're outsourcing our marketing to proforma!" and you're stuck behind a counter. I'll break my rule and be sure to stiff you on the tip.
03 Mar 2008, 11:24 AM
YellerDog

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Originally Posted by Advocate

This:

Was not as funny as those ....

I just had to go back to the well. Law of Diminishing Returns, IMO, which also sounds like an unfortunate name for a ladies' romance novel taking place in a courtroom.
03 Mar 2008, 11:52 AM
Razor Ramon

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Originally Posted by Bailey

You're a cheap bastard, that's all you really needed to say. I pray for the day somebody says "we're outsourcing our marketing to proforma!" and you're stuck behind a counter. I'll break my rule and be sure to stiff you on the tip.

You speak as if it's bad form not to tip someone who just has to put your order in a bag. I've known plenty (PLENTY) of people who've worked the service industry and have been stuck in the to-go section. Many of those places split the tips between the servers and it includes the person at the window. I'm not dropping an extra 15% tip if I have to do the traveling to pick up the food. It's absurd.

If you want to tip them, fine. That's what you want to do. You shouldn't, however, berate those that don't because you believe it's the right thing to do. Thing is, it is subjective. I don't believe it's fair to assume I'm going to leave you a tip for an order I have to pick up. Putting an order together really isn't hard to do.
03 Mar 2008, 11:58 AM
Advocate

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Originally Posted by squall_vb

The Asian sensation strikes again... with increasing frequency, at that. Are you back on a computer?

I have the net that's all that was missing.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

I just had to go back to the well. Law of Diminishing Returns, IMO, which also sounds like an unfortunate name for a ladies' romance novel taking place in a courtroom.

LOL! Rep!

edit: I have to try again later.
03 Mar 2008, 08:33 PM
Drewbacca

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bailey

You're a cheap bastard, that's all you really needed to say. I pray for the day somebody says "we're outsourcing our marketing to proforma!" and you're stuck behind a counter. I'll break my rule and be sure to stiff you on the tip.

You tipping for a service you're already paying for doesn't have any. Stop outsourcing intelligent thought and try it yourself.
03 Mar 2008, 08:47 PM
bbobb

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bailey

You're a cheap bastard, that's all you really needed to say. I pray for the day somebody says "we're outsourcing our marketing to proforma!" and you're stuck behind a counter. I'll break my rule and be sure to stiff you on the tip.

Do you tip at McDonalds?

They're giving you the same service those people are, and probably getting paid less.
03 Mar 2008, 08:49 PM
Othello Harrington

I don't go to Mcdonalds often, but yes I leave a tip unless they tell me not to.

Hell Thief can verify I tip the fuckings cooks at BW3.
03 Mar 2008, 08:54 PM
bbobb

Wow.

Just wow.
03 Mar 2008, 08:55 PM
Othello Harrington

Yeah, I'm not cheap and I take care of people so what?
03 Mar 2008, 08:57 PM
bbobb

I'm not cheap, but tipping at McDonalds?
03 Mar 2008, 08:58 PM
Othello Harrington

I tip the fucking guy who delivers my paper if I happen to be awake in the morning. Kid loves it, 5 extra bucks for him, and my paper is always placed under my stoop so it doesn't get wet.
05 Mar 2008, 12:48 PM
Tones

If I waved to you while walking by, would you tip me?
05 Mar 2008, 02:00 PM
Hubbitron

If there are garbage items that are too big for pickup, I set a nice surprise 6-pack next to them and they seem to disappear no problem.

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