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Because I’ve grown up and doing things legally now. Well, for the most part. Ask your mom how that works. :biggrin:
Then you get taxed like a chump and whine my rosin my rosin! Real grown up
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Fact is different than whine. You’ll figure shit out when you grow up. I have faith in yaQuote:
Originally Posted by digitaldeath
Wait so if you go buy some gummies you need to tip? Why?
Need to VS choose to. Entirely different things.
Taxed? Maybe so but I can buy an 1/8 of good quality for < 15 bucks. In the past a 1/4 was 80-100 bucks. Legalization has brought prices way down even with the added taxes.Quote:
Then you get taxed like a chump and whine my rosin my rosin! Real grown up
You don’t.Quote:
Originally Posted by summit
But I could see if you came in asking for recommendations on what bud/strain to choose for your desired result and have lots of questions a tip would be appropriate.
I dunno. As a former retail worker, answering endless questions and helping customers in general used to be just kind of expected, right? Helping customers isn't above and beyond the job's criteria. It IS the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
I'm really not liking the modern climate of acting like a worker doing the bare minimum is somehow deserving of a tip. Customer service has become ABYSMAL in so many places these days, where we're all encountering workers who act downright annoyed when you try and get some help with something.
Personally, I'm finding myself going back to my old standards when it comes to tipping. IF one gives me exceptional service, yeah Imma hook 'em up. However, if they give me shitty, grumpy service, then I have ZERO hesitation in smashing that skip button on the tip screen. And if it's self-serve anything? Then yeah, you can just GFY altogether. Maybe this started with those frozen yogurt shops! That's the earliest example of this nonsense I can think of. You pour your own stuff, you add all your own toppings, and literally all the cashier does is ring you up. Those guys are never helpful, so yeah. Screw tipping in those scenarios.
If I ask the mattress salesman to help me find a mattress that fits my sleeping style, should I tip?Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
If I ask the librarian to recommend me a book, should I tip?
If I ask a grocery store deli counter person what cheese to buy, should I tip?
If a lifty bumps my chair, should I tip?
If I ask the hardware store person which thingy to buy, do they get a tip?
If I ask the liqour store guy whether this beer is good, do they get a tip?
Servers are tipped for service because they have below minimum wage hourly rates because tips are part of the expected earnings.
Fuck tipping retail (but only certain retail and not other people) who just do pretty basic components of their job, which includes knowing their product and service.
I see dispensary jobs starting at $25/hr. Some make commission. I'd support tipping them right after we start regularly tipping grocery store workers and nurses.
I think some of the whining about being asked for a tip is cuz the POS credit/ debit machine is improperly setup so it asks you for a tip
the kid at the butcher shop said here let me see that grabbed the terminal fiddles with it like he was playing a vidya game and the tip screen didnt show up again, all those systems work really well compared to the early days
What’s the standard way to tip a guide for a guided trip?
Just booked a 2hr ATV tour in Hawaii, it’s a side by side so just 1 ATV rented but the 3 of us ride in one. Cost is like $500 + before tax (tourist BS rates). I would usually give the guide a $20/$40 if they were good.
I’m not tipping 20% on a $500 overpriced activity.
What’s the standard?
Feature; not bug. It converts tipping from passive opting-in to active opting-out.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
How many people on the tour?Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Does the SxS "guide" deserve a larger tip than a taxi driver?
Sometimes I figure out what their equivalent hourly rate is with a given tip from the group. I'm sure as heck not tipping people such that they end up making more than I make an hour unless they did something spectacular.
Similar to how you don't tip 20% on an expensive bottle of wine because you effectively are paying an individual $30 for 6 minutes spent recommending/grabbing a bottle/pooping a cork and pouring 4 glasses. That's like $300/hr just for wine tips. Serving isn't open heart surgery.
Jumps back to the "hey tip $1/$2/$3/can to the town employee handing out cans at the beer tent" well now that town employee is making $50-100/hr plus their town employee wage. Does that make sense to anyone?
well it was a new terminal in the local butcher shop owned by dutch people in a town with 2000 dutchmenQuote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
they were not expecting a tip
Exactly. Plus Square gets a commission on tips (which is insane)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Not to mention that before you really had NO fuckin' idea what you were actually getting. And edibles... remember when your buddy would make brownies out of god-only-knows what and you'd eat one and lose a whole day to sloth?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
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This is funny cause it’s absolutely true.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
I think you are in the ballpark. Standard good service, pleasant and considerate, guide deserves a case of beer. If they take you to a totally private, extra special spot, or put up with a less than desirable passenger, maybe twenty more. Definitely under $50, unless the guide has to perform emergency surgery cause someone got their arm snagged trying to take a selfie from outside the cage, doing 30kph down the trail.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
I was once told " not a good place to open a restaurant, 2000 dutchmen and they don't go out for dinner "
I like passing out $1 bills to the lifties towards the end of the seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by summit
And THERE you just isolated the core root of the whole issue. Credit card processors/POS services are the ones who are ACTUALLY behind this whole trend. Square is making ludicrous amounts of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
I’ve always tipped Lifty’s.Quote:
Originally Posted by summit
On select days I cruze around the mountain with a backpack full of Fireball shooters and pre-rolls. Passing out party favors to lift op, patrollers, mechanics, anybody else I see.
Buddy of mine in Big Sky has an insulated backpack that he puts a crock pot full of elk chili in, along with foam soup bowls and plastic spoons. On a -20F day the Lifty’s love it when he rolls in.
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The chili idea is pretty impressive considering the logisitics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
Maybe I should hand out cans of chili at restaurants when a tip isn't exactly warranted but I want to say thank you?
The lifties thing is fun because it's not expected. Makes their day frequently. But if it was expected a dollar for every bump every day, that would get real old real quick.
some Cities in Yurp there are free walking tours, you bookthem on-line usually its a masters student speaking good english
buddy will say " of course its not really free so if you like my tour give a tip "
did them in spain and portugal
barcelona i did a street art tour which was very cool
How much do you tip the docent tour guide in a museum?
Wooden shoes, wouldn't tipQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
FKNA Harry. That's how you roll.
you know that the dutch invented copper wire when 2 of them were arguing over a pennyQuote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
I think I gave the tour guides 10 euro for a few hrs of talking and it looked like everyone was so he was doing OKQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures...Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
...and the Dutch.
One of the best vacations we've had was in the Netherlands. Lovely people. We were there on Queen's Day and the Dutch definitely know how to party. OTOH, because so many millions flood Amsterdam for the holiday they print maps telling people which side of the streets to walk in which direction--and people do it. We didn't tip while we were there.
This just brought back a hilarious but foggy memory from decades ago, thanks for that. I'm a sucker for my friend's banana bread but didn't know until after I mowed down a super thick slice that I ate the 'special version', enough for 4 people. Everyone else was laughing their asses off about what was to come. 8am in a ski lot parking lot. The rest of my day shall be filed under stoner moves...Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Tipping is a norm in the United States. But it hasn't always been this way. It's a legacy of slavery and racism and took off in the post-Civil War era. Almost immediately, the idea was challenged by reformers who argued that tipping was exploitative and allowed companies to take advantage of workers by getting away with paying them low or no wages at all.
The case against tipping was captured in William Rufus Scott's 1916 anti-tipping polemic, The Itching Palm, a book that railed against the practice and its negative impacts on society. The movement had momentum: anti-tipping associations were formed and anti-tipping laws passed. Yet, tipping held on to its place in American culture and the anti-tipping movement failed to eradicate it. We still tip today and, for some, this remains a contentious issue.
Tipping began in the Middle Ages in Europe when people lived under the feudal system. There were masters and servants, and there were tips. Servants would perform their duties and be given some pocket change in return. This was still custom in the 18th century and transitioned from masters and servants to customers and service industry workers.
NINA MARTYRIS: Until the Civil War in America, there was no tipping. It was a European thing. But then Americans began to travel to Europe and brought this custom back. At the same time, immigrants were coming to America by the boatload from Europe, most of them poor, [and] had been working in Europe and were used to the tipping system. So in every way it was seen as a European import and there was huge opposition to it, because of its feudal nature.
RAMTIN ARABLOUEI: What was the principal argument against it in the 1800s? Why did some people find it distasteful?
MARTYRIS: They found it distasteful and un-American because it was feudal. And when you give a tip, you establish a class system. By tipping somebody, you rendered him your inferior, your moral inferior, your class inferior, your social and economic inferior. So it was a caste bound system and it was an old world custom and it reeked of feudalism. It was called servile and it was called a bribe. It was called a moral malady. It was called blackmail. It was called flunkeyism. People railed against it.
MARTYRIS: But guess what? Restaurant workers weren't included. And so it became law that the restaurant owners do not have to pay twenty five cents an hour. They excluded them from the minimum wage. And that kind of codified the fact that you're paying your workers only through tips. And then tips became legal. The law had taken them into account in 1938 by excluding restaurant workers. That's sort of the nail in the coffin for ever getting a fair wage.
ABDELFATAH: There's something striking to me about the fact that the minimum wage coming into the picture sort of shifts attention away from tipping. I mean, that's what it sounds like. It sounds like suddenly this debate that had been going on for decades at that point in American life is sidelined by the fact that suddenly you have this new thing, a minimum wage coming onto the scene. I wonder how you see those two histories interacting in that moment?
MARTYRIS: You've created a two-tier system among your workforce. And I think that was the beginning of the rot, which we are paying a price for till today.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/98004...and-of-the-fee
The irony is that, though Americans imported the tipping custom from Europe, countries such as France have long done away with tipping: A 15 percent service charge is automatically added to the bill, and customers aren't obliged to tip. As a result, a French schoolgirl visiting the U.S. might find herself, like Maisie, curiously eyeing the "tip" in the billfold.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...2DAmerican.%22
The good old days when an edible's strength was measured by how much weed was put into the butter and it was always a bit of a crapshoot as to how high you were going to get.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jax
I ate a brownie on a Saturday once and had to call off work Monday because I was still too high. Not even kidding.
Whoahoahoah...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jax
https://youtu.be/ZEavqjHWOv0
When I was in med school I sublet my apartment to a young woman (who apparently entertained different gentlemen every night). She decided to leave me chocolate cookies in lieu of cleaning the place. My neighbor across the hall, who managed the little 3 apartment house, cleaned and took the cookies as a reward. She was cannabis naive. The cookies weren't. She ate them all at one sitting. She had a rough day.
Sounds like a transition from stoner moves to stoner stupor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jax
Never tried putting weed in butter, do tell how it's done! [emoji38]Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
Wait, really? Thats how all our edibles were made... putting ground weed into some kind of hot fat/oil, straining the weed out and then using the butter/oil as called for in a normal recipe. Popcorn, cookies, brownies, alfredo, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman