The grumpy thread

[tooSavvy]

Or just ring your lasses mate and scream "stop trying to kill my dog you moron" at her. Cheaper than a wire basket.

I once tried screaming "stop having babies you moron" at the daughter, but ended up with 6.

 

Wire coil would have been cheaper

 

 

TS

[robinmasters]

That bloody advert's been on again. The one with the two drippy women sitting at a keyboard singing.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Might be mean but I don't tip. I don't get it. You've got a job, they pay you, the end.

 

Wow so you carried a plate of food from one room to another and gave it to me. I paid for the food.

 

Maybe once I've eaten the food I should tip the bloke at the sewage works for dealing with my shit?

 

 

 

(for the benefit of some people* please note most of this is sarcasm, I still don't tip though )

[dollywobbler]

I don't tip out of habit, but do where I thought the service merited it. Some places share the tips with the catering staff, who are obviously in no position to otherwise acquire them. I guess some chain pubs really don't encourage tipping - the ones where you have to go and order your food at the bar, so there isn't actually a member of waiting staff looking after you.

[Pillock]

The idea of tipping is very American where it's rude not to, because of their lower relative pay for serving staff. I have even heard that if you get poor service, you just tip a bit... Good service gets more. They'd have to have shit in your food to get no tip.

 

In the UK with minimum wage it's not seen as depriving anyone of money not to tip.

 

I tip when I think they've gone above and beyond my expectations, for example a large group of diners and they've had to run around fetching and carrying. I'm more inclined to tip if the receipt says something like "tips are divided between staff", I know some places where tips are just hijacked by management or only divided between a few people.

[andy18s]

Have you seen the latest episode of the new X Files series ????

Just saying

[eddyramrod]

No.  Deliberately.

[Captain Furious]

I tipped the waitress on Saturday night (one of those where you add it onto the card transaction) I never even considered that it might just go in the owners pocket. That is properly shoddy if it’s the case.

 

Also tip the polish car wash, because frankly £10 for the job they do inside and out is massively undervalued already.

[xtriple]

I always tip, I tip the Sainsburys delivery guy, the binmen, the postie and anyone else who does a 'service' job.

[Timewaster]

I always tip, I tip the Sainsburys delivery guy, the binmen, the postie and anyone else who does a 'service' job.

No wonder you are skint!

[loserone]

How the fuck do you tip the bin man and the postman? Pile of coins on the bin lid / in the letter box?

[dave21478]

Fuck tipping and trying to make everything like Trumpton. Proper countries have minimum wages that are a (only just, admittedly) livable income, its not my job as the customer to make up for the staff being paid less than minimum wage, as the septics do.

[chaseracer]

Fuck tipping and trying to make everything like Trumpton. Proper countries have minimum wages that are a (only just, admittedly) livable income, its not my job as the customer to make up for the staff being paid less than minimum wage, as the septics do.

 

This.  

 

If your boss is a twat and doesn't pay properly, ORGANISE.  Change and improve your situation.  

 

I've spent much of my working life supporting and representing people brave enough to do just that, usually against the prevailing orthodoxy, and I'm damned if I'm going to use my hard-earned to subsidise shareholder dividends.

 

Sorry; 'politics'.

 

[loserone]

I do tend to tip, if only because as a household we're painfully aware of the difference between a shit wage and a less shit wage.

 

I can be a bit of a cunt mind, after WW and I ate pizza and burger the other day I hid some pound coins under an empty can before we sloped out.

[Jim Bell]

My missus said I should tip the old woman working in B&Q.

 

I gave her a good push and she went over smashing. Got kicked out though.

[SierraMikeHotel]

Fuck tipping and trying to make everything like Trumpton. Proper countries have minimum wages that are a (only just, admittedly) livable income, its not my job as the customer to make up for the staff being paid less than minimum wage, as the septics do.

 

I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, but sadly we must make a compromise with the reality of the situation we live in.

 

I tip waiters generously because I did my share of waiting jobs when I was young.  It's bloody hard work, a certain percentage of customers treat you like shit, chefs treat you like shit, and you only get minimum wage (which, let's face it, isn't enough to live on).

 

I do share your idea of what things should be like though!

 

Now I'm off to the barber before this becomes political

[xtriple]

The postie I tip when I see him, we have an arrangement: he doesn't bring me bills or nasty letters and I give him a few quid once in a while   which is easy and the same with the binmen (both lots). I don't think it can be a great time emptying my bins as they are full of dog shit in little blue bags so thank you to them doesn't hurt.

 

Also, my bins always get put back in my pathway whereas all the neighbours bins can end up anywhere in the street!

[Cavcraft]

Has anyone else's Paypal gone French? I Googled it and it's happened before, but a PITA when you want to send money.

[dave21478]

Has anyone else's Paypal gone French?

 

 

Yes.

 

oh, wait....

[dave21478]

I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, but sadly we must make a compromise with the reality of the situation we live in.

 

I tip waiters generously because I did my share of waiting jobs when I was young.  It's bloody hard work, a certain percentage of customers treat you like shit, chefs treat you like shit, and you only get minimum wage (which, let's face it, isn't enough to live on).

 

I do share your idea of what things should be like though!

 

Now I'm off to the barber before this becomes political

 

 

yeah, but no, but yeah, but.....

 

I worked as a chef and despite being literally the reason for the place to exist, nobody ever thought I should get a tip....it was the person carrying the plates 50 feet that got the money. Nobody ever thought to tip the guy doing the washing up either......

[Cavcraft]

Washer up in a restaurant is THE worst job ever. Those people deserve to be on about £15 per hour.

[SierraMikeHotel]

It was always a tronc at the places I worked, I wouldn't want to keep tip money from the KP's and chefs. Greedy owners helping themselves is another matter...

[rainagain]

Trailer winch on ebay with phone number, arranged a price and collect tomorrow morning.

Three hours later got a txt, 'winch sold'.

I had that with a car about 40 miles away from me. Arranged to view it, sent a text saying on my way, arrive in the city to get a text saying ‘car sold’.

 

I suppose this should really be in the grin thread as it meant I didn’t buy a Ka.

[Captain Furious]

I don’t think there is anything fundamentally wrong with tipping, but I do prefer it being on a discretionary basis rather than foisted upon you in every transaction like the States. It’s one of the most annoying things about visiting there....that and the fact they advertise things on price boards pre-tax, so you think you have the correct money but actually you fucking haven’t. FFS..

 

I do object to the increasingly widespread attempts at charity mugging me everywhere I go with the 'would you like to make a donation to charity' voting buttons on chip and pin machines. So then the cashier feels it necessary to instruct me how to vote yes and no and watch me do it...all aboard, we're going on a guilt trip.

[Parky]

That fucked me off immensely in the states. If it says $3 on the shelf, surely that's the price? No sir, we have 9% sales tax here which you have to add on. Thank goodness they don't do that here

[SierraMikeHotel]

I should have been spending the afternoon looking at a Volvo V40, with every intention of paying cash for it and driving it home, but the seller texted yesterday to say it had been sold already.  Bit annoyed as it met my brief absolutely perfectly, but at least he did have the manners to text me.  I'd have been *really* pissed off if I'd wasted an afternoon going to Hounslow for no reason.

[Tamworthbay]

The new nationwide adverts with those two irritating arseholes singing. Really getting on my tits.

[Cavcraft]

The new nationwide adverts with those two irritating arseholes singing. Really getting on my tits.

 

As irritating as they no doubt are, some sad bastards have been sending them death threats, apparently.

[Tamworthbay]

As irritating as they no doubt are, some sad bastards have been sending them death threats, apparently.

Really? I just moaned on the nationwide Facebook page. Fucking amateur me..........

[Ghosty]

I must work for one of the few companies where card tips actually go to the worker...