Community Chat

[MsJr]

$10.00  for each, thats what I do.  Have fun with your new appliance!

[Stray]

I tip everyone. When they install, they may be paid but they don’t collect the fee the vendor charges for installation.

We tip our plumber as we are happy he comes promptly & on weekends if need be. Others who use the same plumber do not have the same experience so I think a tip helps with future service.

If I hire a contractor & Im happy with the product, it’s done on time, I add an extra amount on the final payment.

[chiclet]

I do not tip installers.  I pay for the product and the delivery and installation charges and I am done.  I had to pay $60.00 to have a couch delivered.  I am not going to tip them on top of that.  

[Hmmmmm24]

I don't tip installers. The company pays them. When I was a secretary and made only $16/hour after working 30+ years, I'm the person who should have been tipped. However, when I sold my condo in 2021 and moved to a lake-house, I tipped the 2 guys from the moving company $30 each because they did it in record time without breaking my furniture, and saved me $300.00 off the original moving estimate.

[Sooner]

We don't tip plumbers and electricians etc. because it is their business, their service and they charge for their time and skill.

Delivery people we always tip.  Mail carrier gets a gift card--which is legal up to a certain point.  We never see the trash truck people, so no way to tip them.  Guys who come occasionally to move furniture or things like that--we always tip.

Professionals, no; low-paid helpers, always. 

[GoneButNotForgotten]

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@Foxxee wrote:

Sure, everyone can do what they want...tip or not tip, but I'd like to know where this all started.

Yes, we know restaurants pay low salaries because over time, they now expect customers to tip....but

Tipping someone to install a sink, a plumber, who is aready making $60 or more an hour? 

An electrician came to install two outside lights...just replacing two old ones.  He charged me $135.  It took him 15 minutes.  

I'm supposed to tip these guys according to the tipping police when they are already making more an hour than most?  I don't think so.

As far as I'm concerned, they should turn down tips.  

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be sure to mention this the next time someone comes to yoour home to perform a service. Remind him/her they're getting paid so generously that you're not going to add to it by tipping them.

I'm sure that'll go over real big.

[FiddleDeeDee]

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@GoneButNotForgotten wrote:

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@Foxxee wrote:

Sure, everyone can do what they want...tip or not tip, but I'd like to know where this all started.

Yes, we know restaurants pay low salaries because over time, they now expect customers to tip....but

Tipping someone to install a sink, a plumber, who is aready making $60 or more an hour? 

An electrician came to install two outside lights...just replacing two old ones.  He charged me $135.  It took him 15 minutes.  

I'm supposed to tip these guys according to the tipping police when they are already making more an hour than most?  I don't think so.

As far as I'm concerned, they should turn down tips.  

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be sure to mention this the next time someone comes to yoour home to perform a service. Remind him/her they're getting paid so generously that you're not going to add to it by tipping them.

I'm sure that'll go over real big.

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Why would someone be so crass as to state the obvious? They already know they're paid well; that's why they chose that profession.