gas station attendant - Page 4

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

@GenXmuse wrote:
How does payment by CC or debit cards work? Do they swipe it for you or run inside with your card? I've only experienced this once when $10 would fill up the tank and I had cash.

@GenXmuse - you swipe your card at the pump. I never, ever, use a debit card for gas. No way.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

sometimesQVCaddict · ‎03-09-2010

In NJ they pump your gas. I live not far from the border of NJ. Gas is usually cheaper than PA in NJ and a lot of PA people go there for gas, but honestly I don't like going there, and my daily travels usually take me in the opposite direction 99% of the time. Costco is cheap enough and I pump myself!

NO I wouldn't tip them. They get paid a salary to do their job. And gas isn't cheap by any means. Ridiculous to hand more money over in my opinion.

sometimesQVCaddict · ‎03-09-2010

I also have NO desire for anyone to chip the paint on my vehicle or splash gas on it because they're rushing to pump all the cars at the station. That happened 20 years ago to me and I didn't notice till later at home and was too young and stupid to go back and say anything.

Nor am I handing my credit card over to anyone when they could swipe my info.

I wear plastic gloves I always keep in my car, and it literally takes a minute or 2 to do it myself. Easy peasy.

I avoid NJ at all costs unless in an emergency and fill up before I have to drive in that state if I do.

gnomie1 · ‎08-13-2021

I have a home in New Jersey and not only do I always buy my gas in NJ when possible, I ALWAYS tip the attendant and they are always very thankful. I too believe that tipping in the States has gotten completely out of hand, but in my opinion, the attendant is performing a service for me that makes my life much easier and I am grateful that it is available and always give the attendent a few bucks. I generally buy gas from the same station and know all of the attendents, one in particular. I noticed that at the beginning of December he seemed very tired and I inquired is everything ok - he told me he was accepting every overtime shift available because he was hoping to save enough to buy his son a bicycle for Xmas. The next time I stopped by, I gave him the money to purchse the bicycle and I have a new friend for life - I have never met anyone so grateful and thankful. I was paying it forward.

Being a gas station attendent, esp in the northeast with our harsh winters, is not an easy job and only pays minimum wage and most workers are immigrants. I am an immigrant and even though both of my parents worked, I grew up living in near poverty and many years later gratefully remember all the people who showed kindness to me and my family during very difficult times. We all achieved the American dream and are successful professionals and I am blessed that I am able to pay it forward and do so as often as I can. Do I leave tips in every tip jar I see, not at all. But if someone if providing a service to me that I would rather not do (and pumping gas is one of them), they are most certainly deserving of a tip.

SurferWife · ‎12-12-2010

I go to a full-service gas station & don't tip the young men, but do give them cookies every Christmas. They are so happy!

Time is just a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. It isn’t how long you live that matters; it is how well you are prepared to die. ~~Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr.

jackthebear · ‎03-11-2010

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
NJ @Imaoldhippie

"jersey girls don't pump gas" is my motto

jackthebear · ‎03-11-2010

@Sooner wrote:
I have pumped my own gas since before I could drive. Why on this blessed earth would one not be allowed to pump gas? Do you need a degree? Is it beyond the skills of the common folk?

To me that's like saying you can't get your own coke or Icee or use a vending machine alone. Do you have elevator opeators too?

yuk Have no desire to get out of the car when its 10 degrees and smell the gasoline.

Sage04 · ‎07-10-2011

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
I have pumped my own gas since before I could drive. Why on this blessed earth would one not be allowed to pump gas? Do you need a degree? Is it beyond the skills of the common folk?

To me that's like saying you can't get your own coke or Icee or use a vending machine alone. Do you have elevator opeators too?
@Sooner It started in the forties for safety and never changed. I never in my life pumped gas and that's the way I like it. However it looks like it will be changing and putting even more people out of work.

@proudlyfromNJ I've Posted about this a long time ago, but when we lived in NJ, I never had to pump my gas. Years later we moved to Florida and my sister and I took our vehicles to get them filled. She had moved to Fl a few months before us.

Anyway, I pulled up to the first pump and waited. A few minutes later she pulled up behind me. She came to my window and asked if I had already pumped my gas. I was shocked she asked me that question. After she stopped laughing, she told me, this is Fl not NJ. You have to pump your own gas. That day I learned how.

Some gas stations have "Full service" but you have to pay extra for that. Haven't seen them in a long time.