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Thread starter Aurora D Start date Jul 8, Aurora D Mouseketeer. Joined Apr 10, I'm a waitress so I'm all about tipping appropriately I use Lowe's for all of my appliances. I tip the guys if it is a hard job. This also helps because they see your company name on the order and make sure you get your appliance in the delivery window.
They might have a family member that wants to sell a problem property or a friend that wants to sell or overheard an off market deal. Interesting read. The last several appliances I purchased for my rentals were delivered by - ME!
And to think I stiffed myself on the tip If you signed up for BiggerPockets via Facebook, you can log in with just one click! Log in with Facebook. Full Name Use your real name. They are here now. I love my new set. My son worked there over the summer. He wasn't allowed tips. They told him they would fire if they heard you accepted tips. They did take it. My husband is delivery manager for lowes.
He frequently helps with deliveries. It might just make someone's day. Yes, it would have been nice if you had tipped the delivery men. I had a new fridge delivered 2 weeks ago from Sears. The 2 guys that delivered it were fast, put it exactly where I wanted and set it up and plugged it in. I tipped them ten dollars each. Sears doesn't care if you tip them or not. I also tipped the furniture delivery men, and gave them some cranberry orange muffins that I had baked that morning.
I don't understand the mindset of not showing appreciation for work done. Especially when the workers don't make all that much to begin with. I tip wait staff, cab drivers, delivery people, bell hops, etc. There is just no reason not to imo. Sears at least the one in my area contracts out their deliveries.
They are not paid the greatest still. One delivery person I met years ago only worked for the benefits the company gave him. Money is what will help them the most so that is how I show my appreciation for the work they do along with baked goods,lol. So as long as I have the funds to do so, I'll continue tipping. Again thanks for explaining your side. Mixed emotions-- I'm a generous tipper at bars and restaurants, but I'm never comfortable in a more one on one situation where I can't just add it to the bill or leave it on the table.
If the job was done in an exemplary fashion and you can afford it, fine. But if you are getting appliances in several shippments and there are several people working each delivery, it can add up fast-- especially in the context of a remodel.
The attitude that you are already stretching the budget so you'd just as well go ahead and break it doesn't work for me. I also don't know how we decide as a culture who gets a tip and who doesn't: the waiter or bartender, fine.
Hairstylist, ok, but odds are she works for herself, which supposedly disqualifies her. Tip your workmen, but not the architect? Do you tip the nurse at your doctors office? Tipping has really gotten out of hand, IMHO. I actually had a cab driver throw a tip back at me with the comment - keep it, you need it more than I do!
We once left a low tip in a restaurant because the service was lousy and the waiter chased us down the street yelling at us! Certainly tipping for something over and beyond is called for but that's what I reserve it for.
In Europe, tips are usually included in restaurant prices but Americans have actually ruined that by tipping more - I had a waiter tell me that tips were not included even though the menu said they were - he thought I couldn't read the local language - and European friends of mine are annoyed that waiters now expect tips from the locals when they never did before.
For another funny take on tipping, check out the very beginning of the film Reservoir Dogs. In Japan tips are included. I see both sides. On the one hand it's convenient to have it included, on the other hand, I can reward good service with a tip and punish bad service with no tip. I tip service people if - they do their job without complaining - dont make a mess - dont scratch any of the floors, walls etc - finish the job to my satisfaction.
I also tip for large item deliveries unless they service clearly doesn't warrant it. But I don't think its wrong not to. I work in a service job where tips are never offered or accepted but other appreciative gestures from customers are. Tipping is an easy way for me to share similar goodwill when earned. If I have an easy way to tip with something else I'll do that ie-the two times we've used a moving company we've bought pizza for everyone and they all seemed to appreciate it.
Interestingly, the guy on our remodel who deserved the tip the most refused it. We DIY'd our soapstone but had the semi-precut slabs delivered. The driver helped us unload them though we had been told he wasn't supposed to and was very nice but he refused the tip.
I have no doubt this guy is actually pretty well paid but we were very appreciative of his help. Apropos of attitudes and philosophies related to tipping service people, thought some of you would like this essay. Here is a link that might be useful: Be Cool to the Pizza Dude.
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