Christmas tips

[Susie Hamilton]

Wow, I was surprised today. A widow on my route has a door slot and gets a lot of mail and catalogs. Sometimes her storm door is locked so I ring the doorbell and wait for her to open the door. I always bundle it with rubber bands so she does not have to pick up all of it from the floor. She leaves me a baggie filled with the rubber bands every few months. Today I got a tip from her. $50.00. I was surprised.

[nobodyyouknow]

It is great that you are allowed to accept tips. I have a friend whose mother is in a nursing home. There was one worker who was especially good to her mom and she handed her a $20.00 bill one day. The administrater followed her out and stopped her on the way to her car. She returned the money and informed her that the employees were not allowed to accept any gift from anyone. She said she might be able to arrange a small party where every employee could participate but that one employee could not be singled out with a gift.

[TC]

for the most part I am against tips or so called Christmas gifts for people such as trash people, mail people, paper boys, hair people.

Yes they do perform a service and they get paid for that service over and over with a the money after the service or by what they get paid on a weekly basis. If they feel they are not paid well for the job they perform then find another job or raise your prices. Why should a barber get get a tip and a doctor not, or all of the policemen and women, all of the EMS workers, firefighters don't deserve it but the paperboy does. Yeah right.

I get so fed up with people who expect "bonuses" be it for Christmas or what ever, It is not something you are owed, it is a gift as best. We have people at work that get so upset if they don't get a "bonus" well that is not part of the job. You should do your job to the best of your ability that is part of your contract with your employer, and your employers part is to give you a check for the pay you both agreed on.

I think it is better to give some one a gift of home made cookies or a hand made scarf, that is a gift, money is a payoff.

[TW]

I, on the other hand, don't have a problem with giving Christmas gifts (or tips if you prefer). If my mail carrier goes to extra lengths to insure that my mail arrives in a manner that makes it more convenient for me (such as banding the mail into one package), or my garbage man cleans up around the garbage cans after he has emptied them. I have no problem with expressing my appreciation for their extra effort with a gift during the holidays, be it a small cash gift (usually to people that I know little about personally), or a specially purchased or even hand made gift for those that I am on a more personal basis with. As for the firefighters, and EMS. My taxes pay for them, then when they respond to a call to render their services I will receive an additional bill, in other words I am already paying for them twice. In addition to this I always buy two tickets to their "Benefit Concert" that I never attend. If you give a gift to a policeman, unless there is a close personal connection, it is called a bribe. You can be put in jail for that. I have given my Doctors, and their nurses, Christmas presents or sent them cards to express my appreciation for their work on my behalf. The bottom line is that if a person providing a service makes an effort above what is normally expected, does the little things to ease my life, I will try to express my thanks in an appropriate manner.


TW

[Shellie]

I don't see tips as a part of pay. I see it as a way to bless somebody by saying "thanks...I didn't want you to go unnoticed."

[Tim Elston]

I like to give tips to people who don't expect it, like the guy who sweeps the floor in the train station or the security guard. They don't get paid much but at least they are out there working. I don't give money to beggars who are doing nothing.