I am new to this forum. I am getting ready to schedule a routine 50 hour service call for a CaseIH Farmall 70 in which the dealer will come to my place to service the tractor. Do folks normally tip the service personnel and if so how much? I would think some gratuity would be appropriate?
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RickB
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Probably 10% of my customers tip. Amounts vary but most tips are in the $10-$20 range. I am appreciative of the tips I receive, but it isn't something I expect universally, or give a second thought about those who don't. My advise is this; if the service you get warrants a tip to the tech (and tipping is something you are considering), go ahead. If the service is performed without enthusiasm, or your questions or concerns aren't addressed to your COMPLETE satisfaction, don't feel obligated. Road service techs are the dealership's after-sales ambassadors. If the guy who shows up at your place doesn't exceed your expectations, don't pay extra.
no offense Rick, I am happy that you get some tips and I am sure your customers feel you have provided extraordinary service. Tipping is a personal issue for me. don't mean to start a huge controversy but for gosh sakes. Tipping used to be and sometimes still is an act to reward above and beyond service. At least that is my interpretation. now days it is expected even for poor service and seems to have cropped up in all kinds of places. Coffee shops now have tip jars, I think I have seen them at fast food restaurants, and places that I cannot recall just now. Seems like places want tips, expect tips or are fishing for tips for providing a product. maybe I should start carrying in a tip jar and hold it out for a tip when I use their service. Sorry for the rant, just a personal problem for me when the expectation of receiving tip has spread to retail, and some of the service industries that should want to be rewarding you for your business. pretty soon you will find tip jars at the bank teller windows, where sometimes the charge you anyway for using a person instead of transacting electronically. Again sorry for the rant.
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You didn't offend me. But you clearly didn't fully read or understand my post.
I neither expect to be tipped, or find fault with those who chose not to tip.
I provided my version of an answer to the original post. Nobody has to agree.
Sorry I wasn't more clear Rick. I fully understood your post and admire your position on the topic, and your statements were honorable and I agree with what you said. I was just commenting on a pet peeve on how the general scope of tipping has grown or become a part of businesses that would never before have been considered for tipping. Sorry for not being more clear.
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i too think this tip thing has gone to far. i under stand it for servers at restaurant, they only make 2.15 per hr. but i hate the way the lady who cuts my hair expects a tip. i pay her 20 for a cut that takes 30 min why does she need a tip. when i go pick up a sandwich at the local stand there is a tip jar why should i tip for picking up a sandwich? i've been told that i should tip the guy who loads my truck at the lumber yard. i have to tip the guy who takes my bags at the airport the guy who takes my bag when i get on the shuttle bus and then tip the door man at the hotel.where does it stop. i know there more but can't think of them now. anyway sorry for the rant. to answer your question if i'm having service work on my car and i can see the guy working on it and he seems to respect my car, i will usually buy them a coke but i won't go any further than that.
Personally I believe in paying employees a fair wage. I hope companies I patronize do the same. Tippng just gives bad employers an excuse to underpay.
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Dont know if it it true or not, but I read that TIPS originally was short for "To Insure Prompt Service" so how did it get from that to just give me money for any service good, bad or indifferent. I agree, it is just an excuse for bad employers to pay a low wage and an excuse for the worker to commit fraud on his tax reporting. Even worse is places where the employer requires all tips to go into a common fund to be distributed among all employees. That stinks of socialism in that all get a fair share regardless of the work performed. Personally if I know that that is happening in a business, I wont tip at all and tell the manager why. MY TIP goes to the person giving me the service or not at all.
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All depends on service tech attitude..high % of time yes I do.
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" pretty soon you will find tip jars at the bank teller windows, where sometimes the charge you anyway for using a person instead of transacting electronically. Again sorry for the rant."
My wife and I went for a drive through the Smoky Mountains a week ago and stopped in Cherokee, NC and went in Harrah's Casino on the Indian reservation...would you bleive it the cashiers, the counter like at banks where you go to cash out when you leave, they are tellers and they had a tip jar...at the time I commented to my Mrs. ..What would you tip them for ? They just give you your money in return for your chips as you are leaving. So it probably won't be long before bank tellers do the same thing..LOL
My wife and I went for a drive through the Smoky Mountains a week ago and stopped in Cherokee, NC and went in Harrah's Casino on the Indian reservation...would you bleive it the cashiers, the counter like at banks where you go to cash out when you leave, they are tellers and they had a tip jar...at the time I commented to my Mrs. ..What would you tip them for ? They just give you your money in return for your chips as you are leaving. So it probably won't be long before bank tellers do the same thing..LOL
