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    Delivery Driver says worst tipping SCs are those with the most money

    http://consumerist.com/2012/12/04/pi...rong-with-you/

    Of course most of us could have probably guessed this anyway. The world has no shortage of rich people who are grade A douchebags but this driver has a point: If it's obvious you have a decent amount of money, giving a $5 bill to a delivery driver should be nothing.
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    It's worth noting that some of the richer people got that way be being utter skinflints.

    I had a friend in school who hated going anywhere with her father (her parents were split) because he'd go to a nice restaurant, then start a fight before dinner was over so he'd be thrown out and not have to pay.

    ^-.-^
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    • #3
      Aside from anything else, it seems like that approach would backfire: suppose you wanted to go somewhere you'd already been?
      "My in-laws are country people and at night you can hear their distinctive howl."

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        In counterpoint, Australian billionaire Kerry Packer was notorious for being lavishly generous in tipping the dealers on his regular trips to Las Vegas. There was one day while I was working at the Westward Ho, when word rustled 'round the dealer grapevine that Packer had landed. He settled at the MGM Grand for this trip (sadly, the Westward Ho was far too low-scale to handle Packer's kind of action). Unlike his usual method of passing out huge tips just before a dealer change-over, he wasn't tipping at all because he was on a massive losing streak, and the dealers were starting to get EXTREMELY nervous about this. Finally, just before leaving (and not having broken his massive losing streak over the entire weekend), he stopped by the pit and dropped $100k in the toke box, to be split among all of the dealers who worked that weekend.

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        • #5
          Eons ago, when I delivered pizzas, I remember making a run to the local drug dealer's house (house was in the worst part of town, had an iron fence around it and a limo in front).

          Well dressed guy with tons of bling pulls out a thick wad of cash (several hundred bucks at the very least, pays with a $20 and expects exact change. No tip.
          Good news! Your insurance company says they'll cover you. Unfortunately, they also say it will be with dirt.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Panacea View Post
            Eons ago, when I delivered pizzas, I remember making a run to the local drug dealer's house (house was in the worst part of town, had an iron fence around it and a limo in front).

            Well dressed guy with tons of bling pulls out a thick wad of cash (several hundred bucks at the very least, pays with a $20 and expects exact change. No tip.
            I encounter too many customers like this. They may not have the big house or the limo BUT they do have that big roll/wad of bills and want ALL their change back.

            My experience is different than the article. As in real estate it is all about location, location, location. I get stiffed in rundown "slum" apartments and $750k McMansions (high end housing for my area). BUT I also can get great and generous tips from those very same "slum" apts and McMansions.
            I'm lost without a paddle and I'm headed up sh*t creek.

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            • #7
              I could have told them that. XD

              Back in the mists of time, way back to my very first job delivering papers... on my round, there were two rich customers, several middling and a lot of elderly who weren't very well off. Who do you think tipped me the best at Christmas? If you guessed the elderly poor, then spot on. The two rich customers never tipped me, ever. I got about a pound on average each from the middling customers, but the elderly poor tended to give me £3 - £5 at Christmas, and would always hand it to me in person. Of course, thruout the year, if I saw any of them, I'd always say hello and stop to chat for a bit; guess that was enough.

              In any case, both rich customers used to get the Times which would wind up dumped in a plastic bag on their doorsteps, cuz to match their skinflintedness, they both had extremely narrow letter boxes and no way in hell was I going to spend half an hour dissecting a paper. You get what you pay for. XD
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Nekojin View Post
                In counterpoint, Australian billionaire Kerry Packer was notorious for being lavishly generous in tipping the dealers on his regular trips to Las Vegas.
                There's also a great story about Kerry Packer going into a casino and not being recognised. All the waitstaff were hanging off another guy wearing jeans and a cowboy hat.

                Kerry asked what was so great about him. The guy gave him a smile and told him that he was worth 200 million.

                Kerry, being worth about twenty times that, just pulled out a chip and said, "Flip you for it."

                The girls started paying him more attention after that.

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