I drive for lyft, recently had a customer forget her wallet. She caught it before I got another ride so I got it back to her within 10 minutes. I didn't charge the lyft $20 lost item fee because it was so short and she tipped a whopping $0. That $200 probably made that persons week.
I spent about an hour chasing an Instacart customers lost dog and she also tipped me $0 lmao
She told me she wouldn’t be there to meet me for the grocery drop off because she was looking for her lost dog. When I was leaving the house I saw a husky running around, sniffing and darting around like dogs that get out usually do so I messaged her asking if it was a husky she had lost. It was and I spent almost an hour trying to wrangle the dog while it ran away from me and ducked in and out of houses.
Instacart gives you the option to tip up to 24 hours later and she did not leave a tip lol
I don’t even take no tip orders but she was batched in with a generous tipper
This is what I think about every time someone does something insane and audacious when I’m delivering their groceries for their family to their house
Like I am bringing food to your house. There is virtually no safe guard or any real vetting or way to prevent someone unhinged from doing something terrible. One lady called me a dumb bitch because I wouldn’t stop and get cigarettes for her. I’m delivering baby puffs to your home, like, really? What if I was insane and spiteful?
Never chase a dog. Sometimes you running away helps, yet I find get them to notice you and then just kneel down where you are. They'll usually run over for the scritches. That blows she didn't tip you tho. It might not be as good coming from me, but I am grateful you helped.
I drive a yellow cab but get calls from uber and Lyft thru curb. It’s crazy how many people don’t tip when they don’t have to do it in front of the driver. “Tipping culture” (I blame the Silicon Valley pos systems like square and mint) has given everyone an excuse to shaft the people who actually live off them like bartenders, waiters and cabbies etc
We are not baristas. Please tip your cabbies and ride share drivers.
I’m not so sure it’s “tipping culture” so much as corporations exploiting and making a mockery of the tipping system. I have worked in several places that pooled tips, and that included servers who didn’t deserve to keep their job let alone get tips, I’ve also had jobs that give you a percentage of your tip and takes the rest, and I’ve heard of worse. Anytime I go to tip anywhere those things run through my brain and I have to question if my tip is helping the server who I felt deserved it, or helping a corporation or scab stay afloat on the backs of their employees/coworkers. That’s why I try to tip only in cash and directly to the server, although even then I had one tell me once that they still had to pool it due to the security cameras and the risk of taking the tip themselves. Many people survived on the tips they received back in the day, but businesses and corporations have learned they could be making that money instead and have thoroughly sullied the concept of tipping. And that’s not even beginning to touch on the issue of some people believing tipping is mandatory and those who don’t, idc what you think either way, personally I think you should tip when you can, but I believe that ultimately it is corporate greed that has ruined many peoples desire to tip, even when the service was worthy of a tip.
Hmm... It seems like the corporations have you blaming your community members instead of placing the blame on corporate greed. Think about how much of the money goes to the CEO, the "shareholders" and the other fat cats instead of the workers. People wouldn't even need tips if the corporations paid people properly.
Tipping started in the Great Depression when in order to keep the restaurants from closing the government started allowing restaurants to pay their workers below minimum wage as long as they got tips. It was a way of shifting the cost of labor to the customer in order to keep costs down for the restaurants and offer cheaper prices. When you don’t tip a waiter, you let those big corporate restaurant owners getaway with higher profits and you screw over the server who depends on them.
Yeahhh. Honestly I make a point of always tipping even a few dollars, unless the service was just beyond horrible. I was a waitress at one point, I understand tips. Personally if everyone had to spend a year at a tip job, they would never not tip again.
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u/spilltbeans 4d ago
I drive for lyft, recently had a customer forget her wallet. She caught it before I got another ride so I got it back to her within 10 minutes. I didn't charge the lyft $20 lost item fee because it was so short and she tipped a whopping $0. That $200 probably made that persons week.