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dragonlady7Attention Citizens Of Canada:
Leaving your country is NOT an excuse to TIP SHITTY.
Leaving $4 on a $70 tab is NOT ACCEPTABLE. I have it on good authority that if you did that at home, the waiter would beat you with a hockey stick, or whatever it is that Canadians do to bad people. So DON'T DO IT TO ME. (Also: $5 on a $60, $0 on a $20, $6 on an $80 (twice), and well, that was pretty much my day.) I am ON TO YOU. I have asked many Canadians and they all swear that tipping works the same in their country. IGNORANCE NO LONGER EXCUSES YOU. I know you're faking.
Yeah, I was a full $20 short of making 15% of my sales today. I did the math. I did the math twice. But no, sadly: it was true. I had a whole bar full of Canadians today and they TIPPED ME SHITTY, and all I can say is I HOPE THE LEAFS LOSE, you asshats. And then I hope the franchise gets sold to, like, New Jersey, or Montana or something. HA. It would serve you RIGHT, you JERKS.
Sighhh. Seriously, every Canadian I speak to says "what? No, tipping works the same in Canada: you're supposed to leave 15-20%." But every Saturday, pretty much, I get large groups of burly men who punctuate every sentence with "eh?" and order Moose Head Lager and wonder if beef on weck is like beef on a bun, and they all seem to delight in either 5% tips or no tip at all. (Usually left while commenting on how great my service was. Kiss of death, people.) Perhaps they are some atypical cross-section of Canadians, who tip shitty at home too? I don't know. I can't tell, from my perspective of BLIND RAGE.
Anyhow, it pissed me right the hell off today. And yes, my last customer of the night plunked down $5.50 to pay for a $5.30 beer, and asked for a receipt, and so when I gave him his $0.21 change along with the receipt, he carefully picked up the dimes and the penny and put them in his fucking pocket, and I could have spit at him. I am not so hungry for money that I mind the actual amount, per se, it's just that I know that my employer reports a percentage (i don't actually know what; you think they tell me that?) of my sales each shift to the government as expected tip income, and so I actually lose money every time I get stiffed like that. It costs me, out of my pocket, something between several cents and a couple dollars every time someone just conveniently forgets to tip me. Because a "gratuity" is not actually, in the eyes of the government, optional.
So, just thought I'd clarify that for y'all. Because I know many of you are Canadian and might wonder what my deal is. That's what my deal is: tourists who think that since they're out of their country, they don't have to behave.
In other news, I then went out for a root beer float and bought my sister $30 worth of chocolate to bring to her next month when I go, because if I'd just spent a year in a desert that's probably what I'd want.
Leaving your country is NOT an excuse to TIP SHITTY.
Leaving $4 on a $70 tab is NOT ACCEPTABLE. I have it on good authority that if you did that at home, the waiter would beat you with a hockey stick, or whatever it is that Canadians do to bad people. So DON'T DO IT TO ME. (Also: $5 on a $60, $0 on a $20, $6 on an $80 (twice), and well, that was pretty much my day.) I am ON TO YOU. I have asked many Canadians and they all swear that tipping works the same in their country. IGNORANCE NO LONGER EXCUSES YOU. I know you're faking.
Yeah, I was a full $20 short of making 15% of my sales today. I did the math. I did the math twice. But no, sadly: it was true. I had a whole bar full of Canadians today and they TIPPED ME SHITTY, and all I can say is I HOPE THE LEAFS LOSE, you asshats. And then I hope the franchise gets sold to, like, New Jersey, or Montana or something. HA. It would serve you RIGHT, you JERKS.
Sighhh. Seriously, every Canadian I speak to says "what? No, tipping works the same in Canada: you're supposed to leave 15-20%." But every Saturday, pretty much, I get large groups of burly men who punctuate every sentence with "eh?" and order Moose Head Lager and wonder if beef on weck is like beef on a bun, and they all seem to delight in either 5% tips or no tip at all. (Usually left while commenting on how great my service was. Kiss of death, people.) Perhaps they are some atypical cross-section of Canadians, who tip shitty at home too? I don't know. I can't tell, from my perspective of BLIND RAGE.
Anyhow, it pissed me right the hell off today. And yes, my last customer of the night plunked down $5.50 to pay for a $5.30 beer, and asked for a receipt, and so when I gave him his $0.21 change along with the receipt, he carefully picked up the dimes and the penny and put them in his fucking pocket, and I could have spit at him. I am not so hungry for money that I mind the actual amount, per se, it's just that I know that my employer reports a percentage (i don't actually know what; you think they tell me that?) of my sales each shift to the government as expected tip income, and so I actually lose money every time I get stiffed like that. It costs me, out of my pocket, something between several cents and a couple dollars every time someone just conveniently forgets to tip me. Because a "gratuity" is not actually, in the eyes of the government, optional.
So, just thought I'd clarify that for y'all. Because I know many of you are Canadian and might wonder what my deal is. That's what my deal is: tourists who think that since they're out of their country, they don't have to behave.
In other news, I then went out for a root beer float and bought my sister $30 worth of chocolate to bring to her next month when I go, because if I'd just spent a year in a desert that's probably what I'd want.
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Date: 2006-01-22 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-27 09:24 pm (UTC)But it seems more likely to me that it's a perception issue. I really do think that many of the Canadians who tip me poorly really, truly, in their heads, think they're not doing anything wrong, which would indicate that they always behave that way, which would indicate that tipping doesn't work the same way there... but it's just sort of one of those mysteries.
But there are certainly demographics of Americans who tip poorly, as well-- it may well just be the cheap-fuck demographic in Canada correlates very highly with the sort of Canadian who travels several hours to Buffalo to save a couple bucks on a US flight. Maybe all the Canadian customers I have are sort of preselected to be cheap fucks, by the fact that they're inconveniencing themselves rather severely to save a few bucks. (Flights within the US are way cheaper from Buffalo than Toronto, but it's about two hours' drive with an unpredictable border crossing in the middle.)
Sorry-- takes me a while to get to comments sometimes!