so i went to this bar/club last night with a friend...and we ordered 2 miller lights in the bottle from this chick who had beer in a tub of ice. she pops the tops off and like looks towards a tip jar--i'm like ..WTF? i just spent $8 on two 12 oz beers and u want a tip for taking the top off?
then i go to to the bathroom and this guy is at the sink squirting soap into people's hands and then tearing off a piece of paper towel for them? with a tip jar on the sink WTF? get your fat ass out the way and let me wash my damn hands.
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all I can say is the org was in desperate need of another "I'm too cheap to tip" thread.

Hey Fury

I hear you, but I think you have to view that as a sunk cost of the bar life. I mean, to your first point, you could just as easily stay at home with a full case of beer for $15 to $20 depending on what you drink. But if you throw the bartender a dollar each time you go for a drink, you're only adding $5 to $10 to the night's cost, (depending on how much you consume).

What's funny is, I'm actually a really big tipper in every place except the bar, (unless the bartender is hooking you up, but that's different from your scenario).

I live in Dallas and there's a nice place to get deli sandwiches here called Eatzis. It probably takes them about 2 minutes to custom make each sandwich. When the person making my sandwich is done, I actually give them a dollar or two. It always throws them for a loop. But I figure if someone opening a bottle of beer gets a buck, and waiters/waitressed get a 20% tip for taking your order, shouldn't someone actually taking that much time to make your sandwich get a little something too?

Anyway, there's my one and a half cents.

if she was a bartender who actually made a drink, or at the least if i gotsomething on tap...but damn...the beer was 8 inches from my hand--in a tub--and she just twisted the damn top off. i said thanks and kept it moving.

Fury said:

You're paying her for the convenience of not having to wait at the bar a thousands years to get a drink. Also, for when you want a mixed drink from the bar, you don't have a line of people buying easy pop off bottles.

You get at least 10 minutes of time of your night back. Easily worth a buck a bottle.

As a bartender I would never serve your ass again.

lazycrockett said:

if it was a bartender, who actually did something liker make a drink, there'd be a tip. handing me a beer out of a tub of ice and popping the top--u get a thanks

Yes this thread makes you sound like a cheap ass, but I feel the same way about bathroom attendants as the part in bold below.

Fury said:

PunkMistress said:

Co-sign. I have to tip for a drink (understandable) then tip again to piss it out? Fuck that.

I tip this homeless dude on side of the street all the time for doing nothing. even has his own tip can.

PunkMistress said:

i'm just saying...i gotta pay you a dollar for asquirt of dial soap and a piece of paper towel? bitch please...i'll go wipe my hands on somebody on the dancefloor...and i pissed 4 times in 90 minutes from the beer and everytime i was like

FauxReal said:

I was talkin to a friend about this just the other day...my friend ordered some food from a restaurant and went and picked it up. He was like, "was I supposed to tip her?" I was like, "for what? because she brought the shit to your car? hell no!".

Fury said:

Wouldn't you tip a bartender that served you a bottle of beer?

If so, what's the difference between that and the beer tub girl?

Tip everyone.

Fury said:

I think that is part of the problem. When the mark-up is so high to begin with, it doesn't exactly inspire generosity back to the server.

I used to bartended in college so I feel both side. But... people are getting paid to serve you, that's their job. I wished i got a tip at my job now in healthcare everytime I bust my ass to make someones elses job easier but I don't- because that's what I get paid to do.
I will tip if the server is nice and goes out of their way to for drinks or food but if they serve me my food and bring me the bill.. there's no fuckin way I'm tipping for what they are supposed to be doing. The need to be speedy and polite for that. I've had some rude people think their getting a tip for doing nothing and not tipping is letting them know that you didn't care for their service. This is a big pet peeve with me.
When I bartended... if I didn't get a drink to them fast enough of make it just righ why would I expect a tip? The business is supposed to keep the customer happy, not the other way around.

Cinnie said:

That's cheap! When I go out, I know one beer will cost at least $6 or $7, plus at least $1 tip per drink. It's a built in cost of going out, just like I set aside $15 to take a cab home. I figure out how much money I'll need/want to spend and that's all I take. When it's gone, I take the $15 I set aside at the beginning of the night and go home.

Here's a tip. Get ya self a case of and a bottle of MD20/20, invite a few homies over, turn on ESPN and keep the change.

Look, I'm tired of Supa saying that I'm a prissy little bottom.

I don't care what johnart or Supa says, traffic does not go both ways in and out of my pert, tight, little asshole.

Lawd yall--it would be like putting a bigass log up in there with some of the people I've hooked up with. Besides, I don't douche my asshole anyways, so you'd just end up making a mess on your dick and painting.... at least I think the term is painting. Miguel, help me out with that.

^^^ oops, sorry. That post was meant for another thread.

Carry on, yall.

Cinnie said:

$4 a beer is a decent price in these parts. Even for cheap american beer.

Just sayin'.

TheVoid said:

I only tip during happy hour, when drinks are half off. That way I save a dollar, or 2 or 3 on drinks, and tip with that. Then by the time happy hour is over, I'm nice and drunk, the drink prices went up, but I still have money in my pocket

I am annoyed with bathroom attendants, because they actually make the experience more uncomfortable. Why should I pay for something I wish did not exist?

At least bartenders are somewhat helpful, nice, and often pretty. And you pay to be out in the company of others, not to have a bottlecap removed.

O.K. I spent my summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts where waiting tables or bartending are the most lucrative jobs. We were paid well below minimum wage and were the cheapest employees for the restaurant owners. They did however pay the cook and dishwashers well.
Now, this is my problem. When I found out that Starbucks actually gets to pay their employees less because they had a tip jar, so like waitresses they are also living off of the tips (as a waitress most of my pay went to cover my taxes that I owed on my tips). Anyway what right does Starbucks have to expect me to tip their barristas or whatever the hell they call them.. Won't go their anymore. they make enough$$$ to pay their staff off of just the price of the drink.
So my point is that does the beerbarrel girl make $3.00 and hour or 8? If you tip all the people on the inside what don't we start tipping the guy working the door aswell???? Why don't owners start making us tip the cleaning lady? It just gets crazy!!!
If I pick up my sandwich at subway should I tip? How long will It be before the drive through lady shoves a tip jar in my face before handing over my egg mcmuffin ???

NDRU said:

I completely agree on bathroom attendants. It's a "service" that is forced on you and I don't appreciate that.
I can squirt my own soap and I don't need you to sit there listening to me pee.
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Fury said:

You're a dick.

People like you are why I refuse to work service.

TheVoid said:

meow85 said:

well really...if i'm a dick because i won't tip somebody for squirting soap in my hand, when i could do it myself, then fine. furthermore, i could really believe that you would apply for such a job and not get hired.