I don't like the rather pushy assumption that "I should be tipped just because I'm here at my job" any more than the next person does, but . . . I stopped donating to charities when I became convinced that nearly all of them are frauds (with much or most of the money going to those who RUN the "charity") and some of them (Red Cross for a one example; the Clinton Foundation for another) are involved in child trafficking and other horrors -- or at least to harmful "progressive" BS.
A local church's food bank is one thing, but national charities are another.
Until that point, I had a hard and fast rule of not giving cash to the homeless, and I rarely tipped more than 15%.
Both of those things changed, partly because I didn't have any reason to send money to "charities" anymore and partly because the economy was tanking, and for the first time I was seeing people who had obviously just fallen from the middle class camping out in their vehicles or living on the street. Also, I knew that earning a living was harder than ever; prices of nearly everything are outpacing paychecks and that's if you can find a job -- not everyone can, given the zillions of small-business bankruptcies and layoffs at big corporations.
So I sometimes hand out money to people on the street (most of whom, in the small-town area near where I live, are not drug addicts pooping on the sidewalk -- something I've NEVER seen, btw, other than in photos) and I tip well -- extravagantly sometimes -- because I remember how hard it was for ME when I was young and working at crappy jobs -- despite the economy being MUCH better than it is now.
I don't expect this to last, but for now I'm fairly well off, and as long as I can afford to do this, I will.
A different perspective:
I don't like the rather pushy assumption that "I should be tipped just because I'm here at my job" any more than the next person does, but . . . I stopped donating to charities when I became convinced that nearly all of them are frauds (with much or most of the money going to those who RUN the "charity") and some of them (Red Cross for a one example; the Clinton Foundation for another) are involved in child trafficking and other horrors -- or at least to harmful "progressive" BS.
A local church's food bank is one thing, but national charities are another.
Until that point, I had a hard and fast rule of not giving cash to the homeless, and I rarely tipped more than 15%.
Both of those things changed, partly because I didn't have any reason to send money to "charities" anymore and partly because the economy was tanking, and for the first time I was seeing people who had obviously just fallen from the middle class camping out in their vehicles or living on the street. Also, I knew that earning a living was harder than ever; prices of nearly everything are outpacing paychecks and that's if you can find a job -- not everyone can, given the zillions of small-business bankruptcies and layoffs at big corporations.
So I sometimes hand out money to people on the street (most of whom, in the small-town area near where I live, are not drug addicts pooping on the sidewalk -- something I've NEVER seen, btw, other than in photos) and I tip well -- extravagantly sometimes -- because I remember how hard it was for ME when I was young and working at crappy jobs -- despite the economy being MUCH better than it is now.
I don't expect this to last, but for now I'm fairly well off, and as long as I can afford to do this, I will.
This word for word is me too. Same feelings.