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abqtommy

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3. I used to travel for business and tipped anyone for service provided. Of course I could claim
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 02:35 PM
Feb 2020

any tip amount on my expense reports and I'd be reimbursed. So let's not be cheap, people. We can't take it with us!

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Reminder that when tipping is reduced or eliminated as a voluntary gratuity, no_hypocrisy Feb 2020 #1
I read an article a few years ago about how tipping hurts businesses like restaurants. wcast Feb 2020 #5
No tip? Eat spit next visit. pwb Feb 2020 #2
It would be funny if they caught something and died jberryhill Feb 2020 #9
I used to travel for business and tipped anyone for service provided. Of course I could claim abqtommy Feb 2020 #3
good trend. above and beyond maybe a tip, doing you job at a minimal level, not. msongs Feb 2020 #4
Traveled to Norway last summer. Tipping is rare and not expected there. It was weird, but nice. Squinch Feb 2020 #6
I never tip in European restaurants. It is not expected as servers have very good pay. And of course CTyankee Feb 2020 #23
Don't neccesarily blame those that seek the tips...their business owners are making them work... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #7
Why do they bother to come out of the house.? lunasun Feb 2020 #8
I grew up in a poor family in a poor neighborhood. Those tips mean a lot to struggling people. Midnight Writer Feb 2020 #10
I got a hundred dollar tip once Cartoonist Feb 2020 #11
Perhaps the reason is ... frazzled Feb 2020 #12
When I travel domestically, I always carry enough five- and one- dollar bills musette_sf Feb 2020 #13
thumbs up, musette SCantiGOP Feb 2020 #20
In many countries tipping is not expected. In some there is an automatic sinkingfeeling Feb 2020 #14
As an erstwhile waitress during one of the hardest times of my life lunatica Feb 2020 #15
I'm used to tipping when in my home area csziggy Feb 2020 #16
Service workers are not paid a livable wage. Laffy Kat Feb 2020 #17
+1000 smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #18
FWIW Tipping is considered rude in some Asian countries dalton99a Feb 2020 #19
In rural areas of China and Japan SCantiGOP Feb 2020 #21
Your baggage went to Houston and you're in Buffalo bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #22
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