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[Mighty Girl]

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Over the years, I've noticed that people in certain professions have certain, oh shall we say, shortcomings that seem to affect everyone in their little group.

When I waitressed down the street from a very large hospital- it was immediately evident that doctors were the worst tippers, nurses were usually pretty good though. (There's always exceptions of course). The doctors were notorious for coming in and spending an hour plus there drinking nothing but coffee, leaving a quarter as a tip. (I don't give a crap how much coffee costs- if you're sucking up space preventing me from making tips off other customers, then you better ante up, if you can't afford it, trade in that Benz for a Taurus).

Engineers want everything yesterday and are very picky. Car salesmen are super cheap and moody. Construction workers talk a lot but are very precise. Every teacher I've ever waited on has critiqued either my grammar or my math.

So, any generalizations you've noticed?

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[friendofjimmyk]

Well, I waited tables for a long time and just when I thought I would have pinpointed one group to be a certain way - someone would come along and break that stereotype.

Truck drivers always tipped well. As did most women who came out and dined alone.

Business people were always tipping to the percentage to a "t" - precisely 15 - 20% to the cent.

College kids were iffy. If it were a large group - you can count on separate checks and if one or a few of them are servers themselves - you got fat tips - if not, the fat tips made up for the ones that barely tipped.

I will not say the group that you could almost guarantee that the tip would NOT be good....I don't want to offend. This was one group you could always count on a lousy tip from if you even got one at all.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Groups of, dare I say, FLAMING gay men at a table were GREAT tippers when I waitressed. And I don't mean your average joe gay man who sleeps with his boyfriend, then they watch the football game together and order pizza. I mean the ones who come in wearing leather hotpants, mesh shirts, with their hair done in pink and purple and with longer fingernails than me and calling each other "girl" and "honey". They tipped AWESOME. To the point that fistfights would almost break out over their tables. Not to mention they were just plain fun to wait on. The waiters would go over and actually flirt sometimes, straight or not, and the waitresses would go over and (in my case) a 15-minute glam fest on haircolor, fingernails and make-up would ensue. If you dropped their plate, "Oh, honey, don't worry about it, I've got nowhere to be!" *snaps fingers at the kitchen* "Make me another, dear!" (God help you if you spilled something on their clothes, though.)

Sure, sometimes they scared away some of our other restaurant goers, but mostly just the ones we didn't want coming in anyway.

[Antisocial_Worker]

Certain professions defining SC behavior?

Hm... I can't speak for certain professions, but from my experience in hotel guests, anyone who lives locally is scum, and the niceness of a guest's car is directionally proportional to how big of a jerk they are.

Gross generalizations, yes, but so what?

[CanadaGirl]

Engineers want everything yesterday and are very picky. Car salesmen are super cheap and moody. Construction workers talk a lot but are very precise. Every teacher I've ever waited on has critiqued either my grammar or my math.

So, any generalizations you've noticed?

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My dad is a construction worker. He pours the foundations for residential housing. Good money, too. He's not much of a talker at work though. At work you work, not chat and lolligag.

[Greenday]

College kids can go either way. Either they have a lot of money or they don't. We're college kids, we don't have too much usually. The younger people who seemed in college or mid-20s usually seemed to tip me well.

Those high school kids though, they don't know how to tip worth a crap. As in my post in the General Work forum, two other guys and I were paying the check. The other guy that was in college and I threw in the amount we owed plus three bucks. The moron that was still in high school noticed this and tried to only give $15 instead of the $20 he owed, not including tip. I caught this and made him throw in another $5. Then, since the waiter would only have gotten 6 bucks in tips, for a $50 check, I threw in another $3. Every time I go out somewhere with kids from high school or even when I was in high school, the kids would try to stiff the waiter/waitress.

[friendofjimmyk]

Groups of, dare I say, FLAMING gay men at a table were GREAT tippers when I waitressed. And I don't mean your average joe gay man who sleeps with his boyfriend, then they watch the football game together and order pizza. I mean the ones who come in wearing leather hotpants, mesh shirts, with their hair done in pink and purple and with longer fingernails than me and calling each other "girl" and "honey". They tipped AWESOME.

OH YEAH! They were the best tippers. The last bar/restaurant I worked at before moving to Texas, it was in a very eclectic neighborhood and we had a sizable gay clientel. They were simply awesome! They tipped well and if something was messy on their table or I was clearing plates, gathering napkins, or attempting to pick up trash, they'd put a big stop to that and say, "Honey, you're too beautiful to be doing this. Let me get this!" And then they'd clean up their mess for me!

[Writer Cath]

The Tim's where I worked was basically a tourist stop/construction stop. It was basically a giant food court with a Tim Horton's, Wendy's Pizza Pizza and a New York Fries.

The tourists hardly ever tipped, because again, Tim's is one of those places you just didn't about it.

Construction workers tipped really, really well, because generally it was one guy coming in with an order for twenty people.

The business types would do the same thing and leave no tip.

We were located about five minutes away from a strip club and many of my nicest customers were strippers. Once when I was working the midnight shift, this dad and his two kids came in. It was obvious the dad was heading out for the last leg of the trip or so and he wanted to get himself a coffee and some juice for his two kids.

Stripper lady was in front of them in line and she knelt down and started talking to the kids; then she asked the dad if she could buy them cookies. He was a little surprised, but said no problem. So I added a couple cookies to her order and she left quite a nice tip. It was just so cool of her. Big thumbs up.

[Knightmare]

One of my ex-girlfriends was a waitress. She hated working Sunday mornings because the "Church People"* would come into her restaurant, tie up the table until early afternoon, and would not tip. But they wanted everything right then and there.

What she really hated was when a "Church Person" would leave what looked like a folded $20 under a cup or where ever, and it actually turned out to be a little flyer asking if you were going to Hell, or Do You Need to be Saved? or anything along those lines.

When I delivered pizza many eons ago, I got the same thing. The "Church People" wouldn't tip, or would offer salvation, or those damn half-fold fake $20 bills.





*No offense meant for you cool "Church People"

[ArenaBoy]

The niceness of a guest's car is directionally proportional to how big of a jerk they are.

I noticed that too working in the parking lot. A Mercedes driver tends to act like they're the greatest thing on the face of the earth. BMW drivers often try to tip you (Not allowed at my place of work) or are driven by very spoiled kids.

People who park in VIP are often jerks as I've ranted about many times just because they're paying extra for a lot that isn't that big of a deal.

The new club parking lots on our renovated side of the arena contain people who need a reality check.

The suite people though are very nice because they have food and drinks in there and they know that they're paying extra and don't have to take it out on us parking boys.

People who drive SUVs with the intent of trying to give off an important presence are usually rude people who do this too often:

Local officials tend to be rude because they expect special treatment when I don't even know who they are.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Business women and church people are the worst tippers, hands down. They are also the suckiest customers.

In Kinko's, again, church people, politicians, and men that like to pretend they are "made of money" are the absolute worst to deal with.

The absolute best to deal with were the drag queens. Totally patient, easy to please, and free with money. We have a lot of gay clubs and a lot of drag shows in town, so we had quite a collection of regulars.

[Worker-Intellectual]

As a university student, I've noticed that all my friends are crappy tippers. I'm always the one saying "throw another loonie/toonie in there, that ain't enough!"

[Mighty Girl]

My dad is a construction worker. He pours the foundations for residential housing. Good money, too. He's not much of a talker at work though. At work you work, not chat and lolligag.

Ah yes, but I didn't work with them, I waited on them
Maybe because they were stuck on a job site all day, then encountering someone not covered in drywall dust- they were happy to chat me up.

[Tutorgal]

Its true about church people. When I was a waitress, every group that let me know somehow they had just been to chuch were awful, hideous, horrendous people. Without exception. Im sure there were some awesome christians being waited on, but they didnt make a big deal of their religion with me so how would I know?

The ones who made a big show of being good christian churchgoers were always the ones to treat me like dirt, were unreasonably demanding, let their kids wreak havoc all over the restaurant, and never tipped any more than about 5%, if that. More often tips were either tracts or tracts disguised as cash.

The most deliciously hypocritical were the ones who would chew me out for sinning by working on the sabbath and not going to church.

[Mike Taylor]

One thing that I noticed in Chicago was that a lot of the "old money" wealthy were easier to deal with than someone who was newly rich. I got more politeness and refinement out of the old families than many middle-class parents.