Open Thread

there’s 2 kids at my kid’s daycare who apparently looks after him big time, so I’ll be tipping them with a nice Xmas gift. trick is how do I discreetly give it without rest of class to see it

“Awkward Tip Jar Locations:
1. The Doctor’s Examination room.”

Don’t doctors who perform circumcisions have tip jars?

Slopey – it is not a rhetorical point. Economies expand because people innovate, start businesses and take risks. The money for that comes from people with initiative who invest. Tax those people, and investment goes away.

DH- def. a requirement, though I suppose it depends on the vibe of the building.

For the brief period when I lived with the trappings of luxury, we were given a list of the staff around the holidays – the super got the most, and the people who had actually helped us out got second most, and then people who we knew by name, followed by everybody else (everyone got something). Because we were young at the time (21?) and the people who worked there knew us, the fact that we didn’t give a whole lot ($20 to everyone, $50 or $75 to the main people, $100 to the super, I think? Ended up costing us < $500 in 1998?) didn’t count against us.

I know people who had more cash gave multiples of that, probably increasing more on the super/doorman end than for the misc porters/etc.