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I tipped Super and Doormen $100 each and the “workers” $20. Yes, you need to do it.
By bxgrl on December 7, 2010 12:17 PM
“no problem, I’ve got Ben-Gay on the job.”
Legion- I’m shocked. You’re with a gay guy?
ha ha,
well Ben-Gay is an old friend of mine
and the rub down is strictly medicinal.
The whole tipping thing in New York is out of hand. It’s not just with apartment staff, parking garage attendants, the dry cleaner, etc. I’m supposed to throw a buck in the tip jar for the guy at the bagel store where I buy a bagel and coffee? And if I don’t, I get glared at? I would be much happier having the costs buried and forcing employers to pay a fair wage rather than relying on the customers to subsidize their pay directly.
It’s a rhetorical point, dcb. Our govt had a choice — 1. Extend UI benefits to keep food on the table and people paying rent/mortgages, etc.; 2. Extend Bush-era tax cuts on population that really could have lived with Clinton-era tax levels; 3. Do both and throw away any pretense on deficit reduction.
DH, you probably eying 50 to 100 per HC for the ones you NEED to pay
Ugh, holiday tips for building staff. So glad I don’t have to do that anymore. In my old building on the UES, we had to tip the doorman, super and all staff individually and it really added up. A friend of mine lives in The Manhattan condo in Murray Hill, which has at least twice the staff my building had and what the residents there do is all give one lump sum check to cover everyone. Somehow he got away with only paying two or three hundred dollars, which I believe is far less than what people have to give in other buildings that size when giving individual tips.
Bxgirl: I have been in that position. More than once.
It sucks. You have to rebuild, and that’s painful. Working is painful. Working during a recession is even more painful because there are always young, ambitious competitors right behind.
How is extending unemployment ever going to work?
It never will!
Our whole country needs to reinvent itself, and the sooner we all face it, collectively and individually, the better.
wouldn’t be an issue how much to tip if you had a brownstone.
“no problem, I’ve got Ben-Gay on the job.”
Legion- I’m shocked. You’re with a gay guy?