Pool table installers...supposed to tip them?

I did a little research, but its hard to find anything referring to this exact issue. I did however find a bit on tipping movers. I don't know how well that will apply but here's the link.

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if you feel they did a good job.. give them a couple of bucks. we had a pool table put in and a light over the table as well. we bought them lunch.. just pizza etc. If you dont tip always offer them something cold to drink
 
I also searched Google, but couldn't really find anything. I may order a pizza for them. They seem like real cool guys and are doing a really good job, so it's the least I can do.
 
A pizza might ensure that the pool table gets installed extra carefully ;) Perhaps have the box on the table when they come in, and mention it's for them when they want to take a break :)
Just make sure they know you're bribing them with pizza before they do the installation lol.
 
Sometimes when I go out to eat with a group of friends we will give the waiter/waitress $20 or so and say something like, "This is just to make sure we get good service. If you want the rest, do a good job." And then we give them a good tip on top of it after we eat assuming they did well.
 
Usf97j4x4 said:
Hell no. They get paid for that.
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Exactly.

What about the people that actually engineered or assembled the pool table? Are you going to hunt them down and tip them?

Tipping is getting out of control. It's like your are supposed to tip certain people but not others. It's called a paycheck, people.

(let's not get into the food service crap)
 
x3.
Tipping is over rated. Its dumb and useless. We all get paid for our jobs, and if you dont youre a fool.
Its to bad the food/retaurant industry sucks, its too bad a construction worker makes better bank than a mover, but the mover hads to get a tip cause he applied fo rthe job.

I say, no to tipping.

Unless its cows...


**Disclaimer-i have never tipped a cow nor plan too, it just doesnt cost money and worked well, hahah**
 
AM07 said:
I gave them $30 for their hard work.
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I'm still not sure how I feel about tipping. I'm friends with a guy that installs pool tables and he gets tipped about half the time, usually around what you gave them. Anyways, that was very nice of you, whether they "deserve" it or not.
 
My room mate just came over from LA. He was a manager at the Four Seasons in Beverly hills. Said the bar chicks/waitresses there are on over $100K/year almost purely from tips.
 
yea tipping is way overrated and used here. I love going to other countries that don't expect tips and give better service.
 
Australian made said:
My room mate just came over from LA. He was a manager at the Four Seasons in Beverly hills. Said the bar chicks/waitresses there are on over $100K/year almost purely from tips.
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I used to know a guy that bartended on holiday isle and he brought in around 100k a year


I like some European countries where you don't tip, but pay a minimal "setup" fee of some sort its usually only a couple bucks.
 
Nabisco said:
Out of pure curiosity what kind of pool table did you have put in?
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We had a Craftmaster Stratford Empress put in. Very high quality, 1.125" slate, speed bumpers, awesome table. Best thing about it is it's the same quality as a Brunswick or Olhausen, yet much cheaper.

I went to a local billiards store around here a couple months ago. The tables ranged anywhere from $2500-33,000!

As for tipping, I'll be the first to admit that I'm a stingy person, but I do tip pretty well.
 
tipping is very important.. i was a bar tender when i was living down in FL .. at a pretty upscale gentlemen's steak house... i wasn't making as much as the waitresses.. but.. i only got paid about 2.00 an hour.. i needed those tips!!!! and you guys came thru very very well for me!

THANKIE!!
 
yes and no. we have to get paid the minimum of what one would get paid.. but that minimum is different for jobs that end up be supported by tips. Not only supported but needed in order to actually pay the person. So by not tipping your server or staff.. you are screwing her out of her money. there is actually a law in some states that say you MUST tip at least 3%-11% even if the services was horrible. its not upheld but whatever..
 
Last summer I worked at a Spa and Billiards Retailer called, 'SpaTacular' (what a cheesy name). Anyway, I was tipped approximately 10% of the time, though lifting a 3000lb tub into an enclosed deck after pushing it up a flight of stairs with some bald little prick not helping, but still yelling, "don't scratch my paint" definitely deserves one.

Table setups were actually quite easy. The slate is not heavy at all, and the tables come compartmentalized so you do not have to carry the entire thing in.
 
Australian made said:
you guys dont have any minimum wage rules?
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Yeah, there is a minimum wage. However, some industries are "tip" oriented. So it goes like this. You're a waiter for instance.

Employer pays $2.35/hr.
You make $60 in tips during an 8 hour shift

Therefore you make ($60/8hr)+($2.35/hr) = $9.85/hr, and that has to equal the minimum wage. And if it doesn't, then the employer has to make up the difference.

Here are the US minimum wages, as they are being increased over the next few years.

New Federal Minimum Wage:

$5.85 - July 24th, 2007
$6.55 - July 24th, 2008
$7.25 - July 24th, 2009
 
My wife woke up ~3am this morning and for some reason looked outside and noticed that a dog had gotten into our garbage and had drug a trashbag across our front yard and into the neighbor's - spilling everything along the way.

When I got up in the morning, expecting to have to clean it up, to my amazement the garbage men had already cleaned up the mess.

I would much rather give them a $10 tip than some snotty waitress who refills my glass of icewater.
 
ShakesAllDay said:
My wife woke up ~3am this morning and for some reason looked outside and noticed that a dog had gotten into our garbage and had drug a trashbag across our front yard and into the neighbor's - spilling everything along the way.

When I got up in the morning, expecting to have to clean it up, to my amazement the garbage men had already cleaned up the mess.

I would much rather give them a $10 tip than some snotty waitress who refills my glass of icewater.
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i totally agree, but u really have to gauge the tip to the amount of work/effort put into the customer service. sometimes my girls would cry because she would work so hard yet ppl would tip her sh*tty.. expecially living in south texas, ppl really dont know how to tip down here.
 
I still wonder how the food service business gets away with this. Anyone care to enlighten me as to how this seems to be the only industry that pays less than min. wage?

DreamOfWeight said:
i totally agree, but u really have to gauge the tip to the amount of work/effort put into the customer service. sometimes my girls would cry because she would work so hard yet ppl would tip her sh*tty.. expecially living in south texas, ppl really dont know how to tip down here.
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im pertty sure it's because u basically work for tips... if u dont accept tips, then they pay u full minimum wage... or something like that... if im not mistaken ppl are suppose to declair their tips at the end of the night... but no one ever does... its all kinda under the table .... i could be wrong, but thats how i understood it to be.
 
DreamOfWeight said:
im pertty sure it's because u basically work for tips... if u dont accept tips, then they pay u full minimum wage... or something like that... if im not mistaken ppl are suppose to declair their tips at the end of the night... but no one ever does... its all kinda under the table .... i could be wrong, but thats how i understood it to be.
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I understand how it works... I've worked in the food service industry myself. I'm wondering how the law is written for it to be legal.

When I see a price on something, that's what I intend to pay. I shouldn't expect to that cost and then some more on top of that. Hell, raise the price of my steak $2 so I don't have to tip these bastards. LOL
 
ShakesAllDay said:
I understand how it works... I've worked in the food service industry myself. I'm wondering how the law is written for it to be legal.

When I see a price on something, that's what I intend to pay. I shouldn't expect to that cost and then some more on top of that. Hell, raise the price of my steak $2 so I don't have to tip these bastards. LOL
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ohh i misunderstood the question...mabey they should just have drink stations, and a buzzer so when our food is ready, we can physically walk over and pick it up. lets just cut the waitstaff out all together.
 
DreamOfWeight said:
ohh i misunderstood the question...mabey they should just have drink stations, and a buzzer so when our food is ready, we can physically walk over and pick it up. lets just cut the waitstaff out all together.
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Or, just do like every other single industry does and include 'overhead' in the f*cking price. Seems like a better option.

Maybe not.

edit: also, I'm all about serving myself. On rare occasion do I go out because I want to be served. I go out because, for whatever reason, I don't' feel like cooking and I want something good to eat. If anything, we should be tipping the chef/cooks. But, that overhead seems to be included in price.
 
i worked in a restaurant for a few years.... its ridiculous the amount of money you make for mindless work.
Its physically tiring, and you get busy at times, but I would easily make $20-25/hour.

I always tip but after working in the 'real world' for a few years, you quickly realize that you do not deserve that kind of money for providing a menial service. Lets be serious.. for the kind of money I made serving... a drink machine and a computer could have replaced me instantly. theres not really much skill to it.
 
Palo Alto Labs said:
...after working in the 'real world' for a few years, you quickly realize that you do not deserve that kind of money for providing a menial service...
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Right f'n on. To think, "oh these servers have it so bad and work so hard, you are an a$$hole if you don't tip." Give me a break. A lot of jobs are tough, physically and/or mentally demanding, etc. Where's my flippin' tip jar?
 
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