Of course. "I'll tip you well / I'm a good tipper / etc" translates into English as, "You ain't gettin' Jack, sucka".

 

I actually mention "another $20 tip at the door" in my location directions and even meet the driver at the street so they don't have to get out of they don't want to.

I've always maintained a perfect 5.0 rating on both rides and deliveries. 😁

I understand the struggle is real.

 

A couple/few times recently, customers have wanted delivery to a different address or were promising tip-upon-delivery, walk it across campus, or whatever.
It seems the go-to phrase is, "I'll tip you handsomely" 🙄
Actually, it's usually a promise that nothing will happen, no thanks, no bonus or simply no tip.
It belongs on one of those lists of, "You can tell a liar if they say..." 😁

That's pretty much how I'd read it. Damn liars.

If you're not going to tip, just say nothing. Telling a service worker that you're going to tip, and then blatantly withholding it is just scummy.

 

A couple/few times recently, customers have wanted delivery to a different address or were promising tip-upon-delivery, walk it across campus, or whatever.
It seems the go-to phrase is, "I'll tip you handsomely" 🙄
Actually, it's usually a promise that nothing will happen, no thanks, no bonus or simply no tip.
It belongs on one of those lists of, "You can tell a liar if they say..." 😁

Only one time did someone ever follow through and given the situation I was willing to take a chance. Expensive seafood order, going to a gated apartment complex. The guy tells me if I can get past the gate and drop it at the apartment door, he'll add $50 to the tip. I'm thinking they are in the middle of it so I say sure. No one was coming in or out so I hopped the fence, delivered the order and much to my surprise he actually made good. For every one of those, there are hundreds of folks who are full of it. Riders are even worse, they will ask you to make stops, drop them off somewhere else, pick someone else up, ... with promises of big tips. Rarely happens and their idea of big is different than mine so I always ask up front how much are we talking about and we are talking cash right? Even then some of them try to forget and I have to remind them.

 

I’ll tip you on the app = the check is in the mail. People with money never mention a tip. It’s assumed. Conversely anyone bragging about how much money they’ve got = no tip. Only good change to Uber in the last year is how easy it is to block people using the AI ‘driver support’. Anyone screwing me on a tip gets blocked.

 

Maybe it's because I'm English and we have firm ideas about the relationship between having class and not talking about money in this way. But we don't promise to tip a worker; it comes across as boorish and uncouth. If you're going to tip, tip. If you're not, don't. But you don't crow about it to the service person, either way.

 

I learned my lesson long ago with our local entitled (UVA) students. There are several large apartment buildings with attached garages and students often ask me to bring their order to their garage floor with the promise of a bigger tip. The problem is that this can be a big PITA as you almost always get stuck behind traffic going up and down, I just won’t do it; there is a delivery table at the lobby entrance for this purpose. Late at night when there’s no traffic and I can drive like Emmerson Fittipaldi, maybe.
I discovered years ago when students promised a large tip if I would bring it up to their floor (they know that we don’t want to do it) that they’re full of crap and don’t add anything to the tip. Honor Code? Sheesh; that doesn’t apply to lying to Uber drivers. So that’s a firm “nope” for me. The same thing goes for large apartment buildings with a concierge (Northern Virginia); that order is staying downstairs.

 

Exactly 🙄

 

I've heard that stuff too. They'd be better off not saying anything

 

A couple/few times recently, customers have wanted delivery to a different address or were promising tip-upon-delivery, walk it across campus, or whatever.
It seems the go-to phrase is, "I'll tip you handsomely" 🙄
Actually, it's usually a promise that nothing will happen, no thanks, no bonus or simply no tip.
It belongs on one of those lists of, "You can tell a liar if they say..." 😁

Exactly!!!