Well this will be the first holiday season that Ubers had tipping option. Any predictions? Generally people tip those that they don't normally tip during the year. Notice the amount of tips have cooled off a bit since beginning. I think most people feel that they'll never see you again any way? And most would be right.
The Holidays. The real test to tipping.
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Well this will be the first holiday season that Ubers had tipping option. Any predictions? Generally people tip those that they don't normally tip during the year. Notice the amount of tips have cooled off a bit since beginning. I think most people feel that they'll never see you again any way? And most would be right.
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I got pretty good tips around Halloween.
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My pools tend to tip me. Either thru no show or in the app.
When an uberpool rider is heading to Reagan ...I ask the arrival time and if we hit traffic I choke the chain. Usually this gets me 5-6 dollar tip right there.
$172 dollar with 23 trips last night. $14 in tips....also the uberx rides still take to damn long but they balance the workflow out. The noshows went to couples asking for uberpool last night. Sorry y’all no one gets a 2 fer 1 ticket to my pool ride.
I’m trying to finish quest by Sunday. I’m 7 rides away from $90 so my logic tells me that Saturday will default to s day where I win ~200-250 dollars.
When an uberpool rider is heading to Reagan ...I ask the arrival time and if we hit traffic I choke the chain. Usually this gets me 5-6 dollar tip right there.
$172 dollar with 23 trips last night. $14 in tips....also the uberx rides still take to damn long but they balance the workflow out. The noshows went to couples asking for uberpool last night. Sorry y’all no one gets a 2 fer 1 ticket to my pool ride.
I’m trying to finish quest by Sunday. I’m 7 rides away from $90 so my logic tells me that Saturday will default to s day where I win ~200-250 dollars.
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Some weeks are better than others but I usually get tipped daily
Made about 55 total tips this week
Made about 55 total tips this week
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Even though I think passengers are idiots for tipping they do tend to tip often.
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Would like to know your logic
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You get no added value for the extra money, to me it is a waste of resources to tip especially an Uber driver.
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A tip is an acknowledgement of superior service. Americans typically tip hairdressers, barbers, bell boys, luggage attendants, mail carriers among other things.
I personally open doors for ladies, lead the blind, allow dogs, handle luggage, give advice to out of towners and carry on decent conversation when amicable. If someone wants to tip then I'll graciously accept it. Some of the stuff I do falls under my list above so if you'd tip those people it makes sense to tip me.
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I don't tip those that you listed above with the exception of my barber, nor do I tip servers in restaurants unless I will be making that place a normal hang out otherwise I get no value out of that tip.
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No wonder people dislike you
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I will loose much sleep over the fact that some people on the internet do not like me.
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I'm sure you will, stay blessedI will loose much sleep over the fact that some people on the internet do not like me.
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I usually leave a 20% tip when I go to restaurants and tip my barber. Uber passengers are so cheap. Last night, I pick two overweight women with huge suitcases that overfilled my trunck. The hotel doorman pushes the luggage to my car, they tip him $5. I place the heavy load in my trunck, drive them safely to their destination, carry polite conversation with them along the way, and unload their supper heavy luggage out to the curb. No tip. My trip fare was $4.20. The hotel doorman got more for doing 0.001% of my effort.
New lesson: Passengers with luggage = Cancel
New lesson: Passengers with luggage = Cancel
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And he more than likely was getting full pay on top of that, I do not understand why someone tips someone like a doorman.
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Sure, full pay + zero overhead. He does not have to pay for a car, insurance, gas, or taxes on his $5 tip. I have to pay all the above on my $4.20.
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I have family coming in..... I think I might increase my driving over the next few weeks.
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The only times that I noticed increased tips were:
Thanksgiving Week
Congress' last week here in December
Christmas Week
Other than that, people tip normally, if they tip at all.
As one who through tireless labour and unstinting effort has achieved the Rank of Inspector in the Grammar Police, I am compelled to demonstrate to you this error in vocabulary. It is indeed, a common error, but it is an error nevertheless.
A preposition is something that you do not end a sentence with.
We used to have this lady who picked up a cab at the Watergate Stand (2500-2510 Virginia) and went to Sligo Mill and Eastern (on the D.C. side), usually right after Official Rush Hour ended, thus she avoided paying the Rush Hour Surcharge. It was a long four zone trip that no driver wanted. She tipped you the change, which was ten to thirty five cents. She gave the doorman there one dollar just to open the door of the cab for her.
"Tired of your spouse and screaming children? Is your obnoxious mother-in-law coming to town? Are annoying relatives visiting? ...............ESCAPE it all and EARN while you're escaping! Sign up TO-DAY!!!!!!! Go to wwwdotTHISTNCdotcom to SIGN UP TO-DAY!!!!!!!!"
Thanksgiving Week
Congress' last week here in December
Christmas Week
Other than that, people tip normally, if they tip at all.
Follow his posts and you will see from whence he comes. His logic is unassailable. The bottom line demonstrates what the cynic says about logic, i.e. that it is far too often a means of proving the absurd.
Do you intend to let it go deliberately or will it escape you without your being willing? If the former, while stilted, "loose" (or its various forms) is not incorrect (word choice deliberate). If the latter, the word that you want is "lose".I will loose much sleep over the fact that some people on the internet do not like me.
As one who through tireless labour and unstinting effort has achieved the Rank of Inspector in the Grammar Police, I am compelled to demonstrate to you this error in vocabulary. It is indeed, a common error, but it is an error nevertheless.
A preposition is something that you do not end a sentence with.
I see this all the time. They used to tip the doorman a couple of dollars for p utting the suitcases into my trunk then tip me thirty cents for unloading them at the Station.
We used to have this lady who picked up a cab at the Watergate Stand (2500-2510 Virginia) and went to Sligo Mill and Eastern (on the D.C. side), usually right after Official Rush Hour ended, thus she avoided paying the Rush Hour Surcharge. It was a long four zone trip that no driver wanted. She tipped you the change, which was ten to thirty five cents. She gave the doorman there one dollar just to open the door of the cab for her.
If you do not, the doorman will be quite vocal about it to you. The hotels will not do anything about it if you complain, especially after the fact. The hotels will go so far as to deny that doormen commit any abuses at all. The one exception was the Sheraton National (South Orme at Columbia Pike). If you complain about a doorman's abusing you while it is happening, the only thing that will happen is that the Assistant Manager will make him back off of his nonsense. Nothing will happen to him.
He makes his best money from selling the most profitable trips to members of his Payola Club.
That might be a good advertisement for drivers for the TNCs
"Tired of your spouse and screaming children? Is your obnoxious mother-in-law coming to town? Are annoying relatives visiting? ...............ESCAPE it all and EARN while you're escaping! Sign up TO-DAY!!!!!!! Go to wwwdotTHISTNCdotcom to SIGN UP TO-DAY!!!!!!!!"
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I do not spend all that much time or effort thinking about grammar and spelling on a forum there is a time and a place for such, for me this is not it.
As to doormen, I have never tipped one and as of yet never had one give me any problem about it. Than again I never ask nor let them touch my luggage or do anything other than grab the door when I go in or out.
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