Guys have been here sanding and doing our floors.
They will be putting the final coat on today.
I was wondering, it is customary to tip hourly guys?
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“Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.”
Guys have been here sanding and doing our floors.
They will be putting the final coat on today.
I was wondering, it is customary to tip hourly guys?
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“Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.”
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Not customary but of course, undoubtedly appreciated ;)
IMHO a lot depends on your relationship. Are they employees of a firm you hired or self employed? Did they go above and beyond? For myself, I generally tip if I have any doubts, including the guys that tip my dumpsters if I see them or the guys that deliver for the lumberyard. I've often found it yields benefits out of proportion to the ten bucks...
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I usually tip an hourly if they provide some useful advice or tips about whatever they're working on e.g. AC or furnace. Or if they seem really interested in what they are doing and take great care while they're doing it....good for me and positive reinforcement for them.
On BT it's customary to tip the icons, like Piffen. Here's a link to his account. http://www.mypiggybank.com
Little kindnesses like this mean a lot and go a long way to make your world a little nicer place. (Which you probably kn0w, since you're even considering it--I'll bet you're a generous tipper of waitresses/waiters.)
My wife taught me this by her habitual thoughtfulness to everybody that does personal service for us--garbage men, UPS drivers, mailmen, drive-up bank tellers, etc. It's usually just candy or bake stuff. And it comes back, too. They all go the extra little bit for us when the need arises.
Years ago I did a job of setting a handicap toilet for a guy who lived about 70 miles away on the borders of Yellowstone Park where it was hard to get trades people. He not only paid my boss, but gave me a $50 tip. The case of Bass Ale I bought with part of it tasted all the better.
I can remember every person who gave me a tip.
Providing a cooler with cold beverages can go a long way. A sack of burgers at lunch time likewise.
The problem with giving cash tips for stuff like this is 'how much to give?' $5 or $10 just looks cheap on a thousand-dollar+ job...but $50 or $100 each starts running into real dough.
However, that same 'cheap' 10-spot will buy a six-pack of good, imported beer, and the guys will appreciate it far more than that small amount of cash.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
So in Canada a good import beer is Budweiser? :o)
Go wash yer mouth out with soap!
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
I kept a cooler on the porch filled with ice and stuff (we did that for all the crews).
This guy and his helper just went overboard to meet our timeline, explained to the wife and I all the nuances about the floor process and after care etc.
Thanks for all the input.
Here is a part of it before the final coat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/bo444444/floor.jpg
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"Good looking people turn me off. Myself included."
Edited 6/11/2009 9:19 am ET by Sailfish
Edited 6/11/2009 11:13 am ET by Sailfish
Hey yourself I though you Canuckians were ever so polite...
But I suppose technically you're still one of us 'Muricans.
But I was gonna say Coors but I think Molson owns them now....
So....Bud is owned by InterBev now so tell all your buddies it's Belgian.....
Just wondering since Canada produces such good brews and Canadians what would be considered a good "import".
Lefty-a teetotaler and not because I live in Kansas
So....Bud is owned by InterBev now so tell all your buddies it's Belgian.....
That's called inverse greenback imperialism--Les belges obviously saw a way to make lotsa MurkenBucks by selling bubbly pisswater to people with no tastebuds...of which there are a helluva lot more on this side of the pond than on their own.
The version of Bud made that is brewed here in Canada routinely shocks Murrican Bud drinkers up here visiting the Great White Nawth, because it almost tastes like something. Not compared to real beer, of course, but compared to what's sold under the same name south of da border.
Unfortunately, the Canadian Big 3--Molson, O'Keefe, and Labatt's--have adopted the Budweiser model of beer marketing over the last 20 years; those formerly decent brews are now deliberately made with as little taste as possible so they will offend as few palates as possible.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Remember the fourth big brand Dow Beer? That left a bad taste in a few Canadian mouths.
I'm with you on tipping. Nice stuff rather than money. I don't want what happened in many service industries to happen in construction where after a while it was expected and employers lower wages to take tips into account.
Fortunately, no, I do not remember that stuff.
The only thing we have now which tastes like a 'typical' Canadian beer used to taste is produced by a very ballsy not-so-micro brewery called Unibroue. Owned in part by a well-known Quebec singer/songwriter (Robert Charlebois), Unibroue sells a lot of beer in Europe and is not afraid to buck the mass-market N. American trends. They have produced some of the most interesting beers ever brewed on this continent, and manage to make a nice bit of money doing so, too. (Take that, Anheuiser Busch! <pffrrrttt!!>)
A lot of their product is high-alcohol, Belgian-style brew, but about 12 years ago they came out with an 'old style' Canadian beer and called it La Bolduc after the famous, early-20th century Quebec chanteuse Mary Travers who performed under that name. For the first several years, Unibroue even bucked the bottle trends, and sold La Bolduc in old-style Canadian 'stubbies'. It tastes just the way good Canuckian brew did before the Big Boyz got 'murricanised.
But with deposit/return on beer bottles, it got too complicated to keep the beer in stubbies since all other breweries were using 'murrican-style long-necks, and the retailers were screaming about having to separate out the returns. Major supermarket chains refused to carry the brand so they wouldn't have to accept the returns of stubbies, so, sadly, Unibroue had to cave on that and we now get La Bolduc in long-necks.
Tastes almost as good, LOL, but now I pour it into a glass to drink it.
Still, I'm glad I saved three or four cases of the stubbies for making my own beer....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
I was just strolling on by, and heard talk of beer! Hadda stop.
Then heard talk of Canadian beer! Hadda enter.
I haven't had any in years! Probably not since I was a kid, man that was years ago!
Ever been to Gagnon Quebec? I know it wasn't lately.
I'll take a Molson if there are any extra's :)
It is a shame that all the people who really know how to run this country, and run it right, are busy, cutting hair, driving taxi's and trucks! I believe George Burns said something to that effect.
Ya wanna Molson? Yer 25 years too late. It now tastes like bud or coors or miller or whatever.
Go down to the dépaneur and pick up a 12 of Bolduc....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Dam!, see how long I been gone from the great north!
It is a shame that all the people who really know how to run this country, and run it right, are busy, cutting hair, driving taxi's and trucks! I believe George Burns said something to that effect.
My teen years were spent on Brador. It was always funny to feed it to exchange students from the States used to less potent brews. "What's wrong with my legs?"
Oh, yeah, Brador malt. Haven't seen any of that around for a while; dunno if they still make it.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Yea, for cleaning the driveway.
MikeInsert initially amusing but ultimately annoying catch phrase here.
"I was wondering, it is customary to tip hourly guys?"
Depends on two things.
Where they will fall.
And whether they can take a joke or not.
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