Should retail worckers get tips?

[bluemoth]

So while at work I lifted up a shirt to hang it back up and out flew a five dollar bill on to the floor. Was it a tip from a costumer or just some misplaced money? Ether way I was pretty excited. This brings up the question in the heading of this thread. Retail is one of the most annoying jobs on earth. You are ether stocking or picking up miss placed items by costumers. My job is to pick up at the end of the day in a store that sells mostly cloths. Clothes store workers I think get it the toughest. Cloths layed on top of racks, dropped on the floor, unfolded clothes, clothes miss placed from another department, and hidden items that costumers plan to come back later for- all that must be hung up and or put back in the right places. So next time you are out shopping and see a man or women doing the grunt work of keeping a store looking nice think about giving them a tip. Beleve me it will brighten their day and make you feel good to.

[myotis]

I also used to work in retail and know how that goes. I think it's great when anyone who works in a service type industry receives a tip. Whatever happened to tips being for a job well done. Now in the restaurant industry, thanks to govt/ tax rules and regs) it is and expected and needed part of their incomes.

On a side note, I have noticed that often when I add my tip onto a credit card, it is seldom taken. Why? Case in point. I was out last week and my bill was $26 and change. Paid with my card and added $5. It was not taken. This happens more times than not.

[joee30]

I have gotten tips many times, mostly chump change, but it is appreciated none the less because I can buy me a pop or some coffee. I work at a Petco, and don't expect to get tipped much, but when I get a buck or two for helping someone out, it is appreciated very much.

[nomad]

Don't Ya mean workers. what is a worcker a strange animal. Give them a tip they are so badly paid. At least if they give good service and smile a lot.

[leptraps]

I will tip for good service. However, minimum wage requires minimum skills. If you are planning on making a career in a minimum wage/skills job, you need to reasse your career and education. If not, plan on being part of the working poor.

Remember, it is YOUR choice.

[Deleted]

The fact anybody has to do a job that is not desirable is one of the biggest detriments to human society. Sure you can say it builds character, but so does chasing butterflies. There has been a proposal for something called a Universal Basic Income that would give everybody something like $1500 a month to help cover basic expenses. This would allow a safety net for people to seek higher education or start their own business without worrying about short term survival. This idea will not be fully realized until we have a competent robotic workforce to do these menial jobs for us, but it looks like it might be coming sooner than later. I have worked retail and labor intensive jobs like building fence, and respect was appreciated a lot more than the tips. It was especially interesting to see the way "rich" people treat retail/service workers when I was working for Sun Valley Co-almost no consideration whatsoever. These are people with feelings and aspirations just like everybody else, we were all born equal and are a product of our environment, some more lucky than others.

[leptraps]

I agree with what you state, however, we have a 22% dropout rate from High School. How do you exist in a society of the USA with limited education. Almost 30% of the babies born in the USA are born out of wedlock and most of those children eventual become part of the Welfare System, which includes health care. We, the tax payers fund all of these programs. It creates a huge part of our debt. In the next year or two, you will experience a tax hike that will be required to pay for the sins of our Society. AND, the likes of Hillary Clinton will lead the effort to fund the "ever needy". Someone must pay for these programs, and that someone is the good old American Tax Payer.

The American dream is no longer making fortune, but get on the one of the government programs for life.

We will become a Welfare State in the near future.

[Deleted]

This is a huge topic and I don't claim to have all the answers. The American lifestyle is extravagant and wasteful in my opinion. We can spend a trillion dollars on a fighter jet that we never use? We can allow doctors to charge extravagant prices and submit false reports that cost the taxpayers billions of dollars annually? That's where your tax dollars are going. If I remember right, we could have sent every eligible college student to school for free, for 4 years, for the amount it cost to build an airplane concept that will most likely never see use, not to mention the exorbitant prices charged at these institutions. The social security system is flawed as well.

If you were to take all of this money and funnel it into a basic income, you could eliminate all of those other programs and you would have a fair society, not this dog eat dog world that we find ourselves in. And then we put the success stories up on a podium and call it inspiration, I would say hardly. You are creating an elitist society.

People are lazy in general, but I would ask you to question what work really is. It has been a necessity for all of human history, but this is a new era. Digging a ditch is not admirable, but a necessity. Even lazy people don't sit around and do nothing all of the time. Everybody has interests, and I have heard a number of older gentleman express how retirement opened up the possibility to explore their hobby, their passion. There is a stark difference between following a passion and being a cog in the system we call society.

[joee30]

Agreed. I have noticed this too. That is why I laugh at the people who back certain political candidates because they promise jobs. There are jobs, but people think they are too good for them. Retail is easy as hell, until you have to deal with ###ty people. Even then, the good thing is that at least you can go up the ladder, and get a pay increase each year, which helps. But people are lazier now, and want everything to be easy. Even in working retail, I make ends meet, and that is all I need. I get to go to school, and work on the weekends, and still make enough to pay rent and bills.

[exoticimports]

Jul 26, 2016 8:57:34 GMT -8 @cacicus101 said:

People are lazy in general, but I would ask you to question what work really is. It has been a necessity for all of human history, but this is a new era. Digging a ditch is not admirable, but a necessity. Even lazy people don't sit around and do nothing all of the time. Everybody has interests, and I have heard a number of older gentleman express how retirement opened up the possibility to explore their hobby, their passion. There is a stark difference between following a passion and being a cog in the system we call society.

Guilty. I am a very lazy person. Problem is, I have undiagnosed ADD (as do all my friends) and I can't sit still, I have to get up and do something. So sadly, I cannot enjoy the fruits of my natural lazy tendencies.

Now, whether my ADD is biological or social I do not know. But I can tell you that there are many urban youths who are lazy, and who do sit around and do nothing all day.

Retirement opens time to explore passions IF the passion is affordable on the retirement income. I know people who saved nothing and are retired, and can explore nothing. Those who can truly spread their wings have worked hard, saved money, invested, and can now spend. To get to this point, one must be a cog in the social system. Everyone, minus survivalists perhaps, is a cog, and that includes the self-employed and CEOs. Everyone answers to somebody. I like to think that this is not necessarily bad, since a well working cog contributes to society and improves it.

But giving everyone $1500/month won't do a thing. Most will subsist on it, and subsidized it with social services support (e.g., multitudes of children), crime, etc. It is no surprise that those who could make use of that $1500 to make something of their efforts are the same who don't need the $1500 to begin with. And, that $1500/month has to come from somewhere- and it's no surprise that it comes from those that don't need (or don't get) that $1500. That's wasted socialism.

BTW that million dollar jet fighter demonstrates trickle down economics, which works in our society. Freebies don't.

Chuck