tipping installers
06-30-2004, 06:11 PM
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I know this is done in the USA and I am just wondering if anyone has witnessed it here
anyone? how much? should it be done?
anyone? how much? should it be done?
06-30-2004, 07:35 PM
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I don't think its done near as often as it should be. Unfortunatly people rarley even even see the installers let alone tip em. Whats the difference between a hair stylest and an installer? Besides the fact that its much harder work being an installer than cutting hair. When the last time a hair dresser had to stuff themselves under a dash for an hour? I dunno...I think installers should get tipped. Maybe make it a function on the interact machine? Or on the bill?
06-30-2004, 07:44 PM
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FS installers take a tip they lose their jobs. How's that for gratitude.
06-30-2004, 08:00 PM
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^^
Unless you tell your manager
Of course if there is a case of beer sitting beside your car when you go home, you can't leave it sitting in the parking lot
Unless you tell your manager
Of course if there is a case of beer sitting beside your car when you go home, you can't leave it sitting in the parking lot
06-30-2004, 09:17 PM
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I ahd a guy who wanted to give me a fifty. I said I could get fired for taking it. As he drove away he threw it out the window of the car. I thought that was funny.
06-30-2004, 11:06 PM
#6
That's too bad -- a couple of guys used to bring me Guinness around Christmas time every year and I was a lowly salesmen! (yes, I would offer to share it with the boys in the back but they did not like Guinness). I used to always let clients tip the installers -- in fact I would sometimes let the installer just charge a customer cash and keep it if it was a quick job and they had to do it outside (especially in the rain) -- and they were on salary!
07-01-2004, 07:45 AM
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we get and accept tips all the time, be it cash or beer or crown royal or whatever, its part of the job, like whacker said, you tip the person who cuts your hair, wtf is up with that, i have even told customers on occasion that the tech did some great work and went above the call of duty so i think you should slide him a gratuity, never once has a guy not done it, i got a tip for all the guys that dont tip, tip ya fokker
07-01-2004, 11:30 AM
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i dont remember ever getting a cash tip, but ive gotten some pretty sweet gear as a tip [img]tongue.gif[/img]
07-02-2004, 11:45 AM
#10
Nothing like getting some good bum for a tip (from a hot chick only though), followed closely by Crown, lunch, slurpees, whatever. It's nice to know that the customer appreciates the job done and when they stop in to see why their car is still here after 2 days of glass work, exactly why things take so long. Yup put a deck and amp into a old Daytona back in the late 80's up in Armstrong and the girl had just bought the car a couple of months earlier. Seems she was also a bar star and always put her change in the center console. Well here I am putting in the deck and running the wires and just before I do I run my feet across the carpet under the floor mat and all I hear is crunch crunch crunch. Put my arm in under the smelly wet floor carpet and pull out $12.00 in change, Crunch, crunch, crunch. Eventually pull out the seats and center console to find $357.93 (wrote it down) in loonies and quarters etc that she did not know she had that had fallen out of the center console. IF you guys ever have one of these mid 80's Daytonas come in, check for loose change under the carpet, mainly up front. Did this chick give me a tip, not a chance, she paid her bill and went to the bank, what a cheapskate.
