TIPPING IS PLAIN STUPID!
BOTTOM LINE:
So why do we allow this scam, in the form/system of "tipping," to go on by our participation in this practice?
Easy! Mainly because of the massive social pressure on us to do so.
Also, there is the vanity aspect--we ourselves, love to tip-- "put on the dog," as they say --by impressing ourselves and others in our demonstarted generosity and ability to reward, handsomely, those "underlings" --yes, perceived underlings, if you care to be honest with yourself about it--even though said underlings may easily be pocketing higher wages than you yourself and for less effort.
And, their employers are laughing at all of us while they are quite content with their lower operating costs, as they, and the IRS, manipulate the whole scene to their personal advantage.
What If....
All costs of going out for meals, etc.--both goods and services--were included in the cost as listed--just like most other things. No tips, surcharges, gratuities, no BS!, whatever... WHAT A CONCEPT!!!
(Login Dick Gaines) Forum Owner from IP address 71.1.245.84
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How did a gratuity given to a serving person come to be called a tip?
Tip is underworld cant meaning to pass on, to hand to, especially to pass on a small sum of money. The ultimate origin of the word is not known. It may come from the sense of tip meaning to lightly touch someone, but this is by no means certain. From Samuel Rowland's 1610 Martin Mark-All:
Tip me that Cheate, Giue me that thing.
and
Tip a make ben Roome Coue, Giue a halfepeny good Gentlemen.
The sense meaning to give a small sum of money, appears at the beginning of the 18th century. From George Farquhar's 1706-07 The Beaux Stratagem:
Then I, Sir, tips me the Verger with half a Crown.
The noun appears about a half-century later. From J. Barebones in The Connoisseur No. 70. of 1755:
I assure you I have laid out every farthing...in tips to his servants.
The idea that it comes from an acronym for to insure promptness is just plain wrong.
(Source: Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd Edition)
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