Can You Spare Some Change?

Can I get some spare change?????

I just returned from Las Vegas, as you know from my last missive. In Vegas, nearly everyone gets tipped. A gratuity is part of the normal compensation for most of the services offered.

$1 per bag if someone handles or carries them.

$2 per drink.

5% to the dealer for a winning hand.

$1 to the valet.

20% to your waitress.

The list goes on and on.

Where are there no tips, you may ask. Places like Starbucks, McDonalds (or any other fast food joint), retail outlets, or places where the employees are not traditionally tipped.

So why is it that the chick at Dairy Queen near my house has a tip jar by the register? It's not just DQ, it's everywhere. Wherever I go I see a tip jar where the "need a penny" try used to be. When did being a register jockey merit tipping? A tip is a gratuity for a service, the chick that took my order and money and then told someone else to make my meal didn't do anything to merit a tip. I'd rather give money to a bum or a crackhead.

The bums and crackheads are asking for money legitimately, the counter girl is trying to guilt tips out of foolish customers. Not me. Lately I've been an asshole. I use the tip jar to make exact change. If something costs me $5.79, guess where I get my $0.79? You got it. I'm doing my part to put the lazy American worker is his or her place.

Advice.... If you want a job that receives tips, go wait tables or tend bar. If you want to be a register jockey; then accept your hourly wage and deal with your poor career choices.

Perhaps I'll put a tip jar on the console at my next gig. Whhttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=35548832#ere do you think that would get me?