I’m a bit hazy as it was 2006, but it was transportation that I paid for, like a private company I’m pretty sure. Not hotel transport or anything like that. I went to Grand Central with my luggage and got a ticket and got on it.
Edit: Like maybe it was run by the city IDK, but it was a thing I bought a ticket for, cheaper than getting a cab. Express service though not just the number 809 to Long Island or whatever.
I’m not tipping a Greyhound bus driver and I’ve never seen anybody do that. However, it doesn’t sound that way since they’re specifically asking which airline you want to be dropped off in front of. Seems more like private transportation to me.
Do you recall pointing out to the driver that he blew right by the airline you’re using? If you did, what was the driver’s response? I’m not gonna stiff a guy for an honest mistake. At JFK, they can just go around again and get to your drop off point rather than stopping immediately and making you walk.
As for the gruffness, some people have shitty days and might be a bit snappy. I can be forgiving for that.
In short, it depends.
Nah I didn’t talk to him. I was pissed that he treated me like an idiot for not knowing what information I was supposed to be providing. Blowing past the terminal was icing on the cake. When I didn’t tip him he gave me a look like he was aware why. I wouldn’t not tip because a waitress wasn’t quick enough with my drink or didn’t wish me a nice day or whatever bullshit but he was actively rude. I’d still have tipped if he did his job properly, but when he fucked that up too I was like yeah, no.
Nah. I don’t think you’re the asshole.
Tipping is designed to ensure quality service. Based on your description, it seems like he intentionally missed your stop. After all if he wasn’t 100% sure, he would have asked to confirm it. Not only would I not tip, I would’ve told him to go fuck himself right after I had my luggage off the shuttle if possible.
He didn’t intentionally miss it, there was another lady for American as well, he just fucked up.
I’d tip if he apologized for his mistake. If he said nothing, then screw him.
I’m less bothered by gruff behavior than most I guess.
Tipping is stupid. I overtip everywhere but the whole concept is upsetting.
JFK or LGA or wherever it was it’s a one way road past all the terminals, once he’d driven past it he couldn’t take us back there. Getting the airtrain back wasn’t a big deal. The lady who was also for American did tip. I quizzed her about it a little afterwards because I’m not familiar with tipping culture. She said she just autopiloted and didn’t even think about it.
Also this, glad we don’t have it here. Service is less, well, servile and grovelling here, which I prefer.
this, it’s absolutely insane that people have to depend on this shit system for their income. What’s even more infuriating is the fucking shitbag assholes that use the fact that the system is insane as an excuse to stiff the people who are depending on it, as if the waiters are the ones who set up this system and perpetuate it.
Frequent flyer groups/forums are full of all sorts of absolute turds, just amazing how shitty a lot of people are, and there are very few things that give me more pleasure than dunking on shitbags who brag about how cheap they are when it comes to tipping.
I mean, I get why people love to tweet about shit like “OMG COCAINE MITCH SAID ONE THING IN 2016 BUT ANOTHER IN 2020 WE GOT HIM” because even though it’s 100% not ever going to have any practical impact those dunks can really get you through the day
Yeah, Mitch brazenly clowning on Democrats on judicial appointments is probably one of the only things that Kentucky Republican primary voters actually like about McConnell.
Like a lot of things in America, it rewards people with personality disorders.
Normal regular compassionate people: "service at this restaurant has been pretty mediocre, this waiter may even be a little hungover or something, but man would it suck to be waiting tables, maybe his kid is sick or something, an extra $5 tip will change my life zero (thinks all this in 5 seconds, never thinks of it again)
A person with a personality disorder: "that person is lucky to have me here as a customer or else they would have no job at all, and when i spend my hard earned money at cheesecake factory a tip must be earned, not expected, and by the way can i talk to your manager
To this day it blows my mind that the bottom group is not only not shunned by society and laughed at to their face, but taken seriously and often rewarded with exceptional shit like a free meal or whatever, god i truly hate this country
right, these shitheads are so enabled by those fucking Cheesecake Factory managers kowtowing to them that an offhand comment by a nerd on a frequent flyer Facebook group sends them into a full tailspin, HOW DARE YOU SIR MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS and I’m like hey fuckface, nobody forced you to brag in public about what an asshole you are. Absolute snowflakes.
I’m sure this would be more confirmation of it, but I stopped leaving reviews on Yelp and Google a while back for restaurants after hearing a ridiculous story somewhere after the pandemic started about some other jerk bitching about shitty service. I’d been leaning there for a while and basically hadn’t done any “reviews” after various shows like South Park, Bob’s Burgers, Mike Tyson Mysteries et al gave them the business.
It finally dawned on me that, no, I am not the god damn Roger Ebert of Food, I’m just some other Karen or whatever the male equivalent is (Ken? Chad? Did we decide that yet?) and, just like Stan Marsh, literally no one but I gives a fuck about what I think about anything.
I will only leave a review now if they genuinely screw me over, like actively, it was someone’s fault and they refused to make it right. Shit like that does absolutely need to be called out publicly imo. But whining about the server because you had to ask her to repeat herself because of her mask or your wait was longer than expected? Gtfo with that noise.
Latest “Common Sense” with Carlin is good. He’s as shook as we are.
Marianne Williamson brought some heat on Yangs podcast. She is truly a progressive, more so than Yang.
I’m planning on listening to this later.
So much this. I’m glad to live in a country where tipping is not mandatory.
That said, I have been tipping at my regular hangouts lately because they’ve been hit real hard and I get paid in full pandemic or not.
I guffawed at the idea of Jefferson at a BLM protest even though I know what he means. The rest was about what I’d expect from him.
Carlin pod is good.
A thing I never considered before listening to the Citations Needed podcast is that when you’re doing a Yelp review of some restaurant, you’re doing middle-management work for free.