Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
Well, they're most likely still driving the van, and you're now driving a 747. Besides, you are just completely out of touch if you think a hotel van driver is pulling down $50k/yr part time.
Nope not out of touch.
Back in my commuter days I was scraping to make ends meet and that $2 per day could actually mean the difference between eating dinner or not. Of course this was in the early to mid 90s and I could get a McDs meal for $3.
I never said that I though they were pulling down $50k a year.
I had a conversation with one driver and he made about $16-$20k a year working part time, plus tips. Well, that part time job paid more than I made full time (not including tips).
I do believe this whole tipping culture thing has gotten out of hand.
A couple of years back I had a NYC cabbie get ****y that I didn't give him a tip. Might have been the fact that I had to give him direction to a well known intersection that he should have known, was on the phone for most of the trip, cab smelled and of course he did even get out of the cab to attempt to load my bag.