Originally Posted by
Green Needles
The FA probably doesn't have six figures in student debt to pay off either.
The FOs do and more of them tip for less pay... what's your excuse for that? I also guarantee you that your take home pay after student debt payments is will worlds ahead of what the FA is making. That might be a new contender for most ignorant aircrew statement I've heard. And that's including mainline pilots who think it's just a matter of paperwork to get hired at a major.
Originally Posted by
animation
It’s a personal choice. You carry cash because you want/need to. Other people don’t carry cash because they don’t want/need to. I’m not going to go out of my way to get cash just for the van driver. If I happen to have cash, I’ll give them $1. I’m not going to make my banking system more inconvenient and inefficient for tipping people. Which is is archaic and unrealistic. If people have to rely on gratuity to get by maybe their employers should pay them more and include the higher labor costs in the cost of goods and services.
In many things the US is stuck a century behind. Also, there’s no need for tip shaming lol.
You just admitted that it's not that you "forget" to have tip money. You intentionally don't. I don't care for the tipping culture, but you are an embarrassment to the profession. And yes, there is a need for calling attention to this. Endeavor pilots and CAs specifically have a reputation now because of this of being cheapskates who aren't even honest enough to tell the truth about it. It's not an aircrew thing, it's not a generation thing, and it's not even a regional pilot thing. It's an Endeavor thing. Don't complain about not being treated like a professional if you can't act like one.