Originally Posted by
greatmovieistar
Well that's the beauty of it, that $100 is not income so no need to invest it. It is part of my per diem which my company provides to cover expenses while on the road.
See this is where your thinking goes wrong.
Tipping is not an “expense”, it’s a gift.
A gratuity (normally called a tip) is a sum of money customarily given by a client or customer to certain service sector workers for the service they have performed, in addition to the basic price of the service.
Then we have this:
However, studies of the practice in America suggest that tipping is often discriminatory or arbitrary: workers receive different levels of gratuity based on factors such as age, sex, race, hair color and even breast size, and the size of the gratuity is found to be only very weakly related to the quality of service.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...check-please-3
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