Originally Posted by
NewbiePilot
A van driver getting tips for transporting people, is akin to pilots getting tips for transporting people. I don’t ask for, or get tips for transporting people so why should they? We both get paid a wage to do our jobs that we have agreed to when we took the job in the first place.
ah a historical misunderstanding. This may unlock a hidden code in the world around you.
One is a professional (in the classical sense) the other is not. A pilot is not tipped because we are certificated, held to standards by an outside regulating body and occasionally meet some sort of recurrent standard. It is the base reason every person who works for a living wants state they are a “professional”.
You do not tip your doctor, teacher, lawyer, plumber, engineer, pilot, etc.
Another non-tipped person is the proprietor.