Tipping van drivers
01-21-2017 | 06:54 AM
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Tipping van drivers
We seem to have a growing number of pilots joining the flight attendants in future Sherpa training feeling the need to travel with everything they own. The standard bag tip anywhere in the world is a buck a bag not a buck for 3 or 4 bags. It's one of the reasons we get less then optimal service and timeliness from some drivers. If you have to travel with the kitchen sink and your blowup doll tip appropriately.
01-21-2017 | 07:27 AM
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Probably the flight attendants with 4 bags also. Really embarrassed by a Delta flight attendant jumpseating to work on JetBlue the other day. She had 4 decent sized bags trying to carry it all on.
01-21-2017 | 07:46 AM
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01-21-2017 | 09:08 AM
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We seem to have a growing number of pilots joining the flight attendants in future Sherpa training feeling the need to travel with everything they own. The standard bag tip anywhere in the world is a buck a bag not a buck for 3 or 4 bags. It's one of the reasons we get less then optimal service and timeliness from some drivers. If you have to travel with the kitchen sink and your blowup doll tip appropriately.
01-21-2017 | 09:20 AM
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I always tip $1/bag. What I never understood was guys tipping on the shuttle to the Training Center when they have no bags. Why that driver, but not the employee bus driver? Or the city bus driver?
01-21-2017 | 09:27 AM
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From: Downwind, headed straight for the rocks, shanghaied aboard the ship of fools.
Half the time I'm the only one who tips at my shop. It's embarrassing but not surprising in this age of people being raised poorly by parents more interested in money than taking the time to produce well mannered decent human beings. I know I'll get jumped for this but don't really care. The lack of tipping is definitely a generational thing. I see it constantly with my own eyes.
01-21-2017 | 09:30 AM
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From: Downwind, headed straight for the rocks, shanghaied aboard the ship of fools.
Yup. It's amusing watching the overheads fill up with dead heading crew bags and then watching the chaos unfold as the paying passengers have limited space to put their stuff. And many times that is aft of their seat assignment.
