Tired Soul based on your post history and knowledge you sound like a fun person to have a beer with. Just saying. On a side note. Call me cheap all you want its still MY money to do as i please with. Period.

 

I dont have any on me.
I am not required per my contract to do it.
My wife is out of work due to Covid and her, plus my three kids are far more important to me.
The van driver is also the manager, front desk clerk, maintenance technician or pretty much any other job at the hotel as is common these days. They are already receiving a higher wage than minimum and running the occasional shuttle to pick us up is secondary.

I could go on and on. For the record, I almost always tip assuming I have singles on me, which I usually do. However, my main beef with this entire thread is the ignorant notion some like to state that watching me fail to tip a van driver is somehow a glimpse into my soul, moral and ethical beliefs and general personality.

Give me a break. If someone chooses to tip, great. If they dont, great. It's a personal choice and I am not so pretentious to believe that I can glean who they are based off one interaction.

 

didn’t realize that $1 for the van driver would break your family, especially when that money is provided in your per diem. Let me guess, you are one of those people who treat permdiem as actual income. I imagine your wife in a bubbabamushka and your kids running around in the dirt yard bare foot.

 

Thank you for proving my point so perfectly. If you bothered to read, I was simply giving examples of reasons people give, which are valid. You in perfect fashion, decided to make a character assumption just like I said people would do.

$750 a year in singles adds up. For someone with a family and a spouse out of work, yeah that’s a big deal. That’s a month or so of groceries, couple car payments, perhaps a months rent for an apartment, several months of medical premiums, paying off debt etc. There is a very real chance the driver is making more than the regional FO tipping him. Explain where in my contract it states how I am to spend my per diem?

My point is stop judging people you don’t even know based off such a weak argument. Not that I have to repeat myself, but as stated I almost always toss a tip, my wife is an unemployed hospitality worker that did work for below minimum wage, using tips to prop up income. My family literally uses tips to pay bills and even I don’t get hung up like some on here do. Insanity.

 

I think the real problem airline pilots have with tipping van drivers is in the morning as the large stack of dollar bills we all carry has disappeared the previous night to get ladies through med school.

 

You're spending 375 nights a year in a hotel room?
Dam and I thought I as a regional guy who averages 100 hrs a month was away from home too much.

 

Don't you get it Cyio. Your family's financial problems are YOUR problems.

The van driver's financial problems are also YOUR problems.

So just do what all the virtue signalers on APC are telling you to do and tip.

Stop hoarding your dollar bills for yourself ya greedy jerk.

 

Shoot, have I been over tipping this entire time? OK, so I often tip $2 so I guess the range should be $400-$800. Even still though, just take what I said and cut it in half and that is still a significant amount of money to someone that is in a tight spot. Remember, not everyone on here is:
1. A Captain
2. A Legacy or Major pilot
3. Free from student debt
4. Single
5. Doesnt have kids.
6. Any combination of the above.

Once again, I have managed to be drawn back into this cancer of a topic lol. Just let people be themselves and the rest will sort itself out.
Yeah I guess, cant help but stick my nose into the horrible topic every time it comes up.

 

sorry I can't tell if that was sarcastic or not, but no the van drivers financial problems are not my problem. I dont get what is wrong with what cyio is saying. He tips, but he thinks its bull*******. I have no problem with that.

 

(sarcasm)
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