Ever accidentally over-tip?

[IheartMickey]

I also keep mis-reading the title of this post as "Ever accidentally tip over?" The worst part is, I actually have accidentally tipped over before

LOL! I read it the same way!

 

[ChiCat]

I have also accidentally undertipped, and that haunts me worse than over tipping.

OMG I made this mistake. I always do easy math for tipping, you know $2 for every ten dollars you spend for a 20% tip but one time I was in Boston and it hit me like a ton of bricks that my math got fuzzy for a little while and I thought it was $2 for every $20 I spent so I know for sure I went out for at least one nice dinner where I tipped the server 10%. Now I'm extra paranoid.

As far as overtipping, we do it sometimes on purpose like the meal is $20 between two friends and we just put in two 5 dollar bills because that's all we have on us and we don't feel like waiting around for change. But last March while we were in NYC, we had this chaotic day that ended at us 3 girls having pizza at this restaurant and the bill came to around $50, we all chipped in money and had $80 and my friend said I'm good if you are good. Which I was like fine whatever, so we left and my friend that had settled the bill (also the most frazzled that day) was like OMG do you $5, I think we undertipped that guy! She was already to run back in and I was like no dude we way overtipped him, lets just go get some more much needed drinks.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Totally read that as fiance and I was slightly weirded out that your significant other would make you turn in receipts for all of your purchases.

Too funny

Yeah, no receipts now that I'm married. I'm not allowed out of the house with money

 

[Sabeking]

My DH does this all the time but on purpose! He gets a haircut for 10 bucks and then leaves a 10 dollar tip a hundred percent. He says he feels guilty about only paying 10 dollars for a haircut. Yea, but a hundred percent! I totally believe in tipping well for great service;I waited on plenty of tables in my day. Even if he has a cruddy haircut he will leave 10 bucks. I need to reel in my big spender.:rolleyes

After rereading I realized you said accidental...sorry.

 

[minnie56]

Yup...
In Venice 2 years ago DH overtipped in a restaurant by $200 Euros!

Ouch.

 

[denisenh]

we treated DD and SIL to a florida vacation, spending our first night at MCO (whatever hotel is in the airport) . DH gave them a $100 bill to pay for their room service breakfast in the morning as we had separate rooms.

They ordered twenty or thirty $'s total and SIL gave the room service attendent the $100. bill along with the very kind words "keep the change" .

It was pretty funny, he was embarrassed and we will never let him forget it.

 

[DebbieB]

If it makes you feel better, I read it as:

I once got hassled by FRANCE for "over tipping".

Yea, I couldn't understand why a whole country would hassle someone.

I need sleep...

I first read it as fiancee.

My group at work once got told by one of our bosses that we were overtipping on the company expense account. No more than 15%.....we started leaving extra cash at the table because we felt bad.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I generally over tip too...but never 40%.

To be fair though, it was a 90 minute treatment that included a facial, head/neck massage and a little arm/leg massage too. All for $50 (normally $60 but she was having a "sale" to build new clients). So in the end I still think it was worth $70 all together.

If it helps, it's customary to tip on the regular price. So you "only" tipped 33% .

 

[disneymarie]

Yes, I was at POR and room service came up with items requested. No hurry it was pouring out. I think it was extra pillows, shampoo, soap and towels, also not to worry about remaking he room up, we were sleeping in.

With in minutes the gal showed up and gave us enough for our week, and four pillows instead of two. We had two connecting rooms.

I handed her what I thought was a $5 dollar bill, and she was all gooshy too. It wasn't until the pizza delivery came I realized it was my $50!dollar bill

But, I justified it the days the same gal was on, as her daily tip...I think she accepted that too. $@ $5 per room the 5 days she was working. The last day there was a new fella and we left him accordingly.

Not so hard to accept the damage after that.

 

[happygirl]

I don't think it possible to over tip for good service

 

[snarlingcoyote]

If it makes you feel better, I read it as:

I once got hassled by FRANCE for "over tipping".

Yea, I couldn't understand why a whole country would hassle someone.

I need sleep...

This is how I read it the first time too! But I've met several waiters in France that were very fatherly, so I thought, well, maybe your waiter was just trying to counsel you in the ways of France?????? But he wrote you a memo????

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Our company's policy is based on your overall totals on meals averaged together for the length of your trip. There are "guidelines" for breakfast, lunch and dinner and hotel room costs. So if you go over for dinner a couple of nights, just be cheap elsewhere and no one will say anything. If you want to tip 30%, that is your business so long as your total expense report isn't over what it should be.

Me? One or two really good meals, everything else cheap, always tip well, and I never make it anywhere near the "danger zone" on my total expenses.
My boss has a budget for each of my trips; I stay under the budget; it's all good. Who cares how I allocate it? That kind of close scrutiny usually backfires. . .

 

[dicar123]

Hmm, that depends...how much is customary to tip a shuttle bus driver? My husband and I are still arguing over this!

I had to go to our Corporate Headquarters for some training. Part of what I do is book travel for people interviewing at Headquarters, and I stayed in the hotel that I always book for candidates (the company has an agreement with them).

This hotel provides shuttle that will take you back and forth from the airport and also to local places within a 5 mile radius. Knowing this, I didn't get a rental car because I hate driving- especially in places I'm unfamiliar with.

For two days, the same driver would come to pick me up from work and then take me back out to dinner and pick me up again. He made great restauarant recommendations and was friendly and nice without being skeevy. One of the restaurants he took me to was a little further than 5 miles and he urged me to hurry and change for dinner, otherwise I'd be standing in a line all night. By the time I finished dinner, the place was absolutely packed, so great call.

6 trips altogether and I was thinking $2 per trip was probably appropriate, so I tipped him $20 on the last night. I intended to be generous because I really appreciated the great service, but my husband says I went a bit far.

I looked up tip recommendations and people seem to agree $1 per trip or no tip at all. I hope I made his day!

 

[ScottOKW2K]

Ah, you know, the French hate us bourgeois Americans with our tipping and our hamburgers (puffs on cigarette, stares off into the distance.) C'est la vie.

You reminded me of a memory almost 3 decades ago. I was in Holland for 3 months for training. At the home I was staying at my wife was with me, and there was also another American there. In addition there was another couple and some siblings of the owner.

The typical meal there was a multi-course meal. During my stay there she encouraged her tenants to cook something one night representative of the country they were from. When it became the Americans turn we decided - Burgers and Fries ! I have to put this in context - the only burger place we found while there was a McDonalds in the city center and it was only fair by McDonalds standards.

Here is what we did:

11 kilograms (5 pounds) of good ground meat,
cooked over a charcoal grill
Soft rolls from a bakery for buns
fresh potatoes sliced for fries
fresh cut onions and tomatoes
And the owners daughter made a large bowl of salad.

When the meal was finished there was one half-cooked patty left (must have been toward the outside of the grill), no fries, and one fairly full large bowl of salad . I think most Europeans mock us for our hamburgers because they've actually have never had a GOOD one !

Now , to keep the thread on track. I over tipped a limo driver on a Disney Trip. I tipped about 20% on the cost of the limo service (total) to the driver taking us from the airport to WDW, not realizing that at the end of the trip there would be a different driver picking us up. My mistake.

 

[firecracker725]

Ah, you know, the French hate us bourgeois Americans with our tipping and our hamburgers (puffs on cigarette, stares off into the distance.) C'est la vie.

We're moving to France next January, and one of the things I'm most looking forward to is not tipping.

Let me add that I'm a good tipper here in the U.S., but I am more than happy to leave that custom behind while abroad.

 

[TraceyDisney2008]

I have worked as a server for twenty years and have had both good and bad tips. The best being a $12000.00 tip on a $200.00 bill we have no idea how that amount ever went through on a credit card and how the elderly lady made that mistake but it took over two hours to get it credited back to her card. The lady was so frazzled by the end of it she forgot to leave any tip. Lol

 

[AnnaS]

A few times - I know of at least twice where we were a party of 6 or more - tip automatically added. We added a tip again. I shake my head when that happens.

There were also one or two times that after I tipped - I realized I was a few $$ too short. Not much but I would rather give them an extra few then less. Want to go back and not look cheap but it does bother me too when this happens.

 

[mfd25wife]

I once got hassled by Finance for "over tipping". $3 meal and I left a dollar. Got a memo about my 33 percent tip

Since we didn't have to turn in receipts under $25, I just stopped turning them in and started tipping $5 on the $3 breakfast

I couldn't do that to my employer anyway, but especially over a finance person doing his or her job. I worked for a place that limited tips because people were turning in such high amounts. Then, they went to receipts for everything, including fast food.

 

[powellrj]

We have over tipped on room service before because DH always forgets they add the tip onto the total and then will tip again. I know one time the kid was puzzled as to why we tipped more than the meal was!

 

[Dancind]

Only time was when it was a big group and they automatically added 18%. I didn't realize it and tipped 20% more...
It was good service.... but not 38% good.

I did this too, first time I used the TIW card at the Flying Fish. I actually went back and asked for a credit. They gave it to me, guess I should have just let it go.