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Have your tipping habits changed with the rising cost of living?

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SwanBuster · 17/04/2022 19:15

Have you found yourself having to think more carefully about tipping - cabs, hairdressers, deliveroo etc now that the cost of things are going up?

I do a little ‘roo-ing’ on the side, and I’ve found that despite some of the orders I’ve been doing being insanely ridiculous - huge shops, long distances by bicycle, working out to way less than minimum wage, I’ve been getting very, very few tips.

I’ve always personally tipped when on the other side of the transaction - and still would - but times are getting tighter and wondering if this is one of the first things to go?

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grotsnags · 18/04/2022 03:45

off topic but i'm surprised as a higher earner you do this for 1k.

grotsnags · 18/04/2022 03:49

i normally top but stopped takeaways already.

Redwinemaestro · 18/04/2022 06:27

Nah you're alright thanks, what an odd suggestion.

What a stupid comment!

Patchbatch · 18/04/2022 06:31

@Redwinemaestro

Nah you're alright thanks, what an odd suggestion.

What a stupid comment!

What, that it's not odd to say even if you earn £100k plus to give it a go just just see how it works and how the other half live?
Wiredforsound · 18/04/2022 06:33

Wouldn’t cross my mind to tip a Deliveroo deliverer. I pay to get it delivered. Why would I pay twice?

mogsrus · 18/04/2022 06:34

I don’t tip,people get paid to do the job whatever it is, it’s way past it’s sell by date. I other a drink in a pub say thanks & that’s it,why don’t people tip the barman

NiceViper · 18/04/2022 06:49

I used to tip takeaway delivery drivers, by rounding up the bill (in the days when it was cash at the door), but didn't for ages when I switched to Deliveroo.

I started during the pandemic, obviously I'm an outlier here!

OTOH I stopped going to the hairdresser and haven't restarted, so I'm saving both bill and tip there

rookiemere · 18/04/2022 07:50

We're in the UK and there are plenty of minimum wage roles available at the minute. If deliveroo doesn't provide minimum wage without customers paying tips, then there are other jobs available.
But OP wants the dual advantage of getting their exercise and getting paid in one go, which is what is causing the issue.

Honestopinion23 · 18/04/2022 07:55

Sure, I totally believe that someone putting 40k in their pension per year and drives a luxury car scrabbles round on a bike delivering takeaways to earn a grand a year. Sounds very plausible.

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SwanBuster · 18/04/2022 07:57

@Honestopinion23

Sure, I totally believe that someone putting 40k in their pension per year and drives a luxury car scrabbles round on a bike delivering takeaways to earn a grand a year. Sounds very plausible.
😂 I can DM the evidence if you want!
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rookiemere · 18/04/2022 07:58

@Honestopinion23 and then gets annoyed that their customers don't tip them an extra £1 for each drop off Hmm. TBF it sounds almost implausible enough to be believable.

PlasticineMeg · 18/04/2022 07:59

It really is baffling me that OP is wealthy enough to have a Tesla, is a very high earner but gets a pittance for a delivery driver job and uses phrases like ‘Ya gotta hustle’. FWIW, ‘ya don’t’. Is it really worth £1k extra a year for the bother of it all? Not to mention you’re depriving a low skilled worker of a job while you have a Tesla but fancy getting fit.

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SwanBuster · 18/04/2022 08:05

Can’t DM - so here’s my Pension contribs, deliveroo earnings from yesterday, and screenshot of car sitting outside the house from the Tesla app.

Have your tipping habits changed with the rising cost of living?
Have your tipping habits changed with the rising cost of living?
Have your tipping habits changed with the rising cost of living?
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SwanBuster · 18/04/2022 08:07

@PlasticineMeg

It really is baffling me that OP is wealthy enough to have a Tesla, is a very high earner but gets a pittance for a delivery driver job and uses phrases like ‘Ya gotta hustle’. FWIW, ‘ya don’t’. Is it really worth £1k extra a year for the bother of it all? Not to mention you’re depriving a low skilled worker of a job while you have a Tesla but fancy getting fit.
I already mentioned - the deliveroos I pick up are ones which no one else would do. They are the super inefficient ones which you can’t even get close to minimum wage on. I know this first hand because, you know, I do the job and talk to the other riders / drivers about how they actually work👍
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grotsnags · 18/04/2022 08:11

It is a weird thing to do though, to be paying 3.3k into a pension means you must be earning 150k plus so hustling for £83 a month extra is unusual.

If you like the exercise, making a peloton?

HunterHearstHelmsley · 18/04/2022 08:12

I don't tip Deliveroo or Uber Eats but do tip directly from a restaurant. I've just had a quick look at a shop about a mile from me on Deliveroo. It's £2.49 delivery fee, then a 5% service fee, on top of the prices already being higher on there than in the shop.

grotsnags · 18/04/2022 08:12

although different strokes for different folks!

HunterHearstHelmsley · 18/04/2022 08:15

I do tip lots if it's snowing though!

PlasticineMeg · 18/04/2022 08:15

But why OP? Why spend your free time effectively wasting your time? If you want to do good, volunteer, it’s not exactly a worthy service delivering expensive takeaways to ‘super inefficient” homes

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SwanBuster · 18/04/2022 08:19

@grotsnags

It is a weird thing to do though, to be paying 3.3k into a pension means you must be earning 150k plus so hustling for £83 a month extra is unusual.

If you like the exercise, making a peloton?

The £1000 is actually tax free - because you can claim the trading allowance.

You’re absolutely right on my earnings - so you’ll know that on PAYE income, I have an absolutely appalling marginal rate between 100-125k as my personal allowance gets tapered - and I’m still just about in that bracket after adjusting for pension and cycle to work 😤

So, that £1k cash is like £3k gross in the normal job. If they create these nonsense marginal rate bands, I'm going to find every way possible to get my own back.

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SwanBuster · 18/04/2022 08:20

@PlasticineMeg

But why OP? Why spend your free time effectively wasting your time? If you want to do good, volunteer, it’s not exactly a worthy service delivering expensive takeaways to ‘super inefficient” homes
Don't worry I chuck way more than what I earn deliverooing to charity each year. I suppose you all want evidence of that now.

I enjoy it! It's an incentive to exercise 😂

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rookiemere · 18/04/2022 08:20

OP not sure what your issue is.

You take deliveroo trips that are refused by other drivers as uneconomical, but you expect that to be made up by tips from customers ( presumably as tips don't count for tax purposes).

You're getting your free exercise and saving gym fees and making a little money, as doesn't matter if it's less than minimum wage because it's exercise as well.

Don't embarrass yourself by begging for pound coins from your customers.

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SwanBuster · 18/04/2022 08:21

The only reason I created the thread was because it was fascinating to me as someone with first hand experience of ping the job, how inefficient it can be and how when I got a £2 tip on Saturday, it literally made my day 😊

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Darhon · 18/04/2022 08:22

Definitely tip less. As payments became online only over Covid, I carried less and less cash. So I usually only pay by card and don’t add tips to that as I think that would go to owner and not staff. Don’t tip deliveroo etc as there is a delivery charge. But due to cost of living increase, I don’t order much anyway.

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SwanBuster · 18/04/2022 08:23

And that for the people who really do the job, yeah - tips would make a massive difference.

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