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Question for the room: Do you tip music festival bartenders?
Having worked in hospitality, knowing a lot of people who worked or work in hospitality, and I guess just being raised a certain way, I *always* tip someone working service, even if the extent of the transaction is that they just went to the cooler and handed me a can of beer.
But I'm in this dumb argument with people on GovBall reddit who are big mad about the high cost of drinks at the festival and think being asked to tip on top of that is a grave injustice. I mean, to me, paying for your drink but not tipping is just lining the pocket of the entities that are actually screwing you (the vendors, the festival, LiveNation, whoever) while punishing working stiffs who are just trying to get by. Seems kinda backward to me.
So, what do you think, Inforoo? AITA?
Almost always. If I'm getting a $15 beer and only have a ten and a five on me...sorry, Imma let you hand me a beer and not feel too bad about it. Or sometimes (again, for something beyond simple like a can of beer) I might do a dollar for two beers instead of per drink. I'd like to get rid of tipping culture completely but companies gotta pay decent wages first.
Edit: Oh and also for the weighted blanket they usually have beads or whatever inside; make sure to get one that's sewn with different squares (quilt-style) with the beads in each square - it'll keep the weight distributed evenly. I got one once where all the beads would slide to one end of the blanket and that was dumb af.
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did not know tips sometimes go to random entities. will keep that in mind. but yea i always tip. sometimes i’ll even tip a dollar for someone handing me an ice water when the venue doesnt have coolers
I always tip, but I try to make sure that it is going to the bartenders OR to an organization that I support. Like at JazzFest, Big Easy Rollerderby volunteers at the event and the tips go to help them stay afloat. But I also bartend, so I might be bias.
Also, it's fucking hot right now. Not cold, hot. But I did go outside on the patio and bask in the warmth.
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Jun 11, 2024 18:12:05 GMT -5
My “old man yells at cloud” take is that kids today just don’t tip for drinks and it blows my mind.
Anyway, at a fest I’m not generally tipping every single time for a simple beer, but I’m throwing in every so often or if I’m ordering a bunch of different things.
Post by problem dog on Jun 11, 2024 18:52:23 GMT -5
I tip festival bartenders, but not as much as I tip basically everywhere else. It's a much different scenario than going to a bar, none of those people are making below minimum wage and living off tips. They're event staff doing temp work, and their hourly/tip balance is going to be basically the inverse of a regular bartender. I know it's instinct to tip someone who serves you a drink, and people who don't tip generally are walking red flags, but in this scenario it's not worth pearl clutching or scolding if someone tells you they just outright refuse to tip at fests. And I say all this as a service industry lifer.
Maybe worth adding I'm only really talking about larger LN type events here.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jun 11, 2024 20:04:30 GMT -5
I would tip at shows and festivals. More likely to if there's a cash tip jar or something. For some reason I still don't fully trust/believe the digital tips are all going to the workers but if that's the case, cool. But definitely not every drink or time getting something.
This is slightly related but I found this article from a couple years ago really interesting and also frustrating. It's not necessarily about festival bartenders but it does get into a lot of info about tipping and merch sellers and vendors for shows and tours and things. Fucked up how when the big wigs started to realize they were leaving some money on the table they began to start thinking up ways to take a cut. Worth a read if you're interested in that sort of thing:
How to handle tips for merchandise vendors at concerts has become a heated issue within the live music business, particularly as tipping has become more frequent in the post-pandemic landscape in which transactions are going increasingly cashless. Years ago, merch reps say, seeing anything more than $100 in the tip jar was considered a strong night, but now it isn’t uncommon to see even a theater-sized show bring in $1,000 (if not more) through credit card tips.
Before, when tips were less significant, a tour didn’t even think to look at revenue at the physical tip jar. But higher-volume cash coupled with management now able to quantify exactly how much customers are tipping on their cards since it’s counted in the same system as the sale, tours have enacted more stringent policies that have cut into the vendors’ tips.
“Management wasn’t worried about us putting a brown paper box on the table and Joe Schmo putting a dollar in the box; that’s been prevalent for a long time and we weren’t asked about it,” says another vendor who worked one of the RuPaul shows just over a month ago. “But now with these credit card point of sale systems, they seem to care more. There’s more tips, and now they see the reports. If you have a high-volume show and people are hitting those tip buttons the whole time, they’ll see how much a merch rep is bringing in every night.”
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jun 20, 2024 15:29:38 GMT -5
one of my bosses at work just came into my office and told me a story about some friends of his who had a squirrel fall out of a tree near their house. they brought the squirrel inside and nursed it back to health and now she is doing good and is their pet. she sleeps in box of scarves in the top of their closet. they got a little leash for her and walk her.
this boss has never lied to me before but i'm sitting here in disbelief. blowing my mind, you could have a squirrel just running around your house and being a chill little squirrel baby.
one of my bosses at work just came into my office and told me a story about some friends of his who had a squirrel fall out of a tree near their house. they brought the squirrel inside and nursed it back to health and now she is doing good and is their pet. she sleeps in box of scarves in the top of their closet. they got a little leash for her and walk her.
this boss has never lied to me before but i'm sitting here in disbelief. blowing my mind, you could have a squirrel just running around your house and being a chill little squirrel baby.
one of my bosses at work just came into my office and told me a story about some friends of his who had a squirrel fall out of a tree near their house. they brought the squirrel inside and nursed it back to health and now she is doing good and is their pet. she sleeps in box of scarves in the top of their closet. they got a little leash for her and walk her.
this boss has never lied to me before but i'm sitting here in disbelief. blowing my mind, you could have a squirrel just running around your house and being a chill little squirrel baby.
okay, boomer. It was orange cornflour, it will literally wash away.
Okay zoomer,
"They are sensitive and they are completely covered in prehistoric markings which remain to be fully studied and any surface damage to the stones is hugely concerning. “A rich garden of life has grown on the megaliths, an exceptional lichen garden has grown. So it’s potentially quite concerning.”
okay, boomer. It was orange cornflour, it will literally wash away.
Okay zoomer,
"They are sensitive and they are completely covered in prehistoric markings which remain to be fully studied and any surface damage to the stones is hugely concerning. “A rich garden of life has grown on the megaliths, an exceptional lichen garden has grown. So it’s potentially quite concerning.”
Not a zoomer…
Also:
Or
You know, sure looks like the orange cornflour really impacted pagans.
It amuses me that you led with “not a zoomer” after calling someone a boomer.
Well considering Actual Boomer Druid has met me before and I was already over the Zoomer age in…2016…
Generational insults usually work when you get the generation
And I recall people complain in the politics thread over the last several years as this Just Stop Oil group has had several other #damage protests. Probably Druid then too actually.
I know you are not a zoomer. I just find generational insults petty. And this is the first time I have heard of the Just Stop Oil group.
This group has been in the news repeatedly for their ongoing public protests going on several years now.
Also, climate change is a generational issue. Millennials and Zoomers are stuck living with this shithole of an environment YOUR generation fucked us with and still refuses to get on board dealing with.
So call my insults petty, but I’m not taking much sympathy from an argument that includes some rich-ass pagans on their energy-balancing vacation because their ancient chakra stones got covered in some orange protest powder.
If you knew anything about pagans, you would know we value the Mother Earth above all else. I weep for what is and has been done by those before and after me. Don’t judge me by my generation. I’m not a climate change denier. I disagree with their method of protest. You do not. You have a right to your opinion. As do I.
2. Not saying Gaza isn't important, but I'm talking about these pissed off boomers in oversized pickup trucks. Get 10 mpg to own the libs and overcompensate for their small peckers.
one of my bosses at work just came into my office and told me a story about some friends of his who had a squirrel fall out of a tree near their house. they brought the squirrel inside and nursed it back to health and now she is doing good and is their pet. she sleeps in box of scarves in the top of their closet. they got a little leash for her and walk her.
this boss has never lied to me before but i'm sitting here in disbelief. blowing my mind, you could have a squirrel just running around your house and being a chill little squirrel baby.
My sister is a social worker and has multiple clients who keep squirrels as pets. One had a bunch of squirrel babies in a shoebox. Another said they wanted to train one to bite their boyfriend in the nuts. Last year at a national park this group of Japanese people frantically waved me down to show me something. I thought it was gonna be a mountain goat but it was a squirrel lolz. I grew up on a farm and nuisance squirrels got the gun so don't quite get the love haha. I've also met people with raccoons and a skunk as pets 😲
