While I do not tip the shoe shine boy 100 pesos, I do give more than the 25 pesos that he quotes. While it represents a personal decision, 50 pesos works, as it comes to USD$1 for an honest job.
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Average tip - Gas attendant- Grocery store... Average cost of labour.
Personally- I have never been quoted a price....
Always up to me to decide
Tourist zones are different - I guess
Always up to me to decide
Tourist zones are different - I guess
Post from today ([platyero baggers) brings home a point:
Baggers no longer allowed to `help` in stores here in the DR because `law` is if your working you need to be paid.
This is sadly NOT a step in the right direction (This also applies to those in first world with minimum wages)
Business do not offer more and more services and pay more and more people for the business they already have. yearly profits drop, there are costs of living and greater costs for insurance, thefts, law suits etc... The easiest way to be competitive is to simply not hire more people, and do not give out raises. IF the business does not survive then there is no work for anyone. please read on and understand...
We must help educate tourists, and other non Dominican people about life here. Also applies to around the world.
We can encourage entrepreneurs to work for tips like this (and they are not the only examples or those that work for free) or we can indirectly force them to life of begging or crime.
It seems a better world to tip small amounts to everyone providing a service vs being robbed, harassed or made to feel guilty.
Baggers no longer allowed to `help` in stores here in the DR because `law` is if your working you need to be paid.
This is
sadly NOT a step in the right direction (This also applies to those in first world with minimum wages)Business do not offer more and more services and pay more and more people for the business they already have. yearly profits drop, there are costs of living and greater costs for insurance, thefts, law suits etc... The easiest way to be competitive is to simply not hire more people, and do not give out raises. IF the business does not survive then there is no work for anyone. please read on and understand...
We must help educate tourists, and other non Dominican people about life here. Also applies to around the world.
We can encourage entrepreneurs to work for tips like this (and they are not the only examples or those that work for free) or we can indirectly force them to life of begging or crime.
It seems a better world to tip small amounts to everyone providing a service vs being robbed, harassed or made to feel guilty.
Agreed
I find I get decent to good service on the whole....
No complaints
Attitude and expectations have a lot to do with it
I find I get decent to good service on the whole....
No complaints
Attitude and expectations have a lot to do with it
I got a ticket for no side mirror. A local ran a red light on his moto and tool it out with his face. I had insurance, but apparently it was gringo fault insurance. I had to pay for his bike to be fixed and his lost time from workl etc even though he ran a stop sign, and later I got a ticket because I had no side mirror!
Derfish
Post from today ([platyero baggers) brings home a point:
Baggers no longer allowed to `help` in stores here in the DR because `law` is if your working you need to be paid.
This is
Business do not offer more and more services and pay more and more people for the business they already have. yearly profits drop, there are costs of living and greater costs for insurance, thefts, law suits etc... The easiest way to be competitive is to simply not hire more people, and do not give out raises. IF the business does not survive then there is no work for anyone. please read on and understand...
We must help educate tourists, and other non Dominican people about life here. Also applies to around the world.
We can encourage entrepreneurs to work for tips like this (and they are not the only examples or those that work for free) or we can indirectly force them to life of begging or crime.
It seems a better world to tip small amounts to everyone providing a service vs being robbed, harassed or made to feel guilty.
Say it's not So? At least not so at La Cadena in Gazcue? The baggers used to put the groceries in the cart and roll them behind for the two blocks to my place - then Carry all the bags up to the Third Floor!! It made living there So Much Easier! And certainly they got at least 100 pesos. I always found that taxi drivers would carry bags in - etc.. Contrary to others who have complained about service in the DR, I found that most service there was ExtraOrdinary! But perhaps it varies according to town/place.
yeah MA, it was great. When I had the apartment in Gazcue I was about six blocks from La Cadena. They didn't use the carts you shop with but a stand up version which they would tilt back and roll on two wheels. They would wheel the cart to my building, put the cart on the elevator and unload the groceries on my kitchen counter. I tipped 150 to 200 pesos. It would have cost me 150 pesos for a taxi plus I would have to load and unload, so to me it was a no brainer.
MA & BB
I agree completely
I read the 'poor service' comments and wonder .... ???? Huh ?
People seem more than happy to help...often unsolicited help !!!
I agree completely
I read the 'poor service' comments and wonder .... ???? Huh ?
People seem more than happy to help...often unsolicited help !!!
I would have driven away like Mr Magoo, and said no fui yo if anyone bothered to ask you.
No - what I think is right. Feel free to tip at a higher rate if you wish. That's the thing about tipping - it's up to the client.
What about the Colmado? Water delivery is one tip and other smaller items (beer, rum, an onion)?
Wow! That seems.a lot to me when I work for pesos. $100 is about 1 1/2 hours of work for me. What do Dominicans pay in tips? Not rich xpats with foreign money income?