Als ich gestern Nachmittag mein Wohnhaus betrat, bemerkte ich ein Stück Papier, das direkt auf Augenhöhe aufgeklebt war. Zuerst dachte ich, es sei nur ein weiteres Generikum "Bitte schließen Sie die Tür ab" Beachten Sie, aber es stellte sich heraus, dass es so war.
Es ist auf jeden Fall ein mutiger Schachzug, einen Flyer auszudrucken und zu veröffentlichen, in dem um Tipps gebeten wird. Einerseits verstehe ich es vollkommen – die Lieferarbeit ist anstrengend, vor allem angesichts der schweren Hebearbeiten und des Wetters, das wir hier in Deutschland haben. Ich habe gesehen, wie unsere regulären Zusteller riesige Pakete die Treppe hinaufgeschleppt haben, und das ist definitiv harte Arbeit.
Andererseits fühlt es sich etwas umständlich an, wenn es als Hinweis für jedermann sichtbar ist. Es hat definitiv eine Debatte in meinem Kopf über die Erwartungen an das Trinkgeld im Vergleich zur Realität ihrer Arbeitsbedingungen ausgelöst.
Hat jemand anderes so etwas in seinem Gebäude erlebt? Wird das zu einer alltäglichen Sache?
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Von Easy_Hearing7099
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I work Hard every day too .. where is my tip?
I dont know .. But this annoying. Companies have to give a better salary then .. why should i pay for the shitty salaries? Or The politics have to take Action ..
We had this topic somewhere else on reddit today (German speaking)
Not a common thing. Also tipping delivery personelle is not common in Germany. Some people might do it, but it is in general not expected.
Are you sure it isnt from a neighbour?
No tipping culture Germany…no one is obligated to tip.
WTF. No, it’s not a common thing and I refuse to let it become a common thing. I don’t want tipping culture here, I want people to be paid a decent, reliable salary.
I just saw it in the Hamburg Sub. Are you from Hamburg? Looks like an organized action.
You know what, when I order something in the 30-100kg range and have delivery drivers bring those packages up the stairs I will tip them for that work.
The only time that may have happened was when I ordered my furniture and wasnt through some regular delivery company, but if that ever happens I am sure to tip them and probably more than just 50 cents.
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this is hilarious, and absolute bullshit
This goes into the green müll
Get a different job. easy.
Oh come on, I don’t get tipped for submitting my code when working or when I help carry equipment at work.
You should almost always tip Flaschenpost deliverer
I hate that tipping is becoming more prevalent in Germany
I always thought I would actually offend people by offering them a tip.
I tip someone that brings my foot when i am too lazy to even get outside and let someone else cook my food. It just feels crazy to me let someone cook my food and then even pay someone to bring my food. It just feels like it is such a ridiculous luxurious thing that i feel bad not tipping someone that has to deliver my food.
Yes they have a shitty job. But I’m paying between 3 and 8 Euros to move a fucking box from one place to another.
If there was a store nearby that stocked this stuff, I’d go buy it there, but the whole economy is now focused on online shopping and leading to the death of physical stores. And the online shopping is built on the backs of the delivery drivers … and it’s up to Amazon and the other shops to pay the drivers a living wage.
American here- I believe you may have located one of our German speaking delivery drivers. You may return him, if you like. I would do it cautiously though, as he may be lightly armed.
This would 100% make me zero-tip for a full year for everybody coming to my door, just to make sure I get the right guy too.
We might as well add tipping service to every industry then. Why do we just limit to one or two industries when we can expand and benefit the bosses.
Ridiculous. Before corona it was pretty standard in the delivery Business to hand over the package on your housedoor even if that meant walking several stories up.
Today they ring your bell (if lucky, sometimes they just give the package to the neighbour in ground floor) yell something like „Paket huso“ (I exaggerated a bit here) and they’re off. Want a tip for that? How about no?
What’s next? Am I going to tip the cashier at Lidl because they have to lift food over the register all day?
The problem is the working conditions they are subjected to
Today, any tip is ok
Tomorrow, they are unhappy with 15% like in the USA.
Bullshit.
Only once in my life I tipped a delivery driver.
That was when I ordered 2 big bags of plant substrate. I realized how heavy it was and felt bad for him having to carry it all the way…
It’s not mandatory to Tip but also 50 Cent isn’t that much
Keep american shit in america
Tipping is a disgusting american thing, that should stay in America.
Man the passive aggression and sense of entitlement here is insane.
Not common.
Not necessary.
Nobody here used to tip the mail man, the garbage people or the parcel delivery lady.
In Germany all the service charges and delivery fees are included in the retail prices. Tips are not necessary. Everything is all included in the wages and salaries.
This seems more like begging.
>Ein kleines Trinkgeld gehört in Deutschland eigentlich zum normalen Anstand und zeigt Wertschätzung für diese Arbeit.
No it doesn’t, especially not delivery drivers.
Also, lets do the math. A delivery driver delivers on average lets say 150 packages a day. Everyone gives 0,50€, that is 75€ per day. On average, they will work 23 days per month, so that is 1.725€ per month just for tips. Some people don’t even make that much per month working their normal 9-5 (I’m talking about what hits the account at the end of the month of course, so netto, most will make more brutto) and delivery drivers now expect this on top of their normal salary. Just when I thought tipping culture couldn’t get any more ridiculous in Germany, someone manages to prove me wrong.
its someone virtue signaling their social heart out. clearly a better human then us.
happy with a service? tip. normal.
tipping because working conditions are grueling: DONT USE THE SERVICE you mindless….move your lazy ass out of the appartment.
this is not directed at op, at the note maker.
I usually do tip the delivery guy if I have some coins at hand and the food arrives within a reasonable time, but if I found this in my hallway I would stop.
I was a manager of a Food Delivery Restaurant and also drove out some deliveries myself. No way in Hell are delivery drivers delivering 100kg packages…
I used to do tip.
After I saw this I am not tippig anymore.
Most people living in the building probably earn barely more than the driver and are somehow supposed to tip them?
Imagine you work in a shipping warehouse for minimum wage, 8 hours a day. The driver earns more than you, you come home, and people tell you you are supposed to tip them. Wtf.
There are many people working at Minimum wage, or barely above, that get no tips.
Well but it’s not just 50cent. It’s 50cent for every delivery, somewhere between 2-10€ for eating out, 1-2€ for a taxi drive, 1-2€ for food delivery, whatever amount appropriate for hairdressers… and where do we stop? Why doesn’t the minimum wage retail worker get tips but the waiter does? Why the barkeeper but not the barista? Where the hell do we draw the line?
I‘m not gonna let me shame into giving tips. My hairdresser gets one because I‘m very happy there and feel like her price is more than fair for what I get and usually I round up when I eat out out of habit except if the service is bad. But the expectation needs to stop.