#21

I wud tip my boss or the CEO very small amounts like 1p just to be condescending.

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#22

This bit of the article is good.

“If you’re the type of person who normally goes above and beyond, you don’t want to be seen to be doing that just to get tips,” she says.

"It’s open to abuse, isn’t it? As someone who went through popularity contests at school, it was quite weird to think, ‘Oh, do I need to ingratiate myself with people to be part of this community of tip-giving?’

“It was one extra level of stress that I didn’t need.”

and this bit is utter horseshit.

He acknowledges there is a risk that this scheme becomes a popularity contest: "You cannot prevent this becoming a bit of a contest, but we already have a contest in place with the traditional system and that is sucking up to the boss.

"It is a popularity contest of who is most popular with the boss and that has proven to be a very bad system.

#23

yeah everything is a bit of popularity contest but the last thing ppl need is it to be a quantifiable popularity contest!

#24

“I personally went round all the people in my team that I have classified as introverts and asked them if they like the scheme and they all said ‘it’s fine I guess’. And JP who is one of my best guys is really positive about the whole scheme.”

#26

Eacg year we are allocated four gift vouchers to the value of a score to award to a colleague who has basically done a good job. It all has to be approved by managers and the awards are featured in the company newsletter of course. At the end of the year there’s a rush for everyone to use them all up so I usually get a wheen o vouchers just in time for Christmas.

I have no opinion on the matter.

#27

When I first read this obviously my initial response was: how would I subvert this if they tried to introduce it in my job.

The two approaches I settled on were a) arrange with all my colleagues to share the full bonuses out evenly and b) refuse to either give out or accept any bonuses.

And then it amused me to realise that that effectively amounts to: form a union and work to rule.

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#28

to colleague next to you

“oi, mate, if you give me all your tip allowances, I’ll give you all my tip allowances”

“sure”

Fin

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#29

In Greece it’s common to get paid in 14 installments - you get 1/14th every month, plus an extra 1/14 at xmas and an extra 1/28 at easter and in summer

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#30
#31

lol fuccccck off

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#32
#33

I used to bring sweets in for people in the warehouse on a Friday, in a way that’s a kind of tip

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#34

some of the Romanian people really loved it, it was so nice to just be a human being instead of a dickhead like most of the English people there especially anyone who was office based

#35

I got a tip for my colleagues:

Stop fucking talking to me

#36

Action that by end of play today, if poss

#37

Misread sucking up to the boss as sacking the boss

Major overhaul

#38

can see the Americans loving this as a way to hire people on $0 salaries and make them work for inter-colleague tips

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#39

Hang on:

*patreonised

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#40

Very good

#41

Thanks. That’ll be 15p please.