Tipping
- Hanno
- I am a Special Snowflake !!?!
- Reactions: 206
- Posts: 8098
- Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:07 pm
- Location: Siem Reap
- Contact:
I tip all over the place. I have been working in the service industry for 30 years and when I started out, I would have starved without tips.
I am sure somebody will be along shortly with the "it is not Khmer culture" BS. I have 230 staff working for me and every single one of them is very happy about tips. I also have many Khmer friends that will tip in restaurants and bars.
Just my take.
I am sure somebody will be along shortly with the "it is not Khmer culture" BS. I have 230 staff working for me and every single one of them is very happy about tips. I also have many Khmer friends that will tip in restaurants and bars.
Just my take.
"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
-
- I need professional help
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 1099
- Joined: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:00 am
I'm sure they are! I'm not a big fan of the concept and believe it's the responsibility of the employer to pay staff, not the patrons. I sometimes leave something if the service has been particularly good, which is almost never. Service staff's basic salary is at least the same as any other unskilled job in the country, and usually more. I'm not sure why fucking up orders, bringing out food at random times, playing on mobile phones and ignoring you is worthy of anything on top of that.Hanno wrote:I have 230 staff working for me and every single one of them is very happy about tips
No longer working at the S.D Holiday Hotel...
- vladimir
- Feminist Watch List
- Reactions: 4
- Posts: 34235
- Joined: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:43 am
- Location: mod edit
You just made a lot of enemies.BURLESQUE@SDHHOTEL wrote:I'm sure they are! I'm not a big fan of the concept and believe it's the responsibility of the employer to pay staff, not the patrons.Hanno wrote:I have 230 staff working for me and every single one of them is very happy about tips
How dare you resist US culture in a country so close to America?
And to suggest that an employer should pay a living wage! Fucking commie bastard!
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
-
- I need professional help
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 1099
- Joined: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:00 am
The revolution starts here. End tipping! End the Coca-Colanisation of Cambodia!
No longer working at the S.D Holiday Hotel...
-
- RicePikey
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 1397
- Joined: Mon May 05, 2014 10:06 am
Tipping is seen here as bribery, and in a way, it is, an acceptable form of bribery and behavior modification in the West. They may twist it a bit here.
It makes them feel special, like they hold the key to the gateway, and someone has to pay them to open up the door.
Kind of like, being able to feel like a rich merchant because you sold a few items quickly. So they imagine being a corrupt politician would be great, they get a taste of it at their level. You just bribed them so that they'll serve you before any of the other customers, yes, that's how they see it.
They'll almost fawn over you, and ignore good-paying customers because they won't tip them. You have just established a master-servant relationship with them, which they love and know quite well, where you get to think, they get to do, and you get to pay them.
That said, I always tip Westerners. I just don't like the gleam of greed in the nearby watchful Khmer's eyes when they realize they can get something out of you if they can manufacture a problem, a scarcity, and profit by being the source of the cure. I can see their little calculating minds working ...
Most Chinese/Korean/Japanese adamantly refuse tips, in Asia it's bad for their reputation, it means that they're "on the take." Khmers would all love to be on the take, I've seen.
It's in their culture, which shows why as a whole they can't amount to much.
It makes them feel special, like they hold the key to the gateway, and someone has to pay them to open up the door.
Kind of like, being able to feel like a rich merchant because you sold a few items quickly. So they imagine being a corrupt politician would be great, they get a taste of it at their level. You just bribed them so that they'll serve you before any of the other customers, yes, that's how they see it.
They'll almost fawn over you, and ignore good-paying customers because they won't tip them. You have just established a master-servant relationship with them, which they love and know quite well, where you get to think, they get to do, and you get to pay them.
That said, I always tip Westerners. I just don't like the gleam of greed in the nearby watchful Khmer's eyes when they realize they can get something out of you if they can manufacture a problem, a scarcity, and profit by being the source of the cure. I can see their little calculating minds working ...
Most Chinese/Korean/Japanese adamantly refuse tips, in Asia it's bad for their reputation, it means that they're "on the take." Khmers would all love to be on the take, I've seen.
It's in their culture, which shows why as a whole they can't amount to much.
Fool's folly is following another fool.
- The Grand Jester
Caution: all of my posts are to be taken with a grain of salt, heroin, and Everclear. Then you can reply back to us.
- The Grand Jester
Caution: all of my posts are to be taken with a grain of salt, heroin, and Everclear. Then you can reply back to us.
-
- I need professional help
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 1099
- Joined: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:00 am
Kids - Say no to meth.TristranandIsolde wrote:Tipping is seen here as bribery, and in a way, it is, an acceptable form of bribery and behavior modification in the West. They may twist it a bit here.
It makes them feel special, like they hold the key to the gateway, and someone has to pay them to open up the door.
Kind of like, being able to feel like a rich merchant because you sold a few items quickly. So they imagine being a corrupt politician would be great, they get a taste of it at their level. You just bribed them so that they'll serve you before any of the other customers, yes, that's how they see it.
They'll almost fawn over you, and ignore good-paying customers because they won't tip them. You have just established a master-servant relationship with them, which they love and know quite well, where you get to think, they get to do, and you get to pay them.
That said, I always tip Westerners. I just don't like the gleam of greed in the nearby watchful Khmer's eyes when they realize they can get something out of you if they can manufacture a problem, a scarcity, and profit by being the source of the cure. I can see their little calculating minds working ...
Most Chinese/Korean/Japanese adamantly refuse tips, in Asia it's bad for their reputation, it means that they're "on the take." Khmers would all love to be on the take, I've seen.
It's in their culture, which shows why as a whole they can't amount to much.
No longer working at the S.D Holiday Hotel...
-
- RicePikey
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 1397
- Joined: Mon May 05, 2014 10:06 am
You jest, Mr. Burlesque? In Asia, tipping is bribery. It's just like an expedite fee to jump your paperwork to the front of the queue, at the expense of others. It is acceptable in the West, and I prefer places with good incentives, but not if they get twisted like out here.
Same thing here: they'll go to your table first, and expedite any of your requests if you regularly bribe/tip them.
Tipping is very important in the West. But then, a tip is worth a little more effort on our part, but here it can mean cutting people out to make you happy, they'll be glad to do that for a small bribe.
Live and learn. Then again, it's an easy way to gain support, if you tip at your favorite restaurant and you bring a female friend there, you look good because the staff all know and love you.
It's a relatively cheap and easy way to get a little support, if done in the right places with the right people.
People have their price here, the rich and the poor all have their price, all over the world, and if you're willing to meet that price ...
It's odd how only the middle-class can hardly be bought. The rich and the poor (in general, of course) can all be bought, at the right price. Guess that's why the middle-class brings more stability to a society ...
Same thing here: they'll go to your table first, and expedite any of your requests if you regularly bribe/tip them.
Tipping is very important in the West. But then, a tip is worth a little more effort on our part, but here it can mean cutting people out to make you happy, they'll be glad to do that for a small bribe.
Live and learn. Then again, it's an easy way to gain support, if you tip at your favorite restaurant and you bring a female friend there, you look good because the staff all know and love you.
It's a relatively cheap and easy way to get a little support, if done in the right places with the right people.
People have their price here, the rich and the poor all have their price, all over the world, and if you're willing to meet that price ...
It's odd how only the middle-class can hardly be bought. The rich and the poor (in general, of course) can all be bought, at the right price. Guess that's why the middle-class brings more stability to a society ...
Fool's folly is following another fool.
- The Grand Jester
Caution: all of my posts are to be taken with a grain of salt, heroin, and Everclear. Then you can reply back to us.
- The Grand Jester
Caution: all of my posts are to be taken with a grain of salt, heroin, and Everclear. Then you can reply back to us.
-
- I need professional help
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 1099
- Joined: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:00 am
Don't most people tip at the end of the meal?TristranandIsolde wrote:You jest, Mr. Burlesque? In Asia, tipping is bribery. It's just like an expedite fee to jump your paperwork to the front of the queue, at the expense of others
No longer working at the S.D Holiday Hotel...
-
- RicePikey
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 1397
- Joined: Mon May 05, 2014 10:06 am
I do. But not at Khmer places. Not in Asian places either. Maybe I'll leave behind a few thousand riel.
At Western places, sure. It would be unkind to NOT tip. But at Asian places ... only on special occasions.
I think on certain holidays, people are allowed to be generous, for good luck. You know, the big days when the King pardons 100 prisoners. But outside of those holidays, it's dangerous flashing around a bunch a bribery money at every meal ...
At Western places, sure. It would be unkind to NOT tip. But at Asian places ... only on special occasions.
I think on certain holidays, people are allowed to be generous, for good luck. You know, the big days when the King pardons 100 prisoners. But outside of those holidays, it's dangerous flashing around a bunch a bribery money at every meal ...
Fool's folly is following another fool.
- The Grand Jester
Caution: all of my posts are to be taken with a grain of salt, heroin, and Everclear. Then you can reply back to us.
- The Grand Jester
Caution: all of my posts are to be taken with a grain of salt, heroin, and Everclear. Then you can reply back to us.
TrustanandIsolde is most definitely not a new poster.Jep wrote:well said Mr T.
A refreshing new powerful positive member on K440. where have you been?
- Hanno
- I am a Special Snowflake !!?!
- Reactions: 206
- Posts: 8098
- Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:07 pm
- Location: Siem Reap
- Contact:
I always leave a Dollar. Great service and the attendant is kind of cute behind her face mask.Florida wrote:So, how much do you tip at the petrol station ?
"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 9 Replies
- 1733 Views
-
Last post by Alexandra
Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:17 am