Residential deliveries and tips

And there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s a nice gesture to those people, but to expect a tip? It borders on arrogant.

 

Again, a nice gesture to your cable guy. Do you think he ought to be indignant if you didn’t give him one?

And as to whether you delivering that freight from a lift gate up a hill “deserves” a tip, that’s a matter of opinion.

I’ve delivered heavy objects up a steep gravel driveway on a hand truck because a pallet jack doesn’t work in gravel, and I had to stop and get a breather halfway up. I had a middle aged woman out in the country getting a new generator delivered, and I used plywood she happened to have, leapfrogging the sheets, to get the generator into her shed across a lawn. I did my job, no tip expected.

 

“Too much of a nice guy”???

If not getting tips at resi’s bothers you this much, then get a job where they don’t do resi’s.

 

She did offer a tip. I refused it. Do you ever do anything just because it’s the right thing to do? I don’t know how to do anything any other way.

 

Then don’t. Put the stuff in the garage and be satisfied that you exceeded expectations. That’s the way I approach every task.