Hey! Love your Blog, and appreciate all of your personal good work including the elections. But don't rub my nose in saying that "tips are a recognised pratice!"
I live in Perth, weekend, public holiday and late night services are impossible.
My old man was a taxi driver quite a few years ago, hence the interest in your site.
Tounge in cheek or not, your self serving comment, incesensed me to join and and write a a comment.
From my experience a typical taxi driver, or least the ones who you can get half a conversation with, the driver does not own the cab and is making money for the owners, too many many middle men are killing the taxi business.
If you think I am going to pay some extra someone just for doing their job when I have waited two hours in a queue and then you expect a tip! Provide good servce on a regular basis and when it is warranted most will glady give to a tip.
cgull, Yes, that comment was a tongue in cheek shot at Qantas and the Sydney Airport Authority. Last year both were advising inbound visitors that tipping Sydney taxi drivers was not required.
Obviously tipping is not compulsory, anywhere in the world that I know of. But undoubtedly, it's a universally accepted practise for good service and entirely up to individual discretion. No one in the service industry expects a tip, except in America, but as you say, 'when it is warranted most will gladly give a tip'.
In short, it's got nothing to do with either body what taxi passengers decide to do with their money. Such advice could be interpreted as large corporations negligently using their power to reduce the income of small businesses.
So I wrote to the SAA pointing this out and suggested that such tipping advice was outside their domain as airport managers. If anything, I explained, taxis complement their service and instead of alienating cabbies they should be encouraging them to work the Airport.
They agreed and removed the advice from their website. Though I can't say whether Qantas still advises incoming passengers of same.
Comments
Hey! Love your Blog, and appreciate all of your personal good work including the elections. But don't rub my nose in saying that "tips are a recognised pratice!"
I live in Perth, weekend, public holiday and late night services are impossible.
My old man was a taxi driver quite a few years ago, hence the interest in your site.
Tounge in cheek or not, your self serving comment, incesensed me to join and and write a a comment.
From my experience a typical taxi driver, or least the ones who you can get half a conversation with, the driver does not own the cab and is making money for the owners, too many many middle men are killing the taxi business.
If you think I am going to pay some extra someone just for doing their job when I have waited two hours in a queue and then you expect a tip! Provide good servce on a regular basis and when it is warranted most will glady give to a tip.
cgull, Yes, that comment was a tongue in cheek shot at Qantas and the Sydney Airport Authority. Last year both were advising inbound visitors that tipping Sydney taxi drivers was not required.
Obviously tipping is not compulsory, anywhere in the world that I know of. But undoubtedly, it's a universally accepted practise for good service and entirely up to individual discretion. No one in the service industry expects a tip, except in America, but as you say, 'when it is warranted most will gladly give a tip'.
In short, it's got nothing to do with either body what taxi passengers decide to do with their money. Such advice could be interpreted as large corporations negligently using their power to reduce the income of small businesses.
So I wrote to the SAA pointing this out and suggested that such tipping advice was outside their domain as airport managers. If anything, I explained, taxis complement their service and instead of alienating cabbies they should be encouraging them to work the Airport.
They agreed and removed the advice from their website. Though I can't say whether Qantas still advises incoming passengers of same.