Do you tip car guards?

Do you tip car guards?

  • Yes

    Votes: 112 33.8%

  • No

    Votes: 168 50.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 51 15.4%
  • Total voters
    331
I read an article a few months ago showing how little money they actually make. They have to pay R50 per day to the agency and then buy their uniform as well. Most days, they make nowhere near that amount.

It does shed a new light on what they go through. On one hand, do they really offer much? But on the hand, they're not sitting on their butts like so many people in this country.

I never have cash on me, so I will just get them a loaf of bread and maybe a cooldrink.

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Only if I feel not tipping the car guard might result in him scratching my car. But if I'm pulling away and he randomly pops out of nowhere for free money then nah
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
NO ... how about F-NO!!!

I don't loiter when heading back to the car, jump in, engine on, gear engaged and bye

polite wave at the "car guard" if he managed to run over in time to see me drive off

only times I'd willingly tip one is something like:

- out late at night in a dodgy part of town, the "car guards" are basically gangsters who will damage your car if you don't tip ... its extortion, but cheaper than an insurance claim

- on a Saturday morning if you want to go to the biscuit mill market in woodstock ... some "car guards" claim entire parcels of land / empty plots with traffic cones and what not, then charge you a parking fee, which you'll pay if there's no other parking of course
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I have remote start. I start the car while walking out of the shop. Load everything, and take off just in time for them to come running.
 
butters89 said:
I read an article a few months ago showing how little money they actually make. They have to pay R50 per day to the agency and then buy their uniform as well. Most days, they make nowhere near that amount.

It does shed a new light on what they go through. On one hand, do they really offer much? But on the hand, they're not sitting on their butts like so many people in this country.

I never have cash on me, so I will just get them a loaf of bread and maybe a cooldrink.

businesstech.co.za

How car guards are being ripped off in South Africa

Researchers found that many car guards struggle to survive financially due to daily “bay fees” that must be paid irrespective of the car guards’ daily income.
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If they have a uniform and they paying an agency, fair enough, they can get tips like waiters but they must work for it first.

I want to see a backflip.
 
I actively avoid any malls with car guards. I don't understand why the management of these malls don't realise that they are chasing customers away by allowing car guards on their premises.
 
Nicholas Lisse said:
I have remote start. I start the car while walking out of the shop. Load everything, and take off just in time for them to come running.
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I get in the car. Start the car. Put on the aircon.

Then drink my coffee and eat my bespoke home made pie, and scroll mybroadband in between.

By the time I am done the car gaurd has left for some reason.
 
deweyzeph said:
I actively avoid any malls with car guards. I don't understand why the management of these malls don't realise that they are chasing customers away by allowing car guards on their premises.
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Because a lot of these management couldn't care less and shop owners complaining yield no results. But yes, slowly they become dumps, specially once a well run new mall opens.
 
RedViking said:
Because a lot of these management couldn't care less and shop owners complaining yield no results. But yes, slowly they become dumps, specially once a well run new mall opens.
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It's not even about the money. In Cape Town at least, the malls without car guards are the ones where you have to pay for parking, and the malls with car guards tend to be the ones with free parking. But I'd rather pay R10 or R15 for proper secure parking at an upmarket mall that understands that customers don't like to be harassed by beggars.
 
Saw a car guard dragging a white guy out of his car yesterday. First thought was we were about to have some sort
of racial incident. But, then a Spar employee joined as well. Seems the guy had shoplifted something :cautious:
 
Solitude said:
Here by us it's impossible to avoid them. They are everywhere. The worst is at the gym. I just want to go exercise in peace but have to tell them every time that sorry, I don't have cash.
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You speak to them ? I just jump into my car and leave.
 
Other:

-I avoid places with car guards if at all possible. Shopping centers really need to wake up to this reality.

-If not possible to avoid the area, try to get into the car and drive away before they notice me

-If they notice me in time, and I have cash, I'll tip them, but I almost never have cash.
 
I used to, but then of the 3 times my parents cars were stolen, 2 were under the 'watchful' eye of a car guard. So no, not anymore.
 
The previous shopping center I used to shop at for Checkers, the car guards became very aggressive, fighting over trollies and turf. I didn't feel safe shopping there anymore so I swapped to another.

The smaller shopping center I go to for Checkers now has no car guards. I prefer that one but unfortunately it doesn't have all the stores I may want to shop at. The larger one which has Pick n Pay, Clicks etc have car guards but I haven't had any incidents of fighting there. Most of the time I won't let them help for payment, but if I do need assistance for some reason I'll give them something for helping.
 
I try to park my car so I can drive forward to get out of the parking, instead of reversing out. Then I feel like a lottery winner when I get into the parking lot and see the car guard zoning in on a tannie about to get into her Fortuner, because this gives me the opportunity to jump into my car and speed away, before getting noticed.

If I do have cash and get caught by a guard, then I will tip them.

I earned R2 once in a parking lot. Probably shouldn't say it, because I didn't declare it to SARS.

Was on my way home from work, and the wife called me, saying she was in Pick 'n Pay doing shopping, and that I should come and help her as she bought heavy bags of dog food and stuff. So when I loaded the stuff in her car, she reversed out, and I took the trolley away. Another car reversed out, the window went down, and the guy stuck his hand out the window and handed me a R2 coin...

At my previous performance appraisal my boss was very happy with my work, but he said he wished I would "dress a little neater" for work. I just thought he said that to give just one negative, so I wouldn't get a big head.

Anyway, after earning that R2, I made an entire wardrobe change, and dress neater and more formal these days than all my colleagues.
 
KatieKim said:
The previous shopping center I used to shop at for Checkers, the car guards became very aggressive, fighting over trollies and turf. I didn't feel safe shopping there anymore so I swapped to another.

The smaller shopping center I go to for Checkers now has no car guards. I prefer that one but unfortunately it doesn't have all the stores I may want to shop at. The larger one which has Pick n Pay, Clicks etc have car guards but I haven't had any incidents of fighting there. Most of the time I won't let them help for payment, but if I do need assistance for some reason I'll give them something for helping.
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I once needed to pull two car guards apart from each other outside Hennie's in Mosselbay. I tipped the one that was standing at my car, and another one came storming in claiming that he was the one looking after my car. After an exchange of colorful western cape words and phrases, these guys got into a physical altercation and I had to pull them apart as they were upsetting the kids.
 
deweyzeph said:
It's not even about the money. In Cape Town at least, the malls without car guards are the ones where you have to pay for parking, and the malls with car guards tend to be the ones with free parking. But I'd rather pay R10 or R15 for proper secure parking at an upmarket mall that understands that customers don't like to be harassed by beggars.
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it kind of is about money from the mall's perspective

if you want to get rid of the "car guards" you'd need to employ security to keep them out, which costs money
 
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